The Russian Kryashens appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to assist in obtaining the status of a separate nation for the Kryashens. The letter of the Interregional Union of National-Cultural Associations of the Kryashens says that public organizations of the Kryashens have been trying to return this status for four years already, and that, according to the conclusions of Russian ethnographers, the Kryashens are without a doubt an independent, original people.

Israeli forces killed four Hamas members on Sunday by launching a rocket attack from a helicopter in the Gaza Strip. According to Reuters, one of those killed was a local leader of an extremist organization. All four were killed while walking along the beach. According to doctors, the bodies of the dead were beheaded or mutilated beyond recognition.

On Sunday, a passenger bus crashed into a wall in Turkey, according to MIGNews. 19 passengers were killed and 8 others were injured. The accident occurred near the Turkish city of Amasya, 280 km northeast of Ankara. According to preliminary data, the bus driver lost control.

Police. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Three explosions thundered in Krasnodar on Monday at 7.40. This was announced on Monday Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the Krasnodar Territory. According to the source, three explosive devices worked within ten minutes: on the street of labor glory (cafe "Rus"), on Yana Poluyana Street (Joy cafe) and at the stop of a trolleybus on Dostoevsky Street.

A bomb exploded on a wharf in Puerto Rico on Sunday evening, AP reports. According to local authorities, the bomb was set off by a woman. She died on the spot. In addition to her, 4 more people died at the scene of the explosion. Three later died in hospitals. Among the dead was an eight-month-old baby.

From the site www.parex.lv Parekss Banka reached the first line in the ranking of the largest banks in Latvia immediately after the 1995 May crisis, the first system banking crisis in the post -Soviet banking space, which sunk the country's largest credit institution - Banka Baltija.

The bodies of five people, members of the same family, were found while extinguishing a fire in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan. As Interfax reported on Monday, citing the State Emergency Situations Agency (ESA), last Sunday, while extinguishing a fire in a private residential building in the village of Belogorka, the bodies of five people were found, including children aged one year, 8 and 11 you years. "The cause of the fire is careless handling of fire while smoking in bed," the ASF stated.

Gates. Photo from the site www.edition.cnn.com A series of powerful explosions occurred on Monday in the Indian city of Bombay. According to Sky News with a link to the New Delhi Television channel, 50 people were killed, about 150 were injured. Indian police claims that she only knows only two explosions. One crashed near the gate of India, the famous tourist place in the south of Bombay. The second is also in the south of the city - not far from the policeman of fagots.

Five militants were killed on Monday at dawn in the vicinity of the village of Elistanzhi in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic reported on Monday. "The militants stumbled upon an ambush set up by employees of the local territorial police station. According to preliminary data, the killed militants are part of a gang that attacked the village of Avtury last week," a spokesman for the press service said.

The governor of the Sakhalin region, Igor Farkhutdinov, who died in a plane crash, will be buried in Moscow, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' told reporters on Monday. According to him, this was the desire of the family of the deceased, who lives in the Russian capital.

The Public Committee "For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland" sent an appeal to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and chief director of the Maly Theater Yuri Solomin to prevent the showing of the French ballet "The Annunciation", Interfax reports. On Tuesday, the First Grand Pas Ballet Festival is due to open in Moscow. The festival should start with this infamous production by Angelin Preljocaj.

Five people died while cleaning a water well in the gardening "Svetloe", located 5 km from Irkutsk. According to REGNUM, the owner of one of the country houses, a pensioner born in 1938, went down into the well and lost consciousness. A familiar man, born in 1954, decided to help him, who, when descending into the well, also lost consciousness. The same fate awaited three more people - a woman born in 1961 and two men born in 1959 and 1967, who decided to help their friends.

As a result of the crash of a passenger plane in Haiti, 21 people died, reports Reuters. A local Tropical Airways plane on a domestic flight crashed and caught fire on Sunday shortly after taking off from the northern Haiti city of Cap-Haitien, local authorities said. There were 19 passengers and two crew members on board.

On Saturday, an armored vehicle of the US military exploded near a bridge near Baghdad, CNN reports. According to witnesses, there are wounded. However, representatives of the military do not confirm this information.

In Karelia, 22 educational institutions were closed before the start of the academic year. According to RIA Novosti, referring to the words of the acting. Andrey Podgorbunsky, Head of the Regional Directorate of the Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, schools are closed due to non-compliance with fire safety rules. Half of the closed schools are located in unsuitable buildings, the rest have 100% depreciation of fixed assets.