The United Russia party does not intend to change its decision to nominate the current mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Vadim Bulavinov for the post of head of the city for a new term. This was stated by the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the Party, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

Mikhail Blinkin The confrontation between the public and construction workers in the center of Moscow in the area of Pushkinskaya Square continues. Protesters do not agree with the plans of the authorities to reconstruct the center of Moscow without the knowledge of its inhabitants. On October 14, by order of the temporary mayor of Vladimir Resin, the construction fence in the Pushkin Square was removed.

In the north-west of Pakistan today, militants attacked a car with NATO forces in Afghanistan. According to local authorities, the driver and his assistant died. The attack was committed in the Haiber area, where the Taliban detachments are active. The incident occurred a few days after Pakistan again opened a border crossing on the border with Afghanistan, used for supplies to international troops.

Social networks are a lifestyle of the 21st century. There are more and more of them. The traditional, offline, social organism is weakening, online is strong: instead of general citizenship - common interests, write a paper letter and send it by mail - an unrealistic feat, and how to look for an email address, it is easier to draw pairs of words into Facebook. The very concept of a friend has changed: "friends" - unfamiliar "in real life" - these are those who communicate in social networks.

Egor Bychkov in court, October 11, 2010 Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov believes in the noble motives of the leader of the Nizhny Tagil Foundation "City without drugs" Yegor Bychkov, sentenced to three and a half years of the colony. He announced this at today's press conference. In his opinion, “the situation of drug addiction in Nizhny Tagil is similar to the situation in all small cities of Russia.

In Pakistan in the mountainous area of the North Vaziristan near the Afghan border, at least three militants were killed today as a result of a missile strike by an American unmanned aircraft. This was reported by the authorities of Pakistan. Two missile strikes were inflicted on a village located 30 kilometers east of the city of Miranhah - the main village of North Vaziristan, where, presumably, the main positions of the Taliban and Al -Qaeda militants in Pakistan are located.

Irina Lagunina: Russia and Venezuela signed an agreement on the construction of the first nuclear power plant for the country of Bolivarian socialism. And the hand of Hugo Chavez in Moscow laid a monument to the idol of the Venezuelan president Simon Bolivar. The fact that representatives of the Russian creative intelligentsia were present in the reports of this ceremony.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the courtroom of the trial in the second process against former co -owners of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev finished his position on the first episode of the criminal case. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, we are talking about accusing the embezzlement of shares of the Eastern Oil Company. It is reported that the prosecutor began to analyze the evidence under the next episode of the case, incriminated by the defendant, - oil.

In China, more than a hundred public figures signed an open letter demanding to release the Nobel Prize Laureate for this year, in custody. The letter posted on the Internet emphasizes that the PRC authorities should “reasonably” to react to the award of the famous Chinese dissident. Liu Yasobra was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of "subversive activities". He is known as one of the authors of the Hartia-08 manifest with a demand for the expansion of democratic freedoms in China.

By the end of our online conversation, Dmitry Medvedev presented the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin for the post of mayor of Moscow. We can also discuss this. Which, of course, does not cancel the main topic: why Russian voters do not need elections. We continue. 12 hours Moscow time Once upon a time, the Moscow Luzhkov, the Kremlin’s decision to cancel the governor’s elections, meant, three times. But immediately requested them back as soon as the president sent him to resign.

Gennady Zyuganov kept a speech against the demolition of the monument to Peter and could not slow down - he carried a sickeous to the ideological intersection, and the leader of the Communists habitually drove into the barrel to the democrats: he demanded to return the monument to Dzerzhinsky to the flowerbed. Ah yes Zyuganov! Ah yes the son of a working people! Here is an unmistakable class flair! Sweet turned out to be a couple, which is what to say ...

The head of the government of Latvia, Valdas Dombrovskis, announced the creation of a wider ruling coalition, the Radio Liberty correspondent in Riga Mikhail Bombin reports. It is difficult to say what caused the change of initial plans of the prime minister to limit himself to three mono -ethnic associations and declare the creation of a wider coalition. According to analysts, there are urgent recommendations of international committees and the opinion of President Valdes Zatlers.

The Ministry of Construction of Israel has announced a competition for the construction of about 4 thousand housing units-including 280 apartments in the Jerusalem regions of Rato and Pisgatzeev, which, as the Palestinian administration insists, are located in the disputed territory.

"Fulfillment for the swindle" can be paid in several Moscow clubs In Moscow, the “Fulfillment for Freedom” action takes place - the collection of money for the payment of a fine, to which the Tagan court of Moscow sentenced the organizers of the exhibition “Forbidden Art - 2006” Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov. They were found guilty of a crime under the 282nd article of the Criminal Code (arousal of hatred and enmity), and were sentenced to pay a total of 350 thousand rubles .

Vadim Bulavinov by Nizhny Novgorod has been opened a criminal case against the mayor of the city of Vadim Bulavinov . He is suspected of abuse of power in connection with the construction of a shopping center.