On October 11, the Association of Distributors of Printed Products (ARPP) turned to Dmitry Medvedev with a proposal to return the Ministry of Press and Mass Communications, which was abolished in 2004. This initiative was discussed during the year, and in October at the ARPP conference it was unanimously supported by more than a hundred publishers and press distributors. To date, our problems in the printing industry are spread across five ministries.

The famous rock band Ilya Lagutenko did not play in Moscow for a little less than a year - in December, a collection of rare songs "Rare Earths" was presented at the Olimpiysky. During this period, the group managed to tour through the entire Far East and get into the Guinness Book of Records - on September 1, during one daylight hours, Mumiy Troll played concerts in Vladivostok and Kaliningrad.

An explosive device with a capacity of 3 kg of TNT was neutralized in the center of Nalchik, told ITAR-TASS a representative of the National Antiterrorist Committee . The found device was stuffed with striking elements and had a remote control.

On October 8-9, the Russian president paid an official visit to the Krasnodar Territory. The media excitedly talked about how he traveled around Krasnodar, and then went to Korenovsk. But after Korenovsk there was another event that was not included in the official chronicles. This is a trip to the village of Peresyp, which is on the shores of the Sea of ​​​​Azov. Eyewitnesses say that on the evening of October 8, the police blocked traffic along the Temryuk-Port Kavkaz highway.

Transneft has resumed oil exports to China via a diversion from the ESPO, which was previously suspended due to an earthquake in the Amur Region, , told Prime-TASS Igor Demin, the company's official representative . He also noted that the transportation of oil via the Far Eastern Railway to the port of Kozmino has been resumed. Earlier on Friday in the Amur region there was a strong earthquake.

About 10 people today tried to prevent the clearing of the square and the preparation of a site for the construction of an underground parking under the stadium of School No. 10 on Druzhby Street in Khimki. The pensioner Lyudmila Yudakova, who is currently in the first police station, was detained. According to the detainee herself, she has not yet been charged, and no arrest report has been drawn up.

The organizer of the "Day of Wrath" Sergei Udaltsov was arrested for 10 days. Recall that this time, despite the fact that the rally was agreed with the authorities, after it was over, the participants tried to go to the building of the presidential administration. The police regarded this as an unsanctioned rally and detained the activists. The Magistrate's Court found them guilty of disobeying the lawful demands of police officers.

Mykola Melnichenko, who in 2000 initiated the "cassette scandal" by making public tapes of talks between Leonid Kuchma and other high-ranking Ukrainian politicians and officials, is in the United States.

The founder of the development company Mirax, Sergei Polonsky, has filed a libel suit against the owner of the National Reserve Corporation, Alexander Lebedev, in a London court, Interfax reports . The reason for the appeal was the broadcast of the televised debate on Russian television, shown on September 18 and widely distributed on the Internet, where you can see how Lebedev delivers two blows to Polonsky. Compensation to the businessman can be up to 10 million pounds.

Transneft temporarily halted oil exports to China as a diversion from the ESPO due to a strong earthquake in the Amur Region, told Prime-TASS . company spokesman Igor Demin “The pumping of oil to China has been suspended, it is necessary to inspect the damaged equipment. As a result of the earthquake, the power supply was damaged,” Demin said. According to the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Amur Region, an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 occurred in the region.

reports today, A citizen of Uzbekistan detained in the Moscow region is the leader of an extremist organization, Interfax citing Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev.

The UN Human Rights Council reports that the number of victims of unrest in Syria has exceeded 3 thousand people. At the same time, the council claims that almost 200 children were among the dead. The last time the UN updated the death toll was on October 6, when 2,900 people were considered dead. Thus, over the past week, another 100 people have died in Syria. The Syrian government, in turn, says that during the seven-month demonstrations killed more than a thousand intelligence officers.

The head of the Ukrainian Barometer political science center, Viktor Nebozhenko, believes that the second criminal case against Yulia Tymoshenko, which concerns the debts of the UESU corporation to Russia, assigned to the budget of Ukraine, was initiated specifically for the Western defenders of the ex-premier. He expressed this thought in a commentary for BBC Ukrainian . Nebozhenko noted that this topic was again voiced “exclusively for export consumption.

The Security Service of Ukraine has opened a second criminal case against ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has already been sentenced to seven years by the Kyiv Pechersk Court. It concerns the debts of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation, which Tymoshenko led even before entering big politics, Russia. This was announced at a press conference by the head of the investigative department of the SBU Ivan Derevianko.

An earthquake occurred in the Amur Region, the magnitude of which, according to preliminary data, was 6.2, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on duty. “Information has not yet come from all stations, maybe 6.3 and 6.4,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to her, the epicenter of the earthquake was seven kilometers east of the village of Takhtamygda, Skovorodinsky district, 134 kilometers southwest of Tynda.