Throughout Europe, the weather is determined by cyclones. In the North-West region there will be light rains, +2...7оС. In the Central region up to +4...10°C, but with rain, sometimes heavy. In the south it rains in places, heavy in some places, on the Black Sea coast up to +23°C. In the capital, rain in places, minimum temperature +3...+5оС, maximum +5...+7оС, wind south-east, south, 5--10 m/s. It's raining in St. Petersburg, +2...+4оС at night, +5...+7оС during the day.

Communists and liberal democrats were not given enough television time before the October elections In September, Russian television under-covered the activities of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party in all-Russian broadcasts within the framework of the relevant law guaranteeing equality of parties on state broadcasts.

Sociologists say Moscow was ready for a change of mayor From the point of view of ensuring further public peace in the city, the change in the Moscow mayor, apparently, came at a very opportune time. Experts from the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) argue that the indignation of city residents over eternal traffic jams, high prices, growing unemployment and the influx of labor migrants, as well as the opacity and slowness of the city bureaucracy has reached its peak.

The Duma expanded party lists The State Duma adopted in the first reading an amendment to the electoral legislation, according to which the party “troikas” will be replaced by “tens”. Now parties will be able to include a maximum of ten candidates in the federal part of their electoral lists for parliamentary elections. Representatives of the three Duma opposition parties jointly expressed this idea at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The Polish government is waiting for permission from the energy regulator for the deal with Gazprom Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (pictured) explained why on Tuesday the country's government did not approve the gas agreements with Russia initialed over the weekend. “We were waiting for the final legally formalized approval from the national Energy Regulator (URE),” he was quoted as saying by the PAP news agency.

Human rights activists summed up the results of public monitoring of correctional institutions The normal functioning of the system of public supervisory commissions for the control of correctional institutions (POC), created at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, is hampered by opposition to the work of supervisors from prison authorities and regional officials.

The Board of Directors of RusHydro approved a three-year investment program. From 2011 to 2013, the planned total investment volume is 308 billion rubles. In particular, 142.6 billion rubles will be spent on financing the facilities under construction, that is, 4,448 MW of new capacity should be commissioned, with more than half (2,997 MW) provided by the Boguchanskaya HPP.

The Flahertiana Festival handed out awards The Flahertiana documentary film festival, which ended in Perm on Tuesday, once again showed that non-fiction films can captivate viewers no less than feature films. Another thing is that the line between these concepts is less and less obvious. The dispute between “purists” and “innovators” became one of the few heated moments during the entire festival.

In the city of Lyon, where the Lumière brothers shot their first film with people leaving the factory, there was no film festival. But now, through the efforts of the leaders of the Lumiere Institute, Bertrand Tavernier and Thierry Fremaux (don’t tell them here that one is known as a film director, and the second became famous as the director of programs at the Cannes Film Festival), this misunderstanding has been corrected.

Bayern, Real Madrid and Arsenal are getting help from their rivals The Champions League matches have once again proven that your own players are often much more dangerous than others. The Romanian CFR lost to Bayern only because of two own goals, there was a “traitor” in the Milan wall, through whom Cristiano Ronaldo sent the ball into the net, and the Shakhtar goalkeeper gave the first goal to “gunner” Song with his own hands. Group "E". Bayern are once again going through difficult times.

Vladimir Putin forced the Big Three mobile operators to voluntarily reduce tariffs Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, during a meeting with the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev and the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemyev, announced that the Big Three mobile operators will reduce roaming tariffs on the domestic market and in the CIS countries by December 1, 2010. Operators will reduce prices for both international and domestic roaming.

The Serbs want to modernize their army with the help of the Russians Russia and Serbia will further develop military cooperation. Its specific parameters were discussed in Belgrade by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Nikolai Makarov, and his Serbian colleague, Lieutenant General Miloje Miletic.

The SKP appealed to the State Duma for permission to open a criminal case against Ashot Yeghiazaryan Yesterday it became known that the head of the SKP, Alexander Bastrykin, approached the State Duma with a proposal to obtain consent to initiate a criminal case against the famous businessman and deputy from the LDPR faction Ashot Yeghiazaryan. The investigation did not disclose the essence of the claims against him, indicating only that signs of fraud were seen in his actions.

Prospects for the 2014 Russian Grand Prix do not look clear The first joyful emotions have subsided, everyday life has arrived and it’s time to think about how the 2014 Formula 1 World Auto Racing Championship in Sochi will turn out for our country. Will the Russian Grand Prix, the agreement to host which was signed last week, be able to bring our country into the elite of world motorsport? First of all, Formula 1 is truly a world championship.

The Duma approved the 2011 budget as a temporary rescue from raising the retirement age Yesterday the parliament approved in the first reading the draft federal budget for 2011 and the planning period 2012-2013. The document was recognized by its drafters, critics, and the independent expert community as conservative. The difference is that the government considers this conservatism a virtue, while the opposition considers it a disadvantage.