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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Sergey Mokhnatkin Civil activist Sergei Mokhnatkin is released for freedom On September 19, the Tver court of Moscow sent Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is accused of applying violence to police officers, for a stationary psychiatric examination in the Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbian. In protest, he declared a hunger strike. On the 19th day-October 8-Mokhnatkin reported that the examination was over and released home.

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.

Mevlut Chavushoglu (right) and Jens Stoltenberg in Ankara October 9 The Turkish authorities exclude the possibility of the country's participation in a one -sided terrestrial operation against the militants of the Islamic State group in the north of Syria.