Earthquake measuring 5,2 recorded at uninhabited Kuril island.

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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 11 (Itar-Tass) -- A 5.2-magnitude
earthquake struck the central Kuriles on Sunday morning. The epicenter was
at the uninhabited island of Simushir at a depth of over 100 kilometres.

The earthquake was recorded at 08:26 Sakhalin time (01:26 Moscow
timer), the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismological station said.
There was no threat of tsunami.
The epicenter was 408 kilometres from the city of Severo-Kurilsk
(Paramushir Island), 462 kilometres from the city of Kurilsk (Iturup
Island) and 718 kilometres from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Two quakes measuring 3.8 and 4.0 were recorded near Simushir on
October 10.
The earth tremours were not felt in residential sites.
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.Soyuz undocks from ISS.
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KOROLYOV, October 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian manned Soyuz
spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut Michael
Barratt and space flight participant Guy Laliberte aboard undocked from
the International Space Station at 05:07 Moscow time and began the flight
to the earth, Mission Control Centre spokesman Valery Lyndin told
Itar-Tass.
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.Medvedev to participate in vote to elect deputies to Moscow Duma.
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MOSCOW, October 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will participate in the poll on Sunday to elect deputies to the Moscow
City Duma, the president's press secretary Natalia Timakova told Itar-Tass.
Medvedev will cast his vote at Polling Station 2614, the same where he
voted in the presidential elections in 2008 and the State Duma elections
in 2007. It is located in the building of Moscow School No. 1118. Over
2,400 voters are registered there.
A system of automatic ballot processing is used at the station. It was
used in the 2007 and 2008 elections.
Elections of deputies to the Moscow Duma of the fifth convocation are
held in accordance with the federal legislation, the Moscow City Charter
and Moscow's Election Code adopted on July 6, 2005.
The Moscow Duma is a permanent supreme and only legislative body of
the city's state power. The capital's parliament has 35 seats. Its
deputies are elected on the basis of general, equal, direct and secret
ballot. A Russian citizen no younger than 21 and who has the right to vote
can be elected to the city's Duma.
This Sunday's elections have some new introductions. One of them -- a
parliament member's term is extended -- for the first time deputies will
be elected for five years, but not four as before.
More than 350 people compete for the 35 seats. They are
representatives of parties and self-nominated contenders. Six parties are
registered for the city lists of candidates -- United Russia, Just Russia,
the CPRF, the LDPR, Yabloko and Patriots of Russia (seven parties in
Russia can participate in elections). The parties, except Yabloko,
nominated candidates for one-mandate constituencies.
There are 17 district, 123 territorial and almost 3,300 local election
commissions. The electorate in Moscow numbers 7,040,798 voters as of July
1, 2009.
Under the new legislation, from July 1, 2009, parties that have an
absolute majority of deputies in regional parliaments nominate their
candidates for the post of regional head. The party that will take most of
the seats in the Duma after the elections will nominate its candidate for
the post of Moscow mayor in 2011.