The US Embassy in Moscow refused to issue an entry visa to the Foreign Minister of the Non -recognized Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Shambe, RIA Novosti reports. According to the employee of the minister’s apparatus in Sukhumi, Shamba was about to fly to New York in order to be present when discussing the issue of the resolution of SB in Georgia in the UN Security Council. He did not exclude that the “time shortage” was a possible reason for the refusal to arrive in the United States.

In Usinsk, a working meeting of the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol and the head of the administration of the Republic of Komi Vladimir Torlopov took place. This was reported to the Polit.ru was reported in the Ministry of Natural Resources. Oleg Mitvol informed Vladimir Torlopov about conducted verification events, as well as claims of the Ministry of Natural Resources to the LUKOIL NK.

The team of scientists from Stanford University ( Stanford University ) made a breakthrough in the field of ophthalmology, the university’s official website reports. Himik engineer Curtis Frank ( Curtis Frank ), physician and chemist-technologist David Myung, and ophthalmologist Christopher TA developed an artificial cornea that differs from all previous attempts to create such materials. The new material, called Duoptix , is distinguished by unique parameters, both optical and biological.

Former deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, Alexander Varaxin, for whom the police hunted for two years, surrendered to the authorities yesterday, and today was released for freedom to a recognizance not to leave. The businessman, a well -known in Yekaterinburg, the leader of the Center City Group, Alexander Varaxin is accused under article 179 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (coercion by an organized group to make a transaction or refuse to make it).

The presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District submitted three candidates for the post of President of Adygea to the head of state. Most likely, among them is the rector of the Maykop Technological University Aslan Tkhakushinov, supported by the Bureau of the Higher Council and the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow issued a sanction for the arrest of the general director of the Russian defense enterprise Federal State Unitary Enterprise GNPP Basalt Vladimir Korenkov, RIA Novosti reports. The representative of the court said that the Meshchansky court of Moscow elected Korenkov a preventive measure in the form of detention. Korenkov is suspected of abuse of powers (Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Last night, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg decided to stop the former deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg Alexander Varaxin. It was decided that he will remain under the recognizance not to leave, reports Justmedia with reference to the head of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh.

Russia and China are opposed to sanctions against North Korea. This was stated by reporters in Moscow by the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, RIA Novosti reports. "We have a common position with China about the need to show a balanced approach, not to fall into emotions, into some extreme sanctions. It is necessary to leave the opportunity to resume six -sided negotiations," the minister said.

The United States is ready to support the Russian project of the UN Security Council resolution in Georgia. According to the Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin, this “caused a sigh of relief in the ranks of our colleagues,” RIA Novosti reports. Russia introduced yesterday a new draft resolution on the situation in Georgian, taking into account German proposals.

Today, the film festival will open in Rome for the first time, the official name of which is the Roman international movie holiday, RIA Novosti reports. The intrigue of this event is added by the question - whether the metropolitan film forum will be able to become a competitor to another famous Italian festival in Venice. Nicole Kidman will open the solemn part of the holiday and present the new film by Stephen Spielberg “Meh”, in which she played photographer Diana Arbus.

This was stated by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, referring to the Georgian resolution adopted tonight, Echo of Moscow reports. In this document, adopted unanimously, the UN Security Council expresses concern about the actions of the Georgian side in the Kodor Gorge. It also contains a call to Georgia to avoid steps that can be perceived as threatening and refrain from warlike rhetoric and provocations.

The UN General Assembly should today approve pan Gi Muna as the Secretary General of the organization, reports news agencies. The doubts that the head of the foreign policy department of South Korea will vote in practically no - the official vote was preceded by the recommendation of the UN Security Council. Pan Gi Moon will replace Kofi Annan in this post, whose mandate expires at the end of this year.

In the Alma-Ata region in the south of Kazakhstan there was an earthquake of about five points, there are no victims and destruction. This was reported in the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Ministry of Emergencies) of Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Institute of Seismology of Kazakhstan, today at 06.42 local time on the territory of the Alma-Ata region, an earthquake occurred on the southern slope of the Karatau ridge.

The United States decided not to put the UN Satfast’s tough draft resolution on North Korea, fearing to undermine the unity in the UN Security Council. The document, which appeared after the sudden conduct of the DPRK of the nuclear tests, offered US economic sanctions developed by the USA, as well as the prohibitions on sea and aviation communication with the DPRK proposed by the Japanese side. Now the United States offers a milder version of the resolution.

British and Russian journalists, politicians and public figures have felt the memory of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in London today, RIA Novosti reports. In the afternoon, in the courtyard of the Westminster Abbey in the very center of London, there was a ceremony of laying flowers in honor of Politkovskaya to the memorial to victims of violence, war and oppression.