In Russia today, the exercises of strategic nuclear forces have ended. The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov informed Russian news agencies that the exercises were conducted under the leadership of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Vladimir Putin. During the exercises, educational and combat launches of strategic and cruise missiles were carried out. It is reported that conditional goals at various training grounds were struck.

An employee of the administration of the head of Ingushetia confessed to the murder of a policeman. Has -Magomed Tutaev came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic on October 19, Interfax told the Investigative Committee of Russia. According to the agency, Tutaev was detained. The official admitted that he killed an employee of the road inspectorate Zelimkhan Evloev. The crime was allegedly committed on household grounds.

In the Czech Republic, following the results of the second round of elections to the Senate, held on Friday and Saturday, left -wing forces received the constitutional majority in the upper house of parliament. The main opposition party - Social Democrats achieved great success. They have 46 seats out of 81 in the new composition of the Senate, and together with the Communists and representatives of small left -wing parties - more than three fifth mandates, which is the constitutional majority.

Elections to the Coordinating Council of the opposition are held in the environment of fermentation and discussions among the opposition itself, accompanied by D-DOS attacks on the website of the Central Electoral Committee, to the accompaniment of Moscow and St. Petersburg rallies in defense of political prisoners. On the weekend, Dmitry Volchek and Valentin Barashnikov will tell on the air of the RS. Which in 16 VSK will also be a radio plan for a week.

Alexey Navalny On October 20-21, elections are held in the Coordinating Council of the opposition . The voters on the website of the Central Electoral Committee registered more than 165 thousand people. Voting is held on the committee’s website and at offline sites. 209 candidates apply for 45 seats.

In the Palestinian autonomy, on the western coast of Jordan, local elections are held today. The main rivalry unfolds between representatives of various fractions of the “Fath” that is quite disunited now. Its leader is the head of the autonomy of Mahmoud Abbas. The leadership of the Hamas group, since 2007, the gas sector controlled the election.

Russian human rights activists report threats and attacks on representatives of the opposition movement "White Ribbon". Following the beating yesterday in Moscow, activist Igor Bakirov, one of the candidates for the opposition Coordinating Council elected this weekend, came from the threats from Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The United States and Iran reached a preliminary agreement on bilateral negotiations on the issue of the Iranian nuclear program. This was reported by The New York Times, citing representatives of the Barack Obama administration. According to officials, Tehran gave fundamental consent to negotiations, provided that they would begin after the US presidential election on November 6, in which Obama was fighting for re -election with Republican Mitt Romny.

5 people died in a car accident in the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan. According to Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies of Kazakhstan, on Saturday on Saturday on the Shymkent Samara highway, the KamAZ truck and the Opel car. At the scene of the accident, the driver of Opel and four of his passengers died.

A militant was killed in Makhachkala. It is reported that in the evening on Saturday the police and FSB officers tried to detain the suspicious man. He opened fire and was killed in a shootout. According to Interfax, this is the convicted earlier for storing weapons and participation in illegal armed groups by Bexultan Khiyasov. He freed himself in May of this year and again went underground.

Lessons of economic sabotage. - The 70th anniversary of "Burnhard Operation" is participated in Mikhail Bernhett (Stanford), Adolf Burger (Prague), Alexander Stvikov (Minsk)

Barack Obama and Mitt Romni during the second candidate debate. October 16, 2012 The second debate of US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitta Romni, who passed on October 16, did not change the election alignment of forces. This is evidenced by the latest polls of public opinion . Judging by polls carried out immediately after television, they ended with a small advantage of Barack Obama, but did not change the overall picture of the confrontation of two candidates.

The UN Security Council called the explosion in the capital of Lebanon Beirut, as a result of which 8 people were killed on Friday, about 80 were injured. Among the victims are the head of the Department of Information of the Livan Internal Security Service, General Vissam al -Hassan. The corresponding application was read out at the meeting, the current secretary of the Council - representative of Guatemala at the UN Gert Rosental.