On October 12, a referendum will be held in Lithuania to extend the life of the Ignalin NPP, which Lithuania must close in 2009 by agreement with the European Union. Meanwhile, on April 16 this year, it was officially announced that a Baltic nuclear power plant with a capacity of 2300 mV would be built in the Kaliningrad region. It is planned that foreign companies will take part in the construction of the nuclear power plant.

The week was stormy. As you know, last Wednesday, opposite the Government House, in broad daylight, the Chechen hero of Russia, the ex-deputy of the Duma from the United Russia party Ruslan Yamadayev, shot the Chechen Hero of Russia. A second before his death, he, together with the normal Russian general, for some business, moved in the Mercedes of his brother Sulim Yamadayev, who in turn was either, or recently was on the federal wanted list for the abduction of people.

A resolution has been included in the House of Representatives of the US Congress, which is condemned by Russia of the Tu-160 strategic bombers, as well as groups of the Russian Navy warships, led by the heavy atomic missile cruiser Peter the Great, reports Vesti. "The House of Representatives of the US Congress considers the deployment of the Russian armed forces in the western hemisphere to be reckless and provocative, and violating the doctrine of Monroe@," the text of the resolution says.

Russia and India will develop the Brammos-2 hypersonic missile together. The decision to create a working group was made today at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation, Echo of Moscow reports. Now the joint Russian-Indian enterprise is producing a supersonic anti-ship winged missile "Brammos". The speed of the hypersonic rocket should exceed the speed of sound five times or more, which makes it almost invulnerable to interception.

Alexander Potemkin, who headed the MICEX since the spring of 2003, was dismissed. Today, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Exchange, the candidacy of the new president of the MMEVB, deputy chairman of the Central Bank Konstantin Korishchenko, will be offered. Potemkin’s departure was a surprise to both the exchange staff and market participants, reports “ News Time ”.

The new speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia was elected the former head of the presidential administration, a member of the Parliamentary faction of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia Ovik Abramyan, the parliamentary correspondent of the Armenia agency reports.

According to the results of the second stage of the operational and preventive operation "Bus", which was carried out in the capital from September 8 to 21, five criminal cases were instituted, Russian Newspaper reports. The largest share of passenger transportation is on the GUP "Mosgortrans" and Zelenogradsky Automobile Plant. Their park has about 7 thousand buses.

The issue of the territorial integrity of Georgia is not decided by Sergey Lavrov. About this, according to Georgia-Online , said today by the chairman of the Georgian Parliament, David Bakradze, commenting on the statement of the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov from the UN rostrum. On Friday, Lavrov said that the point was finally set on conversations about the territorial integrity of Georgia and Abkhazia and South Ossetia will never return to its composition.

** Themes of the day ** Most of the central media note that President D. Medvedev on Friday after visiting Orenburg, where he watched the final stage of large-scale military exercises of the 27th motorized rifle division, decided to urgently modernize the army . After the exercises, the Supreme Commander -in -Chief at a meeting with the commanders of the troops of the military districts outlined the main vectors of the development of the Armed Forces about 2020.

The authorized body of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - Bureau - did not support the initiative of 24 parliamentarians to introduce sanctions in relation to the Russian delegation due to the situation around South Ossetia, said the head of the delegation of Russia Konstantin Kosachev. “The bureau did not support this proposal,” Kosachev told Russian journalists after the bureau meeting.

Olga Malinova Discussions about the ratio of the historical ways of development of Russia and the West, which took shape in the middle of the 19th century in the well -known currents of the Slavophiles and Westerners, with the beginning of the 20th century turned out to be an important component in the formation of the foreign policy of the state. After the events of October 1917, Russia faced the need to re -build its national collective identity in relation to Western countries.

Russia and Georgia refused to take part in NATO exercises in Armenia. Azerbaijan and Türkiye also abandoned participation in the exercises, said the deputy chief of the chief headquarters of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Major General Arshaluis Paityan. “One company was supposed to represent Georgia, but it did not arrive. Also, for obvious reasons, representatives of Russia did not come, ”said Paytyan, adding that Turkey and Azerbaijan were also sent an invitation.

The Georgian Ambassador to Russia Erosi Kitzmarishvili said that after the August events in South Ossetia, he could not be in Georgian power structures led by the President of the country Mikhail Saakashvili. “I cannot be in the power structures of Saakashvili, after the war with Russia was not prevented,” he said in an interview with the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra.

None of the candidates of the opposition of Belarus went to parliament. This was announced on Monday in Minsk, the head of the Central Election Commission of the country Lidia Ermoshina. The CEC of Belarus completed the preliminary counting of votes in the elections to the lower house of parliament, where 99 out of 110 deputies have already been elected.

The Russian sumoist 20-year-old Soslan Gagloev, who spoke under the pseudonym Vakanokho (“Young Phoenix”) and received a lifelong disqualification for smoking marijuana, said that he had been involved in “contractual” battles and lost the fights for money, reports AFP .