The instruction of President Vladimir Putin on the increase in housing construction by 1.5 times by 2015, most likely, will not be executed. According to the results of three quarters, the input of housing increased in the country by only 2.7%. If the situation does not change, then the plans for 2015 enter 80-90 million square meters. m of housing can be forgotten, says "Independent Gazeta" .

On the night of Sunday to Monday, residents of the Nagatinsky Zaton region could see how employees of a separate battalion of the traffic police of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern District drive the “Lada” of the sixth model in front of them. The chase ended in the Moscow River, reports KP .

Sandy, which collapsed in the United States, gave rise to not only catastrophic, but also curious incidents. According to The Metro newspaper, bloggers and television men made video of two men on the streets of respectable Washington, on which there were only sports underpants. These almost naked Americans, on which, moreover, were horsepower masks, jumped joyfully and waved their hands. One of them selflessly rolled on rollers.

Seventeen honorary veterans of the Udmurt Izhmash enterprise, including the creator of the legendary assault rifle Kalashnikov, Mikhail Kalashnikov, turned to the country's leadership with a complaint about the actions of the enterprise administration, due to which, in their opinion, the production level of record decreased. "The production of sports weapons was completely stopped, a number of export contracts were torn off.

The Department of refereeing and inspection of the Russian Football Union (RFU) considered it necessary to clarify the situation that happened in the 88th minute of the match of the 13th round of the Russian Championship "Alania"-Zenit (2: 3), which took place on October 27 in Vladikavkaz. The referee Sergei Kuznetsov made a mistake in it that influenced the result of the match.

The Microsoft Corporation officially introduced the Windows Phone 8 mobile platform, RIA Novosti reports. The launch of the new Windows Phone platform took place two years after the predecessor-Windows Phone 7. At the event that Microsoft held at San Francisco on Monday was the Vice President of Joe Belphior and Microsoft general director Steve Balmer. Microsoft top managers showed the platform functionality and announced the release dates of the first WP8-Smartphones on the market.

The hurricane "Sandy", or, as it is also called for mystical ferocity, "Frankensstorm", destroyed the 63-year-old summer captain of the Canadian replica of the legendary 55-meter Bounty sailboat. There is practically no hope of finding the captain alive. He disappeared in a sea abet with a three -masted vessel. Another crew member was pulled out of the water by US coast guard rescuers. However, by this moment the sailor was already dead.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls on the authorities of the regions as much as possible in construction domestic materials, including modern ones.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev considers the complete change of police personnel unacceptable for Russia, as was done in Georgia in 2010. He stated this in an interview with the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" . According to him, in Russia, taking into account its vast territory, it is unrealistic to gain new people as soon as possible.

Actor Leonid Bronevoy, who suffered a heart attack during a tour in Kiev, will be discharged from the Moscow Institute of Cardiology named after Myasnikov on Friday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Mark Varshaver, director of the Lenkom Theater, in which the actor works. "On Friday, Leonid Sergeyevich is issued from the hospital. We meet him, we will take him home, and a few days later he leaves for rehabilitation in the sanatorium in the suburbs," Warsaver said.

In the Moscow region, the wife of the late high -ranking official of the USSR wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee with a request to bring to criminal liability of the police, who for a day kept her together with young children in the position of hostages. The misfortunes of the woman began after her mansion in an elite village on Rublevsky highway was seized by raiders. The victim of police arbitrariness was 50-year-old Rimma Beletskaya, writes Life News.

A middle-aged woman and a teenage girl were walled up in an apartment on Biryulevskaya Street in the south of Moscow. Muscovites believe that they were captured by the will of the deputy head of the engineering service Irina Zhabotinskaya. Their complaint was the reason for initiating a criminal case.

The head of the Moscow District Council, North Medvedkovo, Mikhail Mikhailov, is awaiting a punishment for the conflict that occurred between his subordinates and journalists of the Russia-1 channel, promised the prefect of the North-Eastern Administrative District Valery Vinogradov. The Prefecture of the SWAO began an official audit on the fact of an attack on the film crew of the Special Correspondent program, which is published on the Russia-1 channel, RIA Novosti reports.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation completed the investigation of the criminal case against Ilyas Saidov, one of the gang participants, who was preparing a terrorist attack on Red Square on New Year's Eve, 2011. During the investigation with Saidov, a pre -trial agreement was concluded, in connection with which the materials of his criminal case were allocated into separate proceedings.

The number of victims of the Sandy storm, which fell on the eastern coast of the United States and Canada, has already increased to almost 30 people, of which 15 in New York, CNN reports. Most people died in the states of New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and West Virginia, Vesti clarify. Earlier, 17 dead were reported. One who died in Canada - there, a woman from Toronto was shot down by the wreckage of large garbage raised by the wind.