NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen on Thursday completes his three -day working visit to Moscow. On the eve of Rasmussen already met with representatives of the Russian leadership and, in particular, held negotiations with President Dmitry Medvedev. It is worth noting that Medvedev for the first time after the conflict in the Caucasus in August 2008 took NATO Secretary General. According to the results of a visit on Thursday, Rasmussen gave a press conference.

In the case of the slightest change in the safety of the Toropetskaya icon of the Mother of God, transferred for temporary storage to the Moscow Nevsky to the Moscow Region, will be returned to the Russian Museum ahead of schedule, Interfax reports.

Places of imprisonment will be divided into prisons of three types and colony-settlement in Russia. The situation of prisoners will not deteriorate, but they have nothing to arrange a “sanatorium”, the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) at the Ministry of Justice Alexander Reimer said at a meeting with human rights activists.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi was discharged from the Milan Hospital "San Raffael", where he was treated for wounds received during the attack of a mentally ill citizen. Berlusconi greeted the journalists from the car and headed for his residence Arcore near Milan, reports ITAR-TASS. On the advice of the doctors of Berlusconi, it is still refraining from active social activity.

The monument-Bust recently recently Patriarch Paul was erected in the square in front of the Saints of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Serbian city of Niche. In this educational institution, the future Serbian Patriarch taught in 1950-1951. The initiative to open the monument came from the seminary, Interfax reports with reference to the Srpsk.ru website. Patriarch Pavel died at the 96th year of his life on the morning of November 15 in the Belgrade Hospital.

The second loud crime in the city of Nazran in Ingushetia in Ingushetia: on Thursday evening at the building of the city hospital, unknown faces shot a car in which the UFSB officers in Ingushetia were located, killing four people. “The VAZ -2114 car was shot by unknown persons, in which four UFSB employees were located, as a result of the wounds they all died on the spot,” a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia told Interfax .

By October 1, the total external debt of Belarus amounted to 19 billion $ 298.5 million, Belapan reports with reference to the data made in the country's national bank. Thus, since the beginning of 2009, the total external debt increased by $ 4.144 billion, or 27.3%. In the third quarter alone, the debt increased by 1.674 billion. In the structure of the total external debt, the external debt of government bodies increased by $ 977 million (27.2%) to 4.574 billion.

Millions of passwords of users of social networks were highlighted as a result of the negligence of the Rockyou.com site programmers, who left passwords visible. It is reported by iteDay.ru with reference to Theregister . Rockyou.com site (in the past RockMyspace) is designed for developers of applications to such resources as Facebook, Bebo and Myspace; It stores passwords and email addresses 32 million users.

Investigators began work in the case of the next impudent robbery in Moscow. However, difficulties began immediately: a colleague of the dead collectors disappeared, and the silence of bankers does not allow us to establish the amount of the stolen.

The United States will “not tolerate behavior” similar to what Credit Suisse demonstrated, violating the regime of American sanctions against Iran, Myanmar, Sudan, Cuba and Libya, and the monetary penalty imposed on the Swiss bank is a clear confirmation of this. This was stated by US Prosecutor Eric Holder, officially announcing the settlement of the dispute between Credit Suisse and the American authorities.

Former head of the NK Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is now being judged by the second criminal case, became a grandfather - his daughter Pavel was born to his eldest son Paul, on Thursday the site of lawyers Khodorkovsky and ex -head of the MFIs Menatip Lebedev. Khodorkovsky himself, who has been in prison for more than 6 years, learned about a joyful event from lawyers before the court session on Thursday in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow.

In Minsk, last Monday, 24 MAZ employees, going to their cars in the evening, did not believe their eyes when they saw that the cars had side glasses. Even in the morning, when they park near the enterprise, everything was in order. It turns out that the driver of the communal machine sprinkling the road with sand has "overdone" a little. In addition to glasses broken from stones in the sand, some cars were scratched on some cars.

The National Assembly (Parliament) of Venezuela adopted a law that sets the ceiling of civil servants and officials of all ranks in 15 minimum wages. In the coming year, the salary of senior officials, including heads of state corporations, cannot exceed 14 thousand 505 bolivars (6 thousand 746 dollars) per month, ITAR-TASS reports.

The large supplier of the Pentagon company Raytheon introduced software that allows the use of iPhones during hostilities and anti -terrorist operations, the British newspaper The Guardian reports. The One Force Tracker (OFT) application, the first of the whole series of new RayTheon software developments, uses the built -in Apple gadget functions to track the location of allies and enemy soldiers on real -time maps.

The Mexican police inflicted a powerful blow to drug carters. During the raid, Arturo Beltran Leiva was killed, who had the status of Boss Bosses among the most influential mafiosi. Leiva died with his four minions during a raid in the city of Kuernavak (the capital of Morelos), located south of Mexico City.