In Kabardino-Balkaria, a law enforcement officer died in a shootout with militants, several more people were injured, the press service of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. On Tuesday night in the village of Zalukokoage, the Zolsky district, the police blocked the house in which the militants were hiding. Trying to break through, they opened fire. The battle ensued. One of the attackers was killed.

The Higher School of Economics has joined the largest international project of online courses Coursera (the total number of users of this resource exceeds 5 million people). As the vice of the Higher School of Economics, Sergei Roshchin, explained, students from Russia are included in the twenty of the most active users of Coursera, and the growth of the interest of the Russian -speaking audience in free distance education is constantly growing.

In the Pskov region, almost 360 settlements were left without electricity due to cliffs of power lines in connection with the strong wind and rain, which accompanied the approach of the Atlantic storm "Holy Judas". An emergency regime has been introduced. In the Leningrad Region of power supply, more than 230 settlements in four districts were lost. According to the latest data, a warning about the threat of floods in St. Petersburg has been canceled.

Photographer Denis Sinyakov A member of the Federation Council Vadim Tyulpanov asked the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika to verify the legality of the arrest of photographer Denis Sinyakov, detained on board the Greenpeace vessel, Arctic Sanraise in the Pechora Sea. In a letter, Tyulpanov notes that Sinyakov worked for Arctic Sanraise on the instructions of the editorial office of Lenta.ru.

US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on issues related to the Iranian nuclear program, Israeli-Palestinian peaceful negotiations and other aspects of the Promotion in the Middle East. The conversation took place on Monday amid the growing concern of Israel regarding Tehran's diplomatic activity.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called on North Korea and Iran to comply with international obligations in the field of non -proliferation of nuclear weapons. He performed on Monday at the American Institute of World in Washington. Iran, Great Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States will hold another meeting in Geneva on November 7-8 in the development of dialogue on the nuclear problems, begun in early October.

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Automatic Provers Computers are preparing to select bread from mathematicians and learn not only to prove theorems, but also to competently express their reasoning Cars joke The program of random generation of the Pseudo -Scientific texts of Scigen and its derivative, Mathgen, which creates pseudo -metamatic texts, created by jokes from the Massachusetts Technological Institute, have been used more than once to provoke unclean scientific magazines that are ready to publish any Galicia for a

Alexey Navalny Oppositionist Alexei Navalny announced his non -involvement in the fact that he was charged with the investigation within the framework of the Yves Rocher. In an interview with Interfax, the opposition called the accusations with a continuation of the absurdity of Kirovles.

The State Prosecutor of Spain initiated a preliminary investigation of reports that the American intelligence services have tracked the phone calls of Spanish citizens. On the eve of the Foreign Minister of Spain Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said that if the information is confirmed, this would destroy the climate of trust between Madrid and Washington.

The bailiffs intend to forcibly recover a fine of 300 thousand rubles from the Kostroma Center for Public Initiatives for violation of the Law on NPO - foreign agents. According to the Human Rights Association "Agora", today the Kostroma center received a decision to initiate the case from the regional bailiff service.

The Wall Street Journal wrote on Tuesday, referring to sources in the American leadership that monitoring of telephone calls of French and Spanish citizens, outraged by Europeans, carried out the special services of these countries, and not the US national security agency.

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday fired Deputy Prime Minister Kadri Jamil, who, according to reports, met this weekend in Geneva with representatives of the American leadership. According to the Syrian State Agency of Sana, among the reasons for the dismissal of Jamil, his actions and contacts outside the country were called the government. According to Western news agencies, on Saturday, Kadri Jamil met in Switzerland with the former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford.