China brought into orbit the 16th satellite of its own Baidow global navigation system. The apparatus, as ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Sinhua agency, was launched on Thursday at night using the Changzhen-3s launch vehicle from the Sichan cosmodrome in the southwestern province of Sichuan. China plans to create its own independent global satellite navigation system by the type of American GPS, European Galileo and the Russian Glonass.

Despite the hot objections of the religious public on this occasion, the former northern campus of the Lutheran Church in the American city of Bismarck (Dakota) is planned to be turned into an object with 288 apartments, offices and a gym. The city commission of Bismarck should soon vote for this proposal.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, grew by 22.81 kopecks and amounted to 31,4780 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 went up by 5.45 kopecks and amounted to 40.6960 rubles.

In Spain, in the III quarter of 2012, every fourth resident of working age did not have a job, the National Institute of Statistics testify. The unemployment rate of 25% is record-high for the kingdom, and next year the situation can only aggravate due to the program of budget savings. The indicator was the last time at this level during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the mid-1970s.

The leaders of the post -Soviet space decided to transfer the CIS summit from November to December: the reason for the delay could be the alleged health problems of the Russian president, Reuters notes. "At present, the date of the summit is specified, agreed with the presidents of the Commonwealth countries," Interfax told in the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk. The reasons for the transfer to the body were not reported.

Iran continues to buy coal, despite the sanctions of the West , using intermediaries, numerous bank accounts and ghost ships, says Reuters.

In the near future, the Cosmos-1484 remote sensing satellite, launched back in the Soviet Union, may fall to the Earth, the website of the American strategic command reports. According to him, the device can enter the dense layers of the atmosphere around the December 19th. The linear dimensions of the satellite are about 12 meters, weight - 2500 kg. Information about the time of the fall of the spacecraft is constantly being specified.

AvtoVAZ will begin the production of new generation Lada Kalina cars this year, reports "Autospex . "By the end of this year, we plan to launch the assembly of pilot series of cars intended for various tests. In the first half of 2013, we plan to complete the appropriate modernization of equipment in the welding and assembly complexes. We outlined the start of sales for the summer of 2013.

In the suburbs of Brussels, the top manager of the oil company Exxon Mobil, a British citizen Nicholas Mokford, was killed. The crime was committed on October 14, but the Belgian law enforcement agencies named the name of the murdered only on Friday, ITAR-TASS reports. The 60-year-old foreigner was shot late in the evening, when he left the Italian restaurant in the Brussels commune Laken and headed for his Lexus car.

Over the week, the ordinary shares of Rostelecom lost more than 6%. On October 25, the operator’s papers on the Moscow Exchange traded at a price of 126 rubles apiece, although last Thursday the price lasted at 135.2 rubles. The shares fell after the statements of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich about the need to change the Strategy of Rostelecom.

In Moscow, the Tver Passage shopping center again earned. However, tenants represented by the Pyramid-2000 company say that visitors will not appear in it in the near future, since junk hammers work on the second floor, and all the entrances are pulled upstairs with barbed wire, Interfax reports. The agency reports that the first underground floor of the Tver Passage has opened, but only for journalists.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation begins to verify the situation around the construction of the stadium in St. Petersburg for the flagship of St. Petersburg football - the Zenit club. “Today we signed an agreement with the Accounts Chamber of St. Petersburg, we begin a joint check of financing for the construction of a football stadium in the city,” the head of the County Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin told Interfax .

The refusal of the opposition Leonid Razvoszhaev from the testimony cannot prevent the investigation with the investigation in the criminal case on preparing for the organization of riots, they said today in the TFR. Investigators emphasize that they have at their disposal much more significant facts. Which ones are not specified. "If Mr.

The meeting of the members of the Valdai International Discussion Club with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his residence near Moscow in Novo-Ogravo turned out to be uninteresting. And it was boring to both guests and the owner. In this opinion, some participants shared in the press, concluding that the format chosen this time was clearly unsuccessful. The materials on the topic are introduced to the "headlines" .

After several consecutive visits to the foreign countries of President Vladimir Putin, journalists began to look for the reason for the unexpected change in the plans of the Russian leader. After interviewing some sources close to the environment of the head of state, they came to the conclusion that the machi with the iron muscles of Putin can have serious health problems.