The authorities of Japan were offended by the next caricature that plays out the situation around the Fukushima-1 emergency nuclear power plant. The drawing , published in the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine, depicts two sumo wrestlers with additional hands and legs fighting against the background of nuclear power plants, Reuters reports.

The solemn ceremony of the entry of the chosen mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin over the post, on Thursday evening, which took place on Poklonnaya Hill, added the troubles of motorists who were already tired of traffic jams. Some time before the event, Kutuzovsky Prospekt and the adjacent streets were practically "frozen". And although “Yandex.

The city of Lester, located in the center of Washington, once served as a transshipment point for linked by coal trains following from Seattle to Minneapolis along the Bolshaya Northern Railway, and now it is completely abandoned. The last resident of the city, which was founded in 1892 in the picturesque cascading mountains, died in 2002 at the age of 99.

The soloist of the Rock Group "Kukryniks" Alexei Gorshenev in memory of his older brother Mikhail Gorshenev ("Pot"), who died this summer, will perform in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev with the farewell concerts of the King and Jester group, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of Kish. "These are the iconic, key concerts of the last round of the King and the Jester, they are dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Gorshenev.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court decided to refuse to satisfy the request of the opposition Alexei Navalny, who took second place in the Moscow Mayor, to take office as the chief mayor Sergei Sobyanin due to suspicions of the honesty of his victory. “Those measures that Navalny ask are not measures to ensure claims of this category,” the representative of the Moscow City Court told Interfax .

American intelligence still has no evidence that it was the Syrian President Bashar Assad who was involved in a chemical attack made on August 21, writes The Washington Times , citing representatives of the US intelligence community. According to them, recently, there are more and more debates about whether ASAD has complete control over its Army exhausted by the war and arsenal of chemical weapons.

Rosneft President Igor Sechin decided to turn his conflict around Uralkalia to his benefit. In Minsk, on September 11, he met with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the head of Belneftekhim Igor Zhilin.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) intends to hold a special vote to approve the opponent of Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko in the last battle of his professional career, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the World Boxing News . The winner of the WBC championship belt Klitschko Sr. last time entered the ring in September 2012 in Moscow, when he knocked out by Manuel Charra.

The Muslim UMma of Poland spread the day before a statement according to which the national ban on the free and kosher slaughter of cattle, introduced in the country since the beginning of this year, contradicts the EU legislation, the RAW Story portal reports, citing AFP.

The Russian government will be reduced by budget expenditures in 2014-2016 by 5% , except for protected articles, in some cases there may be more reduction, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting. "We will have to reduce the expenditure part of the budget by at least 5% in all respects, except for protected articles, in some cases these reductions can be more," Medvedev said. The budget is formed in difficult conditions, he added.

The capital's government can leave the Minister of Culture Sergey Kapkov, writes the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to several Moscow officials and a source close to the Kremlin. Among the reasons are fatigue and "cramped" position. However, it is noted that negotiations will still be held with Kapkov and, perhaps, it will be able to hold it. The press service of the Moscow Department of Culture refused to comment on information about Kapkov’s possible care, RIA Novosti reports.

Mazda held the first public presentation of model 3 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and announced the cost of a new model for the European market, reports QX9.ru. As it became known to journalists, the cost of the novelty in the British market will start from £ 16,695, which is 26,1220 US dollars at the current rate. The American Mazda3 will cost from $ 16,945, not counting the cost of delivery. More luxurious configurations will be offered at the price of 19,495 pounds ($ 30,505).

The Euroset retail company filed a complaint with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), demanding that the Apple and Svyaznoye Contact Supply of the iPhone to Russia, concluded in the fall of 2012, be recognized as not relevant to the Law on the Protection of Competition. As the manager of the company, the partner of Apple, told Vedomosti , Euroset believes that Apple gave "coherent" unjustified preferences: with other retailers she has no such agreements.

“I have already noted more than once that regional leaders and masters from the EdRa lodge do not need voters. They get by just fine without them through lured or intimidated members of election commissions, as well as carousel operators, helicopter pilots and other specialists in rotary election mechanisms. And the people understood this. and decided not to go to the polls anymore. Hence the turnout, which is shameful for the authorities - in reality no more than 6%.

The prosecutor's office of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) forbade the city administration to destroy the object of cultural heritage "Kurochkin's House", which, according to the resettlement program from emergency housing, was subject to demolition, the prosecutor's office of the region said on Thursday.