The acting chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to verify the information widespread on the eve of the fact that 40 million rubles were allegedly discovered by the collectors in Ingushetia at the end of last year that the leader of the militants, known for the nickname Said Buryat.

The scandalously known website of the revelations of WikiLeaks launches a project in Russia and intends to find and publish compromising evidence for the country's authorities. At the launch of WikiLeaks, Julian Essenge reported in a letter to potential investors that the “main target of the project will be the despotic regimes of Russia, China and Central Asia,” but recently all attention has been concentrated on the “Afghan” and “Iraqi dossier” .

The excitement predicted by analysts in the Russian sector of elite housing did not happen, EVANS experts say. Moreover, as experts say, in the third quarter, compared with the II quarter, the demand for the rental remained at the same level, and the purchase of real estate was sharply reduced - to 30%. Even in the past, the crisis year during the same period (III quarter), 5% of transactions were made more than this, writes the website of the newspaper Vedomosti .

An influential businessman suspected of illegal transportation of potent drugs was detained in the Volgograd region. During the search in the suspect’s car, a kilogram of heroin was confiscated. To date, the 35-year-old director of the OBI hypermarket, Alexander Afanasyev, has already been released from a temporary detention isolator for a recognizance not to leave, V1.ru reports with reference to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Volgograd Region.

A rusty skyscraper in Leeds has received a prestigious award from the international Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ( CTBUH ). It was recognized as the best high-rise building on the planet in 2010, writes Prian.ru with reference to The Guardian . Dubai's record-breaking skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, built earlier this year, became a finalist in the competition, winning in its geographic region (Middle East and Africa).

A resident of St. Petersburg, who made an unauthorized flight on a helicopter on August 20 this year over the Primorsky district of the city, was fined 5 thousand rubles, reports the Fontanka.ru network publication.

Peugeot reported that the security system in its cars was not tested on “fat men”, the weight of which exceeds 78 kg. Thus, drivers with excessive weight problems are more dangerous on the roads than their sports physique colleagues, Newsru Israel reports. A year and a half ago, the mother of three children Judith Evans died in the UK. She was driving the Peugeot 107 car, which, according to the results of the crash tests, received the "four".

The version of the “Gulag Archipelago” Alexander Solzhenitsyn was published, which was more than four times reduced specifically for the school curriculum, Interfax reports with reference to the widow of the writer Natalya Solzhenitsyn. According to her, the abbreviated version of the "Gulag Archipelago" will be studied at the end of grade 11.

In the north-east of Moscow, a breakthrough of the main water supply system occurred on Tuesday morning. According to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, at about 6:15 on the Nizhomoskovskaya street in the area of ​​house No. 6, between the stations of the Alekseevskaya and VDNH metro, a rupture of the highway with cold water with a diameter of 900 mm.

In the capital, a sentence was sentenced to the former chief inspector of the Department of the Customs Inspectorate of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia, who held at home an impressive "collection" of military weapons. By a court decision, the 34-year-old ex-servant Dmitry Ratan will spend 3.5 years in a penal colony.

The legendary director Jean-Luke Hodar officially refused to personally receive Oscars for his contribution to the development of cinema, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the American film academy. The statement of the film academy says that according to the results of the two-month-old “Soul Correspondence with the president of the Academy, Tom Sherack Jean-Luke Hodar, regretfully notified Sheraq that he could not personally attend the Oscars on November 13.

First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Vladimir Popovkin, having arrived at the EURONAVAL-2010 exhibition in Paris, spoke about the plans of the Russian defense industry. In particular, he announced that a joint venture for the production of armored vehicles of the Italian company IVECO has been created in the Russian Federation. Production should begin next year, and at the end of 2011 it is planned to produce the first car, ITAR-TASS reports.

The European Commission conducted a study according to which since 2008 the largest trading partners of the EU introduced 332 barrage measures, promoting their own goods as import substitution. Despite the repeated statements of members of the G20 countries on countering such measures, over the past six months, more than 60 new sanctions have been introduced, which have influenced 1.7% of the EU exports.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the murder of the criminal authority of Eduard Kakosyan, who nicknamed Karas and was part of the clan of grandfather Hassan, was committed. A thief in law was shot from machine guns right in the Central District of Sochi. The deceased 31-year-old Eduard Kakosyan, despite the extensive ties in the criminal world, had a completely legal business in the form of several outlets, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

In China, a 10-year-old boy accidentally fell out of the window of the 20th floor of a skyscraper and, thanks to a successful landing, did not receive a single fracture. This was reported on Tuesday by the agency Sinhua. According to the agency, the emergency occurred the day before in the city of Guyang in the province of Guzhuu. The boy survived only because he fell not to the ground, but on the roof of the Citroen car parked in front of the house.