At the end of the day on September 24, documents were submitted to the Central Election Commission of Belarus to register an initiative group for nomination by the presidential candidate of the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko. Thus, 56-year-old Alexander Lukashenko is running for the presidency for the fourth time. The election of the President of Belarus is scheduled for December 19.

On September 23, speaking to the UN, US President Barack Obama called on Israel to extend the moratorium on construction in Jewish settlements and said that he considers this a necessary condition for continuing the negotiations about the world between Israel and Palestinian autonomy. The Palestinian side demanded on Friday the extension of the moratorium at least for the duration of the continuing peace negotiations.

Consumer prices for automobile gasoline in Russia for the period from September 14 to 20 have not changed, and since the beginning of the year they have grown by 3.8%, the Federal Statistics Service said. The average cost of one liter of fuel was 22 rubles 23 kopecks or in terms of the current rate of about 72 American centers. The growth of consumer gas prices was noted in 14 regional centers of the country, while at 60 they remained at the level of the previous week.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on a business to connect to assistance to pensioners. As explained by Medvedev, we are talking about creating a network of so -called "social stores", where prices are significantly lower. In Russia, out of almost 40 million pensioners, every third works, but for the majority the pension is the only source of income, the president said at a meeting on the problems of older people.

Evgeny Yasin At a meeting of the State Duma on September 24, the Russian government will present a report on its work to overcome the economic crisis for the first half of 2010. According to many experts, it will be more difficult to get out of the crisis in the future, since the financial reserves that the state had was pretty wasted. Here is the point of view of the economist, the supervisor of the Higher School of Economics Evgeny Yasin: -In general, we got off cheaply.

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In the east of Tajikistan, during a special operation, 8 militants were killed, three military personnel were injured. A large -scale operation against anti -government groups was launched on Wednesday in the Rasht district, where on September 19, unknown people attacked a motorcade with the Tajik military, killing 28 soldiers and officers.

US President Barack Obama called "unforgivable" and "insulting" statements of the Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinejad, who, speaking at the Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, suggested that the American special services could be involved in the organization of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday night near the private security building, an explosion occurred in the city of Nartkal. According to law enforcement agencies, a home -made explosive device worked. At the scene, the body of an unknown man and a machine gun was found. There are no victims. The investigation does not exclude that the deceased tried to install a bomb from the building. His personality is established.

Today, at the next meeting of the Barnaul City Duma, deputies decided to hold a public hearing. They will be discussed on the amendments to the charter of the city, allowing the direct elections of the head of Barnaul and go to his elections from among the deputies. The position of the city manager appointed under the contract is also introduced. For holding a public hearing, 28 deputies out of 33 deputies attended at the session spoke.