On Monday, two trains collided in Hungary. According to preliminary data, three people died, more than 30 were injured, AFP reports with reference to the National Emergency Agency. According to the representative of the department, one man and two women died on the spot. It is possible that the bodies will still be cured of damaged wagons.

The topics of the beginning week will largely remain the same: the economic crisis in the global and national dimensions, elections in the United States, the permanent political crisis in Ukraine, the settlement of the situation in the South Caucasus, the process of modifying the liberal flank of the Russian political spectrum.

Culinary Materchinnik. The hard fate of the glorious son of the British people. New holy television screen. Nightmare in Rotterham. How to feed a two- and five-year-old child? Life without knives and forks. What is happening with water when boiling? What is more beautiful poverty? Again and again: who is to blame? Plaighers to the new great European novel. “Yo .. a nightmare. Ё ... naya Great Britain. And this is 2008! I was in Sowo, I saw the patients with AIDS of orphans - they eat better!

Transnational private military and security companies, mainly from the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Israel and Canada, continued to export their services abroad, in particular to Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan. This is stated in the report of the Secretary General of the UN Pan Hi Muna, which he sent the General Assembly. The income from this activity, according to the Secretary General, is annually from $ 100 to 120 billion USA.

Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban Islamist group denied the information that had been negotiating at the end of September through the mediation of the king of Saudi Arabia Abdullah, AFP reports. According to the press secretary of the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, Afghan scientists involved in religious issues visited Saudi Arabia. According to him, they were at dinner with King Abdalla, but did not conduct negotiations with the Taliban.

Trading in the RTS stock market is suspended at 15.30 due to a decrease in the technical shares index by more than 5% relative to the opening level, the exchange said. By 15-30 in Moscow, the RTS index fell to the level of 903 points. The previous time, the value below 900 points was recorded in the fall of 2005. The maximum of the RTS index was recorded in May of this year - it amounted to more than 2400 points. At 15-10 in Moscow, the MMEVB index was 770 points (minus 15.6 percent).

In September, the consumer price index amounted to 100.8%, for the period from the beginning of the year - 110.6%(in September 2007 - 100.8%, for the period from the beginning of the year - 107.5%). Such data are given by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). In September, in 27 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (except for autonomous districts included in the region, region), the increase in consumer prices amounted to more than 1.0%.

The influx of pure capital to Russia in 2008 can be zero. The deputy minister of economic development Andrei Klepach said this in an interview with reporters, the Finmarket reports. “It may be zero, maybe a small minus or a small plus,” the official said. The last forecast of the Central Bank for the influx of capital was $ 40 billion, and the Ministry of Economic Development forecasted the influx of capital in 2008 at $ 30 billion. “Thirty billion dollars will not be for sure.

Poland retained the right to hold the European Football Championship, avoiding sanctions by UEFA and FIFA. This decision was made today by both organizations. FIFA and UEFA were threatened by sanctions in connection with the intervention of the state in the affairs of the Polish Football Federation (PFF).

According to the Pakistani GEO TV channel, as a result of the explosion that thundered today in Pakistan, seventeen people were killed, more than 40 were injured, AFP reports. According to other information, 12 people died and about 30 were injured. The terrorist attack occurred in the central part of Pakistan - in the city of Bakkar, located in the Province of Punjab.

On the first day of legal sales of the new iPhone3G in Moscow, only a few thousand smartphones were sold. At this pace, retailers will not be able to fulfill obligations to Apple, write Vedomosti. Several communications salons that began the sale of the iPhone on the night of October 3 to 4 were visited by the publication correspondents. At the MTS store on Sukharevka, a few people crowded an hour before the start of sales. Another 20-30 people gathered by midnight.

The deputies of the Parliament of Prikamye approved in the first reading the costs of pre -design work on the construction of the nuclear power plant in the Perm Territory. Funds were laid in the budget for the next three years. “Today, Russian regions are trying to secure with the help of their regional strategies the critical resources that they see and which they are not enough for development,” said Leonid Markovich Grigoryev, president of the Institute of Energy and Finance.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Russia, Alexei Kudrin, was on the verge of dismissal, says The New Times magazine: over the past month, Kudrin’s career “hung in the balance” twice. Putin was very dissatisfied with him and was several times close to making a resignation decision. The first time, when on September 15, Kudrin at the meeting in the presence of Putin opposed the package of anti -crisis measures, despite the fact that he was approved by the chairman of the government.

In the 1890-1930s in Germany there was a group of intellectual scientists who were united by upbringing, education, social status and a common threat to their position as a consequence of changes in the political regime in the country. "Polit.ru" publishes an introduction to the book by historian Fritz Ringer "The Decline of German Tangerines" (F. Ringer. The Decline of German Tangerines / translated from English by P. Goldin and E. Kanishcheva; afterword by D. Aleksandrov.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at a meeting on Monday decided to deprive the dignity of the bishop of the Chukchi diomid. The Synod finally approved the decision of the bishop's cathedral on the deprivation of the Lord of Diomid San for his disobedience to the Holy Principles and attempts to organize a split in the church.