Palestine has applied for UN membership, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the organization's press service. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas delivered a statement to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The application is to be considered by the UN Security Council, which should make a recommendation to the General Assembly.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the claim of the National Reserve Bank of Alexander Lebedev to the FSB for the recovery of 350 million rubles in compensation for moral damages, RAPSI reports . The representative of the bank has already expressed its intention to appeal the court decision. The cause of the lawsuit was a search in the office of the NRB.

More than a hundred Palestinians held a rally today on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, calling on all countries of the world to recognize the independence of Palestine and include it in the UN, Interfax reports . The action was attended by representatives of some Russian parties, including the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Labor Russia. The rally was previously agreed with the city authorities, about twenty police officers were on duty at it.

The appeal of the Palestinian Authority to the Security Council for full membership in the UN will mean the end of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, the Russian News Service reports. This statement was made today by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. "If there is a direct appeal, there will hardly be room for negotiations," he said.

The Nagatinsky Court of Moscow authorized the arrest for two months of Valery Kryukov, who, according to investigators, was driving a Nissan Qashqai that knocked down seven pedestrians the day before at the intersection of Kashirskoye Highway and Andropov Avenue, Interfax reports . Kryukov was charged under the article “Violation of traffic rules that resulted in the death of two or more persons”, he can be imprisoned for seven years.

The Russian Internet audience has increased 2.5 times over the past two years, from 10 million users in August 2009 to 25 million last August, Prime-TASS reports, citing data from the analytical company OpenStat. The main increase in the audience occurred due to the regions, while the total share of users from Moscow and St. Petersburg during this time decreased from more than 51% to about 40%. Russian Internet users, like two years ago, prefer two search engines, Yandex and Google.

Rosselkhoznadhor again banned the import of potatoes from Egypt. “The ban has been renewed due to the fact that products that pose a danger to consumers continue to come from Egypt,” told Interfax Alexei Alekseenko, a spokesman for the department, . According to him, Rosselkhoznadhor has complaints about the quality of other plant products from Egypt, during the inspection of which cases of detection of objects quarantined for Russia continue.

The Moscow Arbitration Court today terminated the proceedings on the claim of VTB to recover 870.6 million rubles from Inteko CJSC Elena Baturina, RIA Novosti reports . The decision was made in connection with the refusal of the bank to file a claim. In court, a representative of VTB explained that on July 26, even before the lawsuit was accepted for proceedings, Inteko fully repaid the debt. At the court session, it was noted that the parties entered into a loan agreement two years ago.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he would submit a bill to the State Duma, according to which an official could be fired for corruption without a court decision, RIA Novosti reports . "This bill, in particular, expands the grounds for dismissal of a civil servant, including the loss of confidence," Medvedev said today at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

Moscow authorities plan to open the first water metro route from the Pechatniki district to Kitay-gorod in 2012, a told RIA Novosti today. representative of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development The length of this route is 19 kilometers, and the travel time with eight stops is 46 minutes. Approximate travel time from Pechatniki to Kitai-Gorod by regular metro is 16 minutes. The planned fare on the "water metro" will be 50 rubles.

Italian physicists from the University of Gran Sasso have discovered that super-inert neutrino particles can move faster than the speed of light, Gazeta.Ru reports . The experiment was repeated for two years. During this time, neutrinos managed to exceed the speed of light in more than 16 thousand cases.

It all happened in military unit No. 83 313, located in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory. 20-year-old Leonid Malkov arrived there from Chelyabinsk and managed to serve only two months. He was beaten by Major Alexei Skvortsov. According to Leonid, the reason was that the major did not like the dirty wall. The private at that moment changed from the outfit and went to rest in the barracks.

Yarik is a half-breed Russian Hound. This concludes the positive-educational commentary on the portrait. Everything else is a sad story and a desire to help a dog in trouble. One of the summer residents of the garden association near Mozhaisk told about him. He appeared in the hope of food and shelter. Thin, limping, but with some amazing optimism, delicacy in relations with people and a very good-natured character. Nobody could accept a dog. Fed up, regretted.

The Council of Ministers of the European Union today approved a new package of sanctions against Syria, told RIA Novosti a representative of the press service of the EU Council . A ban has been introduced on investments in the Syrian oil sector, the provision of bank loans, the purchase and expansion of stakes in Syrian companies, the creation of joint ventures, as well as the import of euro cash into Syria.

Stage designer Boris Krasnov, accused of extortion, fell into a coma and was transferred to the intensive care unit of the Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biological Center. This was reported today by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency. Earlier, the artist's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told RAPSI that his client was hospitalized yesterday with a suspected stroke.