Nasrin Sotuda and Jafar Panahi The European Parliament today announced the cancellation of the visit to Iran of its five representatives - in connection with the refusal of the Iranian authorities to allow them to visit two dissidents in the prison. We are talking about the lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotuda and filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Both of them were awarded the Andrei Sakharov award “For Freedom of Thought” awarded by the European Parliament.

What was the talent of the commander of the Napoleonic era and what were the laws and customs of war at that time? In films about the Second World War, the commanders give orders by telephone, on the radio, they have air intelligence, they quickly receive reports from the battlefield and make decisions on the basis of these reports.

The hurricane "Sandy", raging in the Atlantic, passed the Bahamas and is now moving towards the coast of the United States. 40 people became victims of a natural disaster in the Caribbean region, 11 of them in Cuba, up to 26 increased the number of those killed in Haiti, where the continuing rains caused floods.

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and leader of the largest, according to the results of the latest parliamentary elections of the People of Freedom Party, was convicted by the trial court for financial fraud , expressed in the distortion of financial statements and evasion of taxes on especially large sizes, and sentenced to four years of prison. In addition, for five years he is forbidden to occupy positions in the state administration.

In Moscow, 27 combat more than 100 people got into a chain of single pickets from the FSB building on Lubyanka to the Investigative Committee in Lefortovo.

The Board of Trustees of the Safe Internet League will discuss measures against the spread of illegal information on Monday. Denis Davydov, executive director of this non -profit partnership, told Interfax that in 2012 the efforts of ten thousand volunteers, whom he called “active cyberclasses” eliminated almost eleven and a half thousand sites with children's pornography and more than seven hundred pages where drugs are promoted. According to Davydov, this is much more than last year.

On October 23, 1962, President Kennedy announced the introduction of the Cuban blockade. This week turned half a century of Cuban, or Caribbean, as they call it in Russia, a missile crisis, when the world really stood on the verge of nuclear war. What words aggravated the situation? What - helped to defuse the situation? Fidel Castro did not immediately become a communist. The first after the victory of the revolution in Cuba, he made a foreign visit to the United States.

Exhibition "James Bond" in Moscow For a week from October 22 to 26, the Chinese authorities managed to close in their access to The New York Times due to the fact that the newspaper was carried away by the finances of the prime minister’s family, in Italy Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 4 years in prison, in Germany they honored 500 thousand gypsies, killed by the Nazis in Europe, in the United States to the third presidential debat Between the candidates "draw", and in the UK solemnly presented

Fighting in one of the suburbs of Damascus The truce in Syria, about which the parties to the conflict agreed during the Islamic holiday of the Ida-al-Adha festival, obviously broke,-the Syrian human rights defenders believe. According to them, on Saturday - the second day of the truce - clashes in various regions of the country did not stop. In the suburbs of Damascus, 8 people died as a result of a airline government forces.

Hurricane Sandy, which fell on the Caribbean region, led to the death of 26 people in Haiti and 11 people in Cuba. According to forecasts, to Tuesday, a hurricane will reach the coast of the United States. Experts fear that a hurricane can come into contact with two other cyclones and gain even more dangerous power.

The keyword of the last days is “Gorge”. Recall that the recent passage of the motorcade with Dmitry Medvedev in St. Petersburg forced the whole city to freeze in automobile traffic jams so that the local population was bored. Not only did the craxons signal-in a single impulse, the prime minister met an indecent gesture raised up from the West. Soon the St. Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko decided to publicly scold the townspeople.

The political processes in countries neighboring Russia are instructive - if there are in Russia those who want to learn from a stranger, and not just from their experience. I heard key phrases this week from two political scientists. One, Tbilisi, said: “Our main trouble is that we are a post -Soviet space,” Kyivian noted: “Corruption and violation of democratic norms leads to apathy and depression of the population.” The main event of the weekend is elections in Ukraine.

The Coordinating Council of the opposition Leonid Razvoszhaev was elected about how he was abducted in Kyiv Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to four years in prison