Irina Lagunina: We have already told and, it seems to me, will return to the fact that the International Organization of Transparency International annually publishes an index of perception of corruption. In 2010, the study was conducted in 178 countries of the world. Russia fit in 154th place along with Tajikistan, Kenia, New Guinea, Cambodia and several other countries. On 134 - Azerbaijan, on 123 - Armenia and at 68 - Georgia.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, two militants were killed during a special operation in the city of Tyrnaus. According to Interfax in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, extremists were discovered by policemen on Thursday morning near the local mining and processing plant. They showed armed resistance. The personalities of the militants are established. Police officers work at the scene.

In Khotkovo near Moscow, a rally was held near the building of the local administration, the participants of which demanded to ban the residence of foreigners in the city. It is reported that on October 26 a fight took place with the participation of immigrants from Central Asia, during which knife injuries were inflicted on two local residents. One of them died of wounds.

In Barnaul, a monument to the victims of political repression is opened. It is installed on the site of the Peter and Paul Cathedral blown up by the Bolsheviks in the 30s and next to the quarter, where the NKVD buildings were located. The opening ceremony was attended by famous Russian politicians, public figures and entrepreneurs - Vladimir Ryzhkov, Arseny Roginsky, Mikhail Zadornov. The project of a monument called "Farewell" was created 23 years ago by the Barnaul artist Prokopiy Shchetitin.

The United States will allocate more than half a billion dollars for the reconstruction of the complex of buildings of the US Embassy in Kabul. The American ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Aikenberry said that the reconstruction will allow the embassy to the territory where "very important projects in the field of security, management, economics and civil society will be carried out. Reconstruction work has already begun and will end, as expected, by 2014.

Why, at the beginning of the 21st century, the term "racism" is not considered obsolete? Racism is ideology and doctrine. Xenophobia and cultural chauvinism. Household, intellectual, political, state racism. What is institutional racism and why Even those who do not share racist beliefs are forced to follow him? The crisis of "multicultural policy" in Europe and the Day of National Unity as the day of marches of nationalists in Russia. Racism as a product of an industrial society.

Georgia on an official visit was visited by Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mancher Motaki. As the Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze reports, the results of his visit to Tbilisi were regarded as sensational. The heads of diplomatic departments, Mancher Mottaki and Grigol Vashadze signed an agreement on visa -free regime for citizens of the two countries. The Georgian opposition immediately expressed bewilderment.

The Day of National Unity in Russia is not a surviving holiday. Serbia and Croatia took another step towards reconciliation. Why did the engine fall off at the A-380 Australian airline in flight. Drug smugglers dug a tunnel from Mexico to the United States. The British fund helped to save the white cottage of Chekhov.

In Iran, the 31st anniversary of the capture of the US Embassy in Tehran is celebrated. Thousands of Iranians gathered today at the American embassy in the capital of Iran, chanting anti -American slogans and waving national flags. The attack on the US Embassy occurred in 1979, a few months after the overthrow of the pro -American monarch. Students captured 52 diplomats and held them for 444 days, demanding the issuance of Shah who fled abroad.

The airport of the city of Glago (Scotland) was partially evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered in the prereational inspection zone of passengers. Several flights were deposited. Specialists-explosion equipment arrived at the airport. To date, the airport’s work has been resumed in full. The police do not report whether there was explosives in the package, or was the alarm was false.

Serbia President Boris Tadich today arrived in the Croatian city of Vukovar - on a historical visit that marks the reconciliation between two Balkan neighbors. Tadich will laid wreaths at the memorial in the village of Ovchar - near Vukovar in the east of Croatia. There, 19 years ago, 260 people were killed in a local hospital. The Serbian president will also visit the nearby village, where about 20 Serbs were killed by Croatian forces.

In Moscow, about 10 thousand people participated in the Russian march organized by nationalists on the occasion of the National Unity Day. Such a figure, according to the Radio Liberty correspondent, was named by law enforcement officers who monitored the action. There were no serious incidents during the procession and rally, GSHDA gathered chanted nationalist slogans, and was not registered. “Russian March” today was held in Moscow and supporters of the Prochrevsky youth movement “Our”.

The editor of the RS information service, international observer, author and editor of the heading and podcast "Atlas of the World" Gosteva@rferl.org