The capital of the Republic of South Ossetia for more than a day remains without water supply as a result of an accident on the site of the main water supply of Edis - Tskhinvali. “As a result of the mechanical soil movement, a pipe rush occurred. In order to eliminate it, it was necessary to empty 80 km of the water supply, which we successfully did in a day.

Microsoft is again disconnecting violating gamers from the Xbox Live service, Infox.ru reports with reference to the British broadcasting corporation BBC . The accounts of more than 600 thousand users have been blocked. Microsoft says it has disabled a small portion of its more than 20 million service accounts. The accounts of gamers who modified the firmware of their consoles have been disabled.

The Brazilian authorities declared war on the "artificial sun." According to Chaskor.ru , solariums were banned in the country. The National Agency of Brazil on Health did this, listening to the recommendations of the World Health Organization. WHO constantly indicates the relationship of frequent use of solariums and cancer and even attributed the solarium to the factors of the highest risk of oncological diseases.

The story of the vocalist of Steve Tyler from his legendary hard rock band Aerosmith is becoming increasingly confusing. The day before, the musicians again confirmed that Tyler would leave the team, but only for a while, reports the Associated Press. “It turned out that Stephen wants to relax for a couple of years and go about his business, while the rest of the team will continue to work,” said the guitarist Joe Perry in his new interview.

On Thursday, the largest connoisseurs of the Internet - the leaders of Google, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia - are going to introduce representatives of the Vatican to the secret secrets of the World Wide Web. As noted by the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph , it will be a meeting of completely different worlds.

The buyer of one of the hypermarkets of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg was beaten for an attempt to leave an entry in a complaint book. The victim announced the arbitrariness of the store’s employees on the Radio Echo of Petersburg . In the hypermarket itself, they refuse to give comments. “I returned from work in the evening and went to the hypermarket, bought, as always, products. And I found that some prices did not coincide with those who were indicated on the price tags.

On Thursday, in the metropolitan hotel Marriott Grand Hotel, a presentation of the form of the Russian national football team was held for the new season. Players of the national team will perform in this equipment at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, if they can go in butt matches in Slovenia, as well as in the qualifying cycle of the European Championship-2012. In the new Adidas equipment there are no cardinal changes - the colors remained the same, the design has changed a bit.

By the end of this year, Sberbank plans to reduce the number of personnel by 10%, as a result of which more than 27 thousand people can remain without work. However, as a survey conducted by the Superjob.ru recruiting portal among representatives of Russian banks, there is a demand for former Sberbank employees. 46% of representatives of personnel services of other banks will be happy to accept people who have experience in the largest financial institution of the country.

Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Yakutia began an investigation into a criminal case against the dean, head of the laboratory and assistant department of one of the faculties of the Yakut State University, the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Thursday. “The investigation found that from January to January to the current these persons contributed to the students of the faculty in the giving bribes,” the ministry said.

According to The Financial Times , the Russian Central Bank had to intervene, and he took measures to contain the growth of the ruble. Since March, the ruble strengthened its position by 15% in relation to the bivalyut basket in connection with the increase in oil prices and the fall of the dollar. The newspaper recalls that from the beginning of September, the ruble has grown relative to the bivalyut basket by 8.5%, and its exchange rate to the dollar for the same period rose by 10.7%.

The head of VTB 24, Mikhail Zadornov, does not share the optimism of the government and the Bank of Russia, claiming to stabilize the situation in the banking sector - the problems of banks are camouflaged, the Finmarket agency reports. "The real problems of many banks, in my opinion, are camouflaged in RAS.

In Spain, the process in the case of a criminal group, led by Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro-Young, continues. As it became known to the Kommersant newspaper, the National Court decided to question the Russian lawyer Henry Padva as a witness. The process in the case of the Russian Mafia began in Madrid on November 2, 2009.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, a verdict was sentenced to a soldier who brutally killed a new-bore soldier in the barracks. In Khabarovsk, the Military Court of the Rologychensky garrison condemned the younger sergeant Vladimir Zaitsev to 11 years in prison for the murder of his colleague. The non-commissioned officer will serve the punishment in a maximum security colony, ITAR-TASS reports.

The organizers of the Kandinsky Prize finally announced the short list of the 2009 contest. The jury determined the most successful figures of contemporary art in three nominations: "Project of the Year", "Young artist" and "Media-art". The hottest struggle can unfold among the finalists of the "Project of the Year", which includes real "heavyweights". Firstly, the conceptualist Vadim Zakharov with the installation of St. Sebastian, shown in the GMG gallery in November 2008.

In the Altai Territory, the mayor of Biysk Anatoly Mosievsky was charged with abuse of authority. This was reported on Thursday by ITAR-TASS in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office (UKP) of the Russian Federation in the region. “The preventive measure was chosen in relation to the mayor - a notorure subscription,” said Lyudmila Ryazantseva, senior assistant to the head of the department.