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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elena Petrovskaya 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 Krasnodar, a fire began in an orphanage at the temple. The pupils of the orcourse are evacuated. According to available information, there are no victims, Interfax reports. As specified in the regional State Emergencies Ministry, the orphanage is fat in the anniversary microdistrict of Krasnodar on Rozhdestvenskaya Naberezhnaya Street. The message about the fire arrived at about 16:50 Moscow time. The fire swept the roof of the building.

Now that the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is dead, and the new government controls the territory of the whole country, the NATO operation in Libya can be considered complete, said Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, reports News24.com . On October 20, fighters of the National Transition Council (NPS) Libya in the city of Sirte, when captured by the leader of the Libyan revolution, Muammar Gaddafi. Later he died from the wounds received.

Activists of the Blue Vederoks (OSV) did not exclude that in the near future they would hold promotions demanding the cancellation of the dedicated lanes if the situation with traffic jams in Moscow will deteriorate, Interfax reports. Recently, on almost all “flight” highways of Moscow, dedicated bands for public transport have appeared, even in those areas where public transport does not run at all.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that European leaders could not come to an agreement on the “big plan” to overcome the debt crisis in the eurozone, and after the next summit, which will be held on Sunday, will be forced to hold another meeting on Wednesday, reports Associated Press .

The suspension of the privatization of garden plots on a part of the lands of land joined to Moscow is not planned. The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin announced this on October 20 at a meeting with the veteran public of the capital, the city hall press center reports . At a meeting with the mayor, some veterans having gardens and summer cottages in the territories joined to Moscow expressed concern about the fact that local authorities could suspend the process of privatization of land plots.

President of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn canceled the emergency regime in the republic, RIA Novosti reports. The emergency was introduced on October 7 in connection with an exacerbation of the fire situation in dry warm weather: the area of ​​forest fires exceeded five hundred hectares. Thanks to emergencies, it became possible to prohibit visits to forests. The withdrawal of hunters, collectors of cedar nuts, mushrooms and berries was organized from the forest.

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.

On October 19, a joint meeting of the Public Council and the Council for Increasing the Transparency of the Activities of the State Corporation Rosatom was held in Moscow, dedicated to the implementation of a system of comprehensive counteraction to corruption threats at the enterprises of the state corporation.

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.