Proposals concerning the draft agreement on the delimitation of powers between the federal state authorities and the authorities of Chechnya must be sent to the President of the Russian Federation before October 1 of this year. This, as reported by Interfax, said the head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin.

Last weekend, the only Jewish cemetery in Stavropol was desecrated in Pyatigorsk. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, this statement was made on Tuesday by Alexander Axelrod, director of the public fund Tolerance. According to him, unknown vandals destroyed ten tombstones, including the graves of Russians who went through the Great Patriotic War. In the mixed cemetery next door, five graves of other people who died at a respectable age were damaged.

From July 1, the British airline British Airways transferred the flights it operates to Moscow to Domodedovo Airport from Sheremetyevo-2. According to the BBC, 14 flights will come to Domodedovo every week. The Airport Authority has offered British Airways passengers a number of benefits. In particular, they will be provided with a special corridor for expedited customs and passport control, separate check-in counters and a separate business lounge for departures.

The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan has nominated Ilham Aliyev, the son of President Heydar Aliyev, as a presidential candidate in the October elections. The Aliyev family are natives of Nakhichevan. Aliyev Jr. now needs to collect 45,000 signatures in his support in order for his candidacy to be registered by the national election commission, the BBC reports. Heydar Aliyev, 80, has already been nominated as a presidential candidate.

Human rights activists accuse the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria of human rights violations. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement was made on Tuesday by the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva. According to Alekseeva, in Bashkiria "the main problem is the closed nature of the republic." "Police lawlessness in Bashkiria is terrible," she added.

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, one hour before the deadline, the Macedonian authorities signed an agreement with the United States not to extradite American citizens to the international criminal court in The Hague.

15 homeless people were released from one of the Syktyvkar warehouses, where they were illegally kept as free labor. According to the prosecutor's office of the Komi capital, the operation to free people took place on June 28. The grocery warehouse, in the basement of which the "slaves" were kept, belonged to one of the private firms in Syktyvkar. Warehouse tenants are entrepreneurs from Ukraine.

Three poaching fishing vessels were detained by Pacific border guards in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the Sea of ​​Japan. As RIA Novosti was told on Tuesday at the press center of the Pacific Regional Directorate of the Federal Border Guard Service, two of the detained ships are Russian, and one is under the flag of Belize. The total illegal catch is 14 tons of crab.

Russia and Iran intend to sign a protocol on the return of spent nuclear fuel in the near future. "I think that Russia and Iran will sign this protocol in the near future," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said at a press conference on July 1. According to RIA Novosti, Yakovenko said that cooperation between Russia and Iran on building a nuclear power plant in Bushehr would continue. "I don't see any reasons that could prevent this," Yakovenko said.

Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Vasiliev said that the investigation into the case of militiamen-"werewolves" would be conducted under strict public control. "The most scrupulous, I would say, biased public control has been established behind this case," Vasilyev said at a press conference at Interfax's central office in Moscow on Tuesday.

The expert group of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has upgraded Russia's credit rating, RIA reports. News". According to the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, at an extraordinary meeting held in Paris on the initiative of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, the expert group decided to transfer Russia from the fifth to the fourth group of the credit rating.

On Tuesday, the Kyiv Economic Court received a complaint Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on the actions of the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Verkhovna Rada Nina Karpachova. Meanwhile, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine, the Economic Court of Kyiv is not entitled to consider a protest against the actions of the commissioner for human rights, since its functions include only consideration of economic disputes.

The European Parliament on Monday decided to postpone the vote on the adoption of software patents until September and study the issue further.

The independent record company Big3 Records is marketing the music recordings of pop singer Rachel Farris by inserting minidiscs of her songs into the lids of soda glasses in American movie theaters and some amusement parks. The minidisk contains digital and audio content: two songs, lyrics, an interview and a video clip. In total, 4.8 million MDs are expected to be distributed in this way. In addition, a three-minute video with Farris is shown in theaters before screenings.

Filming NTV In the city of Tskhinvili in South Ossetia, a state of emergency was announced on Tuesday. According to Echo of Moscow, local media reported with reference to their own correspondents in South Ossetia. This information has not yet received official confirmation. According to local media, shots were heard near the building of the Ministry of State Security. According to the Georgian television company Iberia, Russian peacekeeping forces took control of the vital objects of Tskhinvali.