in the reports about the upcoming long-term cooperation program There is "no sensationalism" between Russia and Iraq, sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax. They stressed that the program being developed does not violate the regime of international sanctions against Baghdad and complies with Moscow's international obligations.

The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that there are dead and wounded as a result of the crash of the Mi-26 transport helicopter in Khankala. This was officially reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the ministry, without specifying the number of both. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the servicemen who died as a result of the plane crash.

The upper cabin of the Kaunas dry-cargo ship that sank in St. Petersburg has been cut off and towed to a "safe and convenient place," Interfax reports. This was announced on Monday night by the head of the department of inland waterways of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the head of the operational headquarters for lifting the dry cargo ship Vladimir Krivoshey. "Kaunas" remains at the bottom, but now it has become three meters lower, and ships can carefully pass over it.

The number of victims of a bus accident in Chuvashia has reached 24 people, after a child died from severe injuries in a hospital on Monday night. This was reported to Interfax by the operational duty officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. 21 people, including a 13-year-old boy, died at the scene of the accident, and another passenger died at the Yantikovskaya regional hospital. Last Sunday, a five-year-old girl died from injuries sustained in an accident in a hospital.

Deputies of the Duma of the Magadan Region came up with a legislative initiative to extend the term of office of the President of Russia to seven years, Interfax reports. Magadan parliamentarians sent an appeal on Monday to the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, in which they propose to amend Article 81 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to which the term of presidential office is four years.

The reason for the collision of the dry cargo ship "Kaunas" with the support of the bridge on the Neva in the center of St. Petersburg, which led to the flooding of the ship, was a malfunction in the propeller-rudder complex system. This was reported to Interfax by Gennady Egorov, Deputy Head of the Baltic Emergency and Rescue Department of the Ministry of Transport of Russia.

A fur seal named Gaston, who swam away last Wednesday from the Prague zoo, was caught by German rescuers north of Dresden on Monday afternoon, Reuters reports citing the Czech news agency STK. On Saturday at noon, the cat was noticed by residents of the town of Decin in the north of the Czech Republic, who fed him fish. Gaston ate the fish, but did not give himself into the hands of people. According to the information of the German rescuers, the cat, having traveled 200 km, feels fine.

A group of harp and gray seals from the Murmansk Aquarium will be trained for use in search and rescue operations at sea. This was reported to Interfax by the director of the oceanarium Grigory Krivoruchko. He said that four harp seals would conduct exercises in one of the specialized military garrisons of the Northern Fleet tentatively until mid-autumn. Gray seals, who are also artists of the Murmansk circus on the water, will return to the aquarium in two weeks.

On Monday, at dawn, unidentified persons fired small arms and grenade launchers on the outskirts of the village of Shalazhi, Shirvani Yasayev, head of the administration of the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, told Interfax. According to Yasaev, the fire was fired from several points. There are no casualties among the local population and law enforcement officers.

As a result of the Mi-26 helicopter crash in Chechnya, about 80 servicemen died on Monday, a source at the headquarters of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax. According to him, only 32 servicemen were saved, including five members of the crew. There were 106 people on board the helicopter.

The death toll from the floods in Germany has risen to 19 after authorities announced on Monday that the bodies of three more people had been found. This is reported by Interfax.

On Monday, the Moscow police department "Basmannoye" accepted for consideration the statement of the movement "Walking Together" about checking the works of Bayan Shiryanov for the presence of pornography and incitement to the use of drugs. This was reported to Ekho Moskvy by the head of the legal department of the movement, Artem Mugunyants. According to him, the movement filed an application with the Moscow prosecutor's office, but received a response from the Basmannoye police department.

In the Akhmeta region of Georgia and, in particular, in the Pankisi Gorge, exercises of the armed forces of Georgia will be held, ITAR-TASS reports. Units of various branches of the armed forces will take part in the maneuvers - in total, about a thousand military personnel will be involved. The exact start date of the exercises is not reported, but it is emphasized that they are "planned" in nature.

Two workshops for the production of food products were found on the territory of the Kyiv Clinical Hospital # 4, next to the infectious diseases department and the hospital mortuary, Magnolia-TV reports with reference to the COS GUMVD. Cutlets, dumplings, chebureks and other delicacies were produced in one of the workshops. The second was focused on the production of ice cream of various varieties. There were large batches of finished products in the refrigerating chambers.

The leadership of the European Union has decided to provide financial assistance to the countries affected by the floods - Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, according to BBC. In these countries, several dozen people became victims of the elements, and the damage caused is estimated at billions of euros. Meanwhile, on Monday, an Il-76 of the Russian Emergencies Ministry flew to Dresden with special equipment and rescuers.