Global aviation is slowly recovering International airline passenger traffic increased in September 2010, with growth rates higher than in previous months, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said yesterday. Air cargo transport also grew, according to the IATA report, although not as fast as in August. IATA unites 230 of the world's largest commercial airlines, providing 93% of international air travel on our planet.

An interesting experiment is taking place in Moscow this fall. In terms of the number of festivals offering the capital’s audience original, independent, non-commercial, arthouse (underline as appropriate) films, the highest standard has been met and even exceeded.

Putin proclaimed a new industrialization of Siberia “To Siberia, to Siberia,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin beckoned to investors yesterday at a meeting on the implementation of priority investment projects in the Siberian Federal District. Through the joint efforts of the state and private business, Siberia will undergo a new industrialization.

By the end of the year, the state armament program for 2011-2020 and the program for the development of the military-industrial complex until 2020 must be approved by the president. How these global documents can affect the state of the defense industry, the production of modern weapons and military equipment, and the country’s defense capability can be traced in the fate of a specific enterprise in the Russian defense industry.

For the competition program, the main thing was the fate of family values Since 2007, the “new cinema festival” “2morrow/Zavtra” has been the best Moscow screening of films that in one way or another expand the usual boundaries of cinema. After the name and sponsor “2morrow/Zavtra” went to another team, the two newly formed festivals, willy-nilly, had to divide the territory of the new one between themselves.

UBS investment division turns out to be unprofitable The largest Swiss bank, UBS, earned a profit in the third quarter that exceeded analysts' forecasts. However, the bank's investment direction turned out to be unprofitable due to the low level of client activity, UBS management said. UBS's net profit in the third quarter amounted to 1.66 billion Swiss francs (1.22 billion euros). At the same time, analysts expected only 1.225 billion francs.

Rustem Khamitov decided to head the government of Bashkortostan The new president of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, believes that his republic “needs one decision-making center.” Therefore, he will remain the head of the regional government.

Valery Shantsev won the fight for the post of head of Nizhny Novgorod The left hand of the power vertical defeated the right when trying to appoint the head of Nizhny Novgorod: the post went not to the candidate recommended by the local United Russia, but to the nominee of Governor Valery Shantsev, who is also a member of the party in power. The Bears proposed appointing Vadim Bulavinov, who had served as mayor of Nizhny since 2002, to the post of mayor, but Mr.

Germany has lost its most famous predictor The most famous cephalopod predictor, Paul the octopus, died suddenly on Tuesday night. The death was due to natural causes, according to an obituary published yesterday on the website of the Sea Life aquarium in the German city of Oberhausen. It was there that Paul, who retired after the World Cup in South Africa, spent the last months of his bright and very long life by octopus standards. He was almost three years old.

Historians told the truth about the German Foreign Ministry Tomorrow in Berlin there will be a presentation of a scientific study dedicated to dark pages in the history of the German Foreign Ministry.

On Wednesday, the northwestern region will be located on the periphery of the anticyclone. There will be wet snow in some places, +1...+6оС during the day. A cyclone will approach the central region from Ukraine on Wednesday. Most of the region will experience light rain, with sleet in the west and north, fog in places in the south, 0...+6°C in the daytime, and up to +8°C in the south and southeast.

Messi claims Ballon d'Or again The International Football Federation (FIFA) has announced a list of 23 candidates for the Ballon d'Or - the prize for the best player on the planet at the end of the 2010 season. From this list, the top three candidates will be named in early December, and the name of the award winner will be announced on January 10 next year. Let us remind you that the best player in the world now according to FIFA is the Argentinean Lionel Messi. He can maintain his status.

Joaquin Rodriguez's championship in the final ranking of the International Cycling Union (UCI), four victories in three Grand Tours and in the team competition of the Spanish Vuelta, twenty races won, twenty-seven second and twenty-third places - this is the result of the performance of cyclists from the Russian professional team "Katyusha" in the 2010 season.

The nuclear power plant in Bushehr will produce electricity next year Iran has begun commissioning a nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Loading of fuel rods into the reactor began yesterday after receiving permission from Iranian regulators. This is the most important stage of the physical start-up of a nuclear power plant. It is expected that a total of 163 rods will be used.

SKP reported on the arrest of participants in the attack on the Baksan hydroelectric power station SKP yesterday announced the discovery of a bandit group that organized sabotage at the Baksan hydroelectric power station in Kabardino-Balkaria in July of this year. According to the department, all participants in the attack have been identified - two of them were previously killed during a special operation, and two more were recently detained and are already confessing.