Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi pardoned all citizens who were imprisoned in connection with the events of the beginning of 2011, when the Hosni Mubarak regime was overthrown. The Murcy Decree, published on Monday, provides for an amnesty for all the offenses that then committed - with the exception of persons accused of murder.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez Vladimir Kara-Murza: Presidential elections were held in Venezuela. Once again, the current head of state, 58-year-old Hugo Chavez, won the victory. 54.44 percent of voters cast votes for him. The main opponent of Hugo Chavez in the current elections is 40-year-old Enrique Capricles, running from the opposition bloc of democratic unity, received 44.97 percent of the vote. The turnout in the elections exceeded 80 percent.

About five thousand residents of Bryansk on Monday participated in the action in support of the current governor of the Bryansk region Nikolai Denin, who, by the decision of the regional court, was removed from the election race. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the event was calm.

A rally of LGBT activists in Moscow in June 2012. Activists of the Orthodox Public Movement "People’s Cathedral" intend to seek the introduction of a law on the prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality among minors, similar to the fact that it was adopted in St. Petersburg and in some other regions. Experts believe that this initiative violates the rights of the LGBT community, but they do not exclude that such a law will be accepted in the capital.

In Venezuela, Enrique Caprice, an opposition candidate for the president of the country, congratulated Hugo Chavez on the victory in the election and re -election for the fourth six -year term. Speaking to his supporters after the announcement of the preliminary results of the vote, Capricles recognized his defeat, thanked the supporters for his support and called on Chavez to take into account their opinion.

The former president of the Maldives of the Maldiv islands Mohammed Nasd on Monday was arrested by the police for refusing to face the court on charges of exceeding the authorities - seven months after his displacement. Last February, Nashyd - the first democratically elected head of the country - was overthrown as a result of the rebellion of the Maldives, after he ordered to detain one of the judges of the criminal court on charges of corruption.

Bidzina Ivanishvili In Georgia today, as expected, the composition of the new cabinet of ministers will be announced. It is formed by Bidzina Ivanishvili - the leader of the opposition coalition "Georgian Dream" that won in the recent parliamentary elections. According to Georgian media, the key posts in the office will receive the leaders of the main political forces, which made up the Georgian Dream, including Irakli Alasania, Koba Davitashvili, Irakli Garibashvili.

Supporters of Chavez celebrate on the streets of Karakas the re-election of the president-socialist for a fourth six-year term. The election campaign was very tense, but no significant incidents occurred on the day of voting. The turnout exceeded 80 percent, in some areas the vote had to be extended for several hours. Chavez recently underwent two operations to remove malignant tumors. He claims that now he is completely healthy and ready to fulfill the duties of the president.

This was what the festival crowd looked in the morning, after lunch it was no longer possible to break through Alexander Genis: If you read newspapers and watch TV, it seems that now, when the debate of rivals in the struggle for the presidency began, the camp lives the same policy.

The wreckage of one of the missiles released according to Israel The south of Israel was today undergoing missile shelling from the territory of the gas sector, controlled by the radical Palestinian group of Hamas. According to representatives of the armed wing Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group, this is the response to the raid of the Israeli Air Force on Sunday, in which 10 Palestinians were injured in the gas sector.

Turkish leaders: Prime Minister Recep Erdogan (left) and President Abdullah Gul (right) Turkish President Abdullah Gul called the world community to more active actions to resolve the Syrian conflict. Speaking on Monday in Ankara, Gul noted that military operations in Syria threaten to spread to other countries. The president emphasized that Türkiye is ready to protect its borders by all means.

The Criminal Court of the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan today sentenced to three oppositionists - in the case of riots in the city of Zhanaozen in December last year. The leader of the opposition party "Alga!" Vladimir Kozlov was sentenced to 7 and a half years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Also, two opposition activists Serik Sapargali and Akzhanat Aminov received conditional terms, they were released in the courtroom.

Sergey Udaltsov Representatives of the opposition submitted an application to the Moscow City Hall for the holding on October 20 and 21 on the Pushkin Square of the Promotion in support of the elections to the Coordinating Council of the Opposition (CSR). This was announced by the leader of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov. According to him, the number of shares will be agreed additionally.

The place of one of the explosions committed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan In the south of Afghanistan, in the city of Lashkar-Gar, a suicide bomber in a mined car on Monday blew the gate to the police station. At least two Afghan intelligence officers who, according to preliminary information, could be the main goal of the attack. Seven more people, random passers -by, were injured.