The stormy cyclone leaves the middle zone and goes to the northeast, beyond the Urals, into the middle reaches of the Ob. And the reins of power pass to the high-altitude Scandinavian anticyclone, along the eastern edge of which arctic air descends with the northeast wind, which will reach the middle zone. On Thursday in the northwest there will be no precipitation, but with night and morning fogs, during the day +8...+13оС.

Iceland wants to try ex-prime minister Iceland is experiencing a creative boom. First, it "blessed" the world with a disproportionate amount of toxic banking assets . Then - the eruption of a volcano with an unpronounceable name (economists joked that the bankrupt country had bequeathed its ashes to be scattered over Europe). Now the country can give the world a precedent: the conviction of a national leader under whom an economic crisis occurred.

“Monsters” are released on the screens - an English fantastic film about aliens and love The debut directorial work of the young, but already quite noticeable in England, the Gareth Edwards master’s special effects, was withdrawn in a couple of weeks, for microscopic money, with just two professional actors and, according to the creators (who you completely believe), almost without a script.

Dmitry Medvedev almost became the first Russian leader to visit the Southern Kuril Islands The islands of the Kuril chain seem to have once again stood as an insurmountable wall in the way of good neighborly relations between Russia and Japan.

The animation festival "Krok" has ended There is one story that should be addressed when talking about young animation at the Krok festival, even after it ends. This is, in fact, drawing.

An exhibition of contemporary Russian artists at the Louvre is in jeopardy The conflict around the exhibition “Counterpoint: Contemporary Russian Art,” which is scheduled to take place from October 14 to January 15 at the Louvre as part of the Russia-France Year 2010 program, is growing. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation again, as was the case under the previous minister, refused to send works of contemporary art that officials did not like to France.

The Central Election Commission began to satisfy complaints from candidates excluded from the elections At yesterday's meeting, the Central Election Commission decided to register two deputy candidates for the regional elections, who had previously been removed from the electoral race by local election commissions. Meanwhile, according to the experience of previous campaigns, almost 100% of such complaints reaching the Central Election Commission were left unsatisfied.

NATO Secretary General will visit Georgia The Georgian authorities expect to receive significant assurances of support for their plans for integration into NATO from the leader of the alliance. Today and tomorrow, 57-year-old NATO Secretary General Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen will hold talks in Tbilisi with President Mikheil Saakashvili, other leaders of the country and, possibly, with the opposition.

The issue of Russian-Georgian relations may become one of the key ones at the December summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Astana. Even before the forum in Kazakhstan, Georgian oppositionists proposed holding an authoritative international conference on this issue.

Special services conducted a series of successful operations against militants in Dagestan In Dagestan yesterday, security forces carried out two major special operations, as a result of which a total of 14 militants were killed. These are the largest losses of the separatists in recent times. Thus, federal forces continued the successful offensive against the Dagestan bandit underground that began at the end of August.

City Hall officials left without Luzhkov demonstrate their readiness for dialogue with society After the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow, his former subordinates, who were ordered at the highest level to lead the capital during the transition period, have no choice but to try to demonstrate capacity and determination.

How high is the standard of living in the Volga Federal District now and how might the situation change in five or ten years? What are the priority tasks for the district, what socio-economic problems should we pay attention to first? These and other questions can be answered thanks to the results of the All-Russian Population Census, which will be held from October 14 to October 25, 2010.

Concerts Maurisio Diaz Alvarez (guitar, Spain). Club-Theater "Workshop" , 19.30. Noize MC, Basta, Guf, Caste, Ligalase, etc. As part of the festival of domestic rap.ru Allstars. Milk , 20.00. Grace Garland (vocals, USA) and quartet Alexander Gureev . Artkafa "Durov" , 20.00. Oleg Nesterov and the “Capella of the Berlin Postmen”. Solo project Oleg Nesterov.

2013 World Cup for water species will take place in Barcelona The International Water Sports Federation has decided on the venue for the world championship in 2013. The hostess of the championship became Barcelona. The capital of Catalonia will take similar competitions the second time. It is worth recalling that the World Sports World Championship will be held in Spain for the third time. In 1986, the tournament took place in Madrid, in 2003-in Barcelona, ​​ten years later.

Officials are arguing with the monopoly on the supply of Sakhalin-2 gas to the domestic market The discussion between departments, regional authorities, Gazprom and Sakhalin Energy on the scheme for providing raw materials for gasification of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the APEC summit facilities in Vladivostok continues. Deputy Minister of Energy Stanislav Svetlitsky spoke about this at a briefing within the framework of the Sakhalin Oil and Gas 2010 conference.