Two people were injured as a result of the explosion on the southern outskirts of Makhachkala. The driver and a taxi passenger who drove past were injured. Both victims were delivered to hospitals. A bomb of an unidentified sample worked at about 23.00 in a garbage tank in the steppe village of Makhachkala on Shamil Avenue. The power of the explosion was 8 kg in TNT equivalent. The fragments of the metal scattered within a radius of 200 meters. Glass was knocked out in nearby houses.

Andrei Zasypkin was appointed the head of the Federal Agency for the Arrangement of the State Border of the Russian Federation. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, RIA Novosti reports. President Putin signed a decree on the Federal Agency for the Arrangement of the State Border on October 13.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin met with Prime Minister V. Zubkov, during which he discussed the socio-economic situation in the country with the head of the Cabinet of Ministers. ** Regional news ** Norilsk’s budget may increase. The main source of additional revenues is the taxes of the Norilsk Nickel polar branch in the amount of 2 billion 90 million rubles.

The Russian Atomstroy Eksport CJSC expects to build up an order portfolio up to $ 20 billion in 2 years, the head of the company Sergey Shmatko said. “In general, for 2 years, we expect to increase our orders of orders to $ 20 billion.,” He said in an interview with Izvestia, published on Wednesday. Now the company is building 5 nuclear power plants simultaneously in Bulgaria, India and Iran.

Lieutenant General of Gosnarkokontrol Alexander Bulbov is suspected of illegally listening to 53 telephone numbers belonging to entrepreneurs and journalists, Lenta.ru reports with reference to the Interfax agency.

First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ivanov, said that he was concerned about the problem of the quality of transport engineering products. “Despite the fact that the industry of transport engineering is growing at a very rapid pace, the problem of quality bothers me,” said Sergey Ivanov (quote for RBC ). According to him, in Russia there is a shortage of locomotives and wagons.

The New Year's spruce for the Kremlin will be cut down in the suburbs, and not brought from Veliky Ustyug, as in recent years, the Echo of Moscow reports. The management of the President of Russia in advance began active preparations for the celebration of the New Year. It is reported that the historians, conducting special studies, found that it was the Kremlin that decorated the Kremlin for many years near Moscow. Toys will be updated on the Kremlin Christmas tree this year.

A copy of the Muslim scripture - the Koran dated to the 13th century, was sold for a record amount of $ 2.33 million on Tuesday in the UK at the Christis auction, Reuters reports. According to the director of the Islamic art of the Christis Auction William Robinson, the sale of this copy of the Qur'an, its earliest and full version, written by gold letters and dated 1203 of our era, set a sales record for the Qur'an and for Islamic manuscripts at auctions.

The militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (RPK) are ready for dialogue with Turkey, but do not intend to disarm. This was stated by the official representative of the party of the party Abdel Rahman Jadraji, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ash-Shark Al-Ausat Mezharab newspaper. According to him, RPK militants still observe a truce announced about two years ago.

In recent years, Wiskers (Nano -Boards) are of great interest to researchers due to their unique optical, thermal and mechanical properties. However, in order to successfully use them in industry, it is required simple, inexpensive and at the same time allowing to reliably control the properties of the material obtained method of synthesis on the synthesis of the on -cinker.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Meeting the heads of the Foreign Ministry of Russia, China and India Ways to intensify interaction between Russia, China and India will discuss the foreign ministers of these countries at a meeting in Harbin. GOARD-STRODUCT Over 4 thousand delegates will become participants in the opening first railway congress.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta published a list of literature, which is officially recognized as prohibited by the Russian court. The list was provided by the Federal Registration Service. These products can neither be printed, nor sell, nor read, nor store. Otherwise, this will be a violation of the law. The spread of prohibited literature is equal to the excitement of interethnic growth, for which under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation you can get up to five years in prison.

The explosion of domestic gas occurred in a residential building in Samara, there are victims, the duty city department of the Ministry of Emergencies told RIA Novosti . “According to preliminary data, there is destruction. At least two victims, ”he said. There was no information about the dead. The representative of the Ministry of Emergencies clarified that the explosion occurred at 20:00 Moscow time on the ground floor of a five -story building on Alexei Tolstoy Street.

“Bittsev maniac” Alexander Pichushkin is guilty of all 48 murders and three assassination assassinations and does not deserve condescension. Such a verdict unanimously made a collegium from 12 jury. They refused to justify the defendant in 18 episodes, as the defense asked during the debate of the parties. Based on this verdict, the Moscow City Court will pronounce a sentence. Obviously, this will be a lifelong conclusion.

The Kremlin did not confirm information about the appointment of a deputy of the Duma by a regular representative of Russia in NATO. It is only known that "that the Foreign Ministry considers the appointment of Dmitry Rogozin for any diplomatic position ...