Despite the assurances of the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin that the ruble exchange rate is "adequate" , the national currency continues to behave contrary to the forecasts of the authorities. Exchange also falls: by the middle of the day, the MICEX index decreased by the previous closure by 6.5%, the fall in the RTS exceeded 7%, according to the exchanges given by RIA Novosti . The Russian ruble does not lag behind - it has reached 2009 minimums to the dollar and the euro.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines promises to deal with the loss of the cat , which followed in the baggage of one of the passengers by the SU720 flight from Vladivostok to Moscow. Recall, on September 18, a cat named Mike submitted to the baggage service of the airport of Vladivostok, paying for the transportation of 2100 rubles.

The Sky Express airline was fined 30 thousand rubles for violating passengers' rights, RIA Novosti reports on Thursday with reference to the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office. In June of this year, Sky Express allowed massive flight delays from the Moscow Airport "Vnukovo". The prosecutor’s audit found that the carrier did not comply with the requirements of the legislation on the reservation of aircraft for the transportation of passengers.

On September 22, the autobiography of the founder of the Political revelations of Wikileaks Julian Assange was published in the UK. The book is presented to readers, despite the fact that the author left the work on its writing halfway and tried to block the entire project.

The President of the LUKOIL NK Vagit Alekperov does not predict the growth in fuel prices until the end of this year, the Finmarket reports. "I am sure that our enterprises will be able to withstand the price indicator that now exists. If there is, then it is very insignificant. We do not plan a price increase before the end of the year," Alekperov said during a visit to the Kstovsky oil refinery. Alekperov said that the company is playing for a flexible excise policy of the Russian government.

“KinoiSuz”, under the chairmanship of Andrei Proshkin, called on Russian filmmakers to discuss the situation around the Russian Oscar Committee as a result of the scandalous nomination of the “Oscar” Citadel to the “Oscar”, according to the appeal published on Wednesday on the association website .

The state of the Russian penitentiary system is “monstrously archaic”, and the medical staff of the Federal Penitentiary Service is not able to cope with a large number of patients of prisoners. This thesis was recognized as the head of the Ministry of Justice, Alexander Konovalov, who was obvious to many human rights activists, speaking on Wednesday at the “government hour” in the State Duma, “Moscow News” write.

In Moscow, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of falling in the elevator of the elevator of a baby stroller, as a result of which the child was hospitalized with severe bodily harm, Interfax reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

The head coach of the Moscow Spartak Valery Karpin took the blame for the defeat from the Nizhny Novgorod Volga in the 1/8 finals of the Russian Football Cup . He stated this after the match in which his wards lost in the 5: 6 penalty series, the main and extra time ended in a draw 1: 1. The decisive 11-meter did not implement Vellon. “Speaking of the game, we started well,” the mentor noted. “Unfortunately, the injury of the Georgian midfielder Zhano Ananidze influenced the final result.

Using only fingers and cheap application, Japanese Seikou Yamaoka creates Artistic masterpieces right on the 3.5-inch screen of its iPod Touch. His works are more likely reminiscent of paintings written in oil than digital works, reports The Telegraph . The video with accelerated shooting shows that in order to create a female portrait using the Artstudio application for $ 3, the artist took three and a half hours.

The Perm Art Gallery, located in the building of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration Cathedral, has not yet been transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, has achieved the abolition of worship in the museum, according to the gallery blog . Recall that in early September, the gallery employees sent an open letter to the Russian government, noting that worships can damage the works of art and create a fire hazardous situation in the gallery.

Vienna police desperately found the criminal armed with a pneumatic rifle, who has been terrorizing the population for a month. The number of sniper bullets that suffered already exceeded ten people. For help in the capture of the shooter, a reward was promised, writes the Austrian newspaper Die Kronen Zeitung . At the moment, the police marked 17 incidents related to shelling from a pneumatic rifle, including two cases of material damage.

In Sweden, kindergarten teachers decided to apply modern tracking systems for children in their work during walks and excursions. In order to safety of their wards, as well as to prevent their disappearance from the field of view of adults, the staff began to use GPS and other systems for tracking children, the British newspaper The Guardian reports. As the head of the kindergarten in the city of Borlang Monica Blank Hadvist said, the use of such tracking systems is simply a “magnificent” idea.

With the help of a special optics, the French astrophotograph managed to shoot the flight of an uncontrollable satellite of NASA on the video, the fragments of which is supposed to fall to Earth this Friday. Specialists still cannot determine either the exact time of the fall, or the place where the parts of the six -ton comic object will collapse.

The arbitration court on Thursday set an end to the purchase of Mercedes-Benz worth almost six million rubles for the City Manager of Yekaterinburg Alexander Jacob. The prosecutor's office demanded that the contract be invalidated by the car acquired according to the dubious scheme. But the court took the side of the local administration, RIA Novosti reports.