Supreme Court of Tajikistan has passed a sentence on Nasrulla Sharifov –murderer of head of the BBC Persian office Muhiddin Olimpur. Sharifov was found guilty on articles “murder”, “organization of illegal armed group”, “terrorism” and sentenced to 15 years in custody, “Interfax” informs.

American The New Yorker magazine supported Barak Obama – presidential nominee from the Democratic Party. The verbose editorial article headlined “The Choice”, which has already been published on the edition’s web site, will appear in the magazine’s 13 October issue.

About 34 thousand people have been registered to observe the presidential elections in Azerbaijan. As APA informs, the figure was cited by Mazahir Panakhov, the chair to the AR Central Election Committee at today’s CEC meeting.

On 1 October Grecian journalists are carrying one-day strike, the web site of the Greek ERT informs. On this day in the country no news program will be broadcasted by TV or radio, Internet sites will not be updated, as well as neither newspaper will be issued on Thursday.

President of Rumania Trayan Basesku sues a journalist, internet edition BalkanInsight informs. The president considers the article by Cristian Oprea in Rumanian newspaper Cotidianul as “humiliating”.