Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today begins a two -day visit to Iran. Lavrov will meet with his Iranian colleague Kamal Harrasi and the head of the National Security Council Iran Hassan Rouhani. Among the negotiations are Russian -Iranian cooperation in the nuclear region. Moscow repeatedly called on Tehran to comprehensive cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and to comply with obligations under an agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons.

In Egypt on November 25, an international conference on Iraq will be held. Cairo said that the issues of political and economic assistance to Iraq, as well as security problems, will be discussed in the form. The conferences of the conference intend to promote the elimination of disagreements between different Iraqi political and religious groups in order to make the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country.

The United States, Germany and Pakistan regarded as successful first direct elections of the President of Afghanistan, held on Saturday. Advisor to the US President for National Security of Condoliza Rice believes that the elections will be recognized as legitimate. The main election commission of Afghanistan promises to understand complaints about gross violations of the election procedure, which were filed by all the 15th rivals of the current leader of the country Hamid Karzai.

The turnout of the voters in the presidential election of Afghanistan was massive, ”said representatives of the UN in the country. According to them, during the vote there were certain violations. All 15 rivals of the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said they did not recognize the election results. The country's election commission refused to stop the vote, promising that complaints would be considered.

The Israeli and Egyptian rescuers almost completed the disassembly of the hotel blocks in the resort city of Taba, where a powerful explosion occurred on Friday night. Under the ruins, according to them, no one was. During explosions in a tab and two other chicken towns in Egypt, a total of 34 people died. 11 dead - Israelis. 20 bodies are still unidentified. About 150 people are injured.

In Minsk, several hundred people took part in the protest against the referendum, proposed by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, about the possibility of extending his stay in power. One of the opposition leaders Anatoly Lebedko said at a rally that Lukashenko wants to rule for life, and this would deprive Belarus of the future as a European country. At least five manifestos reportedly were detained by the police.

In the suburbs, there was an attack on the collectors who took away the revenue from the Marktkauf hypermarket from the city of Lyubertsy. The criminal threw them with grenades and opened fire from machine guns. The collectors, having received repeated injuries, managed to lock themselves in an armored car and were able to leave.

Mikhail Sokolov: Our guest is the governor of the Ivanovo region, the leader of the All -Russian Communist Party of the future Vladimir Tikhonov. Questions will be given by journalists Markin Voitskhovsky "Gazeta Vy We", and Andrei Stepanov, "Moscow News". And I will remind the audience Radio Liberty that Vladimir Tikhonov is the governor of the Ivanovo region from December 28, 2000, before that he was the governor of the State Duma of Russia, the Communist Party faction.

"Small Bath Readings" - a conference of the magazine "Unaccounted stock" with the support of the German Cultural Center named after Goethe - will be held in Moscow from October 14 to 16 at the Bilingual club in Krivokolny Lane. The conference will open with a round table of the chief editors of intellectual magazines in Russia, Germany and Ukraine. October 15 - reports and debate on the main topic of the conference - “Memory policy.

In Libya, 17 members of the group associated with al -Qaeda were arrested, the country's authorities said. According to them, the arrested - immigrants from Central and Southeast Asia - penetrated illegally in Libya.

In Pakistan, a new terrorist attack is committed - the bomb exploded in the Shiite mosque in the city of Lahor. During the explosion, two guards and an extremist were killed, trying to break into the mosque. Four people are injured. Since the beginning of October, this is the third terrorist attack in the Pakistani province of Penjab.

Today - 40 days after the tragic events in the North Ossetian city of Beslan. The republic hosts mourning events and memorial service for dead hostages. According to official figures, 330 people were killed as a result of the capture of the school in Beslan, more than 170 of them are children.

The Russian woman who died as a result of a terrorist attack in the Egyptian city of Taba is identified. According to the Russian Embassy in Egypt, this is a resident of Tatarstan Anna Akhmetyeva, born in 1946. According to the latest data, 34 people became the victims of the attack, mostly Israelis. At the ruins of the hotel in Taba, presumably, 13 more dead remain. Their search is ongoing. About 150 people were injured, including 8 Russians. 9 Russian citizens are missing missing.

More than 80 percent of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, registered as voters, voted yesterday, according to official figures, in the election of the President of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan itself, according to the election commission, the counting of votes will begin tomorrow. 15 presidential candidates - rivals of the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzay - said yesterday that they did not recognize the results of the vote. International observers recognized the presence of a number of elections.

In Lithuania today, parliamentary elections, the first after the country's entry into the European Union and NATO. According to the latest polls of public opinion. The greatest chances of winning is the batch of labor, created a year ago by a native of Russia Viktor Upaski. About 33 percent of voters intend to vote for it. According to surveys, the ruling coalition of the Social Democrats and Social Liberals is in second place.