The flooding of the Far East was written off to the omnipotence of natural chaos. Meanwhile, the catastrophe was largely man -made Little lessons in the Far East are not extracted. The bureaucracy and the State Business Establishing Once again do not hear the arguments of engineers and the environmental community. So it was after the flood in the Amur basin in 2007, and after the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, 2009.

The United States has added the radical Islamist group Boko Haram operating in Nigeria to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, ITAR-TASS reports . Boko Haram is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, in particular the 2011 terrorist attack at the UN building in Abuja, US assistant to the president for combating terrorism, Lisa Monaco, said. Then 21 people died.

A petition demanding that sanctions imposed by the US government be lifted from Russian singer Grigory Leps has collected 50,900 signatures, which is more than half of the US administration's requirements for consideration of the appeal. The document is posted on the White House website . This petition was published on the website on November 2. For its consideration by the US administration, it is necessary to collect 100,000 signatures by December 2.

Three more jurors dropped out of the trial yesterday. Expressing regret, Judge Pavel Melekhin announced this at the beginning of the meeting today. So, the foreman of the jury asked to be relieved of these duties due to his deteriorating state of health, another juror - in connection with a chronic disease (diabetes mellitus), another one - due to official necessity.

Mikhail Stolyarov was detained today in a restaurant in Astrakhan. According to an official statement published on the website of the Investigative Committee, a criminal case was initiated against him under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe on an especially large scale). The city administration has so far declined to comment. According to investigators, Stolyarov received a bribe in the amount of 10 million rubles.

In such a tonality, state agitation and propaganda bodies speak about the head of a neighboring sovereign state only on the eve of emergency events The press service of the President of Ukraine posted an announcement on the official website of the head of state: “Today, Viktor Yanukovych will make a working visit to the Russian Federation, during which he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The faculty of Moscow State University wrote today an open letter addressed to the President of Russia with a request to stop the mass layoffs that began at the university. The text of the appeal is published on the University Solidarity website.

On November 14, the Zubovo-Polyansky court of Mordovia will consider the claim of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, to replace the remaining sentence with a more lenient one, despite the absence of the convict in Mordovia, RIA Novosti reports . "The meeting will take place," a court representative told the agency.

Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Nils Muižnieks pointed to Russia's violation of the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights in connection with the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky. This is stated in his report, published yesterday on the results of an independent assessment of the Council of Europe of the situation with human rights in Russia. The Commissioner also expressed regret about the impunity of those involved in the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

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The day before, fourteen journalists of the Ukrainian Forbes filed their resignations due to "attempts to change the editorial policy," Ukrayinska Pravda reports with reference to the magazine's chief editor Boris Davidenko.

Oleg Shein and Mikhail Stolyarov. Photo: Evgeny Feldman - "New" The leader of the Astrakhan branch of the Fair Russia party, Oleg Shein, said that he would put forward his candidacy for the mayor of the city in the event of early elections, RIA Novosti reports. “Of course. I will definitely,” Shein answered the agency to the question whether he would participate in the elections if they are held ahead of schedule. Recall that today the current mayor of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov was detained.

State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak will now oversee ideology issues in the party, ITAR-TASS reports . This decision was made today at a meeting of the United Russia presidium. Recall that earlier this post was occupied by the head of the Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Andrey Isaev. However, in mid-October, according to Isaev himself, his membership in the presidium of the party was suspended.

Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the police, the press service of the metropolitan police reports. Yakunin held the rank of major general since November 2009. Recall that he headed the Moscow police on June 2, 2012, replacing Vladimir Kolokoltsev, who, in turn, became the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.