Members of the ruling National Transition Council of Libya (NPS) who took power after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, at an expanded vote elected the candidacy of academician Abdel Rahim Al-Kib) for the post of Prime Minister Libya, reports Agency France-Presse . The little-known academician, a specialist in the field of electrical engineering, al-Kib was chosen from five candidates following public voting of members of the NPS, which currently exercises actual management of the country.

China successfully launched into space on Tuesday, the unspoken spacecraft Shenzhou-8, the Sinhua agency reports. The ship started from the Zyutsuan cosmodrome in the north-west of the country at 05:58 local time. The start of the start of the State Council of the PRC, as well as representatives of the European Space Agency and the German Space Center, was observed.

A Chinese citizen, thanks to the skills of eastern martial arts, managed to detain a robber who pulled a mobile phone from his hands in the Moscow metro. About this today, November 1, the police press service reports . On Saturday evening, 26-year-old Zhong Zhaooyan rode along the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro branch and played Nokia in his phone. At the Taganskaya station, one of the passengers unexpectedly grabbed a phone from him and jumped out into the closing doors.

Georgian and Kyrgyz planes collided at the airport of the Turkish city of Erzerum. Both aircraft delivered humanitarian aid to Turkey for the victims of the earthquake. This is reported by the Georgian agency GHN . The Georgian plane was in the runway when the plane from Kyrgyzstan crashed into it, which landed. According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was the mistake of the Kyrgyz pilot. People were not injured, but the Georgian plane received serious damage.

As part of the fourth round of the group stage of the Champions League, the St. Petersburg football club Zenit won the Donetsk “Shakhtar” in its field with a score of 1: 0. The author of the only goal was the Belgian Nicholas Lomberts, distinguished by the outcome of the first half. Thanks to this victory, Zenit scored 7 points and headed Group G.

The District Court of Nicosia (Cyprus) made the next decision in the case of the conflict of shareholders of Nemiroff. According to the court order, the general director of the Moscow Trading House Nemiroff, Savinov, should be restored in his position. According to RBC , the court also confirmed its previous decision prohibiting shareholders to carry out significant actions to manage the Nemiroff holding company.

We continue the publication of the cycle of a video presentation with experts in various fields and public figures about how, in their opinion, it is worth being the presidential center of Boris Yeltsin. The basis of the creation of the Center is the Federal Law “On the Center for the Historical Heritage of the Presidents of the Russian Federation, who has terminated the execution of their powers.” Place of creation - Yekaterinburg.

A soldier from the Saratov region Andrei Popov, who claimed that he spent 10 years in slavery at brick factories in Dagestan, refuted the information that was widespread by the Main Military Investigative Directorate about what confessed to the unauthorized abandonment of the place of service. “I am surprised because no one has given anything yet. I have not yet seen the indictment, I did not sign the confession. They didn’t show anything to me, also to a lawyer.

Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Storchak was appointed plenipotentiary of Russia in the Council of the Eurasian Development Bank (EABR). Ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, respectively, was exempted from the performance of these duties. The order about this, as reports to RBC , was signed by Vladimir Putin. The Eurasian Development Bank was established by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006. Bank participating states are Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

The book of architects of Russian reforms - Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais "The fork of the latest history of Russia" is published. Particular attention was paid to the last 25 years - perestroika, the collapse of the USSR, the institution and the formation of a new Russian state. The authors lead the reader in nodal points, forces, when the issue of the direction of development of the country, its fate was decided.

Opposition deputies of the Ukrainian parliament left the Rada to chat with the participants in the rally against the abolition of benefits to the Chernobyls. Deputies are trying to calm the crowd, Ukrainian Truth reports. Opposition deputies told the protesters that there was no money for the benefits of Chernobyllovites in the budget. President and government were called guilty of this.

Deputies of the But-Babyvshchye faction blocked the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada. The leaders of the faction are around the presidium and in the presidium itself. At the entrance door to the presidium there is a chair, blocking it. The poster “Julia Freedom!” Has the Presidium, reports “ Polit.ua ”. The Rada channel, which usually on the air broadcasts meetings of the Ukrainian parliament, is now transmitting a conversation with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anatoly Mogilev.

Muscovite Ruslan Latushkin filed a court at the Federal Migration Service for refusing to record the nationality of Great Russians or the representative of the Great More of the Russian People in his passport. The lawsuit was filed in the Tushino district court, Interfax reports. The column “nationality”, also known as the Fifth Count, was inscribed in Soviet passports, as well as many other documents.

After the United States, Israel intends to terminate UNESCO funding after this organization included Palestine last Monday, Haaretz.com writes. On October 31, UNESCO (the United Nations on Education, Science and Culture) announced the adoption of the Palestinian autonomy in its ranks. 107 states voted for this decision (including Russia, China and France), against 14 (in particular, the USA, Canada and Germany). Another 52 countries, including Great Britain, abstained during the vote.

St. Petersburg and the Russian venture company will cooperate in areas of the creation and development of innovative infrastructure of the Northern capital, training for venture investment, supporting the promotion of innovative technologies in the relevant markets, the RVK press service said today. The agreement on mutual cooperation in the field of development of innovative activities in St. Petersburg was signed on October 28, 2011, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg S.Yu.