The long-awaited opening of the movement along the Alabi-Baltic tunnel is scheduled for the first half of 2013, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . Muscovites have been waiting for this event for five years, notes the publication. Only this year, the tunnel, which will connect the streets of Alabyan and the Great Academic, promised to launch twice, but each time unforeseen circumstances interfered. Such, for example, as a breakthrough of the water of the Tarakanovka River, slowed down for five months.

The defense of journalist Oleg Kashin, who was brutally beaten in 2010, intends to file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. Lawyers claim that the Kashin case is inefficiently investigated in Russia, Interfax reports. “We will have a lawyer from Bulgaria in this case, who specializes in the ECHR affairs, has been working for more than 15 years in this direction,” said Ramil Akhmetgaliev, lawyer of the Agora human rights association.

In Novosibirsk, at the 79th year of his life, academician Eduard Kruglyakov died, according to the Twitter information portal of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Eduard Kruglyakov was born on October 22, 1934 in Krasnodar. In 1958 he graduated from MIFT, after which, at the invitation of physicist, Gersh Budker, entered the Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS. From 1988 to 2005 he was the deputy director of IAF of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russia is ready to spend $ 1.1 billion on the re -equipment of the Kyrgyz army and $ 200 million for the needs of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan. In addition, Moscow will provide Dushanbe with another $ 200 million in the form of benefits for the supply of oil products. This was written by " Kommersant " with reference to sources close to the Russian-Cyrgist interprecase and the government.

The press secretary of the Prime Minister of Russia Natalya Timakova said that consultations on the appointment of Sergei Shoigu were held for the post of Minister of Defense within a few days, RIA Novosti reports. Timakova also noted that after Anatoly Serdyukov’s submission of a resignation from the post of head of the Ministry of Defense, the presidential approval of decrees on the dismissal of Serdyukov from his post and appointing Sergei Shoigu was made to the president.

The center of world jazz has long moved to Europe and firmly settled there. This is no secret for fans of improvisational music. However, perhaps not all lovers of jazz know something else: the European trends of this music are set not only with the calm course of the ECM record in certain circles.

Ukraine began importing natural gas from Germany. This was announced at a briefing to journalists by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov, UNIAN reports. According to Azarov, at the moment, among the main tasks, it is to develop a mechanism for the supply of natural gas from Europe. The prime minister noted that the import of gas from Germany has not yet accepted a "global scale." Now Ukraine is purchased through Poland about 4 million cubic meters of gas per day.

The statue of the ancient Slavic god Perun in the center of Kyiv was cut off on the night of Halloween. Local pagans accuse Orthodox priests of this, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine. According to the publication, the statue was probably cut by a chainsaw. According to the head of the Svarog Information Center, the Association of Rodnovers Alexander Vavrik, priests of the Orthodox Church, located nearby, have repeatedly spoke out against the idol.

The younger sister of the Brazilian football player Hulk, playing for the Russian Zenit, Angelica Aparezi and Viyira returned home after the abduction, Terra reports with reference to the local police. The girl’s family also confirmed that she is already free. However, neither the relatives of the 22-year-old sister of the football player, nor the police report the circumstances of her release. Law enforcement agencies emphasized that this contradicts the desire of the victim and her relatives.

Egor Boratov The Minister of the Interior V. Kolokolktsev signed an order obliging all the police leaders to start a working day with viewing the press and monitoring of the Internet. Here, of course, the scope for reasoning in the version "The Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to fight for the picture" opens. But the order turns out, even somehow to say awkward, common.

Vladimir Putin appointed Sergei Shoigu the Minister of Rights of Russia. Previously, Shoigu was headed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and on May 11, 2012 he headed the Moscow region. The head of state announced his decision at a meeting with Shoigu.

The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov will be fined for excess of the number of participants in the procession. At the moment, the parliamentarian is in the police, where it is drawn up for an administrative protocol, reports Fontanka.ru on Tuesday. Milonov will have to pay a fine for the fact that on November 4, 5.5 thousand people gathered for the procession, according to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, instead of the declared 3 thousand.

It is believed that a myth is a certificate of disappeared rituals or ways of thinking. However, the myth itself should not be attributed to the past time. The myth arises, that is, it becomes an actual myth in gray antiquity, but directly before the eyes of the observer. It is the fresh critical mind that notes the inconsistency of certain ideas to the modern level of knowledge and announces the transfer of these ideas from the realm of the real to the field of mythology.

For employees of Olympstroy, the Ministry of Regional Development proposes to use additional motivation methods. In case of lagging behind the schedule, the manager, which is responsible for the object, will be sent to the construction site and personally lead the construction work. In addition, at the Olympic facilities, CCTV cameras for online monitoring of construction work, Izvestia reports.

The Government of Latvia on Tuesday, November 6, supported the draft law on the transfer of the country to the euro from January 1, 2014. It is reported by DELFI . If the parliament approves the law, then the cost of goods and services will be indicated in two currencies from October 2013 to June 2014. At the same time, both the lattice and the euro will be paid only in the first two weeks of 2014.