In St. Petersburg, a woman died during the explosion. According to the Investigative Committee on Sunday, on the night of September 8, an unidentified explosive device worked in a mailbox on a fence in the village of Ust-Izhora Kolpinsky district of the city. A local resident, a taxi driver, who went to work, died. An investigation is underway. A criminal case of murder using an explosive device has been opened.

In Moscow today, at eight o’clock in the morning, plots for voting in the election of the mayor of the city opened. Six candidates apply for the post of Moscow mayor. This is Mikhail Degtyarev from the LDPR, Nikolai Levich from Fair Russia, Ivan Melnikov from the Communist Party, Sergey Mitrokhin from Yabloko, Alexei Navalny from the RPR-Parnas and temporarily acting mayor, self-nominated Sergey Sobyanin. Polling stations will close at 20 hours.

Syrian rebels established control over the city of Maalula, north of Damascus. This was announced by the Syrian human rights center, based in the UK. According to him, last night, the Syrian government troops tried to seize part of the city territory, but the armed opposition detachments displaced the troops and completely control Maalulu. In a telephone conversation with the correspondent of France-Presse agency, this information was confirmed by a local resident.

The laureate of the Anna Politkovskaya Prize was the journalist of the Kommersant Publishing House Olga Allenova, writing about the problems of the Caucasus. She herself reported this on her page on the Facebook social network, expressing gratitude for the congratulations. According to the journalist, she does not deserve such a reward, and in Novaya Gazeta there are many worthy journalists, each of whom could receive the Anna Politkovskaya Journalists Award.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the water level in the Amur River is expected to rise, today the Ministry of Emergencies, warning about the possibility of flooding. As noted in the department, on the updated information of the Far Eastern Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, it is expected to achieve maximum water levels in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, in the areas of Nikolaev, Khabarovsk, Nanai, Amur, Komsomolsky and Ulchsky.

Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday left the post of President of Pakistan after five years in this position. Zardari became the first democratically elected Pakistani leader to executing the authority within the term stipulated by the Constitution. He will be replaced by Mamnun Hussein, a businessman from the closest allies of Prime Minister Navaz Sharif. Under Zardari, as France-Presse notes, the country faced new difficulties in the economy and problems in ensuring national security.

In Norway, elections to the country's parliament - Storting will start today. 169 deputies of this authority will be elected. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in the countries of Scandinavia Sergey Dzhanyan. The parliamentary majority in the country's legislative assembly ensures 85 seats. Publishing polls show that over the past eight years, the levocentric coalition, led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, will be forced to give power to the conservatives.

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A victory in the parliamentary elections in Cambodia was won by the ruling Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been heading this country for more than 20 years. This was reported by news agencies with reference to the election commission of the country. France Press notes that the announcement of the voting results caused protests from the opposition. Representatives of the opposition insist that when counting the votes, numerous violations and deception were allowed.

Web broadcast from the capital's polling stations was interrupted for ten minutes "for technical reasons." This was announced by ITAR-TASS. According to data from other sources, in particular, from the twitter lines of the supporters of Alexei Navalny, the broadcast was interrupted for almost 20 minutes. You can watch what is happening at polling stations online on the portal http://vybory.mos.ru, the agency clarifies.

The national meetings of Dagestan and Ingushetia on Sunday at their extraordinary meetings were elected heads of republics. Dagestan was headed by Ramazan Abdulatipov, who was supported by 86 of 88 deputies. The head of Ingushetia was practically unanimously re-elected Yunus-Bek Evkurov. According to the legislation in force in Russia, regions may not hold direct elections of their chapters, replacing them with the voting procedure in regional parliaments.

Did Alexei Navalny manage Vladimir Putin? Why did the elections go with a low turnout? Could the opposition challenge the Kremlin? The first results of the elections of the mayor of Moscow and the regional elections in Russia are discussing the democratic choice of Russia Vladimir Milov (DVR) and political scientists with the leader of the party: a professor at the Higher School of Economics Nikolai Petrov and the president of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation Mikhail Vinogradov.

On Saturday, the American television channel showed personnel on which the victims of a chemical attack in Syria were filmed. The records were shown earlier, on Thursday, members of the US Senate Intelligence Commission. On the frames, children who are convulsed are visible, people with foam at the mouth, surviving people trying to help the victims.