US President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande agreed by phone on joint action to combat the Ebola epidemic, said in a statement. the White House In particular, they discussed screening air passengers for Ebola before departure and after landing to prevent the spread of the disease outside the countries where the epidemic has occurred. The presidents agreed that West African countries need to quickly help install wastewater treatment plants.

The lower house of the British Parliament voted to recognize the independence of the Palestinian Authority, reports Associated Press . More than half of the 650 members of the House of Commons, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and other members of the government, abstained from voting, while 274 deputies supported recognition of independence, 12 voted against.

The Central Bank will begin providing foreign currency loans to banks secured by market assets (currency repo) from October 27. Thus, banks will receive an additional source of foreign exchange liquidity, but its demand will depend on rates that are not yet known Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The Central Bank intends to hold the first currency REPO auction (lending against securities) on Monday, October 27, a source at the Moscow Exchange told RBC.

On October 14, the European Court of Human Rights will hold its first hearing in the case of the terrorist attack in Beslan, which occurred 11 years ago. This is stated in a press release published on the court’s website. The case “Targaeva and others against Russia” consists of seven claims. The claimants were 447 Russian citizens; in their opinion, the authorities violated, in particular, their right to life and the right to a fair trial.

Defender of Ukraine Day, according to the decree of the country's president, will be celebrated annually on October 14, Cossack Day and the anniversary of the creation of the UPA President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko canceled the 1999 decree on celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23 and established a new public holiday - Defender of the Fatherland Day.

The action of conscript soldiers of the National Guard, who marched to the center of Kyiv on October 13, was an attempt to discredit the Ukrainian army. This opinion was expressed by the country's President Petro Poroshenko. “Poroshenko in Zaporozhye commented on yesterday’s riot of the National Guard: we dealt with the attempt to discredit the Ukrainian army with honor,” presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter.

Operatives investigating the terrorist attack in Grozny, which occurred on City Day on October 5, have identified individuals who are allegedly involved in organizing and carrying out the crime. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a representative of the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Chechnya. “Investigators have previously identified persons possibly involved in organizing and carrying out the explosion in the center of Grozny.

The military prosecutor's office of Ukraine began criminal proceedings in connection with the rally of conscript soldiers of the National Guard that took place on October 13 near the presidential administration building. This was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema, reports . Ukrainskaya Pravda “The military prosecutor’s office has registered criminal proceedings and is working to identify those people who organized the so-called rally,” he said.

The last soldiers of the National Guard, protesting near the building of the Ukrainian presidential administration, stopped picketing at night, reports . UNIAN The day before, about 300 conscripts of the National Guard came to the presidential administration demanding their demobilization. The command invited the protesters to return to the military unit for further negotiations.

During morning trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar rose in price by about 12 kopecks, the euro by more than 20 kopecks. Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The Bank of Russia announced that it has shifted up the upper and lower boundaries of the floating corridor of the bi-currency basket (0.55 dollars and 0.45 euros) by another 10 kopecks, to 36.35–45.35 rubles. This is the seventh increase in borders since the beginning of October: on October 3 and 6, 2014, they moved up by 10 kopecks.

The headquarters of the two military departments will return from St. Petersburg back to Moscow in 2015. Interfax reports this with reference to a source at the headquarters of the Western Military District The building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the street. Znamenka (Photo: TASS) “The issue of returning the Main Headquarters of the Navy from St. Petersburg to Moscow is being considered,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

This was announced by Dmitry Rogozin Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin (photo: Reuters 2014) Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​developing a turboprop regional passenger aircraft on the basis of IL-114 in Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter.

About 2.5 thousand demonstrators came to the Verkhovna Rada building on Tuesday, October 14. Activists demanded to ban communist ideology and recognize the fighters of the “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (UPA) as fighters for the country’s independence, Korrespondent.net reports . Due to the passage of a column of demonstrators, vehicle traffic along Grushevsky Street had to be temporarily blocked. According to UNIAN , from 5 to 10 thousand people take part in the action.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will move towards banning the use of phonograms during concerts. This was stated by the head of the department, Vladimir Medinsky, RIA Novosti reports . Medinsky noted that the use of phonograms is not yet prohibited in Russia. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Grigory Ivliev said that the new bill defines performing arts as a creative activity that involves live performance.

The government proposes to adopt a new version of the bill on defamation of banks.