Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Moscow State University Rector Viktor Sadovnichy today signed a cooperation agreement between the Moscow government and the university, Interfax reports . The solemn ceremony was held as part of the opening of the Sixth Moscow Science Festival, which became the final stage of the 2011 All-Russian Festival.

The court arrested three people who were previously detained for beating two girls and a police officer, told Interfax Elena Alekseeva, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, . Those arrested will be held in custody for a period of preliminary investigation of 2 months.

The Tatar transport prosecutor's office has completed an investigation into an almost hourly delay in the departure of the Kazan-Moscow plane from Kazan airport on September 30, Interfax reports . “The fact of the flight delay was confirmed.

At the Savelovsky railway station in Moscow, an evacuation is being carried out due to a call from an unknown person about the possibility of an explosion, told RIA Novosti . a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital “An unknown person called 02 at about seven o'clock in the evening and said that an explosion was possible at the Savelovsky railway station. The police are currently evacuating passengers and employees from the building,” the source said.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow today refused to arrest the second former official of the Federal Migration Service of Russia, Andrei Mayorov, accused of embezzling more than 69 million rubles allocated for the resettlement of compatriots living abroad to Russia, a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom .

Today, October 7, on the day of the fifth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, in France, in the eastern suburb of Paris, Montreuil, the grand opening of the square named after her will take place. Anna Politkovskaya Square is located near St. Peter's Cathedral.

The body of a 42-year-old senior forensic investigator was found at about 5:00 pm yesterday at his workplace in a building on Baumanskaya Street, not far from the main building of the Russian Investigative Committee. This was reported to Interfax by sources in law enforcement agencies. According to preliminary data, the investigator committed suicide with a shot from a hunting rifle. According to sources, a criminal case has been opened on this fact under the article “Inciting to suicide”.

Ilya Klebanov, former plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the North-Western Federal District, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sovcomflot OJSC, RBC reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. Klebanov replaced the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin, in this post. In the report, he is designated as an independent expert.

A fire in a 17-storey residential building was extinguished in the Moscow district of Maryina Roshcha on Soviet Army Street, Interfax was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Moscow. The fire occurred on four balconies, from the 8th to the 11th floor, on an area of ​​approximately 50 square meters.

On Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's birthday, Twitter users compose rhymes to the phrase "Thank you Putin for this." was created The corresponding hashtag #THANK YOUPUTINUZAETO , which today came out on top in the world in terms of popularity. Here are some examples of folk art: account arrested, no money - #THANKS Brezhnev returned from the other world #THANKS The forest guard is no more #THANK YOUPUTINUZATHIS We breathed smog last summer #THANKS We crawl back to the Land of the Soviets.

In Kazan, Deputy City Prosecutor Gumer Nafiyev was beaten, told Interfax Eduard Abdullin, senior assistant to the head of the investigation department of the TFR for Tatarstan, today. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the beating. According to Abdullin, two Kazan citizens are suspected of beating Nafiyev, they were arrested. According to another agency source in law enforcement, the incident occurred over the weekend.

The city authorities refused to allow the nationalist movements to approve the Russian March action, which they planned to hold on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow on November 4, National Unity Day. “The Moscow government forbids the procession on formal grounds. The will of 15,000 citizens is prohibited due to a typo in the notification that we submitted,” told Interfax Dmitry Demushkin, head of the Supreme National Council of the Russian movement, .

The Federal Antimonopoly Service initiated cases of violation of the law "On Protection of Competition" against the oil companies OAO TNK-BP Holding and OAO ANK Bashneft, according to the agency's website .

The Podolsky court of the Moscow region on Friday authorized the detention of three suspects in the murder of the deputy head of the city administration, Vera Sviridova, RIA Novosti reports . The court chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for Vladimir and Alexei Koshkin, as well as Alexei Korotkikh for a period of two months.

The protests are organized by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. One of them took place in New York. Protests have swept across the country. Dissatisfied marches took place in Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Anchorage in Alaska. According to the message "Echo of Moscow"