On October 20, in Kiev, the VI forum of the creative and scientific intelligentsia of countries - participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) began, reports Polit.ua . The forum was opened by the 26th meeting of the Council for Cultural Cooperation of the CIS member states created in 1995.

Today and tomorrow night, earthlings will be able to observe a starfall. These days, our planet passes through the orbit through the peak of the Orionid meteor stream, Rosbalt reports. The stream that began on October 2 is called so because the burning particles that form it take the visible beginning in the constellation Orion. According to Iscience, the stream caused by the Comet Galley will reach the maximum on October 21-22.

In the city of Zlatoust, the Chelyabinsk region, a 15-year-old teenager stole a tram and swept along his route for several kilometers, the RIA Novosti website reports. A criminal case has been instituted against the offender. According to law enforcement agencies, on October 9, the schoolboy stole a tram reserve wagon on the ring and served the route for about 40 minutes, making passengers landing and landing.

The southwest of the Moscow Region can be attached to Moscow on January 1, 2012. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said Deputy Mayor of Moscow Andrei Sharonov. “There is a legal study of this issue, and according to the scenario it is planned that the legal decision to join new territories to Moscow can be made before January 1, and they may already be part of Moscow since the New Year,” the official said.

Sometimes a modern theory provides a bad service to modern art. Rather, its translation into Russian. This is exactly what happened with the famous book by the Frenchman Guy Deborah, Society of Spectacle (La Societé du Spectacle, 1967). There is no doubt that Debor discusses the spectacular - visible, visible, visual - the nature of the consumption society in which we live. In the center of his attention are images, and so powerful that they mediate through themselves social relations.

Dmitry Medvedev signed amendments to the Civil Code, which allow you to repay the loan ahead of schedule without paying additional fines and without the consent of the creditor himself. The document was published today, October 21, in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Today, the loan can be returned ahead of schedule only in case of the consent of the credit.

A suspect of the murder of the Zenit fan in St. Petersburg was detained, the city administration of the Investigative Committee reports on October 21. Investigators detained the Zenit football club suspected of beating a fan of the Zenit football club, who died from the wounds received, reports on Friday the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg.

In September, with the participation of Polit.ru, expert seminars were launched, which should help develop a Moscow development strategy. The capital needs a long -term development plan and a well -thought -out strategy that would take into account the needs of Moscow as a city that is convenient for life, the realization by the city of capital's functions and the creation of a world financial center.

Dropbox InC., providing the storage, synchronization and exchange of data based on “cloud technologies”, received investments of $ 250 million from venture funds and investment companies, including the Russian Venture Company International Fund - R Ussian Venture Capital II LP (UK), according to the UK) RVK website.

On October 21, 2011, at 14 hours 30 minutes of 26 seconds of Moscow time from the starting complex of the Guiana Space Center (Kuru, French Guiana), the Russian Soyuz ST-B Russian launch vehicle with the Fregat-MT accelerator and two European spacecraft Galileo, Arianespace reports. During the launch at the starting position, it rained heavy.

The death of Gaddafi pushed a wave of protests in developed countries from the first bands of the world media, but it is hardly too much - the fate of the “leader of the Libyan Revolution” was determined much earlier , but the scale of the performances turned out to be a much greater surprise. They began in the United States by the OCCUPY Wall Street action (capture Wall Street), and then it was picked up in other countries.

Putin and Medvedev were admonished by regional united Russia. In fact, the “party of power” was given a signal - you can conduct a campaign without looking back at competitors and controllers. And the unity of the tandem is revealed. Putin's presence in the campaign significantly increases the possibilities for raising the results of the party. Tandemocrats held a selector meeting with the regional headquarters of United Russia.

The funeral of the leader of the Libyan Revolution of Muamar Gaddafi, who was killed on October 20, was postponed for several days until a place for his burial is chosen, Reuters reports. According to the Minister of Oil Libya Ali Tarkhuni, the body of Gaddafi is currently in Misrat. The minister personally ordered to store the body of Gaddafi in the morgue until everyone was making sure that he died.

The directors of the Ulyanovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region are charged with violation of the safety rules, which entailed grave obvions. Recall that during an explosion in a mine in 2007 110 people were killed. The same charges were brought by the shift to the four other mines, the Investigative Committee reports . Three employees of Rostekhnadkhore were accused of negligence.

Four young people who staged an “capture” of the Aurora cruiser in St. Petersburg did not appear in the magistrate court, Interfax reports. In connection with the non -appearance, the court decided to enforce them. The new date of consideration by the court of administrative cases is not reported. On October 18, the magistrate court completed the consideration of most of the administrative protocols regarding the participants in the “capture” of the cruiser.