Former participant in the world famous Cirque du Soleil circus Anton Alferov, who died on October 28 after taking severe injuries in the preliminary imprisonment chamber in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, entered this country as an American. On the border, 35-year-old Alferov presented a passport in the name of a US citizen, all his other documents were also American, said Andrei Markelov, RIA Novosti in Mexico.

Vladimir Putin can miss the December Summit of Russia - the European Union in Brussels, sending Dmitry Medvedev in his place. The president’s participation in this event was not announced, but it implies the presidential format. However, the Kremlin administration has not yet decided who would fly there, one of its officials told RBC Daily . Such uncertainty inspires new discussions about why, after the famous flight with the Siberias, Putin does not fly on foreign trips.

The market is now not ready to seriously discuss the topic of the change of the leader of the country, as it was in the distant 90s of the last century. Then the Russian stock market was seriously feverish against the background of reports of the state of health of Boris Yeltsin, - analysts surveyed by the Prime Agency. "The theme of the president’s health is used only by speculators playing a decrease.

From day to day, the president will appoint the FSB department in Moscow and the Moscow Region Major General Alexei Dorofeev, says RBC Daily with reference to his own source in the FSB. The Chekist is primarily known for not looking at the situation in the Karelian Kondopoga, where in 2006 an interethnic conflict that threatened throughout the country erupted, and was dismissed from his post.

The leader of the Omsk branch of the LDPR Jan Zelinsky cannot all settle the scandal, which was erupted after his careless commentary on the coordination council of the opposition . A week ago, the Siberian politician criticized the new body of disagreements, saying that "CSR members are traitors to Russia, who need to go according to the laws of wartime: to put on the wall and shoot." Zelinsky is still specifying what he had in mind.

The Khimkinsky City Court of the Moscow Region revised the resonant case on the prosecution of Runet Konstantin Krestov’s rape of the Tresh Star. The influential artist was originally sentenced to only two years in prison, but now he was received by the sentence of almost three times more. By decision of Judge Elena Morozova, Igor Kondratyev, known under the pseudonym, Konstantin Krestov will spend 5.5 years behind bars.

Anton Nosik "... a visit by officials making the decision to block the site that they are asked to ban is not included in the procedure. What such consideration of the Internet on paper can lead to can be clearly seen from the Federal List of Extremist Materials of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The court acquitted the Greek journalist Kostas Vazanis, who was arrested on Monday for the publication of the list, which has the names of 2 thousand citizens of the country with foreign exchange accounts in the HSBC bank in Switzerland, the BBC Russian service reports. The court considered the journalist innocent in the malicious distribution of private information.

The Vatican warned that over time it could limit visitors to the Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's frescoes, who turned 500 years old to protect one of the miracles of Western civilization, Reuters reports. About five million people visit the Sistine Chapel every year. In the summer, to look at the frescoes, the main of which illustrates the famous plot of Genesis on the creation of Adam by God, about 20 thousand tourists come daily.

The work on the introduction of a single real estate tax should be completed before the end of 2012, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting on Thursday. The introduction of tax, which will replace existing property and land taxes, the country has been waiting for eight years, but the deadlines are regularly transferred. The last indicated time - no later than 2015 . Now Russians pay two taxes - property tax and land tax. Both tax are local.

On the city embankment of Kerch on Friday in honor of the 69th anniversary of the Kerch-Eltigen landing operation, which played an important role in the process of liberation of Crimea from the fascist troops during the Second World War, the monument to its participants will be opened. The topic for the monument, no doubt, has been chosen, but many local residents doubted the success of the idea.

In the city of Cardiff in Wales, a lawsuit is undergoing a trial over a woman-child. The attacker dealt with a minor son when he could not learn the surah in a book sacred for Muslims. At the bench of the defendants of the Royal Court of Cardiff was 32-year-old Sarah Edge, writes The Daily Telegraph newspaper. As follows from the case file, the parent was angry with the seven-year-old son Yasin because the boy could not learn by heart excerpts from the Qur'an.

The premiere at the Bolshoi Theater of the Opera Igor in the production of Yuri Lyubimov was postponed to June 2013, on December 16, the premiere of Verdi will be held, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Directorate of the Gabt. "Travate" will be shown on the main stage on December 16, 18, 19 and 20.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will take part in the 9th Summit of the Asia-Europe forum in Laos on November 5-6. According to the Prime Agency, the forum participants will discuss issues of financial and economic cooperation, interaction in the social and cultural spheres, regional policy. Among the main topics are the fight against terrorism and piracy, sustainable development, overcoming the consequences of the global financial crisis, the fight against poverty, migration.

The Moscow authorities introduced from November 1 a parking fee on the streets in the area of ​​Tsvetnoy Boulevard. For the wrong parking, technically, the authorities are ready to fine literally everyone. Paid parking on the streets that got into the pilot project costs 50 rubles per hour, or 1200 rubles per day. In a month, the cost of parking will go off for 36 thousand, writes Bfm.ru.