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Boris Paramonov Hurricane Sandy is waiting on the east coast of the United States. And I, with everyone, moving from a fairly safe New York to New Jersey, where I stere the house of my son, who went abroad with the whole family. He sends the Emely: how they prepared what they did, whether they stocked up with water and conservatives, do not forget to lubricate the generator, etc.

Elections in Ukraine The final results of the parliamentary elections that have passed yesterday in Ukraine will become known no earlier than November 11th. This was announced today by a member of the Ukrainian Central Election Commission Mikhail Okendovsky. According to him, by this moment the voting results will be summed up on party lists and in majority districts.

President George Bush and artist Andrew Wayette during the presentation of the US National Art Medical, 2007 Alexander Genis: On the eve of the elections, when the nervous tension reaches critical, and others rarely talk about anything other than politics, to escape to the weekend from New York to move away on the captivity.

Vladimir Abarinov Looking out the window at the autumn idyll, it is difficult to believe the terrible forecasts of meteorologists who will come true in a few hours. Nevertheless, you have to believe: tropical hurricanes are the same reality of the east coast of the United States as a change of seasons.

A powerful Hurricane of Sandy will fall on the coast of the American state of New Jersey a few hours later. Now its center is located in the Atlantic Ocean in few tens of kilometers from the shore. The wind speed in New York already reaches 65 kilometers per hour, the height of the waves that fall on Long Island reaches 8 meters. There is an evacuation of people from coastal areas. It is reported that tens of thousands of houses have already left without electricity.

Lithuania President Dalya Grybauskay was preventing the creation of the left coalition. Grigauskaite said that the labor party cannot participate in the coalition until an investigation into the accusations against her bribes and the purchase of votes in the elections. According to the results of the vote held on Sunday, the labor party took third place and intended to form a parliamentary majority together with the Social Democrats and the “Party of Order and Justice”.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Sarajevo. With a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, she begins a 5 -day trip to the Western Balkans, during which, together with the head of the EU department on foreign policy, Katherine Ashton will also visit Serbia and Kosovo, and then go to Albania and Croatia.

One of the polling stations in Lviv In Ukraine, there is a calculation of votes filed on Sunday in the election of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. So far, only a little more than 5% of the ballots are calculated. The ruling party of regions is the leader - more than 40%, but so far they consider votes mainly from the eastern regions of the country, where the positions of the "regionals" are traditionally strong. The opposition has its parallel vote count.

Lahdar brachy The International Messenger in Syria Lakhadar Brahimi will be negotiating today in Moscow with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting coincides with the fourth day of the ceasefire in Syria between government troops and rebels, who, in violation of the conditions of the ceasefire, continue to exchange blows. Brahimi, who offered a truce during the Muslim holiday, Id al-Adha , stated that he hoped to use it to achieve confidence between the parties to the conflict.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow appointed a criminal case against Maxim Luzyanin, one of the accused of participation in the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6. The process will take place in open mode. The court will consider the case of Luzyain in a special order, since he - the only one of all involved activists - fully pleaded guilty. Today, during the preliminary hearings, the judge refused to release Luzyanin on bail and extended the term of his arrest until April 15.

The Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts of Russia may be moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Kommersant newspaper writes today. The officials and lawyers familiar with the situation told the publication that the decision was made last week, at a meeting in the presidential administration with the participation of the chairmen of these courts - Vyacheslav Lebedev and Anton Ivanov. Since May 2008, the Constitutional Court has been working in St. Petersburg.

International observers made a harsh criticism of the parliamentary elections yesterday in Ukraine. Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv, the head of the short-term mission of OSCE OSCE Walburg Gabsburg Douglas said that the elections "turned back" a democratic process in Ukraine. She accused the authorities of using an administrative resource, of preferential coverage of the pre -election struggle in the press, as well as in insufficient financial transparency.