Germany has officially stated that it will not provide the US with data on the suspected "20th hijacker" Zaharias Mousavi unless it receives a guarantee that American justice will not seek the death penalty for him. It is reported by the Air Force. According to the laws of this country, the information collected by the German secret services cannot be given out to another country if a death sentence is passed on the basis of this information.

On September 3, the election commission of the Krasnoyarsk Territory will consider the issue of registering one of the candidates for governor - the mayor of Krasnoyarsk, Petr Pimashkov. Interfax sources in the regional electoral committee reported that the commission had identified a number of violations related to election fund of the candidate, as well as with the content of campaign materials in support of Pimashkov.

Central Europe, just dried up after the worst flood in a hundred years, is flooded again, AP reports. In the Elbe, the water level rose again. This time the flooding was due to heavy rains over Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland. In Switzerland, 3 people became victims of the elements. Their house was destroyed by a landslide caused by the rains. Several areas of the German state of Saxony, including the cities of Dresden and Chemnitz, were flooded.

Gazprom forgave Gusinsky At the trial in the case of the former chief financier of Media-Most, Anton Titov, who is accused of embezzling 5 billion rubles through fraud, the representative of the civil plaintiff, OAO Gazprom, abandoned the lawsuit brought against the defendant, the Media-Most holding and its head Vladimir Gusinsky.

Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The City Day was held in the best historical traditions of Russian mass festivities: with scammers, drunkenness, singing and transportation of participants in catalahs. A strange and sad impression: reading the list of events before the start of the festival makes us publish the admiring "wow!" - So everything is intelligent, so cheerful, so diverse, so accurately designed for all segments of the population, all tastes, all ages.

Fragments of a portable anti-aircraft missile system were found at the crash site of a Mi-24 helicopter in the mountains of Chechnya. Interfax was informed about this by Colonel-General Vladimir Moltenskoy, Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus. He said that according to operational data, the militants may still have several systems of this class, although during the winter they managed to seize and destroy 18 such systems in various regions of Chechnya.

Grani.ru collage So, it happened. On the evening of August 30, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov signed a decision to increase import duties on foreign cars over seven years old. For them, the rate is set at the rate of 2 euros for 1 "cube" for cars with an engine volume up to 2500 cubic centimeters and 3 euros for "cubes" for cars with an engine volume of more than 2500 cubic centimeters. Until the beginning of October, cars over 7 years old are 0.85 euros and 1.4 euros per “cube”, respectively.

4 people were killed and 15 injured in the explosion of two mines at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, according to the Air Force. Demining work was carried out in the vicinity of the base. First, an Afghan sapper was killed as a result of an anti-personnel mine explosion. The ambulance, which was called to the scene of the tragedy, also hit a mine on the way back. 3 more people died and 15 were injured. All of the dead were employees of the Afghan Demining Agency.

Five years have passed since the death of Princess Diana. Many versions of this tragedy have been expressed - from the conspiracy of the British royal family to the intoxication of Diana's driver. However, after September 11 last year, a new version appeared: the assassination of the princess was planned by Osama bin Laden, reports ABC News.

The power structures of Georgia are completing military measures to strengthen the northern section of the border with Russia, Interfax was told in the State Department for the Protection of the Border of Georgia. "Due to bad weather, new posts on the Chechen and Ingush sections of the border have not been opened yet, but all existing posts have already been reinforced with additional forces," said Colonel Corneliy Salia, chief of staff of the Georgian border guard.

Avad Karim, 46, a technical worker at the Iraqi embassy in Moscow, went missing on the night of 24 August, was found on Sunday at Stromynka in serious condition with a head injury in the 33rd city hospital. This is reported by Interfax. According to doctors, he was admitted to the hospital in a severely emaciated state, he was wearing only shorts and a woman's coat.

If the meteorological conditions at the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003 turn out to be unfavorable, then it may be necessary to introduce a strict water saving regime in all areas of the urban economy. This was reported to Interfax by the press service of the Moscow State Enterprise "Mosvodokanal".

More than 200 fires are currently burning in the forests of the Moscow and Yaroslavl regions of the Central Federal District, 32 of which have appeared in the last 24 hours. This was reported to Interfax in the Aviation Forest Guard of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

Chechen fighters have about ten portable anti-aircraft missile systems, a source at the headquarters of the United Forces in the North Caucasus told NTVRU.com. "The militants were trained in the practical use of MANPADS on the territory of Georgia," the source said. On August 19, 2002, a Mi-26 military transport helicopter crashed near the airfield in Khankala, carrying 147 passengers and crew members.

According to the preliminary version of the state commission, the An-28 crash in the Khabarovsk Territory occurred due to pilot error, Interfax reports. This version was published at a press conference in Khabarovsk by the governor of the region, chairman of the commission to investigate the causes of the plane crash, Viktor Ishaev. He clarified that the final conclusions would be made only after decoding the aircraft recorder, which was burned, but not mechanically damaged.