The growth of the US economy continues, but at a slower pace, the Fed Review reports, which is called Beige Book ("Beige Book"). The situation is best at industrial enterprises, where further growth in activity is noted: both production and the volume of orders are growing. Consumers are careful and spend only a little more money. Companies also doubt the stability of revitalization and in this connection they create few new permanent jobs.

Russians Maria Kirilenko and Vera Dushevina reached the quarterfinals of the tournament of the Kremlin Cup of the Women's Tennis Association, which is taking place these days in the Moscow Olympic sports complex. In the matches of the second circle, Kirilenko, sown under the sixth number, won the Ukrainian Ekaterina Bondarenko with a score of 6: 0, 6: 0, and Dushevina turned out to be stronger than her compatriot Elena Vesnina - 6: 4, 6: 2.

The meeting of the leaders of France, Germany and Russia, held on October 18-19 in the French Doville , demonstrated the creation of a new format of relations between the Russian Federation and the EU, which indicates the strengthening of Russian positions.

In the capital of the Republic of Bashkiria, police detained a local resident who is suspected of acting vandalism and theft. The prey criminal was the bronze bust of the former head of local law enforcement officers. For the theft of the tombstone, employees of the Leninsky regional police department of Ufa detained a 35-year-old unemployed who was already judged four times for theft, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Bashkiria Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In one of the villages of the Krasnogvardeisky district of the Orenburg region, a check is carried out on the suicide of a 14-year-old girl. The Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for the Orenburg Region reports that on Tuesday evening after a quarrel with her father about performance at school, the girl drank pills. After the girl’s condition worsened, her father called an ambulance, but resuscitation measures did not lead to success, the schoolgirl died.

Georgian prisoners will soon receive relatives in three -star hotels. The country's authorities have already ordered to build hotels with most amenities in the territory of penitentiary institutions. A network of three -star hotels will appear in prisons and colonies of Georgia. They will be intended to meet convicts with relatives, Interfax reports with reference to the Minister for the execution of punishments Hatun Kalmerelidze.

The German company JB Car Design has developed tuning packs for the Lamborghini Murciego supercar. The package provides for an increase in engine power to 750 "horses", painting a car with special paint, equipping a car with exclusive carbon aerokitis and 20-inch cast discs. The full set will cost astronomical 90 thousand euros, but, as the Germans assure, the customer will not regret - there will be only 75 pieces around the world.

The government is going to put up about 900 enterprises for sale and earn 1.8 trillion rubles, the first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov said after the privatization meeting. In 2012-2015, up to 15% of Rosneft shares can be sold (Gosdol will decrease to 60%), Shuvalov said. Until 2013, 8% “RusHydro will be sold, and 4.11% of the FSC will privatize as soon as the action will rise in price to 50 rubles from the current 36 (Gosdoli will decrease to 51 and 75%).

The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Volgograd Region from United Russia Roland Kharians proposed equalizing the clergy of "traditional" Russian faiths to civil servants with the regular payment of official salaries. With this initiative, he turned to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Representatives of the clergy approved the deputy's impulse. The opinions of secular experts were divided.

The new owner of the Sex.com domain will be the little -known company Clover Holdings, registered on one of the islands in the Caribbean, reports CNews.ru with reference to The Register . The amount of the transaction will be 13 million dollars. It is noteworthy that the Sex.com website is currently posted by a standard set of references to adult content, without any special advertising has attendance of about 120 thousand per day.

Russia will apply for the 2016 hockey championship, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a government meeting. “The application should be submitted until May next year,” RIA Novosti quotes the Prime Minister. He added that the application will be submitted to the International Hockey Federation. It is planned that the championship will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. “For hockey matches, we will have almost nothing to be built again.

On Thursday, an extraordinary meeting of the Moscow City Duma will be held, at which the deputies will discuss the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin to the post of new mayor of Moscow, proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev. "At 12:00, the Speaker of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov will open an extraordinary meeting.

The politician, co -chair of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, on the eve of the Federal Arbitration Court of Moscow, who won the case against Inteko, said that he had won it "out of clean", and that the court "took the position of the law and common sense, and not the position that is beneficial to the authorities." However, he was disappointed that the judges were able to pronounce a fair sentence only when they removed the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov.

A wave of protest against the creation of new landfills for waste storage near Naples swept this third largest Italian city, ITAR-TASS reports. On Thursday, the protesters continued their performances. The riots began at night. Several hundred manifestants gathered near the garbage center to express their disagreement with the government plans to create additional landfills. “This is our city and we have the right to breathe in it!” They chanted.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, having learned about the scandal that was flared up around the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov after his visit to the Ryazan Airborne School, demanded that the head of the military department write a resignation report, the newspaper Arguments of the Week claims. The source of the publication in the military department is confident that Colonel General Nikolai Makarov may take the place of the minister.