The Ministry of Justice allowed Boris Gryzlov to take part in the activities of United Russia. Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia Yevgeny Sidorenko told RIA Novosti that on Monday Minister Yury Chaika signed a response to a request from a group of State Duma deputies who asked to issue a warning to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with combining work as a minister with participation in the leadership of the United Russia party.

Salambek Maigov. Photo from Newsru.com The representative of Aslan Maskhadov in Moscow Salambek Maigov held negotiations in Washington with American diplomats, congressmen and representatives of the defense department. On Sunday, in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station, Maigov said that these negotiations "indicate that the Americans objectively perceive the events taking place in Chechnya," Newsru.com reports.

The ruble rose against the US dollar on Monday, following the euro, and also because of the demand for the Russian currency for tax payments, Reuters reported. The average weighted exchange rate of the ruble by settlements "today" rose in the single trading session (UTS) on Monday to 30.3915 rubles per dollar from 30.4367 rubles on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged to pay special attention to the preservation and reproduction of the forest. Speaking on Monday at a meeting with representatives of the timber and processing industries in Karelia on Monday, the head of state noted that almost a quarter of the world's forest resources are located in Russia. "We can say that the Russian forest is the ecological shield of the planet," he said.

An alcoholic goose lives in the suburbs of Saransk. As the Rossiya newspaper writes, the goose is distinguished by its absurd disposition - if it is not poured, it begins to pinch painfully. At first, the owner was frightened when he saw his pet under the fence, but then he got used to it. In addition, unlike people, alcohol does not distract the bird from caring for procreation. And this circumstance finally reassured the owner.

Julia Roberts. Photo from the site www.sky.com The famous Hollywood actress Julia Roberts suffered a heart attack. According to Sky News, while on vacation in Italy, the film actress felt severe chest pain and fell in the hotel room when she was preparing to go to a restaurant. “Roberts was preparing for dinner when she suddenly felt a burning pain,” one of the actress’s close friends said.

A train with spent nuclear fuel from the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy arrived at the Mayak chemical plant in accordance with an international agreement, ITAR-TASS reports. As Evgeny Ryzhkov, the head of the company's public relations group, said on Monday, the flight passed as usual, like all similar previous ones. At the plant for the regeneration of nuclear fuel, the arrived assemblies will be unloaded into special pools, and then sent for processing.

In the capital, an employee of the Algerian embassy in Moscow died in a car accident, RIA Novosti was told in the Information and Public Relations Department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate. According to the interlocutor of the agency, a traffic accident occurred the day before in the Dobryninsky tunnel. "Mahomed Bennur was driving a personal car VAZ-2105, he lost control and crashed into a separation barrier," the police department said.

On Monday, the Tverskoy Intermunicipal Court of Moscow postponed until September 9 the consideration of another group of claims by victims of the Dubrovka terrorist attack against the Moscow government and the capital's Department of Finance. The meeting was postponed due to the fact that the court did not have reliable information about the receipt by a number of plaintiffs of notifications about the start of court hearings.

Germany allocated an additional ?200,000 to help Chechen refugees. On this occasion, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Moscow welcomed the statement of the German government, according to a statement released on Monday by the UNHCR secretariat in the Russian capital.

A working group of the Russian Defense Ministry, consisting of 20 generals and officers, arrived in Dushanbe on Monday to discuss with the Tajik authorities the creation of a Russian military base. This was reported by a source in the Russian military department. "The commission is headed by Colonel-General Alexander Morozov, Chief of the Main Staff of the Ground Forces.

Last weekend in Moscow, the bodies of four girls with traces of strangulation and craniocerebral injuries were found. According to Kommersant, a total of ten such murders have been committed in the capital since the beginning of July. Investigators suggest that two maniacs are operating in the city. The first murder was committed on July 1 on Botanical Street. On the territory of the Main Botanical Garden, the naked body of a strangled girl with a gag was found. Her belongings were nearby.

On Monday, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan did not accept documents from the presidential candidate Ayaz Mutalibov, submitted by the "Savior" initiative group. According to Interfax, the reason for the rejection of Mutalibov's documents was that he has a second residence permit in one of the villages of the Vladimir region of the Russian Federation in his passport. Meanwhile, a criminal case has been opened against Mutalibov in Azerbaijan.

279 kg of blueberries contaminated with caesium-137 were taken out over the past month by employees of the State Unitary Enterprise MosNPO Radon from the capital's markets, RBC reports. The specific activity of contaminated berries varied in the range of 286-1926 Bq/kg (at the rate of 160 Bq/kg). According to Radon-press, radioactive berries were discovered and confiscated by employees of veterinary and sanitary laboratories of the markets during a pre-sale inspection of products.

Five people died in an accident in the Arsky district of Tatarstan, RIA Novosti was told in the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. The accident occurred on Sunday evening on the 66th km of the Kazan-Perm highway. Cars "Zhiguli" and "KamAZ" collided. Five people who were in the car were killed. The truck driver suffered bruises and was hospitalized. According to the preliminary version, the collision occurred due to a violation of the rules of the road by the driver of the Zhiguli.