Thousands of people could become victims of wildfire in Indonesia More than 1,100 people were killed and several thousand were buried under rubble after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday and Thursday. The first and most powerful earthquake occurred on Wednesday at 17.16 local time (14.16 Moscow time) 57 kilometers from the city of Pariaman (West Sumatra province).

Russian officials outlined the timing of the Customs Union's accession to the WTO Russian officials outlined the next horizons for the country's accession to the World Trade Organization. The Ministry of Economic Development believes that the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will need one and a half to two years to complete negotiations. Moreover, the Customs Union will negotiate on Russian terms. It should be recalled that Russia alone failed to join the WTO in 16 years.

Orhan Pamuk. Museum of Innocence. Translation from Turkish by Apollinaria Avrutina. M.: Amphora, 2009. The most recent, 2008, novel by the Turkish nobel laureate promises to become his most widely read work over time. Already, this is not just a novel: its depths contain an entrance ticket directly to the “Museum of Innocence” itself, which they intend to open in the Istanbul quarter of ragpickers and antique dealers Cukurjuma next year.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development will open centers to combat bad habits Already this year, as part of the implementation of the priority national project “Health,” special medical offices should open throughout the country, where citizens who drink, smoke and eat excessively will be examined and convinced to give up bad habits.

Experts and officials discussed the new educational standard Due to the fact that Russian schoolchildren begin to learn English (or another foreign language) from elementary school, they do not know “the great and mighty” well.

Russian fishing vessels will be forced to switch to GLONASS The global financial crisis has shown the imperfection of our economic model and the need for accelerated development of sectors of the “new economy”. First of all, innovative and information industries, the formation of a new technological level of industry and, on its basis, solving the problems of the country’s socio-economic development.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs found a freelance anti-corruption fighter The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday reported the capture of Vladimir Kuznetsov, a fraudster who for several years posed as the head of the non-existent “working group of the State Duma of the Russian Federation to combat corruption in the highest echelons of power.” Hiding behind fake IDs and close contacts with elected officials, he offered businessmen money to help them solve a variety of

In most of the European territory of Russia, the weather changed to gloomy and rainy, a real autumn style. In the next 24 hours, the weather in the north-west of European Russia will be determined by a cyclone moving from the west to the north of the Arkhangelsk region. On Friday and over the weekend there will be rain with the cyclone; on September 4, there will be heavy rains in places; wind gusts can increase to 18 m/s.

Capital experts have discovered a crisis of overconsumption in Russia and the impossibility of an innovative economy At the next meeting of the “November 4” club, its participants called on the authorities to change priorities and pointed out several main directions for a breakthrough along which the Russian state should move to overcome the crisis. They turned out to be roads and low-rise housing - that is, directions in which we seemed to be trying to go before the crisis.

Jason Button could become world champion in Japan There are only three steps left to take until the finish line of the 60th Formula 1 season. But by and large, now everyone is only interested in that single step, not even a step, that Jenson Button needs to officially accept the championship crown from the hands of Lewis Hamilton. There was no doubt that the title was practically in the pocket of the Brown pilot even after the first half of the season.

NBA will ban mobile communications during games The leadership of the National Basketball League has officially published new rules on the use of electronic devices and social networks during matches, ESPN.com reports. A notification was sent to all 30 clubs. “The use of cell phones, laptop computers, other electronic communications devices, and social media, including Twitter and Facebook, by coaches, players and other team members is prohibited during the game.

Today in Prague, the head of the Department of Russian History at the Ural State Technical University, 53-year-old Nikolai Dmitriev, will be awarded the Czech Foreign Ministry Prize, established in 1997 in honor of the Czechoslovak statesman of the mid-twentieth century, Jan Masaryk.

AFK Sistema sells Bashkir fuel and energy complex assets to Bashneft AFK Sistema, which concentrated the main assets of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex, yesterday sent an offer to Bashneft minority shareholders. The company offered shareholders 286.5 rubles. per share. However, this is significantly lower than the market value of the securities: yesterday they were trading at approximately 400 rubles.

Dynamo did not accept the resignation of Sergei Kotov Dynamo Moscow head coach Sergei Kotov tried to resign from his post, but the club's management did not sign the statement. However, just in case, all the agents involved in coaches began searching for a specialist who might be able to win some medals with the club. On the last day of September, Dynamo met with one of the worst clubs in the current championship, Cherepovets Severstal.

While Europe is deciding who started the war in Georgia, residents of South Ossetia are trying to find out who will restore their homes While Moscow rejoiced at the publication of the report of the independent international mission of the European Union to investigate the conflict in Georgia, which “recognized new realities” in the Caucasus, which states that it was Tbilisi that started the war, a protest rally was held in South Ossetia.