On Wednesday night from the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Proton-M missile with a military satellite launched. This was reported to Interfax was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Defense. “At 2:47 Moscow time, from the launcher, 24 venues 81 Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Proton-M launch vehicle with a spacecraft was successfully launched in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Culture eliminates the oldest musical educational institution in Russia - the Gnesin music college, which is supposed to be included in the Gnesin Academy, Gazeta.ru reports. On Wednesday, the college team reported that the declared merger would help the school not to lose their material base and financing in connection with the withdrawal of secondary special educational institutions from the federal budget.

The wreckage of the American scientific satellite Uars will fall into the Coral Sea at 00 hours 05 minutes of Moscow time on September 24, 2011, a source in the Main Center for Control of the Cosmic Space of the Russian Federation told the Polit.ru correspondent. According to preliminary estimates on the morning of September 21, the fall of the fall was determined 90 km northwest of Port Morsby Island. Earlier, a number of media claimed that the remains of a satellite could fall into Moscow.

Businessman Alexei Kozlov, who became known as the author of the Butyrka-blog, nevertheless released from the colony in the city of Bubikha Perm Territory, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier on Wednesday, the entrepreneur’s wife, journalist Olga Romanova, stated that Kozlova refused to release on the basis of the lack of necessary papers, although the law says that after the cancellation of the sentence, the prisoner must be released immediately.

Participants in the “Revolution through Social Network” (RCHSS) movement in Belarus on September 21 resumed their shares and first put forward their requirements for the ruling regime in the country, reports Radio Liberty-Belarus . The shares in Minca and in other cities were held under the slogan: “Enough to endure: rising prices, devaluation,“ lawlessness ”of the police, state propaganda and promises of power!” In Minsk, the action was scheduled for 19:00 (20:00 Moscow time).

The Russian military participate in a military parade, which takes place in Yerevan on the occasion of the twenty years of independence of Armenia. The parade is attended by military personnel of the 102nd Russian military base, deployed in Armenia, as well as units of the Armed Forces of Armenia, which are part of the collective forces of operational response (Qus), which operate in the CIS, the Gazeta.Ru correspondent in Yerevan reports.

Ex-Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko was elected head of the Federation Council. Not a single person voted against, one - abstained, 140 voted “for”. Valentina Matvienko, who was previously the first Governor-Governor in Russia, was now the first woman who headed one of the chambers of parliament. The position of the speaker became vacant after Sergey Mironov was withdrawn from the upper house with St. Petersburg parliamentarians.

The Cosmos-2473 military satellite was successfully brought to the Proton-M launch vehicle in a proper orbit, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense for the space forces, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin, said on Wednesday . According to him, the combat calculations of the space forces ensured the control of the launch of the ground automated control complex by means of the sign.

One of the most famous business incubators of the Silicon Valley Plug & Play Tech Center, which has grown companies as Logitech, PayPal and Google, will open a representative office in Russia this fall and examines potential candidates for the Plug & Play Russia residence. As reported on the website of Global Techinnovations , which organizes the preliminary selection of projects, on October 12-14, the P- Lug & P Lay delegation will first visit Moscow in order to consider potential candidates.

The former President of Afghanistan and the head of the Government Council for the search for political dialogue with the rebels Burkhanuddin Rabbani killed a terrorist with a bomb in the Turban, who introduced himself as a messenger of the Taliban movement, Associated Press reports. According to Kabul crime police, on September 20, Burkhanuddin Rabbani held negotiations with two representatives of the Taliban movement.

Valentina Matvienko became the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament. However, she, being formally by a third party in the state, is almost deprived of powers, and the Federation Council itself almost does not decide anything. Matvienko threatens to change the situation. However, she is unlikely to succeed. The approval of the former governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, the senator took place.

On September 21, 2011, for bloggers, including a Polit.ru correspondent, thanks to the protection of the online press club of the Ministry of Defense , the Main Center for Cosmic Space Control (CCC) of the space forces (Noginsk-9) hospitably opened its doors. The tasks of the Center are information support for the safety of space activity of the Russian Federation in the near -Earth space.

The Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov spoke at the government hour in the State Duma, where he proposed to increase the terms of imprisonment for corruption up to 40-50 years and confiscate the property of the perpetrators in this crime, RBC reports. “Until 40, let them sit,” says Alexander Konovalov.

The state of the only Yak-42 survivor in the Yak-42 plane crash is evaluated as moderate, despite this, despite this, the doctors expect to write it home in two weeks, Interfax reports.

Mikhail Gorbachev on the pages of MK and Novaya Gazeta in the article in order to move forward, you need to change the system "called on" discussion on the civil dialogue platform "and invited" everyone who is really interested in changes. " He noticed that "the election campaign looks like the next" Potemkin village ":" The authorities do not even hide the desire to protect themselves from honest competition and guarantee their self -preservation, "Gorbachev writes.