Director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting of the operational headquarters for the management of counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation for the last time. The next meeting of the headquarters was held in Moscow at the FSB of Russia with the participation of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov, to whom Patrushev officially handed over the leadership of the operation on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko to sign an agreement on the use of the Russian ruble as the only legal tender on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in the near future. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the President of the Russian Federation. According to her, Putin sent a message to A. Lukashenko on the issue of forming a common economic space and deepening the process of integration of Russia and Belarus.

Alexander Sobolev, First Vice-President of the All-Russian Sailing Federation, was killed in Moscow. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. "The crime was committed on Wednesday evening near the house number 60/1 on Izmailovsky Boulevard, where the deceased lived," a police spokesman said. The call about the incident was received by the duty officer in the city at 18.35.

Turbulence. Photo from the site www.exploratorium.edu/exhibit_Services/travel/turbulent1.html Richard Feynman (the largest American scientist who, in particular, was involved in the problems of super -weed liquids, a popularizer of physics, known to our reader, primarily, perhaps, by semi -oral stories from his life ), he once called the turbulence of the last large unresolved problem of classical physics.

Employees of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the capital of Mordovia detained a 26-year-old resident of Ruzaevka, according to whose statement, his stolen car had been searched for since May. During this time, the victim received 30 thousand rubles from the insurance company for stealing his 9-year-old Zhiguli. However, a thorough investigation showed that the car was stolen at the request of the car owner himself by his friend.

Alexander Lukashenko. Photo "Kommersant" President Putin invited President Lukashenko in the near future to sign an agreement on the use of the Russian ruble as the only legal payment fund in the Republic of Belarus, Reuters reports with reference to the press service of the President of Russia.

A homemade Qassam-type rocket exploded on Thursday in an industrial area in the large Israeli city of Ashkelon, Reuters reports. According to sources in the Israeli military command, a total of three rockets were fired at the city from the Gaza Strip. According to preliminary data, no victims. The Palestinian police tried to organize the prosecution of the militants who fired the rockets.

Bank "Kuznetsk bridge". The company logo. The ransom for the president of the insurance company "Nature", the owner of the Kuznetskiy Bridge Bank Dmitry Balyabin, stolen by unknown people on Tuesday in Moscow, has already begun to be paid, Kommersant reports. The criminals transferred their requirements for a ransom of $ 1 million, the brother of the stolen to Andrei Balyabin, who is a member of the Board of Directors of the SK "Nature". The stolen himself contacted him on the phone.

In the village of Petropavlovskoye, Grozny district of Chechnya, a teenager who was mounting a powerful explosive device was killed. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the Regional Operational Headquarters for the management of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, the teenager acted on instructions from the militants. The incident took place on Wednesday in the courtyard of an abandoned house on the outskirts of the village.

On Thursday, the campaign ends in the capital, which annually delivers a lot of inconvenience to most Muscovites - hot water shutdowns. As expected, the problem of lack of hot water will not disturb the residents of the capital until the spring-summer of next year. The press service of OAO Mosenergo told RIA Novosti that no later than August 28, hot water will be supplied to the apartments of all citizens.

In Kamchatka, falling off the slope of the Klyuchevskoy volcano, a tourist from the Irkutsk region died. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the press service of the internal affairs department of the Kamchatka region, a young woman, a resident of the city of Baikalsk, applied to the Ust-Kamchatsky police department on the evening of August 27. She reported the death of her father while climbing the Klyuchevskoy volcano on August 24.

At the trial in the case of Platon Lebedev, the judge ordered the removal of representatives of the press and other citizens who are not participants in the trial from the court building, Gazeta.ru reports. This was done under the pretext of the end of the working day. The session itself continues behind closed doors, but the court's decision, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, must be announced openly. The court retired for deliberation.

Vladimir Gusinsky's lawyers filed a petition for his release on bail pending trial, RIA Novosti reports. Spanish lawyer Domingo Plaza, who handled Gusinsky's extradition case in Spain in 2000-2001 and is now providing legal assistance to him in Greece, said a Greek court had accepted Gusinsky's bail Thursday morning.

The largest European distribution company, Beta Film, has acquired the rights to the television series "Brigada", filmed by order of the Rossiya TV channel and shown on this channel. "The film "Brigada" has become the first Russian serial product sold abroad," a representative of the channel's press service told Interfax on Wednesday. "Under the contract, Beta Film received the rights to show and distribute the series around the world.

Photo by the Air Force In the capital in honor of the City Day, celebrated on September 6 and 7, supermarkets introduce discounts on various goods in the amount of 15 to 25%. This was reported to Rosbalt correspondent on Wednesday at the Moscow Information Center. In a number of stores, such promotions will be held throughout the festive week - starting on September 1. In other stores, discounts for buyers will be made only on Saturday and Sunday, September 6 and 7.