The International Red Cross Committee for several days suspends its activities in the eastern regions of Ukraine in connection with the death of its employee - a citizen of Switzerland. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the Ukrainian branch of the organization Alina Murzaeva.

People's Artist of the Georgian SSR Vakhtang Kikabidze, in an interview with the Ukrainian media, said that he would take part in a special operation in eastern Ukraine, if he were young, the portal "Today" reports. “If I were young, I would also now be in the ATO and resisted, protecting the honor of the country. There is no second option! " - noted Kikabidze in an interview with the portal.

In Moscow, Kurban-Bayram was noted about 130 thousand Muslims, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the capital's police headquarters. Near the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, 50 thousand people gathered for celebrations and festive prayer, the police note. The same is the memorial mosque on Poklonnaya Gora. Violations of the law enforcement and emergency accidents related to the celebration of Kurban Bayram were not recorded.

In the American state of Pennsylvania, a memorial complex dedicated to the victims of the attacks on September 11 is on fire. It reports about it New York Post with reference to the press secretary of the National Park Mike Litterst. All employees were evacuated, there are no injured. According to the press secretary, the fire covered two administrative buildings at once and has already inflicted a “significant damage” to the complex. The causes of the incident are unknown.

In Moscow, near the new Spartak stadium, a monument to the former midfielder of the club Fedor Cherenkov, who died on October 4, will erect a monument. This was reported by TASS with reference to the owner of the club Leonid Fedun. According to him, one of the stands of the stadium will be named in honor of Cherenkov. “Spartak” will help the Cherenkov family, and also take on the organization of the funeral.

The famous Spartak footballer Fedor Cherenkov Cherenkov, who died in Moscow on Saturday night at the 56th year of his life, will be buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery on Tuesday, October 7, according to the official website of the Red-White. Farewell to Fedor Cherenkov will be held on October 7 at the Manege of the Spartak Academy from 10:00 to 12:00. The coffin will be installed on the football field.

Over the next three months, Roscosmos will present to the government the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025, TASS reports with reference to the head of the Federal Space Agency Oleg Ostapenko. According to him, the formation of the space program has already been completed, now there is a process of coordination with interested ministries and departments. “We must submit (the program) to the government at the end of this year. In these terms, we will definitely lay down, ”said Ostapenko.

The leader of the Ukrainian Party "Fatherland" Yulia Tymoshenko intends to personally go to Russia for a court session in the case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, Tymoshenko’s press service reports. According to the press service, representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Fatherland Party will also be present at the court session on October 13.

In Russia on October 4, the deadline for notification of the Federal Migration Service on the availability of second citizenship expires. It reports about it The press service of the FMS. “From today, Russians who have not been notifying their second citizenship in the future, can be brought to administrative responsibility,” the press service said.

Ukraine transferred to Russia 1.67 billion dollars on account of debt for the delivered gas. This was on the air of the first national Ukrainian television channel said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, reports hromadke.tv . “They hoped that we would not give up gas debts. The debt is 1 billion 670 million - the day before yesterday we all paid a penny, ”Yatsenyuk said. According to him, money to pay for debts was provided by international creditors.

A group of Russian officers at the invitation of the General Staff of Ukraine arrived in Kiev to work on a map, which will be the basis for breeding conflicting parties in the Donbass, Interfax reports with reference to the statement of the Permanent Representative of Russia when organizing security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Andrei Kelin.

The authorities of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic decided to transform their police into the police, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR Igor Kornet. The corresponding bill on the eve was submitted to the LPR parliament. As explained by Igor Cornet, the police system operating in Ukraine is not suitable for a self -proclaimed republic.

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev during their stay at the ISS watched “smokes and conflagrations” in Ukraine, reports RIA Novosti . Alexander Skvortsov, in particular, said that throughout the expedition he followed the news from Ukraine with particular anxiety where his relatives live. “Naturally, they looked anxiously at what is happening, especially since everything is visible from the space, smokes, conflagrations are visible,” the astronaut said.

The man stabbed a woman with a knife from whom he tried to take the bag, and wounded the passerby who defended her, a source in law enforcement told Interfax . According to him, on Friday at 6:20 in a tunnel located under a railway canvas, house 1, a man demanded a bag in which personal belongings, but having actively resisted, and received multiple mortal wounds at the 4th raw-negative passage. In addition, the attacker wounded a man who, having heard the cry of the victim, tried to help her.

In Moscow, in the 56th year of his life, the former Spartak midfielder and the USSR national team Fedor Cherenkov, Sport-Express reports with reference to the president of the Spartak Academy Sergei Rodionov. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was the brain tumor. Cherenkov died on October 4 at 4 a.m. Fedor Cherenkov began playing football in the team of the district ZhEK. Since 1969 he played for the Kuntsevo SK, two years later he moved to the Spartak football school.