In the city of Magas (Ingushetia), an unknown person in the morning was shot by a 28-year-old employee of the State traffic inspectorate Zalimkhan Evloev, when he was going to work. The attacker disappeared. They are looking for him. A criminal case has been opened, the Republican Administration of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

Lawyer Sergey Magnitsky The mother of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky, who died three years ago in the Moscow pre -trial detention center, filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a claim to recognize the criminal prosecution of her son illegal.

4 people died in a fire in the city of Mozhaisk near Moscow. It is unknown about whether the victims were. According to the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the fire began early in the morning on Thursday, in the apartment of a five -story residential building. The ignition area was 5 square meters.

In Turkey, the famous pianist and composer Fazil Syska was present today in court at the hearings related to the charges of blasphemy against him. Sayu threatens up to a year and a half prison for comments on the Internet, aimed, according to the prosecutor's office, at inciting enmity and hatred and insulting the feelings of believers. Speaking in court, the musician rejected the accusations. The next meeting in his case is scheduled for February 18.

Konstantin Lebedev in court Opposition activists intend today to again hold a series of single pickets near the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow on Petrovka, where it is reported that Konstantin Lebedev, left on the eve of a court decision until December 16, is contained. Lebedev and his ally on the “left front” of Sergei Udaltsov were accused of preparing the riots in Russia. The criminal case was instituted on Wednesday.

The Internet site Twitter at the request of the German government blocked access to the neo-Nazis account. For the first time, the social network has put the rules for censoring publications that began to operate in January of this year in practice. Neo -Nazis messages will no longer be available to Germany residents, but in other countries, users will be able to open them.

On October 18, in Brussels, the summit of the heads of the European Union opens, at which the Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron is expected to intend to announce a referendum in the United Kingdom of the European Union in case of the victory of his party in the next parliamentary elections in May 2015.

Russia wrote off debts in African countries worth more than $ 20 billion. This was stated on Wednesday by the director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Sergeyev, speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York. In addition, as the diplomat reported, bilateral agreements were concluded with Zazbia and Tanzania that funds intended to repay debts to Russia will be sent to projects in the field of agriculture, education and medicine.

Human rights activists working in Syria declare about 28 thousand people who were captured by military and fighters of pro -government forces. One of the Avaaz human rights groups announced the intention to transfer the collected certificates to the UN Human Rights Council. According to activists, they established the names of 18 thousand citizens missing for months of the conflict in the country between the opposition and the regime of President Bashar al -Assad.

Defendant Dmitry Kratov In the Tver Court of Moscow, in the process related to the circumstances of the death of an employee of the Hermitage Capital, Sergey Magnitsky, one of the witnesses denied the testimony of the mental disorder of Magnitsky. Psychiatrist Vitaly Kornilov said that on the day of Magnitsky’s death, he was called in the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center in connection with the aggressive behavior of one of the prisoners - as it turned out, Magnitsky.

Caricature of Rashid Sheriff The Russian blogosphere discusses the initiation of a criminal case under the article “Fraud” - on the fact of the alleged theft of money of those who made contributions to participate in the elections to the coordination council of the opposition. The prosecutor's office received 64 applications for 10 thousand rubles that were required for registration.

At the age of 61, the Ollandic actress Sylvia Cristel died . She starred a lot, including Claude Shabrov and Valerian Borovchik, but the world remembered only one of her role. When I worked on the film Emmanuel, ” said Sylvia Kristel in an interview with RS , “ I thought that he would bring enough fee to pay us small holidays in Thailand. In addition, I was sure that censorship would not allow it to a wide screen at all.

Israel and Palestinians in the gas sector differently noted the anniversary of the liberation of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from the five-year captivity of the Hamas group. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent in Israel Ela Kotler, on Thursday, October 18, Khamas made a large press conference at which previously not published video recording of Shalit transition through a checkpoint in Rafiah and his transfer to Egypt.

The atmosphere in the St. Petersburg colony in Obukhovo was so inflated that special forces were introduced there, Tatyana Voltskaya reports radio correspondent. According to the official reports of the Federal Penitentiary Service, "large -scale special events" are planned.