Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov as his special representative in the Middle East and African countries, the Kremlin press service reports. Until recently, this position was held by Mikhail Margelov. Mikhail Bogdanov, in turn, previously represented the president in the Middle Eastern direction, and now it would combine African.

In the area of ​​Fiji Islands in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred, the US Geological Service Information Center reports . The epicenter of underground shocks was 142 kilometers north-east of the island of NDOI at a depth of 421.9 kilometers. Earlier, a strong earthquake was reported in the area of ​​Easter Island.

On November 1, 1578, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky was born, commander and statesman who freed Moscow from the Polish occupation. Personal business Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky (1578 - 1642) came from a princely kind, ascending to Rurik, but the Firegracles did not occupy high state posts. Most likely, Dmitry was born in the village of Bersenevo in Klinsky district, which was part of his mother, Maria (Euphrosynia) Beklemisheva.

A New York City Department of Health hotline employee was suspended because a man spoke to callers in a robotic voice, NBC News reports , citing court documents. Court documents say 66-year-old Ronald Dillon spoke to hotline callers in a slow, monotone voice, enunciating every word clearly. The man tried to justify himself by saying that he has a Brooklyn accent, which makes it difficult to understand his speech.

Asteroid Master-K14UB6R, opened this week by Russian scientists, will not be dangerous for the Earth in the next few years. This was stated by the leading employee of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Viktor Shor, reports Interfax . Such data are based on more than a hundred observations over the past days.

As a result of a collision of a car with a train in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, three people were killed, according to the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. According to the agency, the clash occurred in the evening of November 1 in the Rybinsk district. The driver of the VAZ-2114 car tried to drive through a railway crossing to a prohibiting traffic light.

The truck, transporting 12 tons of sunflower seeds, rolled over in the evening last Friday in the center of Dnepropetrovsk, reports the Ukrainian portal "Details". As a result of the accident, no one was injured. However, the Avenue of Freedom on which the accident occurred was filled with seeds. The trams cruising along the avenue for several hours could not continue to move.

The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights called on the Russian Foreign Ministry to help Russians Elena Toncacheva, sent from Belarus by the authorities of the republic, the press service of the HRC reports.

Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin donated 100 thousand rubles to restore the school in the Donbass, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the so -called humanitarian battalion, which is engaged in the collection and distribution of humanitarian aid. According to the interlocutor of the news agency, the money transferred by the actor will go to repair the roof of the school in the village of Petrovskoye, Starobyshevsky District, Donetsk region, which suffered from shelling.

Readers of Polit.ru could not unequivocally choose the media staff of the outgoing week, casting an equal number of votes to the head of the American Apple Corporation Tim Kuku and the Russian film actor Mikhail Porechenkov. Recall that Tim Cook this week publicly announced his homosexual orientation, and Mikhail Porechenkov became the hero of the video in which he shot from a large -caliber machine gun in the Press's helmet in the besieged ATO for Donetsk airport.

The Orthodox Church of Greece refused to conduct the sacraments to people who wish to be cremated after death, Agency France-Presse reports. According to the Primate of the Church, the desire to be burned after death contradicts the Orthodox canons and testifies to the separation from the church, so such people do not have the right to accept the Orthodox sacraments.

The standing committee of the All -China Assembly of People's Representatives adopted amendments to the "Law on National Security", reports China Daily . The law enshrines the responsibility of national and foreign organizations and individuals for espionage activities, as well as encouraging and supporting this activity. The document also gives the Chinese national security authorities to terminate the activities of organizations and individuals, which may pose a threat to national security.

The headquarters of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic reported that about 70 Ukrainian paratroopers were surrounded in the area of ​​the village of Frunze in the Luhansk region, RIA Novosti reports. “About 70 paratroopers are blocked at the 31 checkpoint near the village of Frunze, the Slavicoserverbsky district ... Now we are negotiating with them about surrendering or leaving the encirclement without weapons,” the agency quotes the Lugansk military statement quoted.

In the Irkutsk region, unknown people set fire to the traffic police building, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The incident occurred at night on November 1 in the village of Magistralny Ust-Kutsky district of the Irkutsk region. On the ground floor of the wooden building of the local traffic police department, a fire began.

The Swedish football midfielder Swedish football player Rasmus Elm can complete his career due to a rare illness, TASS reports with reference to CSKA President Evgeny Giner. According to Giner, with an increase in loads, the football player begins to bleed: “Elm is sick. I don't get crafty. You can find out in Sweden. He has no family problems. He is sick and cannot train. As soon as he increases the load, he is blood.