The UN canceled all meetings and meetings at the headquarters in New York due to Hurricane Sandy, the organization’s official website reports. The building will be closed on Monday, October 29, and possibly on Tuesday. The city authorities canceled all classes in schools and all public transport flights (metro, buses and suburban trains). In areas that are near the ocean, as well as in the lowlands, mandatory evacuation has been announced.

On the eve of the day of memory of the victims of political repressions near the Solovetsky stone on Lyuban Square in Moscow, the victims of the Stalinist repressions are remembered. The annual campaign “Return of Names” is collected by the International Human Rights Movement “Memorial”. Near the monument, activists installed lamps with candles and flowers. The territory around the square is fenced with metal fences, so you need to go through metal detectors.

Elections have been held in Ukraine, there are no results yet, but there is a package of exit Pols that we do not expect. The Party of Regions is the leader, the "Fatherland" is behind 5-8%. But the blow from the "Batkivshchina" (which by the ratings bypassed) fell by 9-10%, moreover, the very special "freedom" suddenly jumped from 4.8 to 12%. By numbers.

The bottle of wine in the store will cost at least 110 rubles. Such an offer was sent by the Union of Vinogradaries and Winemakes of Russia to the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market (Rosalkogolregulovy), which is preparing an order to introduce minimal prices for “quiet” (non -infigured) wine. "We believe that the minimum vacation price of the plant for a standard bottle of wine (0.7 l) should be 75-80 rubles (today they are released for 50 rubles).

The bishophyte -based reagent, which are going to water vehicles in Moscow this winter, was recognized as harmless for trees, animals and shoes as a result of tests. The requirements for the composition and quality of substances used in the processing of city highways in the winter have been tightened this year.

In the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, the Amurskaya dry load with 700 tons of gold ore on board disappeared. The approximate cost of cargo is 250 thousand dollars. Sources of Polit.ru claim that the ship most likely sank with the crew and gold. According to a source familiar with the situation, the technical characteristics of the vessel do not allow him to make distant voyages in the open sea, but only swim near the shore.

After the counting of 25.11% of the votes in the Parliament of Ukraine, the ruling party of regions with 37.09% leads, RIA Novosti reports. In the second place is the opposition "Fatherland", which managed to reduce the separation and gain 20.79%. In third place the Communist Party (15.39%), and in the fourth - the Boxer of the boxer Vitaly Klitschko (12.49%). The Nationalist Party "Freedom" with 7.35%closes the five leaders.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that blog posts are forming public opinion and often solving the problems of specific people, RIA Novosti reports. During the "Neforum" bloggers, the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Nikolai Nikiforov quoted the words of the prime minister.

In the Bashkir city of Sterlitamak, a rally of employees of OJSC SODA, dedicated to solving the raw material problem of the enterprise, was held, the Participants of which demanded that the authorities resolve the plant with a Mount Tratau, which has the status of a natural reserve, reports REGNUM . Mount Tratau is one of the four mountains of Shihan - unique nature monuments and one of the main natural values ​​of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The information that the cause of a large accident on the Moscow Ring Road became the failure of the soil is not true, the Moscow City Hall said. This was announced by the press secretary of the deputy mayor for housing and communal services and improvement, Igor Parchman, reports the RIA Novosti website. According to him, a small piece of asphalt coating fell off, as a result, a demented was formed with a depth of 20 centimeters, into which the car wheel fell.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Olga Golodets assured that there are no initiatives to cancel pensions for working pensioners since 2013, RIA Novosti reports. Last week, information appeared that the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection can prepare a bill that will introduce a mechanism for the payment of pensions to working pensioners based on the conditions of remuneration of labor.

Forest. Road in Pixabay fog Preliminary results of the survey, the state of the foci of mass reproduction of the bark beetle-typograph in the Naro-Fominsky, Mozhaisk and Ruzsky districts of the Moscow region and in the western part of the New Moscow is highly likely that the outbreak of the number of this pest has declined here, the Forest Forum of the Greenpeace of Russia reports.

The head of the Construction Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration Vyacheslav Semenenko resigned due to the scandal around the construction of a football stadium for the Zenit club, Kommersant wrote on Monday. The resignation became known on Friday after the performance of the head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, who announced the start of checking the cost of building a stadium. Stepashin outraged a new estimate for the stadium, which was estimated at 43.8 billion rubles.

Vnesheconombank is ready to open the Russian Superjet-100 credit line for the total amount of $ 2.5 billion to foreign customers of Russian liners. This was announced on October 29 by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, RIA Novosti reports. According to Medvedev, the approach to each such transaction should be targeted and individual. The prime minister expressed the hope that such a mechanism will increase the number of aircraft sold.

The Russians will have a three -day weekend this week. This is due to the fact that November 4 in Russia will celebrate the Day of National Unity. Since in 2012 on November 4 it falls on Sunday, then, in accordance with the Labor Code, the weekend also spreads on Monday.