On Tuesday, October 31, a Russian opposition lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov has proposed a bill to regulate the country's lucrative occult medicine industry.

A special group monitoring the implementation of labor laws in the employment of minors will be created in Krasnodar. Its activity in turn will be supervised by the regional Department of Labor and Employment, as the press service of the regional administration reports.

The followers of the famous octopus Paul predicting the outcome of the matches of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa are brought up in Sochi. The results of the 2014 Olympics will be predicted by a tiger, a dolphin and an otter.

The resident of Khabarovsk will be tried for extremism in a Social Network "VKontakte". The young man posted the song promoting hatred towards other nations on his page. It is not the first time when the Prosecutor`s Office of the region holds the 26-year resident of Khabarovsk criminally liable for a crime of an extremist nature.

The houses previously inhabited by them were declared unfit. According to the results of the inspection examinations, all houses on the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island were pronounced unfit for further use. Now all the residents of the island - about 400 people - will be rehoused to other places.

On Sunday, October 27, thousands of protestors rallied in Moscow to call on the Kremlin to release people they consider to be political prisoners.

Russia ranked a modest 61st of 136 world economies on gender inequality in a new global study unveiled on Friday, largely due to a wage gap and lack of political representation for women.

450 thousand inhabitants of Siberia were connected to the Internet via optical technologies of "Rostelecom". The number of subscribers of "Rostelecom" OJSC in the Siberian Federal District connected to the Internet via GPON and ETTH optical technologies exceeded 450,000. The greatest number of customers connected via optical technologies live in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (about 101 thousand), Novosibirsk Oblast (over 92 thousand) and the Altai Territory (about 54 thousand).

The Government of the Khabarovsk Territory will help those who suffered from the flood to find jobs. About eight thousand people will get temporary jobs, as the chairman of the Committee on Labor and Employment of the Regional Government Tatyana Vorobyova said. According to her, the Territory prepared a special program in this regard.

On Friday, October 25, Russian legislators unanimously passed a law forcing the relatives of terrorists to pay for the damages caused by their attacks.