In the north of Iraq, in the vicinity of the city of Tal-Afar, the police found 14 people in a shallow burial of the body. According to the US military, 12 of them were killed by shots in the head, two were beheaded. The tragedy occurred several months ago. In early September, Tal-Afar was taken under control of the American and Iraqi troops, which supplanted the rebels from the city.

In the Sea of Okhotsk, the search for a barge that disappeared during a storm near the port of Ayan continues for the second week. There was no crew on board. According to a representative of the marine rescue center, drifting a barge, on board of which there are about eight hundred tons of cargo, is a danger to ships.

The Moscow prosecutor's office opened a criminal case in connection with the murder of a citizen of Uzbekistan. On the night of Sunday, near the building of the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, the ambulance team picked up a young man with stab wounds, who soon died.

In the Tagan court of Moscow today, a lawsuit is being considered to protect the honor and dignity of the famous hockey player Pavel Bure to the Arbat-Pestizh-Teligid magazine. According to Interfax, the lawyer Bure Dmitry Rogulin, the plaintiff demands to refute the information published by the magazine about his personal life as not true and compensate him for moral damage in the amount of 300 million rubles. The lawsuit was filed in court on December 27 last year.

American aircraft today struck point attacks on objects near the border with Syria, from where, according to the military, foreign militants penetrate into Iraq. According to the German agency, DPA, with reference to a source in the hospital in the city of Kaim, killed at least 26 people - including women and children. On the outskirts of Baghdad today, during explosions of bombs laid on the roads, six American troops were killed.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation offers the government not to reduce the VAT rate in the near future, said Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergey Shatalov. According to him, the Ministry of Finance, on behalf of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, prepared a report on the possibility of reducing VAT from 18% to 13%. In this report, the Ministry of Finance offers not to touch the current VAT rate, Shatalov said.

The court in Kyiv today holds preliminary hearings on the claim of the former prosecutor general of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun against the President of the country Viktor Yushchenko. Piskun is trying to challenge the decree on his resignation, signed by the president in mid -October. The ex-prosecutor considers the decision illegal, since the reason for the dismissal was not indicated. The interests of the president in court are represented by Minister of Justice Sergey Golovaty.

On October 31, 1833, Pushkin completed the white manuscript of the poem "Copper Horseman". Nicholas I was the personal censor of Pushkin. The emperor deleted several lines, but did not impose any resolution, which meant the actual prohibition of the poem. In the "Bronze Horseman" the emperor saw not praising Peter, but a riot of a "little man." During the life of Pushkin, only a fragment of entry to the poem was published.

The Court of the Moscow District of Minsk sentenced to arrest and monetary fines of activists of the Civil Initiative Partnership for holding the Constituent Congress, Igor Karney reports from Minsk. About 70 members of the organization were detained in Minsk on October 29 in the Cinema "Central", the hall of which was rented for the congress. The Minsk police qualified the event as an “unauthorized mass action”.

Russia will increase the production and export of oil production in Russia by 2015 will reach 530 million tons, more than 60% of which will be sent for export. According to the forecast of the Minister of Industry and Energy of Viktor Khristenko, the main center of its production will remain the West Siberian Oil and Gas Province, where the production of raw materials will grow until 2010.

The program is conducted by Victor Nechez. The Radio Liberty correspondent Viktor Cheretsky takes part. Victor Nechez: the prince of Asturian Philipa de Borbon, the heir to the Spanish throne, and his wife Ortis was born a daughter. Will she become the future Queen of Spain? This question is asked today by many Spaniards.

The resignation of the head of the Renaissance Capital investment group Oleg Kiselev was officially confirmed. In a published today - joint with the board of the group - a statement by Kiselev reports that it leaves voluntarily. Recently, Kiselev was charged with the theft of shares of the Mikhailovsky Mining and Processing Plant. Last week, the Tver court of Moscow authorized his arrest.

The program is conducted by Polina Oldenburg. The Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya takes part. Polina Oldenburg: An exhibition of Mikhail Baryshnikov opened in the Petersburg house of the actor. Tatyana Voltskaya: The very phrase "Photos of Mikhail Baryshnikov" plunges into some amazement. In fact, what to expect from a person who was not only in another genre, but truly legendary, new masterpieces, personal revelations that a photograph can give?

Zhenya Snezhkin , especially for the site Last week, a group of deputies of the United Russia party introduced the amendments to the law “On Public Associations” for consideration by the parliament. The text of the bill caused a shock among activists of public organizations: in essence, the draft law proposes to close most non -profit organizations, and for those who are not supposed to be closed, tight control will be established.

Valery Vinokurov, Oleg Vinokurov The Russian team took third place in the draw of the Super Board of the Handball Nations, which ended last week in Germany. In the meeting for Bronze, the Russians won 35:33 Croats of the Croats of Croats, taking revenge for defeat at the group stage. Moreover, in the course of almost the entire match they were inferior, having managed to tear out the victory at the very end of the meeting. The winner of the tournament was the national team of Sweden.