The Social Network "VKontakte" won the court of the FSUE VGTRK. The Federal Arbitration Court of the North-Western District canceled the decision of the thirteenth appeal arbitration court, which obliged the social network to moderate the content placed by users, BFM.ru reports. The VGTRK, for its part, plans to protest this decision in the Supreme Arbitration Court, RIA Novosti reports.

The wage arrears in Russia by October 1, 2010 amounted to 3.2 billion rubles and compared with September 1 decreased by 4.4%, BFM.ru business portal reports with reference to Rosstat's data. "As of October 1, 2010, according to organizations (not related to small businesses), the total wage arrears ... amounted to 3.202 billion rubles and decreased by 148 million rubles (4.4%) compared to September 1, 2010," the Rosstat report said.

Deputy Chairman of the People's Republic of China SI Zinpin received the post of deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission. Many observers consider this appointment an increase in his semi -official status of the successor of the current head of the party and the state of Hu Jintao, BBC reports. The appointment took place on the last day of the annual Plenum of the Communist Party.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday, October 18, will hold the 24th meeting of the advisory council on foreign investment (KSIA). It will be attended by heads of relevant ministries and departments, as well as heads of 20 leading international companies of the KSIA, reports the Bfm.ru business portal.

On Monday night, unknown people stole an expensive SUV Lexus LH-570 in a man in Moscow, according to some reports, the victim is the producer of the famous singer Alexander Rosenbaum, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital.

In Moscow, prices for maintenance services for locking devices in the entrances of residential buildings by more than 12%have risen. From January 1, 2011, prices for the maintenance of intercoms from 57 rubles from the subscriber (apartment) are increased to 64 rubles, for the maintenance of an automatic locking device with an electromagnetic castle - from 42 to 48 rubles from the subscriber, Interfax was told in the city administration.

The Kazan "Dynamo" for the first time in its history became the owner of the World Cup Hockey with the ball. In the final of the tournament, which ended on Sunday in the Swedish Sandworm, the Russians prevailed over the local club Hammarbyu with a score of 3: 1. The winners were distinguished by Igor Larionov and a double Sergey Obukhov. In the decisive match, the Kazan were stronger than last year's winner of the World Cup and his three -time owner, moreover, the current champion of Sweden.

South African Penguins were killed in the London Zoo in the Rage Park, writes The Daily Telegraph . The audit showed that the cause of the death of the birds was the sorties of wild foxes, which have been bred in the British capital recently, the newspaper writes. According to the publication, fox attacks on the zoo have been continuing since 2007. Over the past year alone, the foxes killed 11 penguins.

An extraordinary meeting of the Moscow City Duma, at which a secret vote on the candidacy of the new mayor of Moscow will be broadcast, will be broadcast live on the TV Center TV channel. Link to a live broadcast on the Internet - here . In addition, during the meeting, it will be possible to follow the online mode on the website of the Moscow City Duma. Voting will be held at 12:00 on October 21.

Acceleration of US economy growth, reduction in the country of unemployment and federal budget deficit will become the main priorities for Barack Obama in the second half of the term of stay at the presidential post. This was reported on the air of CNN and NBC television companies, the chief domestic political adviser to the American leader David Axelrod and the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

On Monday afternoon, in a two -story brick house in a dachas of Tulip under construction, under Surgut, there was an explosion. Two dead and two living were extracted from the rubble of the destroyed country house.

Last weekend, at the Sotheby's auction in London, a picture of the famous British painter Lucien Freud (the grandson of the founder of Psychoanague Sigmund Freud) under the name "eight months has passed", which depicts a naked pregnant supermodel and actress Jerry Hall, the ex-musician Mika Jagger, was sold. Newsru Israel with reference to Metro. Initially, this lot was estimated at 300-400 thousand pounds.

The last group of Russian military in the evening on Monday was withdrawn from the Georgian village of Revy, Sachheersky district, bordering the southern Ossetia, the official representative of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs Shota Utiashvili told reporters.

The law enforcement agencies of Belarus are searching for attackers who were thrown with bottles with an incendiary mixture of the building of the Department of the State Security Committee in the city of Bobruisk of the Mogilev region. "Unknown people threw two bottles with an incendiary mixture at the KGB building in Bobruisk. No one was injured, a criminal case was instituted for hooliganism, an attackers are being searched," Interfax told Bobruisk on Monday.

The Association of Professional Tennisists (APR) has published a new rating following the results of the past week. Russian Nikolai Davydenko, unable to protect the championship title in the tournament in Shanghai, for the first time since July 2009 flew out of the first dozen. In the world's table, Nikolai sank into five positions - with the sixth to the 11th.