Inosmi.ru weekend editor Grigory Vyotin accused the RIA Novosti agency, which owns the portal, in censorship and quit the publication. Okhotin himself said this to Lenta.ru . Previously, screenshots of Okhotin correspondence with RIA Novosti have appeared on the blogs. It follows from it that the agency decided not to translate foreign materials with criticism of United Russia and Vladimir Putin or, at least, not put them on the main page of the portal, the newspaper writes.

In Belarus, amendments to the laws on mass events and the activities of public associations, directed, including against the new popular type of protests - flash mobs, entered into force, Interfax reports.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate for the next day, decreased by 16.71 kopecks and amounted to 31.4117 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 fell by 25.82 kopecks - up to 41,7752 rubles.

The new radar station in the Kaliningrad region, which is given great importance in the complex of response measures declared last week by President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in connection with the construction of American PRO, will be put on the experimental and combat duty on Tuesday, the former chief of the General Staff of the Strategic Studies Victor Yesin told the Izvestia newspaper. According to him, on November 29, the new radar will be introduced into the pro.

The legendary American group Red Hot Chili Peppers will first perform in St. Petersburg with a concert as part of the world round in support of the tenth I'M With You album on the stage of the Petrovsky stadium on July 20, 2012, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the NCA concert agency Mikhail Shurygin. “This is a real stadium show for which RHCP is taking all the equipment with them - from the scene to the video.

Tickets to the Bolshoi Theater from Monday are sold on the Internet - on passports. "The new rules for the preliminary sales of tickets are beginning to operate on November 28, 2011," the Bolshoi Theater website said. According to the rules, tickets entering the preliminary sale are implemented primarily by the preferential categories of citizens and persons who have sent a preliminary application for a visit to the theater, Interfax reports.

The police of the capital detained suspects in a bloody brawl that occurred in the Old Baku cafe in the southeast of the city. As a result of the fight in the Moscow shopping center, six people were injured, one of whom died. The murder battle occurred in a shopping center located in the metropolitan district of Lublino, in house No. 1 on Tikhoretsky Boulevard, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

This fall, many residents of cottage villages on the Rublevo-Uspensky highway were missing neighbors. Prestigious private schools are empty, the outflow of customers is also noticed by sellers of Rublevo services. People go away: who in England and Switzerland - closer to the children, who in Moscow - closer to work, says the Vedomosti newspaper. This was not there yet, but in Russia, but even before the revolution - in 1917 , experts say.

Yuan has already approached the equilibrium, exchange rate in relation to the dollar, and the allegations of American experts about the artificial understatement of the Yuan course are baseless, the vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Public Sciences Lee Yang said at a conference in Beijing on Monday.

The aggravated friction between Iran and the West is a help for high oil prices despite a drop in demand, writes The Wall Street Journal . Iran enters the first three oil suppliers to Europe, especially to Italy, Greece and Spain. However, France recently threatened that it would offer all the EU to introduce an embargo on Iranian oil imports in connection with the alleged nuclear weapons.

The first after the "Revolution January 25" Parliamentary elections begin on Monday in Egypt. Due to the riots in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities of the country, the elections until the last moment were at risk of breaking. However, the army, which controls the state during the transition period, categorically rejected all proposals for the transfer of voting time.

The Chinese court sentenced the 38-year-old Russian woman accused of smuggling in drugs to the death penalty with a postponement for two years. According to ITAR-TASS, a source in the Russian consulate, the verdict against a resident of Khabarovsk Marina Lopatina issued a court of Zhuhai last week. The Russian woman is accused of transporting 2 kg of a potent drug from the special administrative district Aoomen (Macau) to the mainland of the PRC.

An unusual wind power, which has not three, but two blades, will soon appear off the east coast of Scotland. The unique windmill, apparently, will also be famous for the fact that he can accept helicopters. According to the Inhabitat portal, the Scottish Minister of Energy Fergus Yuing recently announced that the government approved the construction of an innovative wind turbine under the project of the Dutch company 2-b Energy.

The hurricane who came to St. Petersburg from Norway and Finland breaks down roofing iron from the roofs of houses, falls trees and advertising shields. On the night of Sunday, Monday to heavy rain in the city and the surroundings, a north-west squalled wind added. As the main weather forecaster of the Northern capital, Alexander Kolesov, told Fontanka.ru , the maximum wind power reaches 20-22 m/s. The cause of the bad weather was a cyclone.

The Fund of Andrei the First-Called did not publish and did not distribute the VIP-imprisonment to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to worship the Virgin Mary, brought from Mount Athos in Greece, said the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, President of Russian Railways (Russian Railways) Vladimir Yakunin. “The fund and I personally categorically rejected any VIP-imprisonment. We did not publish them and did not distribute them.