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Some editors of opposition Azerbaijani funds of information included in the association of editors of Azerbaijan began today a hunger strike in protest against the pressure of the authorities on the media, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

Yesterday, the sale of works of impressionism and contemporary art at the auction Christie's, which became the most expensive in history - $ 491.4 million, the newspaper The New York Times reports. The previous sales record also took place at Christie's in 1990 - then the house gathered $ 269 million for works of arts. The most expensive lot - the “Portrait of Adele Blokh -Bauer II” (1912) Klimt’s brush - was bought as a result of telephone trading for $ 87.9 million.

The reason for the appearance of oil products in the Amur in the area of ​​the Khabarovsk CHP-2 could be the rain that passed the day before. This was reported in the Amur Basy-Water Administration of the Federal Agency for Water Resources (Rosvodresursi), RIA Novosti reports. “It is likely that the rain washed off oil products from the adjacent territory.

A drunken man fell on the rails from the platform of the Taganskaya station of the Ring Line of the Moscow Metro, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate, the man was not injured. At 15.22, a man in a state of intoxication fell in the way, which is why traffic was temporarily suspended on the ring line of the metro. The man did not receive any injuries, got up on his own and went home.

Nepal Maoists announced the cessation of an armed confrontation. According to representatives of the rebels, the Maoists changed their views on the possible ways to resolve the internal conflict and intend to make changes in a political rather than military way, BBC reports. "Our experience shows that achieving our goals through an armed uprising is impossible, so we negotiated and created a political alliance with the government," said Maoist representative.

Two American scientists - Atanasios Nenes from the Georgia Tech Technological Institute and Nicholas Meskhidze from the University of North Carolina ( North Carolina State University) described the mechanism of influence of the Ocean Phytoplankton on the formation of clouds, reports Physorg . Based on these satellites, the researchers built complex mathematical models explaining the increase in the cloud cover that is observed over the southern parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

An international working expert group in biological security and protection has been created in Russia, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The decision on its creation was made today at the Sethenov Moscow Medical Academy at a seminar dedicated to the problem of biosics. Representatives of 10 countries took part in it, including Russia, Canada, Germany and Japan.

Khabarovsk due to the raging second day of the cyclone is in the transport blockade. Due to icing, the airport is closed. The airport’s dispatch service said that planes are sent to spare airfields to Blagoveshchensk and Sakhalin, Gazeta.Ru reports. In addition, transport communication was blocked on the Komsomol highway and the highway of the federal significance of Khabarovsk-Vladivostok.

According to the latest data, 1607 people affected the number of surrounding surrogate alcohol in the Irkutsk region. This was announced today in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies with reference to the Main Department of Health of the region, RIA Novosti reports. According to the source, 1146 poisoned are now in hospitals with a diagnosis of "toxic hepatitis", 58 people died. In the three municipalities of the region, an emergency regime was introduced.

The Board of the State Oil Company Rosneft proposed holding the board of directors of the company at the end of November, but its agenda has not yet been determined, the head of the company Sergey Bogdanchikov told reporters in Beijing. About reports Reuters . Bogdanchikov also did not confirm the assumptions of some analysts that this loan can be used to buy half of the TNK-BP oil company from Russian shareholders. “An interesting turn.

Tomorrow November 10, in the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow, hearings should be held on the claim of Gennady Zyuganov against Boris Kagarlitsky. Meanwhile, three days later - November 13, already in the Tver district court, a list of people will be held, however, already in the counterclaim of Kagarlitsky against the leader of the Communist Party.

Over the past day, a terrorist act has been prevented in the Chechen Republic and one participant in an illegal armed formation has been eliminated, RIA Novosti reports.

The trial regarding the prosecution by Yuri Luzhkov in the inhabitants of Butovo in “Raspainer” is scheduled for November 28, Echo Moscow reports with reference to a resident of the village Yulia Prokofiev. According to her, the reason for the lawsuit was a television portage, in which the metropolitan mayor accused the evicted residents of Butovo of Raspace.

The International Organization “Reporters Without Borders” published a list of 13 “enemies of the Internet”, who are accused of infringing on freedom of speech, censorship of national networks and the persecution of bloggers from ideological reasons, reports Lenta.ru . The list includes Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Myanmar, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam. The organization publishes similar lists annually.