The TVC channel will no longer air Andrei Karaulov's program "Moment of Truth" - business relations with the manufacturing company "Strategy of the Century" were terminated "due to gross violations of the contract and the norms of journalistic ethics," RIA Novosti reports. Andrei Karaulov claims that he left of his own free will - due to the fact that the policy of the TV channel has changed, supposedly this has become more entertainment programs.

Relations with the union state of Belarus have reached an impasse and will never be the same again, taking into account Lukashenka's comments, however, political contacts will continue at all levels, RIA Novosti reports, citing Presidential Press Secretary Natalya Timakova. Timakova noted that relations on a personal level were influenced primarily by the “anti-Russian theme”, with the help of which the head of Belarus is trying to “enter the new term”.

A fire broke out in the attic of the building of the representative office of the Constitutional Court at 21 Ilyinka Street, RIA Novosti reports. The extent of the fire was not reported. The evacuation of people began.

The United Russia party will announce its proposals for candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow on October 9, RIA Novosti reports citing State Duma speaker, head of the party's Supreme Council Boris Gryzlov. The meeting is scheduled for 15.00 Moscow time. The Presidium of the General Council of the party, which will approve the list of three or four candidates, will meet on Friday evening or Saturday morning.

47-year-old officer, retired General of Internal Troops Viktor Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, shot himself in the stairwell of his apartment at building 3 building 2 on Veernaya Street, RIA Novosti reports. The military man shot himself in the head with a premium pistol while his wife was at home. The man died on the spot.

A criminal case has been opened against an officer of the police department in the Yuzhnoye Chertanovo district under the article “Exceeding official powers”, who on July 30 broke the hand of a Muscovite in the department, RIA Novosti reports citing Sergei Marchenko. A police officer was on duty at the police department when a resident of Moscow came to the department. The policeman asked her to leave the police building, the woman refused.

Six people died, 12 were injured of varying severity in an accident in the Donetsk region at 02.20 Moscow time, RIA Novosti reports. A Mercedes passenger minibus, carrying 18 passengers, collided with a MAZ truck at the 675th kilometer of the Kyiv-Kharkov-Dovzhansky highway near the village of Seleznevka, Slavyansky district. Six people died on the spot, 12 were hospitalized in the city hospital of Slavyansk. The accident is under investigation.

Last week, Germany transferred to British banks the last tranche of reparations that it paid to the victorious countries after the defeat in the First World War. The figure of payments was 59.5 million pounds.

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told Newsweek why Russia spends trillions on weapons, why the Defense Ministry does not want to buy Russian ships and how the army steals The budget for the new armaments program, which is apparently already at a high degree of readiness, is more than 19 trillion rubles. Compared to the previous program, the budget has been tripled. Do we have new military threats? No, there is no connection. We did not allocate money for rearmament for a long time.

Far-right parties have never been so popular in Europe. Traditional parties and politicians from Brussels have nothing to oppose them In a large, dimly lit room, there are two tables marked "Retirement Inspector" and "Immigrant Inspector". An official sits behind each and counts the money - Swedish kronor. Above the hall there is an inscription: "State budget". And the number is 505,926,342,293. The countdown begins.

Russia reaches breakthrough in WTO accession talks Back in June, Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama decided that it was time to stop the endless discussions “about the fate of the chicken” and by the end of September Russia would definitely agree with the United States on the conditions for joining the WTO. The deadline has expired, and last Friday the presidents, talking on the phone, concluded that an agreement had been reached.

The Kremlin proposed not to put seriously ill patients in a pre-trial detention center. The relief will only affect those who are already dead. Vladimir Pozdnyakov, 58, says he borrowed a phone from a friend but did not return it in time. He accused him of stealing. Pozdnyakov, who lived with other builders in a rented apartment, was arrested last November and imprisoned in Butyrka.

The Inteko company has always insisted that it has no preferences in the Moscow market. Now they won't be Elena Baturina is a tough negotiator. In 2006, the builder Miroslav Melnik tried to sell his project to Inteko for a fair, in his opinion, $ 72 million. The wife of the Moscow mayor was ready to pay only $ 35 million. During the conversation, she began to explain to Melnik, as he recalls, “the rules of living in Moscow and didn't hold back her emotions.

It is clear why Yury Luzhkov went for broke. So easily with one stroke of the pen to take and remove him from work - he simply could not believe it. This did not fit into his picture of the world, where the source of his power was the notorious “support of Muscovites”, no matter what they wrote in the newspapers and federal laws. And they took him and removed him - it turns out that simply because he was rude to the boss. For the loss of trust. Luckily, federal law allows it.

Serdyukov is perhaps the only one who meets the criteria necessary for a Moscow mayor Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov is on the preliminary list of candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow compiled by United Russia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes today. Of course, United Russia does not determine who mayor Moscow, but the same newspaper reports that Serdyukov met with Vladimir Putin last week and then with the head of the General Staff, Nikolai Makarov.