On Thursday, the debate continued in the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, which was considered the case on charges of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko of abuse of authority in concluding the contracts with Russia on gas supplies. After the performance of the prosecutor, who on Tuesday demanded the sentence of Tymoshenko to seven years in prison, the word was given to the side of protection. The parties exchange arguments and share their emotions not only in the courtroom.

The Moscow City Hall created an investment commission that will analyze all new construction sites in the capital, prepare documentation on them, as well as the land itself for bidding. It was headed by mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Previously, all these works were performed by developers themselves, and it turned out cheaper than now they would have to pay the city, Kommersant writes.

Military personnel of the communications battalion became victims of card scammers. From the salary cards of the Bank VTB24, skimmers withdrew money by installing special equipment on one of the ATMs in a military town in Serpukhov. For this month, VTB24 has been faced with a similar problem for the second time , writes Daily on Thursday.

New ways of deception that encourage users to open malicious applications and email are identified by researchers of the Symantec antivirus company. Hackers send meals who allegedly came from office printers, many of whom are now able to send scanned documents by e -mail, reports Haker.ru . “This is a new tactic that we have not encountered before,” says Paul Wood, senior analyst at Symantec.cloud intelligence department.

The project "Platform" of the Expert-Experimenter Kirill Serebrennikov, uniting the four directions of contemporary art-theater, dance, music and media, will begin its activities on October 7 in the space of the Moscow Modern Art Center "Vinzavod", RIA "Novosti" reports with reference to the press service of Vincavod. Under the experiment, Vinzavod gives its main exhibition site - the White Workshop, which was converted to the needs of the new project.

The online publication "At the wheel" has published sketches of the updated Lada Kalina model in the back of the hatchback and the development scheme of the Granta . Judging by the photo, the modified Kalina-hatchback will borrow some body parts from Granta. In parallel with Granta, in the back sedan and hatchback on the Vazovsky conveyor, updated universal and Kalina hatchback will be made, the newspaper writes. Both models will be modernized. The main changes will affect the front of the body.

Farmer Alan Graham from the North Irish town of Bangor, who allowed the famous singer Rihanna to remove the clip for the song We Found Love on his field, asked her to dress after she undressed to Bikini, BBC reports. Alan Graham walked through the field to his tractor when he saw a half -naked star, and he did not like it. “It seemed unacceptable to me. I asked them to stop the shooting, which they did. I talked with Rihanna, and I hope that she understood me. We shook hands,” Alan Graham said.

Former Moscow Bank President Andrei Borodin and the ex-first vice president Dmitry Akulinin, on the international wanted list, was charged in absentia of theft of someone else's property, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. "The investigation believes that there is sufficient evidence to charge him of theft of someone else's property using his official position.

The real goal of the Nanook military exercises spent a month ago by Canada in the Arctic is to confirm the presence of Ottawa in this region and occupy the most large -scale space by Canadian military. “This is a response to the recent actions of the Russians in the Arctic: they were so aggressive that the Canadian Prime Minister Stefen Harper called the Moscow policy in the“ disappointing ”region,” the opinion of the Italian newspaper La Stampa as saying .

The Moscow authorities plan to complete the consideration of existing investment construction contracts of the capital, approximately six months later, Andrei Sharonov, deputy mayor of the capital for economic policy, told reporters on Thursday. At the initiative of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, the city authorities are conducting a large -scale revision related to property and investment contracts.

The King of Saudi Arabia Abdalla canceled the sentence to a local resident sentenced to ten strokes with a whip for violating the ban on driving in the country by women. Information about the abolition of the sentence was confirmed by the press secretary of the government, BBC News reports. Shem Gassania was found guilty that in July she sat behind the wheel of a car and drove along the streets of the city of Jeddo.

The United States intends to deploy a large -scale operation to search and destroy Soviet weapons in Libya, stored in the army warehouses of Muammar Gaddafi and stolen in recent months during the battles of government forces with the opposition. According to the Pentagon, we are talking about more than 20 thousand portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS) "Needle" and "Strela-2" purchased at one time in the USSR, Kommersant writes.

At least one billion rubles a year will save each department with the introduction of the Electronic Government system, said Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Finmarket reports.

In India, the best in the world of a tablet computer was finally determined. A price of 35 dollars at a price of 35, the development and release of which is sponsored by the government of this country, will see the light on October 5. It is possible, however, that the initial price of $ 35 will increase, Sotovik.ru reports.

On Thursday, the American continent received conflicting information about the health status of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, which is treated for cancer . The El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish -speaking newspaper, said that it was urgently hospitalized and that it may have been in serious condition. The authorities in Karakas refute all this. According to the newspaper with reference to unnamed informed sources, Chavez was in a military hospital back on Tuesday morning.