In St. Petersburg, the Opolaryngologist is accused of the death of a five-year-old child. During the planned operation, the doctor did not manage to adequately stop bleeding, as a result of which the baby died of extensive blood loss, ITAR-TASS reports. The Investigative Department for the Vasileostrovsky District of the Investigative Department in St. Petersburg sent a criminal case against the doctor of the city children's hospital number 2 of St. Mary Magdalene.

The head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov positively evaluates an electronic vote experiment, which took place on Sunday in the elections in Novomoskovsk. Churov does not exclude that such a format of the will of voters can be enshrined in law and widespread everywhere. "The voters of Russia, on the example of Novomoskovsk, were more ready for this experiment than we expected.

Actors of the Italian painting "Gomorrah", nominated for the Oscar and telling about the Neapolitan Mafia "Kamorra", were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the mafia clan in real life, The Guardian reports. It is known that for filming in a film recognized as the most realistic story about the mafia of all time, director Mateo Garron invited a number of unprofessional actors from Naples, who, in his opinion, had to bring real Neapolitan flavor to the movie.

The Ministry of Agriculture submitted a final harvesting report on Monday. “They worked well, it can definitely be said that more than 100 million tons of grain will be in charge of grain, which is comparable to the volume of the harvest of 1991-1992,” said the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexei Gordeev at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The European branch of Toyota has announced prices and specifications of the new iQ minicar for the UK market, where it will go on sale in January 2009, reports Drom.ru. The minimum cost of the car will be from 9,495 pounds sterling - 16,037 dollars or 420,299 rubles. For this amount, the Toyota iQ is offered with a 1.0-liter petrol engine with VVT-i and a manual transmission.

According to polls, in the parliamentary elections in Lithuania, the majority of votes are won by the opposition conservative party "The Union of the Fatherland - Christian Democrats", AP reports. According to preliminary data, the "Union of the Fatherland - Christian Democrats" is gaining 21% of the vote.

The authorities of the Southern Chinese province of Guizhou figured out how to oblige students to observe safety measures on the roads: they were obliged to give them a pioneer salute to all passing vehicles. According to the plan, this will not only help prevent an accident, but also teach children respect for drivers and passengers. As Interfax reports with reference to local media, while this measure was introduced in the County of Juanpine, but she has already proved her usefulness.

The world's most expensive musical "Spider-Man", which has been going on Broadway for more than three years, most likely will never pay off. As the New York Post reporters calculated, even if you reduce the budget of the Spider-Man by 5 million dollars, then that the musical pays off, 8 thousand years of continuous A household will be required. The budget of the most expensive musical in the world is $ 40 million. In addition, the Musical Determining Week will cost another million dollars.

Ukrainian Vitaliy Klitschko, who returned the world of the World Boxing champion on October 12 according to WBC in battle against Nigerian Samuel Peter, said he had received a hand injury in this fight and still does not know whether he would continue his boxing career. “I need to think everything over,” he said.

Employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Western Administrative District of Moscow detained three citizens of Tajikistan, suspected of killing their compatriot , which occurred last week in the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye area, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the city law enforcement agencies. The suspects were detained on Saturday - two days after the body of the murdered was found.

The Russian Ministry of Finance placed 242.8 billion rubles with a limit of 250 billion on fifth deposits in Russian banks. Thus, the demand for funds was fully satisfied, Interfax reports. The weighted average at the auction amounted to 8.44% per annum, and the maximum - 8.77%. In total, 22 banks submitted applications for participation in the distribution of budget funds. Money for their accounts will be transferred on October 14, the return of funds is scheduled for November 19.

In France, the eldest son of Gerard Depardieu, actor Guillaume Depardieu, died, ITAR -TASS reports with reference to the artistic agent of the family. The agent explained that the death of a 37-year-old actor followed as a result of the fact that he became infected with a virus that provoked fleeting pneumonia. Death followed in the hospital of the city of Garsh (Department of Verkhnyaya Sen). Guillaume Depardieu starred in two dozen films.

A batch of experimental earth microorganisms will go to Mars Fobos’s companion as part of the Phobos-Grunct project and then return back to Earth, Alexander Zakharov, the scientific secretary of the RAS Institute for Space Research (IKI), told Interfax . The results of the experiment will help to check the theory by which life on Earth is brought from space. In addition, this experiment will become one of the stages of preparation for human flight on Mars.

Organizations of the construction complex of Moscow will be hired by builders, who were fired from private companies due to staff reduction, the head of the Department of Road-Most and Engineering Construction of Moscow Alexander Levchenko on Monday, October 13, told Interfax .

The President and Prime Minister of Ukraine held on Sunday an absentee discussion about the fate of early parliamentary elections in the country. It turned out that they adhere to opposite views on their necessity. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko does not intend to cancel the decree on the dissolution of the parliament and early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. He stated this in an interview with the Ukrainian television channel "Inter" .