Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees on the pardon of 29 Russians convicted under various articles of the Criminal Code to short terms of imprisonment (from 1 year to 3 years) for crimes that have not caused harm to other people's health.

The start of the work of the newly elected parliament of Kyrgyzstan is transferred for an indefinite period due to litigation about the results of the elections, reports on Friday RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the press service of the legislative body. On Monday, the CEC of Kyrgyzstan voiced the final results of the parliamentary elections, which were held on October 10.

Specialists of the NASA American space agency intend to carry out the launch of the Discovery reusable spacecraft on Friday evening, ITAR-TASS reports. As expected, the start of the shuttle should take place at 15:04 on the time of the east coast of the United States (22:04 Moscow time). Initially, the launch of the shuttle was supposed to take place on November 1.

The Russian duet in Catherine Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyev ranks third after the short dance at the third stage of the Grand Prix series on Cup of China, which takes place these days in Beijing. Bobrova and Soloviev already at the very beginning of the rental of his waltz under the song "Dilla" of Tom Jones made a mistake on the twiz, RIA Novosti notes. In some other elements, Russian dancers also did not have the purity of performance.

A journalistic investigation on corruption in the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) "seriously harmful" the application committee of England for the 2018 World Cup. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Air Force, a member of the application committee of England, who wished to remain an unknown. Earlier, the FIFA Executive Committee said that this scandal would not in any way affect the chances of the English application.

The second explosion in the mosque was carried out in Pakistan: on Friday evening, terrorists threw grenades with a building of one of the mosques in the city of Peshavar (the administrative center of the north-western province of Haiber-Pakhtunhwi). At least 5 people were killed and about 20 were injured, reports ITAR-TASS.

The body of the former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was devoted to the earth on Friday at the Novodevichy cemetery of the Russian capital. In the morning in the House of Receptions on the Sparrow Hills, a civilian memorial service ended with the participation of state leaders, politicians, representatives of the public, cultural and science figures. Among the others, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said goodbye to Chernomyrdin.

Aerocaribbean was not Russian citizens on board the aircraft, which crashed the day before in the Central Cuban Province of the St. Petersburg Piritus, nor on a liner that fell on Pakistan on Friday at night. As follows from the Cuban state television reporting on Friday, Russian citizens were not on board the Aerocaribbean passenger aircraft, which was divided on Thursday in the Central Cuban province of the St. Petersburg, ITAR-TASS reports.

The flood, which covered 50 of the 74 provinces of Thailand in October-November, caused the death of 140 people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the data of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. The statement of the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the number of those killed from the flood reached 140 was transferred to the Thai media in the morning on Friday.

On Thursday, unknown people stole three helicopters in Sudan, the Echo of Moscow reports. At first it was reported that these are Russian citizens, but subsequently, ITAR-TASS reports, it turned out that there were no citizens of Russia among the stolen ones. This was stated by the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Sudan Evgeny Arzantsev. He said that the abducted are employees of the Latvian airline GM Helicopter.

The police detained the three Arabs on Friday at the King`s Cross metro station and evacuated all the passengers of the train wagon, an eyewitness of the incident told RIA Novosti . According to him, three Arab -looking people rode with large suitcases and bags, and there was a suspicion that the detainees were carrying explosives. “They were detained, the police were handcuffed and led them out of the car,” the eyewitness said.

In Moscow, it is believed that the new “spy history” in Georgia is a provocation of the Georgian leadership, and the moment for it was clearly chosen on the eve of a number of resonant international events. "Saakashvili's regime suffers from chronic spy -farm on anti -Russian soil.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin changed the head of the prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District of the capital: the acting prefect of the Wao Nikolai Evtikhiev was resigned, and Nikolai Lomakin, who previously worked as the first deputy of the VAO, was appointed to this post, Interfax reports on Friday with reference to a source in the metropolitan city hall. There was no official confirmation of this information yet.

The ex-head of the press service of the mayor and the government of Moscow, Sergei Tsoi, who worked in these positions since March 1989, filed a request for retired, Interfax reports. “Two days ago, on Wednesday, I gave the new mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin a retirement request, but it was not accepted,” Tsoi told the agency. “Yesterday, Sergei Sobyanin invited me for a conversation.

The engine refusal, which caused an emergency landing of the A380 liner, could be the result of an engineering error, the Qantas Australian airline, which belongs to the aircraft, reports BBC television and radio company. "We believe that the most likely reason could be the material of some kind or problem of design," said Alan Joyce, chairman of the board of directors of the company and added that the investigation of the incident is ongoing.