If you believe this international non -governmental organization Transparency International, declared by President Dmitry Medvedev to combat corruption, does not give results - things, on the contrary, are going worse. In terms of corruption, Russia sank to 154th place out of 178, it turned out between Papua-New Guinea and Tajikistan. This is stated in the report by Transparency International for 2010. (A full report in PDF format is available for download).

It was decided to abandon the transition to the new experience of payment of the sick leave. About this, as the portal of ER.ru reports, said Andrei Isaev, the stigma of the Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy: He noted that the budgets of the Pension Fund and the compulsory medical insurance fund are today balanced. The Social Insurance Fund is the only fund, the volume of contributions to which does not increase, and its expenses are growing.

Today, on September 26, 2010, at ten in the morning in Moscow, a rally will be held on Dubrovka. They will come there, as all these years, relatives of the hostage hostages, who died years ago, who died. There will also be the surviving hostages - those who find the strength. They will come just caring people - Muscovites and not only.

The head of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the city of Moscow (Moskomarchitek) Alexander Kuzmin risks becoming a new victim of personnel permutations in the capital's construction complex and can leave his post within a month, writes RBC Daily with reference to unnamed sources in the government.

In the framework of the criminal case, initiated by the Russian Investigative Committee on the fact of sabotage at the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Station, two detained terrorists gave confession. This was reported by the press service of the department. The attack on the Baksan hydroelectric power station in Kabardino-Balkaria occurred on July 21, 2010.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0”-a joint project of the information and analytical channel “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. Guest of the program - deputy. Director for Science of the Institute of World Culture of Moscow State University, founder and director of the scientific center of Eastern Christian culture, art historian and Byzantologist Alexei Mikhailovich Lidov . You can hear us every Saturday after 23:00 on the wave of 97.6 FM.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva called the death sentence “wild” sentenced by the former deputy prime minister Iraq and one of the associates of Saddam Hussein Tarik Aziza. Recall that the Supreme Criminal Court of Iraq decided that Aziza should be hung for the persecution of religious parties and their abolition. Alekseeva believes that in the 21st century the state should not kill even very guilty people.

A powerful explosive device is neutralized in Grozny, ITAR-TASS reports in the law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic. It was discovered the day before on Dagestan Street in the Leninsky district of the city, on the lawn 70 meters from the state theater and concert hall. The explosive device was in a metal box and consisted of a plastic canister filled with 6 kg of TNT, affecting elements in the form of pieces of reinforcement, bolts, nuts, and a mobile phone.

The acting chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed his subordinates to deal with the situation around the said of Buryat money seized from the murdered ideologist of the Wahhabis. Bastrykin gave such an instruction in connection with the publication on October 25 of the statement of the management of the Esid bank on the return of 40 million rubles, stolen as a result of an armed attack on collectors in December 2009 in the city of Nazran.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the departments until December to develop ways to stimulate internal demand for nanotechnological products, writes Vedomosti . The Ministry of Industry and Trade was appointed the main executor of the order. Currently, the nanoproduction market in Russia is 81 billion rubles, but by 2016 it should grow to 900 billion rubles. To achieve this goal, the Rusnano state -owned and the Presidential Nanoindustry Development Program for 2015 is operating.

Based on the results of the audit on the fact of the flood in the Tuapse district of the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal case was opened against the head of the department of civil defense and emergency situations of the administration of the district of Oleg Shevtsov, the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee in the Territory.

The former rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Oleg Matytsin was charged with illegally transferring land to the Cherkizov market, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports . Matytsin was charged with the final edition under the article “Excess of official powers”.

A college of a college of Belarusian Gomel is suspected of receiving bribes and is accused of 288 criminal cases, Rapsey reports with reference to the KGB press group in the Gomel region. "The college teacher was detained when receiving illegal monetary rewards from the student for a favorable decision on the issue of passing the exam," the KGB said in a statement. In addition, in the case there is also a detainee’s husband, who also taught at this college.

Today, October 26, the EURONAVAL naval weapons exhibition opens in Paris, which, as expected, will be officially announced about the competition for the purchase for the Russian Navy of two universal landing ships (UDC). This was reported to Vedomosti by a source in the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the newspaper, invitations to participate in this closed competition have already been sent out and opening the packages will take place until mid -November.

The Palace of Culture of OJSC “TOMASH” in the course of changing the legal form of management will completely retain its functions of a social facility and will not be reproduced, the press service of OJSC VPO “TOCHMASH” said in a statement. Within the framework of the restructuring program “VPO“ TOCHMASH ”, the Palace of Culture goes to another financial and legal management system-an autonomous non-profit organization (ANO).