In some areas, a hundred percent turnout has already been recorded In a number of regions of Russia, local elections are held on Sunday. The most significant of them - parliamentary - go in the Chechen Republic, the Trans -Baikal Territory, the Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Sakhalin regions. In addition, 17 regions hold additional elections, and another 70 constituent entities of the Russian Federation - elections to local self -government bodies.

Family problems through the eyes of Russians. Visiting Radio Freedom is a leading researcher at the Levada Center Natalya Zorkaya.

The reason for the death of the Austrian politician Jorg Haider in a car accident on Saturday morning was, apparently, a significant excess of speed. This was announced on Sunday by the prosecutor Gottfried Krantz. According to him, the Haider car was driving at a speed of more than 140 kilometers per hour. He flew out of the highway and rolled over. The 58-year-old Hyder was the governor of the land of Carinthia and the leader of the radical right-wing party "Union for the Future of Austria".

In Chita, supporters of Mikhail Khodorkovsky will hold a hunger strike until October 15 with a demand to free the ex-head of the company Yukos from Kardzer. Members of the Trans -Baikal Public Support Committee of Khodorkovsky - Marina Sukhinina, Marina Savateeva and Valery Nemerov participate in the action. On October 8, Khodorkovsky was placed in a punishment cell for 12 days - for correspondence with writer Boris Akunin, published in the magazine Eskweir.

In the Sakhalin Region, elections were held in the regional Duma, reports Radio Liberty in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Mikhail Sokolov. In the morning on the main streets of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk they turned on the broadcast of patriotic songs. There were no crowded in the election plots for the election of the Sakhalin Regional Duma. I saw only people of senior and retirement age. In one of the sites, they offered baking and a concert of the orchestra of folk instruments. Two old women listened to him.

In Berlin, a battle was held for the world's worldwater worldwater champion according to the WBC version between Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko and Nigerian Samuel Piter. After the eighth round, Peter refused to continue the struggle and recognized himself defeated. Thus, Klitschko returned the title, which he won in 2004, successfully defended in the same year, but in 2005, due to injury to the knee, he was forced to yield without a fight.

During the operation of security forces in the south of the country, at least 40 militants were killed in Afghanistan. The victims among government forces are not reported. According to the authorities, the Taliban attacked the military base in the city of Lashkargakh - the capital of the Gilmene, The battle began at midnight and lasted about three hours. There is no confirmation of data on dead militants from independent sources.

In St. Petersburg, the police dispersed the action for the voluntary army, three people were detained. This was reported by the Radio correspondent Freedom Tatyana Voltskaya. The action for the voluntary army, in which the activists of the "defense", "Yabloko" and other youth organizations participated, took place on the central alley of the Victory Park.

A mourning ceremony was held on the Indonesian island of Bali in memory of the victims of the attack on October 12, 2002. Then, as a result of two explosions, 202 people died, mainly foreigners. Relatives and friends of the victims gathered at Bali, eyewitnesses of the tragedy. About 50 people came to a memorial service at the Australian Consulate. As a result of the attack, 88 citizens of Australia were killed.

Vladimir Baburin: Today in our studio, the deputy of the State Duma of Russia Valery Zubov, a member of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship and the President of the International Association of Housing Funds and Mortgage Lending. I think the second today is even more important. Questions will be asked by the editor -in -chief of Russia Profile magazine Dmitry Babich and the Moscow Correspondent of the newspaper Voice of Ukraine Viktor Tymoshenko.

Russian strategic bombers launched winged missiles. According to ITERFAX, citing the press service of the Russian Air Force, the Tu-95MS and Tu-160 long-range aircraft crews began on Sunday morning, and conducting many hours in the air. It is reported that educational cruise missiles struck the specified educational ground targets.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected criticisms from Foreign Minister Bernard Kushner to not fulfill Moscow all obligations on a peaceful agreement of the Sarkozy-Medvedev. Speaking to journalists in Dortmund after meeting with the head of the German foreign policy, Francom-Walter Steinmeier, Lavrov said that Russian troops would not leave Akhalgori, since this area is located on the territory of South Ossetia and therefore does not fall under the peaceful plan.

In Makhachkala, a member of the hunger strike of war veterans in Afghanistan was hospitalized, requiring social assistance to acquire housing. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the manager of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Council of War Veterans in Afghanistan Shamil Khadulaev. On Saturday, it became known that another of the participants of the hunger strike Kazanfar Nurmetov, the holder of the Order of the Red Banner, died from a heart attack. The hunger strike lasts the seventh day.

In Georgia, ten people were killed as a result of a car disaster and two were serious injuries. The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Shota Utiashvili in an interview with AFP said that the collision of a minibus and a truck occurred on Sunday in the morning near the village of Urbnisi, about 25 kilometers west of the Georgian city of Gori. The minister specified that the truck driver remained unharmed.