Negotiations of President Barack Obama with the leaders of the US Congress on the issue of financing government took place in the White House. However, the administration and leaders of the Republicans in the US Congress could not agree.

The 120-meter yacht Andrei Melnichenko, who had struck the public several years ago with its extravagant appearance, suffered from the negligent attitude of Dulux workers, owned by Akzo NoBel. Moreover, it suffered from $ 100 million - that is how much, according to Melnichenko, should a company that left him on his yacht after painting laying and stripes.

At the Roma Fiction Fest festival, held in the capital of Italy, the documentary of the SCRINIUM Domini Papae, dedicated to the secret archive of the Vatican, was shown the day before. 28 -minute tape - joint products of the archive itself and the television center of the Holy See.

In the 13th arrondissement of Paris, in an old ten-story building that will soon be demolished, perhaps the largest collective exhibition of street art opened this week. For the past seven months, more than 100 graffiti artists from all continents and 18 countries have been painting the walls and stairs of the building inside and out, unleashing their imagination. The result is a modern Tower of Babel of street art, writes The Wall Street Journal .

"Who to believe? The President? He is higher in position than the Deputy Minister. But why does an official from the Ministry of Finance talk about this confiscation as a fait accompli? Is it because the draft budget for next year already includes a reduction in the transfer to the Pension Fund by exactly the amount that they want to withdraw from the savings system? Where is the truth? There are two possible answers to this question: 1. The President is misinformed and is being led by the nose.

The presidents of Russia and the USA Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, who met in September in St. Petersburg, can hold a new meeting on October 7 on the fields of APEC summit in Indonesia. In particular, the fate of Syria will be discussed on it, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the message of the assistant to the head of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakova. The initiator of the meeting was the Russian side, he added.

“Renova” of Victor Vekselberg sells the development company of mlp to the structures of the owner of Rusneft and the Bin group Mikhail Gutseriev and his family. The amount of the transaction, which will allow Bina to enter the top three largest owners of warehouses in Russia, may exceed $ 700 million, Kommersant says.

Fifteen people died in a plane crash in Nigeria - the Brazilian Passenger Embraer EMB 120 passenger plane crashed, falling immediately after taking off the Nigerian Economic Capital of Lagos at the airport, Reuters reports with reference to the head of civil aviation of the country Yakubu Dati. The tragedy occurred at 9:32 local time. The liner made a flight Lagos Akure, a city in the southwest of the country. There were 20 people aboard - 13 passengers and seven crew members.

Skoda is preparing to present a new version of the Rapid model - a two -door compartment. According to autoblog.nl , this way the brand can celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Rapid Coupe. With reference to an unnamed source, the Dutch "Autoblog" reports that the model will be presented next year. Officially, representatives of Skoda did not confirm, but did not refute this information.

In Volgograd, another scandal is flared up associated with the desecration of the memory of those who died in the Great Patriotic War. The reason was obscene photo and video materials made by Alena Piskun, positioning herself as a freak-singer, on the territory of the memorial in honor of the defenders of Stalingrad on the Mamaev Kurgan. The police are currently checking. Piskun and her friends, also present in the pictures, are facing a criminal case.

The Russian Foreign Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday evening stated that the head of the Investigative Department of the International Football Association Federation Michael Garcia appears in the “Guantanamo list” , compiled by Russia in response to the Magnitsky List , published by the State Department, Interfax informs. Next week, Garcia should start a trip to nine countries, including Russia, which applied for the world football championships in 2018 and 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Teacher's Day, which is celebrated on October 5, met in an informal setting with the winners of the competition "Teacher of the Year of Russia - 2013" and drank tea with them. At first, the president congratulated the prize winners on outstanding results and added that he was glad to discuss a number of issues related to the improvement of the exam with them, the distribution of the load of schoolchildren, etc.

The Baltic countries are becoming more attractive to foreign investors - the demand for real estate, especially luxurious, will grow in these states, and housing prices will increase with it. According to Meeting.lv , experts came to this conclusion during the discussion as part of the European Congress of the International Real Estate Federation FIABCI-2013.

Sociologists of the Levada Center published data on the results of the elections of the President of the Russian Federation if they took place in September. The alignment of political forces has not changed much: the rating of Vladimir Putin has grown a little, amounting to 30% of the vote, Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky steadily occupy the second and third place. True, the opposition Alexei Navalny unexpectedly equalized with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Citizens of the Russian Federation called Lake Baikal the main symbol of the country in a survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). The respondents were invited to independently name natural objects and architectural monuments, which can be considered symbols of Russia, as well as choose objects from those presented as part of the voting at the Russia 10 contest.