On the eve of the State Duma committee on defense held a meeting at which the situation around the scandal with the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, who erupted after his visit to the educational part of the Airborne Forces in the Seltsi, was discussed. In this regard, the Russian paratrooper union turned to the President, the people and the Church with a request to pay attention to the egregious case of hazardous relations and rudeness by the head of the Ministry of Defense.

The poetess Larisa Vasilieva and translator Grigory Kruzhkov became the new laureates of the Bunin Prize. Their names were announced today at the award ceremony in Moscow, the chairman of the jury of the competition Svyatoslav Bels. This year, the award was awarded for the best poetic work and poetic translation. The winners of the two nominations received a cash prize of 200 thousand rubles each, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Friday, October 22, the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 14, 2010 N 829 "On remuneration for free reproduction of phonograms and audiovisual works for personal purposes" - the document is published by the Russian Gazeta .

The famous opera singer Tamara Sinyavskaya, the widow of Muslim Magomaeva, seriously injured in an accident that occurred the night before in the center of Moscow. The soloist of the Bolshoi Theater received a fracture of the rib. Her performance in the planned gala concert of the Muslim Magomaev contest was canceled on Sunday. According to RIA Novosti , on Thursday evening in a car in which the opera diva was in a hurry to meet, another passenger car crashed on Tverskaya Street.

The metropolitan policemen found the body of a man who shot his spouse from a traumatic pistol on Thursday evening in kindergarten. The offender shot himself nearby, on the same street Fedor Poletaev. The corpse of 39-year-old Alexander Vlasov was found on Thursday evening at house No. 5 on Fedor Poletaev Street, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The man committed suicide in his apartment, shooting himself in his temple from the traumatic pistol "wasp".

Japanese Mitsubishi introduced in England a new environmentally friendly diesel model of the compact Outlander crossover. The car can be equipped with both front and full-connected wheels (AWD), and its main feature is the finalized 2.2-liter engine. The fresh diesel version received a modernized 2.2-liter DI-D engine with a capacity of 175 hp. Its capacity was increased by 21 hp, and environmental characteristics are improved by 12%. The CO2 emissions indicator are 162 g/km, Autocar notes.

On October 22, the owner of Interros sent a letter to the chairman of the board of directors of Rusal Viktor Vekselberg with a proposal to start negotiations on the sale of a share of the Aluminum company in the Norilsk Nickel GMC, an Interfax source in the Interrosa. Interros, together with partners, is ready to pay $ 9 billion for a blocking stake in Norilsk Nickel.

The escaped crocodile is called the cause of the crash of the aircraft, which made an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and crashed. On August 25, a small passenger plane crashed into a residential building when falling - the pilot died, as well as another 19 people who were on board. By a happy chance, there was nobody in the house itself. Now, as the Daily Telegraph writes, the reason is called. The investigators told about her the only survivor in the disaster.

In Haiti at least 135 people became victims of an outbreak of infectious disease, almost 1.5 thousand inhabitants of the island state were infected. Doctors believe that we are talking about an epidemic of cholera. This was reported by the Anglo -speaking Argentinean newspaper Buenos Aires Held with reference to the statement of the President of the Association of Doctors Haiti Claude Surenna. "We confirm 135 deaths and 1498 patients suffering from a strong disorder of the chair.

Vimpelcom Ltd., which controls the Russian Vimpelcom and the Ukrainian Kyivstar, will withdraw the Beeline brand from the Ukrainian market in 2011 and continue to work under the brands "Kyivstar", Djuice and Kyivstar Business, write "Vedomosti" . In the remaining nine countries where Vimpelcom works, Beeline will remain.

At the beginning of next year, the Russian Football Union (RFU) will apply for an accession to the UEFA Convention on Judicial Education and Organization of Judicial Activities. The purpose of the Convention is to improve the quality of refereeing at all levels of the game within the framework of national associations by introducing the general rules for the preparation of judges and the organization of refereeing.

The Moscow army men unsuccessfully started in the next drawing of the 2010/11 season basketball euroliegs, losing to the first round on their parquet to the Italian “Milan” with a score of 73:88 (17:26, 12:26, ​​25:20, 19:16). Having not recovered in time after a tour of America, where three exhibition matches with the NBA teams were held, the army team allowed the guests too much.

Gunther von Hagen, author of the idea and organizer of the scandalous anatomical exhibitions "Body Worlds), opens the online store of human organs stored from decomposition by plasticization. It consists in the fact that instead of water and fat, plastic is pumped into the tissue. At his exhibitions, von Hagen also demonstrates compositions from plastered corpses, reminds the British newspaper The Independent . The public condemns the plans of von Hagen, who has already gained scandalous fame.

The elder of the Estonian district, Ida-Virumaa Riho Brevel, said that Russian citizens are massively buying cheap apartments, but they do not live in them and do not pay utility services, writes Prian.ru with reference to DV.ee. "The problem has appeared recently, real estate firms were given to know about it. At first, this phenomenon does not seem massive, but then it turns out that it has long been going on for a long time," says Bravel.

A group of teachers and students of the Holy Filaret Orthodox-Christian Institute (SPI) and members of the Preobrazhensky Brotherhood, headed by the Rector of the SPI, visited Albania Professor George Kochetkov. The trip was organized at the invitation of the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church of the Archbishop of Tiran and all of Albania Anastasia, the information service of the Preobrazhensky Commonwealth of Small Orthodox Brotherhoods reports.