The French-Israeli financier Thierry Lane, a companion of the ex-head of the International Monetary Fund Dominic Struss-Kana, committed suicide in Tel Aviv, reports Newsru Israel with reference to AFP. According to Line's relatives, on Thursday, October 23, a 48-year-old businessman jumped out of the window of one of the buildings of the Yoo elite residential complex in the northern part of the city. The motives of his suicide are unclear.

The outflow of capital from funds investing in the Russian stock market amounted to about 139 million dollars from October 16 to 22 to an outflow of $ 62 million a week earlier and $ 68.9 million in the first week of the month, Vesti Economics reports with reference to Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR). The withdrawal of foreign investors from Russian funds lasts a third week in a row.

The Swedish military spent about 20 million Swedish crowns ($ 2.7 million) in search of a foreign submarine, RBC reports with reference to Sveriges Radio . These expenses are comparable to the cost of weekly work on the elimination of forest fires, the Swedish defense department said. One of the search leaders, Rear Admiral Andres Grenstad said that the operation was mainly completed, and most of the ships who took part in it went to the port.

The batteries in some Kyiv houses have become hot: since the beginning of this week, many hospitals, kindergartens, schools have been connected to heating, and now the turn has reached the apartments of Kiev. In Kiev, as of 6 a.m. on October 23, 15% of residential buildings were connected to heating, the press service of Kyivenergo said . Residents of the Ukrainian capital accept warmth with gratitude, but they expect payment for October with horror, they write "New Izvestia" .

In the city of Marisville, which is located in Washington’s state north of Seattle, on Friday, October 24, shooting occurred, CNN reports with reference to local law enforcement officers. One of the schools was blocked by the police "in connection with the emergency," representatives of local authorities said. Some students were evacuated from school, others were ordered to stay in the audiences. According to eyewitnesses, the schoolboy shot people in the cafeteria.

The Ukrainian army did not use cassette ammunition during clashes in the east of the country, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin. According to the minister, these charges were carefully verified with the participation of the Ukrainian army, and it turned out that we were talking about a fake. “If you carefully look at the photos, you will see that it is a fake,” the minister said in an interview with the German radio station Deutschlandfunk (TASS translation).

In Cambodia, there were 10 members of the Khmer National Front of Liberation, who did not agree with the policies of Prime Minister Hun Sena, in the matter of rapprochement with Vietnam, were arrested over the past two days in the capital of FNA on charges of provocation of violence and riots, reports The Cambodia Daily, citing a source in the Cambodian police.

The Presnensky court of Moscow refused to recover two pennies from the NTV television channel in favor of designer Artemy Lebedev, who filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity. The reason for the trial was the plot in which the famous blogger allegedly called veterans of the Great Patriotic War "cowards".

The development of the Ukrainian conflict changed the alienation of forces in the political elite of Russia: the role of the "security officials" and their chief, the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov , increased in it. At the same time, the “system liberals” suffer an obvious defeat, their leader - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev - sharply lost political weight, the Minchenko Consulting holding “Politburo 2.0”, describing the informal structure of Russia's management, said.

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolche and Stefano Gabban are justified in the case of tax failure. Such a decision was issued on October 24, the Cassation Court of Italy, withdrawing the charges "for the lack of corpus delicti." According to ANSA , the court also acquitted accountant Luciano Patelly and managers Christina Ruella and Giuseppe Minori, who, together with famous designers, were defendants in a criminal case of tax failure.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has stopped criminal proceedings against the leader of the Kushchevskaya gang of Sergei Tsapk and his associate Igor Chernykh because of their deaths. They both passed away, being in a pre -trial detention center, after they received life sentences. Another member of the gang - the former deputy from United Russia Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz - the Supreme Court softened the punishment for two months - up to 19 years and 10 months of imprisonment.

In Krasnoyarsk, the results of a fire-technical examination of building materials were voiced, from which a ventilated facade of a 25-storey building was made on Shakhterov Street, which burned down in the city at the end of last month. Contrary to expectations, they gave rise to even more questions than answers, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes.

The global sales of cars in the half -year of 2014 amounted to 32 million 742 thousand cars - this is 4.1% more than a year earlier. Thus, the global car market has shown positive dynamics for the fifth year in a row, Avtostat reports, referring to the data of the International Association of Auto Producers (OICA).

Journalists learned that the Russian Volkswagen plant in Kaluga will begin assembling the updated Polo sedan, reports LiveCars.ru . Previously, the Volkswagen press service denied information about the preparation of the assembly line for the release of the new Polo sedan. Currently, the plant is preparing for the test production of the “zero batch” of sedans, after which the final debugging of the equipment will begin.

Speaking at the Valdai International Forum in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin, whom Russian officials on the eve actually identified with Russia, promised the participants to speak frankly and harshly. Putin also burst into criticism of US policy in the Middle East and the rest of the world, opposing the thesis about their exclusivity, TASS reports. Turning to the forum experts, Putin promised to tell the truth: “I won’t disappoint you either, I will tell you directly, frankly.