On the Pulkovo highway in St. Petersburg, a KamAZ loaded with minced fish overturned. As a Rosbalt correspondent was told in the press service of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg, the car overturned on Friday at 04.50 on the highway when turning to the airport in the lane towards the city and blocked the road. The car was transporting cargo from Luga to St. Petersburg, there were no victims or injured.

On August 12, 2003, on the third anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine, a memorial will be opened at the Serafimovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg, where 11 of the 118 crew members of the submarine are buried. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the statement of the chairman of the St. Petersburg club of submariners Igor Kurdin. According to him, on Thursday the working group on the creation of the memorial held a meeting and examined the progress of work.

Cynologists with a dog checked the office of the governor of Kamchatka for the presence of explosives. The regional administration's press service told RIA Novosti that the check was made a few minutes before the meeting between Governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is on an election trip to Russia's regions.

State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev announced his support for Valentina Matvienko in the upcoming elections for the governor of St. Petersburg. At the same time, he denied some media reports that he would be appointed to the post of presidential envoy in the Northwestern Federal District. “Once again, the media is getting information about my future work. This time, as the presidential envoy in the Northwestern Federal District after Matvienko, who I support, becomes the governor of St.

On Friday evening, a passenger train from Nagasaki to Hakato derailed in Japan. According to AP, the train consisted of six cars, two of which overturned. About 20 passengers were injured. Rescuers provide assistance to the victims.

Moscow is not satisfied with the explanations of its Latvian colleagues on the issue of the undesirability of Iosif Kobzon's entry into Latvia and reserves the right to retaliate. "We do not understand the reasons why the Latvian authorities qualified this well-known political figure, State Duma deputy as a person posing a threat to state security and public order in Latvia," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said at a press conference at RIA Novosti.

In the UK, David Kelly, an adviser to the secretary of defense, who is believed to have given the British press evidence of falsification of facts in a government report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, has disappeared. According to Reuters, the police found the body of a man near Kelly's house. The police believe that this is the corpse of the minister's adviser, but the official identification has not yet been completed.

Special forces. Photo from the site www.umvs.odessa.ua In the presence of defense minister Sergei Ivanov, a team of special forces, based in the area of ​​the village of Molkino, Krasnodar Territory, conducted the exercises. The scenario of the exercises stated in the Friday issue "Red Star". "... After receiving data on the discovery of a column of militants of six cars," the script says, "a decision was made to destroy it.

On Thursday, a shootout took place in the southeast of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, a Subaru car drove up to house #2 along Nizhegorodskaya Street. One of the windows of the car opened, and several shots were fired from there. As a result, according to the police department, a female janitor was wounded. She has been hospitalized and her condition is said to be satisfactory.

In Samara, a fire broke out at the Rossiya chocolate factory, no one was injured. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the regional department for civil defense and emergency situations, the night before, an oven for roasting cocoa beans caught fire in a warehouse of raw materials for making chocolate. The fire was assigned the second degree of complexity. 16 fire brigades arrived at the scene. It took 70 firefighters about two hours to put out the flames.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is investigating seven criminal cases that are somehow connected with the Yukos oil company, Interfax reports with reference to the Office of Information and Public Relations of the Prosecutor General's Office.

In Veliky Novgorod, a 29-year-old gypsy suspected of fraud was detained, who hypnotized her victims. As RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Novgorod Region, according to operational and investigative data, in the village of Borki, at the request of the detainee, two local girls took off their gold jewelry and gave it to her, after which they went home.

On Thursday the Moscow militia summed up the results of operational activities for the first half of 2003.

"Country and Peace" from the site www.tele-skena.ru The news program "Country and Mir", which goes on the NTV channel, was sent on emergency leave until August 25, the newspaper reports . It is possible that the program will no longer return to the air. The decision to close the program became unexpected and caused a lot of conflicting rumors. According to one version, this is due to the advent of Mikhail Osokin and the need to "clear" an evening broadcast for him.

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who is in orbit of the International Space Station, on Friday abandoned the idea of ​​marrying 26-year-old American Ekaterina Dmitrieva in absentia. According to RIA Novosti, the cosmonaut decided to wait until autumn - in the second half of October he returns to Earth.