The name of the new mayor of St. Petersburg will become known in the very near future. The unpredictable predictability of the policy of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev suggests one of the possible options for this castration: the appointment of a temporary acting Governor. So it was in 2003 between Vladimir Yakovlev and Valentina Matvienko. Then the acting became the current deputy head of the presidential administration Alexander Beglov.

The Russian President invited the governor of St. Petersburg to consult with colleagues about the possibility of its appointment to the post of chairman of the Federation Council. As Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday at a meeting with Valentina Matvienko, in his opinion, for Russia it would be good if she headed the upper house of parliament. Politicians decided to return to the discussion of this issue later.

According to the latest data, 13 people were injured in a fire at the State Enterprise in Surgut, the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies said. 11 wounded are hospitalized, six are in serious condition. On Tuesday morning, an explosion of gas occurred at the gas regulatory station, which was repaired, and a fire occurred. An hour later, the fire was extinguished. The building and equipment of the gas distribution point was damaged.

The termination of electricity supply from Russia against the backdrop of the economic crisis in Belarus is commented by the former chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Bogdanvich. - Why could not this issue be resolved, and the matter came to a direct conflict? - I think there is a political component here. Because to find $ 100 million, having currency reserves more than 3 billion and in live currency about 2 billion, it is always possible.

The Lithuanian Seim of Lithuania ratified the agreement with Belarus on the introduction to residents of border regions of the lightweight procedure for crossing the border. According to Radio Liberty in Vilnius, Irina Peters, the residents of the border 50 kilometer - on both sides of the border - the zone will be able to move on the basis of special permits and be in the territory of a neighboring country in the amount of 90 days within six months.

The American currency may not resist if the Republicans do not agree with the White House In the United States, disputes about whether to authorize the increase in the limit of state debts reached a critical point. The White House assures that if the congress does not raise the upper limit of state debts, then after a few days the United States will not be able to serve them, which is fraught with default.

In the north of Afghanistan, the leader of one of the Islamic radical groups associated with Al-Qaeda, dressed in women's clothing, was arrested. According to the command of international forces in Afghanistan today, as a result of a joint operation of NATO forces and Afghan troops in the city of Kunduz, the leader of the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and two of his assistants was detained on Monday.

1990. Armenian refugees sit on steam in the Baku port. In the Moscow Hotel "Yuzhny" - an exacerbation of the conflict of owners with residents. The latter are evicted by the court decision, which, according to residents, is illegal. The conflict itself is rooted in the ethnic pogroms in Baku in 1989. The security was not allowed to be a guard of the RS correspondent, the immigrants themselves could not go outside for an interview - they are sure that they would not be allowed.

Valentina Matvienko The company continues to actively discuss the possible transfer of post of the speaker of the Federation Council to the current governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko . In order to take the post of chairman of the upper house of the Federal Assembly, Valentina Matvienko, by law, needs a deputy mandate of any level. The United Russia party will help her in this.

Ivan Tolstoy: On the air, the program “Alphabet of dissent”. The microphone .... Andrey Gavrilov: Andrey Gavrilov ... Ivan Tolstoy: ... and Ivan Tolstoy. Babi Yar. Part two. Andrei, the last time we finished our conversation on the history of the appearance of the poem in the press Yevgeny Yevtushenko “Babi Yar”, and now it seems to me that it is completely logical to continue this by the fate of the Yevtushenkovsky poem and go to the famous 13th symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich.

Football. The Board of Directors of the Samara Club "Wings of the Soviets" dismissed the head coach of the team Alexander Tarkhanov. This specialist left the Wings of the Soviets for the third time in his career. Thus, half of the RPFL clubs officially lost the head coaches.

The Prime Minister of the State Council of the PRC Wen Jiabao is on a visit to Germany, completing a European tour. The Chinese delegation, which includes 13 ministers, has already signed various transactions in the UK for a total of more than $ 2 billion. German manufacturers of Daimler and Volkswagen cars are interested in building assembly enterprises in China.

Logo "Frida House" Many countries in the post -Soviet space are becoming increasingly vulnerable to crises that are now happening in the Arab world, according to the annual report of the human rights organization Frida House. The study concerned, in particular, democratic processes in the territory of the former USSR, and, according to its conclusions, 80 percent of the population of the region, over 220 million people, lived in 2010 under authoritarian regimes.