Lithuanian private traders complain that, despite quality products, they cannot win a competition with “networkers” monopolists. Lithuania introduced legislative restrictions on the activities of large trading companies, which are believed to monopolized the market, displacing small entrepreneurs from it. The four largest retail chains of the country - Maxima, IKI, RIMI and Norfa -, by decision of the Sejm, should reduce its total presence in the retail market from 62 to 55 percent.

The attitude of Russians to military duty is the topic of the Public Opinion program on Sunday, October 11 at 13 o’clock. Visiting Radio Liberty - Valentina Melnikova, executive secretary of the Union of Committee of the soldiers' mothers of Russia, sociologist Denis Volkov and Timofei Borisov, observer of the "Russian newspaper". Leading Veronika Bode. We are waiting for calls on the air, starting from the afternoon. Repetitions at seven in the evening and at two in the morning.

Irina Lagunina: At the forefront of his reform plan, President Obama set a reform of school education. In his opinion, already in this century the United States simply will not be able to compete with the outside world if the quality of teaching in public schools remains at the current level. But raising children, taking care of their physical and moral health begins already in infancy and even earlier, during pregnancy.

In the Rostov region, an assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Bataisk was detained, extorting money from the wife of the defendant. According to the agencies, Evgeny Strokon, who was entrusted with maintaining the charge of fraud, demanded from the wife of the accused a bribe of a million rubles for a mitigation of a punishment before the term of imprisonment for no more than six years.

Over 40 people, according to the latest data, died during an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshavar, local authorities said. According to them, more than 100 people are injured, many of them are in serious condition. The explosion occurred in the morning in a busy market next to a passenger minibus. According to the police, the suicide bomb, consisting of several dozen kilograms of explosives and artillery shells. No one has taken responsibility for the attack yet.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus put forward a new condition for signing the Lisbon Agreement on the reform of the EU leading structures. In a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the presiding in the EU of Sweden, Fredric Reinfeldt, Klaus demanded to include two proposals from the Charter on Basic Rights as a note. Until now, the Czech President refused to sign the contract until the Constitutional Court decides on its compliance with the laws of the country.

In London, a worship was held in honor of the British who served in Iraq. The service in the Cathedral of St. Paul was attended by veterans, relatives of 179 dead, the queen, the acting and former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The military operations of the British troops in Iraq officially ended on April 30. In total, about 120 thousand people from the British armed forces and civilian personnel served in the country.

The Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that before the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on the reform of the Czech Republic, one exception needs to be achieved. Klaus expresses a concern that the contract will make it possible to bypass the judicial system of the Czech Republic upon presentation of the requirements to return the real estate confiscated during the eviction of three million Sudeten Germans after the Second World War.

Further consideration of the lawsuit of the grandson of Stalin Evgeny Dzhugashvili to Novaya Gazeta was postponed on October 13. On Friday, at a meeting of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, one of the representatives of the plaintiff felt poorly, in connection with which a break was announced in the process. Evgeny Dzhugashvili seeks to pay compensation for 10 million rubles - in connection with an article in Novaya Gazeta in April this year.

The military authorities Myanmar allowed the leader of the democratic opposition to Aun San Su Zhi to meet Western diplomats. It is reported that the meeting will be attended by employees of the US embassy, Great Britain and Australia. In September, the Nobel Prize laureate addressed the junta representatives with a letter in which she asked her to allow such a meeting to convince the West to soften the regime of international sanctions acting in relation to Myanmar.

One of the previous protests against Gazprom's plans On October 10, in St. Petersburg, at 12.00, a rally against the construction of Okhta Center will be held at the anniversary hall. Under the appeal to Petersburgers, Andrei Bitov, Boris Grebenshchikov, Diana Arbenina and other famous writers, directors, architects, and journalists signed up to the St. Petersburg.

Poster with the image of President Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on the wall of one of the Chechen houses In Chechnya, the Chechen department of the FSB will lead the operational headquarters instead of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev, which is quoted by the Kommersant newspaper today.

US President Barack Obama awarded the Nobel Prize of the World. As stated in the decision of the Nobel Committee, the award was awarded Obama for "his exceptional efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people." According to the committee, the American president created a new climate in international politics. For many, it was a surprise to the award of Obama, who was only 9 months as president of the United States.

In the world, the awarding of US President Barack Obama Nobel Prize of the World has been positively met. The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroza said that this should strengthen the hopes of mankind for a safer world. According to President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, "America has returned to the hearts of the planet people." The representative of President Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad said that a high reward should encourage Obama to start the fight against injustice in the world.

The American space agency NASA ended today an experiment to search for water on the moon. For these purposes, two devices crashed into the Earth’s satellite - first an empty rocket weighing more than two tons, flying at a speed of 9 thousand kilometers per hour, followed by the apparatus that measured and handed over to the Earth data about particles in the first impact of dust and fragments.