Today, the UN Security Council held a meeting dedicated to the situation in Afghanistan. Speaking at it, the constant representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin expressed concern about the ongoing degradation of the military-political situation in this country and the growth of drug production, the UN press center reports. He called on NATO to cooperate in the field of anti -terrorism and anti -drug activity.

The Security Service of Ukraine requires cancel the registration of the Ukrainian branch of the Institute of CIS countries. The SBU turned to the Ministry of Justice with the relevant request, Echo Moscow reports. The SBU believes that employees of the institute are conducting anti -Ukrainian activities and do not have the right to continue to work in the territory of the republic.

The State Duma approved in the second reading a bill on clarifying the concept of "human trafficking" and details of criminal liability for this crime, the Polit.ru correspondent in the State Duma Lev Finberg reports The corresponding document "On Amendments to Article 127-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" was introduced on 05.10.2007 by the Government, it was adopted in the first reading 03/19/08 and today in the second reading 429 deputies supported it unanimously.

According to the agent 002 real estate bureau, now there are six sellers for one buyer of residential real estate in Moscow, while in August this figure did not reach three. The number of apartments offered for sale in September increased by 15%, the Miel Reylter company said. Real estate experts commented on the current situation, the newspaper " Trud " writes.

The Government of the Russian Federation has new permutations: another deputy prime minister has been added, who will oversee preparations for the Sochi-2014 Olympics. They became Dmitry Kozak. Instead, Viktor Basargin, Deputy Presidential Representative of the President, was appointed to the post of head of the Ministry of Regional Development in the Urals Federal District.

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The Unified State Exam (USE) will not be canceled. This was stated by Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko during the College of the Ministry of Education and Science on Wednesday. “There is no way back. The exam will be implemented in the form, as prescribed in the law. There will be no rollbacks back, ”the minister said.

Russian exchanges play up the growth of yesterday. Yesterday's rapid growth was replaced by falling on Russian sites. The RTS index to 14-40 dropped by more than 6 percent, amounting to 812 points. At the MICENB, trading was suspended by an hour due to a decrease in the technical index by more than 5 percent. On 14-40, the MICEX index fell by 6.3 percent, amounting to 707.4 points.

The International Conference in Geneva on the issue of resolving conflicts in Georgia continues at these minutes without the participation of the Georgian delegation. Representatives of the Georgian delegation protest against the presence of representatives of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in negotiations. The members of the Georgian delegation left the conference immediately upon the emergence of the leaders of these states, reports News-Georgia .

The work of the former ambassador in Moscow by Sir Roderick Line “Strategy for Russia” is a brilliant in style and deeply analysis of the direct follow -up of the Caucasian crisis of August 2008. This work contains also in terms of leaving the current stage of the voltage of Russia and the West, which should be carefully studied by politicians in Moscow, Washingtone and European capitals.

Russia defiantly continues to violate the airspace of Georgia. This was stated by the head of the Georgian parliament, David Bakradze on October 14, commenting on the invasion of the Russian Air Force aircraft into the Georgian airspace, reports Georgia News . “Russian military aircraft continue to invade Georgian airspace.

The policy of the Russian authorities in the field of drug combat, which are recognized as one of the threats of national security, is again seriously reviewed, reports " News Time ". In March 2008, at the next college of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), it was announced that the number of drugs who use drugs has decreased by 800 thousand people over the past four years in the country.

The General Director of the Vimpelcom group of companies Alexander Izosimov, in his speech, “Requirements of Russian Business for a Modern Young Specialist, the Ship of the Top Manager” told students and young specialists about the criteria for which companies are looking for employees and who will help to achieve success in business. The performance took place on Wednesday as part of the Youth Forum of the State University - the Higher School of Economics "Professional Growth".

Communist Valery Rashkin proposed to recreate the Duma election commission in connection with egregious violations, the use of an administrative resource, and a violation of the secret of voting. He stated this today at the plenary meeting of the State Duma, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports. Anatoly Lokot proposed to conduct a parliamentary investigation on the facts of election violations. He announced the mass stuffing of left -wing ballots.

Against the deputies of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT), a criminal case is initiated and investigated on the fact of obstructing the work of the Kiev administrative court of appeal, the acting chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaichenko said at a press conference, the Ukrainian agency Forua reports. According to him, the chairman of the court filed a written statement in which he announced that he was threatened by deputies from BUT.