Gazprom and Serbiyagaz create joint enterprises for the implementation of the South Stream project and the creation of an underground storage of gas "Banatian court". The documents holding this agreement were signed by the head of Gazprom by Alexei Miller and the general director of Serbiyagaz Dushan Bayatovich in the presence of the presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Boris Tadich.

In the United States, an attempt to transfer secret information to Israel was detained by the scientist Stewart David Nosett, the Ministry of Justice said. Today, a 52-year-old scientist must appear before the judge in Washington. He faces a lifelong conclusion.

The preliminary investigation bodies made a decision on the results of the pre-investigation of the refusal to institute criminal proceedings on the appeal of the pupil of the Holy Bogolubovsky convent, Valentina Penova on illegal deprivation of liberty, the information of the Investigative Committee is said under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, posted today on the website of the department, RIA Novosti reports.

Two tennis players taking part in the Representative tournament Stockholm Open-2009 this week may be punished for the fact that contrary to local laws used the services of prostitutes. According to police, tennis players were detained on Sunday early in the morning, after they returned to their hotel. At the same time, their names have not yet been disclosed.

Belorus Vladimir Samsonov won the World Tennis World Cup, which was held last weekend in Moscow. He interrupted the hegemony of Chinese tennis players, winning his third cup in his career. Russians cannot yet boast of such achievements, but the situation in recent years began to correct. According to the leadership of the country's table tennis, the national team can replenish Chinese athletes who have recently dominate this sport.

The lawyer of the victims as a result of the massacre in the Moscow supermarket "Ostrov" revealed new details of the crime committed by the police major Denis Evsyukov. The lawyer said that the policeman previously robbed the store and threatened the sellers, and after the execution from his pistol mysteriously disappeared fingerprints. So that the offender could not avoid punishment, the lawyer published a full video from the cameras captured by shooting.

The United States does not intend to place elements of missile defense (pro) in countries that are not NATO members, and do not consider the prospects for the placement of military bases in Georgia. This was announced in Tbilisi by the assistant Minister of Defense of the United States, Alexander Vershbou, reports Reuters.

The British Auger House Sotheby's opens on Tuesday in the Moscow Historical Museum a betrayal exhibition of the main lots of autumn “Russian” trading, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the auction house.

Russia introduced a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, who will take part in the consideration of the complaints of former shareholders of the Yukos NK filed in the Strasbourg court against the Russian authorities. This is Andrei Bushev, an assistant professor of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, who studied at it simultaneously with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, writes the newspaper Kommersant .

In the Primorsky Territory, a criminal case has been instituted in connection with the impudent theft of hemp directly from the building of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN). Almost 80 kilograms of marijuana have become the prey of unknown criminals. Large theft was committed on Tuesday night in the city of Dalnerechensk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the press service of the regional department of the FSKN.

The blogger Maxim Kalashnikov , who calls himself a “futurologist” and “fascist”, whose ideas interested the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, claims that the head of the Russian government apparatus Sergei Sobyanin offered him the position of his adviser, but he refused, writes Moscow Komsomolets on Tuesday.

Unknown, threatening firearms, took 2.5 million rubles from a man opposite the Moscow City Hall on New Arbat on Tuesday evening. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. "The attack was made by several people who, under the threat of weapons, took a portfolio with money from a citizen, after which they disappeared on the black Mercedes and a foreign -made motorcycle," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril expects from the new general director UNESCO to strengthen cooperation of this organization and religious communities. "UNESCO rightfully belongs to a special role in establishing peace and mutual respect between civilizations on a solid foundation of moral values ​​separated by most people," the message of Patriarch Kirill Irina Bokova, who recently elected to the post of general director of UNESCO, said Interfax .

In Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Region, three girls aged 18-19 made a robbery on a taxi driver. This was reported on the website of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region . According to the police, late on the night of October 16, the owner of the VAZ-2107 car, engaged in private car, decided to give up three girls. The girls turned out to be a raid.

The new owner of the "Children's World" on Lubyanka VTB Bank is dissatisfied with the reconstruction project of the department store and is going to revise it. Representatives of the bank want to more effectively use the useful areas of the country's main children's store. In the "System-Kals", leading reconstruction of the department store, they promise to double the retail space and add clothing for adults, products and entertainment to children's goods, writes RBC Daily .