The French writer Patrick Modiano, whose topics are often related to the Second World War and the events of the 40s of the last century, was declared the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2014 . Such a decision was announced on Thursday by the Swedish Royal Academy.

The laureate of the Nobel Prize in the field of literature was the French writer and screenwriter Patrick Modiano. He was awarded the awards "for the art of memory, thanks to which he described the most incomprehensible human destinies and revealed the life world of occupation." The award ceremony will be held in December in Stockholm. The monetary prize this year is 10 million Swedish crowns (about $ 1.5 million).

The head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina On October 9, the Bank of Russia withdrew the license from three more Russian commercial banks. Moscow "People's Credit" and "Universal Credit" and Rostov Doninvest "lost licenses due to the inability to satisfy the claims of creditors, the Central Bank said. At the same time, credit institutions submitted inaccurate reports to the Bank of Russia and did not comply with the requirements to reflect in it their real financial situation.

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Leila Yunus Russian human rights defenders will conduct single pickets in Moscow in the support of Leila Yunus today with the Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow. Azerbaijani human rights activist, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy is under arrest on charges of treason.

Patrick Modiano - Nobel laureate in literature for 2014. Participate: historian Yuri Rubinsky, translator Nina Khotinskaya, writers Denis Dragunsky and Yuri Kublanovsky. Participants of the program argue about the work of the Nobel Triumph-2014 and the significance of a prestigious award.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today is the traditional day of awarding Nobel Prizes in literature. The laureate of this award for 2014 was Patrick Modiano, a French writer, who, incidentally, was not included in the short list of applicants and bookmakers, where Haruki was leaded by Murakami, Kunder and others. However, our guests were ready for such a turn of events.

Monument to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev went to the hospital. He himself informed the Russian News Service about this. According to him, an exacerbation of the disease occurred and it is under supervision. “I'm lying under monitoring, all in wires,” said Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev is 83 years old.

Sergey Aksenov. October 9, 2014 Sergey Aksenov was elected head of the Republic of Crimea, formed on March 18, 2014 after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia On Thursday, the State Council of Russia annexed by Russia elected the head of the republic Sergei Aksenov.

Currency deficiency in the market will disappear either with a reduction in demand for it, or due to the reserves of the Central Bank The Russian currency for the dollar at the auction on Thursday again struck the level of 40 rubles. The official course came close to him.

Signer of the Tour operator "Solceos-Tourne" in St. Petersburg In St. Petersburg, the general director of the Tamara Khaletskaya tourist company was detained. She is suspected of fraud. In the near future, the court will choose a preventive measure of Khaletskaya. She will also be charged, said the representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin.

The Moscow Arbitration Court today is expected to consider the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Property Management Agency against AFK Systems on the return of the Bashneft shares to the state. Earlier, at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office, the court arrested the shares of the Bashneft oil company, owned by AFK Sistema. According to investigators, the privatization of the oil company was carried out with violations.

The Kuntsevsky court of Moscow today is considering the measure of suppression for civil activist Pavel Shekhtman , who was detained the day before in the capital. According to the site "Kasparov.ru", the lawyer of Agora, Farit Murtazin, went to the activist.

Frame of the video posted on the FBI website this week America The US Federal Bureau of Investigation turned to citizens with a request to establish the personality of the speaker in English with the American accent of an action movie who joined the Islamic State radical group operating in Iraq and Syria. Judging by the video of the video, this man participated in the brutal murder of Syrian soldiers captured by extremists, the Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Dubinsky reports.