The authorities of St. Petersburg would have preferred that residents of the house 24 on Lakhtinskaya Street, from which at the end of August, the bas-relief with Mephistopheles was shot down in the late August, paid for restoration work on their own. This was stated by Vice Governor Igor Albin in response to a request from the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Alexander Kobrinsky.

In the city of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on Monday, a local businessman shot at point blank range of the first deputy head of the Krasnogorsk district of Yuri Karaulov in his office. Together with the official, the criminal killed the head of the Krasnogorsk Electric Network OJSC George Kotlyarenko. According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin, the incident occurred about 14 hours.

The Russian authorities are close to signing a contract with Egyptian partners on the supply of equipment and helicopters for helicopter carriers of the Mistral type, which Cairo acquired from Paris. According to the head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Ivanov, the total transaction may exceed 1 billion dollars, TASS reports.

Two and a half thousand years ago (in the IV-III centuries BC), a typical set of instruments of the Siberian surgeon included tools that were not only inferior to European analogues, but which were not in Europe at all. Scientists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS came to such conclusions.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption, following the results of the meeting on October 19, recommended that the lower house adopt the presidential bill in the second and third readings, clarifying a number of provisions of the law on the ban on individual categories of persons to open and have accounts in foreign banks, RIA Novosti reports. It is expected that the consideration of the bill will be held on October 21.

The personnel of the main workshops of the Foundry and the divisions servicing them will have less rest than other KamAZ employees during corporate vacation in 2016, TASS reports citing the company’s press service.

The courts began to receive claims to the Transaero airline in a state of bankruptcy. The first application was filed on October 16 to the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, at the place of registration of the carrier, Sberbank. He notified the fact that the bank plans to file a lawsuit in early October. “We will try to extract our financial debt in the process of bankruptcy.

Against the backdrop of practical tests of the missile defense system (PRO) in Europe, Iran reported the intention to acquire its own OPA system by the beginning of 2017. It will be created on the basis of anti -aircraft missile systems of Iranian production Bavar 373 ("Vera 373"), FARS reports. “We hope to test BAVAR 373 systems before the end (Iranian) of the year (March 19, 2016),” the commander of the Hatam Al -Anbiya Air Defense Base, Iranian brigade General Farzad Ismaili told reporters.

In the strategy of long -term development of Russia, it is necessary to find a proportion "between tanks and oil" - a balance between the tasks of ensuring safety and socio -economic development. This opinion was expressed by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Oleg Fomichev in St. Petersburg at the XIV All-Russian forum "Strategic Planning in the Russian regions: the space of choice and the choice of space", TASS reports.

The most fat resident of Australia Andre Nasr managed to lose almost half of his weight - 200 kg and continues to lose weight. Its closest goal is to lose another 150 kilograms to reach a weight of 118 kilograms, SEven reports. This number of Nasr considers "magic".

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Crimea Ruslan Balbek promised that the problem of Crimea dependence on the "Ukrainian" electricity will be solved by the future summer.

Air defense units (air defense) deployed at the northernmost point of the territory of Russia - on the island of the Earth of Alexandra Archipelago Earth Franz Joseph in the Arctic Ocean - are in combat readiness and are “capable of solving problems in its destiny,” announced the commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Korolev.

On Sunday, a rally was held on Khodynskoye Field in the capital’s Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district against the development of the territories of the Birch Grove Park. Local residents have been protesting for three years against the construction of a temple here, fearing a reduction in the area of ​​the park, and are now unhappy with the construction of a 30-meter multifunctional complex above the new metro station.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov supported the idea of ​​creating a public movement of schoolchildren in Russia, taking into account the Soviet experience of children in Pioneer and Komsomol organizations. He also spoke out against the transfer of the school year, for which some representatives of the public and politicians advocated.

In the village of Chemitokvaje near Sochi, the anti-aircraft missile-gun complex "Prankry-C1" rolled over. The incident occurred on the federal highway. According to preliminary data, no one was injured as a result of the incident. ZRPK was transported without ammunition, reports the Portal "Notepad of Krasnodar" .