Fighters of the elite unit of the Swedish army during the exercises in the east of the country instead of the planned goal accidentally attacked the peaceful house. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, the owner managed to settle the conflict, the British The Daily Telegraph reports.

Finland intends to give the “green light” to the Nord Stream project, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kontakt radio station. "Finland for the European Union Astrid Comes, the Minister of Affairs of the European Union expects that its country will issue an environmental permit for the construction of the Nord Stream," the radio station notes.

Having dismissed 1700 employees, the British Airways airline will offer contracts on other, less favorable conditions than existing ones. In the context of an economic recession, the company incurred large losses. Last year, they amounted to more than 400 million pounds, the Air Force reports. Around the world, the profitability of air transportation is reduced due to a reduction in the number of passengers.

Another news from British scientists - driving a car with a folding top is extremely dangerous for health: it can lead to hearing loss. According to Telegraph , Dr. Philip Michael from the Royal Hospital in the County of Wostershire conducted an experiment: he measured the noise level that appears in the cabriolet salon at a speed of 80, 96 and 112 km/h. Seven different cars costing from 14,000 to 150,000 pounds participated in the experiment.

The radio station of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe (RS/RSA) controlled by the US authorities intends to open broadcasting on Abkhazia and South Ossetia in a month. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Washington representative of the radio station Martins Zvaners, the daily watch program in Russian should begin to go on the air on November 2. In the headquarters of the RS/RSA in Prague, it was decided by the joint efforts of two editions - Georgian and Russian.

Power departments begin on Thursday of exercises in the Moscow Kremlin. According to Interfax , this was reported by the press secretary of the Federal Security Service Victoria Bogomolova. These will be planned interdepartmental exercises aimed at preventing emergency situations. They will pass on October 8-9. The exercises will be attended by the FSO units, other state bodies of security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergencies.

Relations between Russia and Ukraine, once again aggravated in mid -August, seem to be established again. Then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev accused the head of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko of anti -Russian policy and refused to send Mikhail Zurabov to Kiev to Kyiv.

The Committee on the Legislation of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma on the eve approved a bill excluding the governor from the highest institutions of regional authorities. According to the authors of the amendments, such a status should be assigned only to the regional parliament and the government. The newspaper "Kommersant" writes about this on Wednesday. Supporters of the bill indicate that its adoption will bring regional legislation in accordance with the federal.

In the new television season, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will change the format of his speeches on the air of federal channels. Now Medvedev will turn to the audience from their studios, and not from the Kremlin or a suburban residence, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday. This Sunday, October 11, the president will perform on the air of Channel One, in November his conversation with NTV will be recorded.

Internet users continue to lose interest in television: for example, they prefer to download the series, and not wait for the show on TV. Accordingly, the audience of torrent resources has grown by more than 50%over the past year, Kaker.ru reports with reference to the TorrentFreak publication. Analysts call the main reason for the growth of interest in torrents the impatience of users who simply do not want to wait for new episodes of their favorite series for several months.

In the Penza region, a classified investigation of the loud murder of a successful local businessman and deputy will grow everything with new rumors, details and versions. The relatives of the deceased Cossack chieftain are sure that the police "ordered" the bandits who wanted to take away the business.

The media publish the names of new suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who became known the day before. According to some reports, the former employee of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Oleg Shoshin and businessman Chervone oglu are checked for involvement in the crime, who are closely connected with the main witness of the charges Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, as well as four natives of Azerbaijan and Dagestan, writes Rosbalt .

The Trans-Baikal Regional Court on Wednesday rejected the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the ex-head of the MFIs MELIATEP Platon Lebedev to the decision of the Ingodinsky district court of Chita, who had previously abandoned the reprimand of the administration of the pre-trial detention center for the summer house interview with Novaya Gazeta. "To leave the decision of the Ingodinsky district court in force, a complaint of lawyers is not satisfied," the judge said.

Capital developers have found a way to continue construction in the face of a funding shortage - the barter scheme of payments with contractors is returning to the real estate market, writes the RBC daily newspaper. According to the publication, PIK Group has repaid its debt to the Austrian Strabag in the amount of 750 million rubles. apartments in the Zapovedny Ugolok residential complex, which is being built in the North-Eastern district of Moscow.

Unknown militants abducted the state minister of defense Somali Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siada, when he arrived on a visit to the capital of Uganda - Campala. This was reported by the SAPA agency with reference to sources in the Somali transition government. Siad, also known in Somalia named "Indaada", in the recent past, is the commander of one of the many armed ethnic formations in this country.