The commander of the passenger aircraft of the Yakutia airline and the stewardess working with him was convicted of smoking marijuana. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the North-Eastern Interregional Territorial Administration of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Bugakov. The incident occurred on October 21 in Magadan.

Andrey Levkin In Krasnoyarsk last week there was a book fair. There, among other things, the compilation of a short-list of the Nose Award took place. I worked there as an expert, which explains some delay in reviews - I thought for a long time if a conflict of interest would arise. I decided that it should not have arisen. Moreover, the event quite succeeded.

A package of amendments to the CTP Law is made to the State Duma, according to which it is proposed to increase the maximum payment for compulsory auto insurance with a simplified loss scheme from 25 thousand to 50 thousand rubles. As the Interfax recalls, such measures were previously proposed by the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

The leaders of the Greek parties agreed to offer the parliament of the new prime minister - Lucas Papademos. It is reported by Reuters based on the results of consultations. Papadimos previously held the post of vice president of the Bank of Europe.

The US government does not have information confirming the existence of alien forms of life, according to a statement on the official website of the White House. The Presidential Administration of Obama was forced to report on the issue of extraterrestrial civilizations after on the section of the site "We are the people. Your voice is in our government ”(We the People. Your voice in out government) has appeared an appeal requiring the government data on aliens.

In Krasnoyarsk last week there was a book fair. There, among other things, the compilation of a short-list of the Nose Award took place. I worked there as an expert, which explains some delay in reviews - I thought for a long time if a conflict of interest would arise. I decided that it should not have arisen. Moreover, the event quite succeeded.

The student intellectual club "The most important" held a four -day visiting meeting in Kiev. The trip included lectures, round tables and many walks. The visiting meeting was organized together with Polit.ua and Polit.ru. The club works at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. The head of the club is a teacher of the RANEPA, philologist and journalist Leonid Klein.

The jury recognized Konrad Murrey, former doctor Michael Jackson, guilty of the unconditional murder of a pop star. The verdict was announced on Monday, November 7 in Los Angeles, reports AP . Now the court on November 29 must establish a punishment for Murray - he faces up to four years in prison and the abolition of his medical license. The judge decided that the doctor could not be released on bail and would wait for a decision of his fate in conclusion.

Greece Prime Minister Georgios Papandreu completed the emergency meeting of the government with farewell words to the ministers. It is reported by Reuters . The members of the office also signed a request about the resignation. The candidacy of the new prime minister, who will lead the coalition government will probably become known on Tuesday evening.

The Central Election Commission does not see any violations of election legislation in the appearance of election billboards of the United Russia party in Moscow, which are similar to public service advertisements of the Moscow City Election Commission. This was stated by CEC representative Maya Grishina, Interfax reports.

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi bequeathed $ 28 million to terrorists who were supposed to avenge the overthrow of his regime. The Egyptian press writes about this. As the former general director of the Arab labor organization Ibrahim Kuwadar, about six months ago, Gaddafi met in Tripoli with a group of international terrorists. He told them about the plan of revenge for overthrowing his regime and allocated $ 28 million for its implementation.

The Russian Orthodox Church, as well as to all other faiths, is better to abandon the use of environmental lands for the construction of cult structures, since the development will worsen the environmental situation in the capital, representatives of environmental organizations surveyed by RIA Novosti believe.

The State Corporation "Rosatom" published an annual report for 2010. According to the document, the production of electricity at the nuclear power plant in 2010 amounted to 170.1 billion kW/h, the revenue from the sale of goods, products, works and services reached 498 billion rubles. (growth by 8.7% compared to 2009). The portfolio of export orders for the five-year period (excluding the VOU-NOU contract) was estimated at $ 22.4 billion.

The Moscow and the CEC do not react to criticism that their campaign posters and posters of United Russia are twin brothers. The unified advertising campaign of the EP and the election committee, however, is quite logical. There is power - the customer of the success of the EP - and is a representative of the authorities - the election. True, this is illegal.

Facebook Inc. I won in non -ang -speaking markets from national social networks in Europe a serious share of users. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to Comscore analysts. So Facebook overtook the Dutch Klon Hyves, which started in 2004 - 7.7 million versus 7.2. The leader among the German social networks VZ Netzwerke after Facebook lost half the audience for a year. The base of VZ Netzwerke users decreased to 8 million people, and Facebook, on the contrary, increased by 43 percent.