On October 11, 2009, elections were held in Russia in a number of regions of the country. Their results allowed politicians, experts and members of the public to talk about massive fraud. At the same time, statistical analysis of official voting results is often used to prove fraud or overstatement of voter turnout in favor of United Russia.

Tonight road workers when replacing asphalt at the intersection of ul. Victorenko and Leningradsky Prospekt discovered a gas leak. The Mosgaz brigade arrived at the scene. According to preliminary information, the highway could be damaged during the work by the builders themselves. There are no victims as a result of the incident. The reasons for the incident are clarified.

Today at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a general collection of the team was held, at which the fate of the building of the institute, in which he has been working for 80 years, was discussed. The director of the institute, Academician Abdusalam Abdulkerimovich Huseynov, reported to his colleagues about how the situation is developing with the transfer of house No.

President Dmitry Medvedev approved the composition of the interdepartmental working group on the priority national project “Development of the agro -industrial complex” under the Presidential Council for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy. The composition of the group : Skrynnik E.B. - Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (head of the interdepartmental working group) Klepach A.N.

Today, October 20, in Kostroma, the open day of the open -door enterprises of the construction complex of Kostroma, Vologda and Yaroslavl, organized by the administration of the Kostroma region and OJSC “Concern Energoatom”, was held. The participants visited the construction company Agrotx-Robi, looked at the bench presentations of enterprises, and then gathered at a round table to discuss the issues of the planned construction of the central nuclear power plant.

The Switzerland Supreme Court again refused to release Roman Polanski, who was accused of intimate communication with a minor, Russian BBC, the BBC , is refused. In early October, the Swiss Ministry of Justice had already rejected the petition for liberation under the pledge of the Union, whom the American authorities want to extradite to the United States.

Russia introduced a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He was the associate professor of the law faculty of St. Petersburg State University, 43-year-old Andrei Bushev, who studied with President Dmitry Medvedev, writes Kommersant. According to the publication, Bushev can take part in the consideration of the corporate case of Yukos against the Russian government. The meeting is scheduled for November 19.

At the direction of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Alexander Gutsan, the Prosecutor's Office of the Vologda Oblast, together with law enforcement agencies and Rostekhnadzor, when checking the Vologda section of the North European gas pipeline, revealed the facts of the installation of counterfeit cranes, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

The Grand Golden Nanuk Grand Prix and the jury of Fipers (the International Association of Film Critics) went to the film “Singing/Survival Song” (China, 2008), director - Yu Guangui (Yu Guangui).

On October 5, 2009, in the 97th year of life, an outstanding mathematician, teacher, organizer of mathematical education, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the National Academy of the United States, the London Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences and many other academies of the world, Israel Moiseevich Gelfand , died. He was the author of more than 800 scientific articles and 30 books about many areas of mathematics and theoretical biology.

“You still have to protect personal data,” said Mikhail Grishankov, deputy chairman of the Duma Security Committee in his report on parliamentary hearings on this topic on Tuesday in the Small Hall of State Duma, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports. The speaker warned that the law enters into force in full from January 1, 2010, Russia would encounter massive failure to fulfill the law, which would require a sharp increase in expenses from budgets of all levels.

On October 5, 2009, in the 97th year of life, an outstanding mathematician, teacher, organizer of mathematical education, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the National Academy of the United States, the London Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences and many other academies of the world, Israel Moiseevich Gelfand , died. He was the author of more than 800 scientific articles and 30 books about many areas of mathematics and theoretical biology.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Oleg Sokolov, who previously headed the Minusinsky Electric Networks, became the new mayor of Minusinsk, reports RBC . This decision was made today by deputies of the city council. In the summer, the previous head of Minusinsk Anatoly Kekin drowned, and the city was without a leader for more than three months.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow refused one of the leaders of the “right -handed” Leonid Goman, who asked to postpone the consideration of the case of the lawsuit of the capital mayor of Yuri Luzhkov to another region, the “Echo of Moscow” reports. Recall, on September 23, it became known that the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov had a lawsuit against the co -chair of the right -hand party Leonid Goman.

As it became known to Polit.ru, the Federal Antimonopoly Service prepared proposals for the restoration of the Pikalevsky production complex. Having calculated the profits and losses of enterprises operating on the basis of agreements approved through the mediation of the state, the profitability of the Basel-Test-Pilevo (BCP) amounted to 7%. Other chain participants also have positive profitability, with the exception of Apatit OJSC.