On September 26, the Standard & Poor's International rating agency lowered the long -term sovereign rating of Belarus by one step - to “B-” C “B”, the RIA Novosti website reports. The country's short -term rating is reduced to “C” C “B”. The rating has been displayed from the list to a possible decrease where it was located since the end of May of this year, but the forecast for it remained “negative”.

Major workers of the Butyrka pre -trial detention center Dmitry Kratov and Larisa Litvinov, who are accused of the death of the Hermitage Capital officer Sergey Magnitsky, are treated in the hospital. This was reported by Interfax from the words of the official representative of the investigator of the Russian Committee Vladimir Markin.

The investigation considers two versions of the murder of the deputy head of the head of the Podolsky district administration - the head of the financial department of Vera Sviridova, including those related to official activities. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" from the words of the source in the press service of the Main Investigative Department of the IC in the Moscow Region. Two versions of the murder of Sviridova are a robbery and professional activity.

The main political theme of the last week - the removal of Mikhail Prokhorov from the leadership of the party "right business" - continues to excite the minds of the public. The key question today is the future of Prokhorov himself, whom the media was called by one of the closest to the Kremlin of the oligarchs, and now they have been able to almost in the cellmates of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The return of Putin to the presidential post means not just the abolition of tandemocracy and the restoration of “developed Putinism”. It also means that Russia has almost no chance of building a modern economy. Since expensive oil and bad institutions make the modernization scenario unlikely. On Saturday, the Putin regime was fully restored.

The return of Putin to the presidential post means not just the abolition of tandemocracy and the restoration of “developed Putinism”. It also means that Russia has almost no chance of building a modern economy. Since expensive oil and bad institutions make the modernization scenario unlikely. On Saturday, the Putin regime was fully restored.

On September 26, the ruble at foreign exchange auction continues to fall to the dollar and euro against the background of external negative, the RIA Novosti website reports. The dollar exchange rate “Today” (the auction ended at 15:00 Moscow time) jumped compared with the closing level of Friday for 27 kopecks - up to 32.34 rubles, the euro exchange rate “Tomorrow” grew by 27 kopecks - to 43.63 rubles.

The Chekhov hockey club "Vityaz", known for numerous brawls on the ice, surpassed itself in a game with Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" on September 22. During the match, Vityaz players specializing in fights (the so-called “tough guys”) twice attacked Magnitogorsk goalkeeper Georgy Gelashvili. An attack on a goalkeeper is considered all over the world (including in the NHL, where “power hockey” is very developed) as a gross violation of sports ethics.

The famous comet Elenin, with which the preachers of the soon end of the world connected the close visit of the aliens, apparently finally destroyed and will no longer reach the point of maximum rapprochement with the ground, RIA Novosti said on Monday, its discoverer - astronomer Leonid Elenin, an employee of the Institute of Applied Mathematics named after Keldysh. “The comet was supposed to appear in the pictures of the SOHO space solar observatory, but it is not. Apparently, she fell apart.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin, until the end of Monday to resolve the issue of his resignation. This was reported by Interfax from a meeting of the modernization commission in Dimitrovgrad. “You will need to decide very quickly and today give me an answer,” Medvedev said, addressing Kudrin. Kudrin in response stated that he intends to discuss this issue with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Türkiye published the names of the Israelis, who, according to the Turkish authorities, are involved in the attack on the Flotor of Liberty in May 2010. The list of 174 names was published on September 26 by the Turkish newspaper Sabah. It included, among other things, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's president Shimon Peres, as well as a number of high-ranking Israeli military.

The Hersey family, living in the Georgian city of Kutaisi, claims that the small particles of the American satellite of Uars could fall last Friday to their yard. This was reported by the Georgia.online agency. According to the members of the Gersamy family, they did not see the fall of fragments, but they found that a tablecloth was burned on the table standing in the courtyard, and a punctured plastic cup was smoking.

The terms for registration of passports in Russia will be reduced to 2-3 days from the current 30 days. This can be achieved at the expense of the Electronic Government system, said the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky, the RIA Novosti website reports.

On September 26, several thousand demonstrators who demanded the expansion of the powers of the parliament and the restriction of the power of King Muhammad VI took to the streets on September 26, Interfax reports. Anti -government speeches are held in many large cities of the country, including in the capital of Rabat and in Casablanca.

Mikhail Prokhorov, after a break with the “right business”, promised to announce his further plans within 10 days and was about to create a new party. Now these initiatives are postponed, as follows from the record of a businessman in his blog in LiveJournal. By "events of this week" is meant the nomination of Vladimir Putin to the president and the exclusion of Prokhorov from the modernization commission. "Hi all! Ten days ago, I promised to report my future plans.