The general contract for the construction of the second stage of the Tianwan nuclear power plant (Lanyungan) entered into force.

On September 15, French President Nicolas Sarkozi and British Prime Minister David Cameron flew to Tripoli to negotiate with the new Libyan authorities - the National Transition Council of the rebels, Reuters reported. It is assumed that after a meeting with the government of the rebels Sarkozy and Cameron will go to Benghazi. According to the media, a visit to Libya can be considered a kind of honor for Cameron and Sarkozy. Both leaders are welcome guests in Libya.

Dmitry Konovalov, accused of organizing terrorist explosions in the Minsk metro station, pleaded guilty to the trial on this case on Friday on this case, the RIA Novosti website reports. The terrorist attack at the Minsk metro station "Oktyabrskaya" occurred on the evening of April 11. As a result of the explosion of a powerful bomb, 15 people died and about 200 were injured. The day after the attack, two young people were detained - Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalev.

Natalia Demina Physicist, professor of the University of Manchester, Nobel Physics Laureate of 2010. Konstantin Novoselov is not often in Moscow, so on September 10 he arrived for a day - with the support of the Russian venture company and Rusnano. On the day he flew out of London, the Russian prime minister in his native Nizhny Tagil examined the T-90C tank .

On September 19, the public discussion “Central Asia Today: Problems and Calls” will be held. The organizers are Frederick Naumann Fredrich and the information and analytical Internet channel "Polit.ru". The conversation will be attended by the founder and president of Kyrgyz Concept, the former Minister of Economic Regulation of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan Emil Umaliev and Chairman of the Board of the Center for the Free Market of Tajikistan Konstantin Bondarenko, as well as Russian experts.

The billionaire Prokhorov was expelled from the “right business” and the party practically lost the chance of getting into parliament. If force majeure does not occur, the parliament will be approximately the same as now-no. The chance to change the system of interaction between the authorities and the people is missed. Mikhail Prokhorov was overthrown - the “right business”, which he headed to this day, held two congresses at once.

The fire occurred in the machine department, when the cruise liner was near the city of Alesynd in the west of Norway. As a result of the fire, 2 crew members were killed, another 16 people were injured, and 8 victims were hospitalized. In total, 262 people were on board the liner - 207 passengers and 55 crew members. People were evacuated from a ferry covered by smoke using rescue rafts. In addition, due to strong smoke, it was necessary to evacuate residents of nearby houses.

Attention! Lecture season "Polit.ru" 2011 - 2012. It will be held on a new site - in the club "Pir.G.I. on Sretenka". Driving scheme. On September 22, 2011 (Thursday), as part of the Public Lectures project, Polit.ru was a lecture by a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, senior researcher at the St. Petersburg branch of the Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Vasilievich Duzhin .

In the Moscow metro, the number of trains on the most loaded lines will increase, the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper writes. We are talking about Zamoskvoretskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Serpukhov-Timiryazev and Kaluga-Riga branches of the metropolitan subway. According to Vladimir Barnakov, the deputy head of the traffic safety service, from October 4, depending on the length of the branches, from 4 to 6 trains will increase on each.

Before, everything was the other way around. During the Cold War, Great Britain often played the role of a bridge between Moscow and Washington. When Soviet-American relations fell below the level that was considered maximum permissible, British prime ministers-Harold Makmillan or Margaret Thatcher-received guests from the Kremlin and tried to weaken dangerous stress. They themselves also appeared in Moscow - long before the period, which then began to be called discharge .

In the Sverdlovsk city of Artyomovsky in the evening last Wednesday, the police prevented a mass armed conflict with the participation of Cossack chieftains and deputies of the City Duma, 98 people were detained, Interfax reports. The incident occurred at about 20:00 local time near the restaurant "Manor" at the entrance to the city of Artemovsky 120 km from Yekaterinburg. Two groups of about 50 people from each side gathered to “find out the relationship” here.

The new head of the Louis Vuitton Fashion House will be Danone Executive Director Jordi Constans. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal. Constance will begin his duties at the end of 2012, when the current head of Louis Vuitton will be resigned. Over the next year, Constance will work as an assistant Karsel. According to the publication, the Executive Director of Danone is a completely unknown person in the fashion world.

The Swiss bank UBS suspects one of its traders of fraud. It is assumed that the trader was engaged in unauthorized trade and his actions caused a bank of damage to $ 2 billion, reports The Wall Street Journal. The trader was detained the day before by the police in the center of London on suspicion of "fraud and abuse of official position." His name is not called, but it is known that he is 31 years old.

The Apple Corporation deleted an application from its online store in France called “Jew or not a Jew,” reports Associated Press. The application that identifies Jews provided users with access to the database with the names of celebrities and public figures from which they could find out which of the famous personalities is a Jew or Jewish. The appearance of such an application caused a stream of complaints from the French anti -radiosist groups that threatened to file a lawsuit against Apple.

Dmitry Train Before, everything was the other way around. During the Cold War, Great Britain often played the role of a bridge between Moscow and Washington. When Soviet-American relations fell below the level that was considered maximum permissible, British prime ministers-Harold Makmillan or Margaret Thatcher-received guests from the Kremlin and tried to weaken dangerous stress. They themselves also appeared in Moscow - long before the period, which then began to be called discharge .