In Khabarovsk, an entrepreneur from China was detained at the river station, who was convicted of organizing the illegal export of timber from Russia to China.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic will resume the trial of 3 accused of aiding the terrorists who seized the Theater Center on Dubrovka in October 2003. Judge Ivan Zholudev told RIA Novosti that the hearing in the case was resumed after an extraordinary break caused by the absence of witnesses living in the Chechen Republic.

Vladimir Gusinsky's lawyer Alexander Berezin said in an interview with Gazeta.ru that what the Prosecutor General's Office accuses Gusinsky of is not considered a crime in Greece at all. “After all, what is he accused of? Not that he did not return the loan: the loan was just returned by the shares of Media Most. But that he “deceived” when evaluating these shares. Excuse me, but what means "deceived"? This is a normal commercial operation.

The closed hearing on the case of physicist Valentin Danilov, accused by the investigative department of the regional department of the FSB of fraud and treason in favor of China, has ended. According to Gazeta.ru, Yelena Evmenova, the defendant's lawyer, said that Danilov himself had filed a motion to have his case considered by a jury. The court considered the petition, but made no decision on this issue. According to Evmenova, this decision will become known only on Wednesday.

Saddam Hussein. Photo from the site www.detnews.com On Monday, the Catar television channel broadcasted the audio recording of the appeal of Saddam Hussein, in which the former Iraqi dictator denies its involvement in the terrorist attack in En-Udzhaf, Sky News reports. According to BBC News, Iraqi Shiites believe that a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 125 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakir al -Hakim, organized Saddam Hussein.

Police. Photo from Newsru.com In Volgograd, the commander of the 20th motorized rifle division, Major General Sergei Moiseev, died. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. As the deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region, Mikhail Muzraev, told the agency, a criminal case has been instituted under Art. 105 hours 1 "Murder". According to the investigation, his wife Irina shot at the general.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov became an honorary doctor of the Financial Academy. Accepting on Monday the mantle of an honorary doctor from the rector of the Academy, Kasyanov said that it was a great honor for him. Mikhail Kasyanov also congratulated the students and teachers of the Financial Academy on the beginning of the academic year, RIA Novosti reports.

Metropolitan police detained three people suspected of killing a Nigerian citizen on August 17 in the Konkovo ​​district in the south-west of Moscow. As RIA Novosti was informed on Monday in the capital's police department, they were detained the day before and are now in a pre-trial detention center. One of them is 19 years old and two are 18 years old. As the defendants testified, they beat the Nigerian out of hooligan motives.

One Kosovo Serb was killed and four others were injured as a result of two explosions that thundered in the east of Kosovo in the village of Krnica populated by Serbs and Albanians. According to police, the incident occurred at about 20.00 local time. The terrorists threw several bombs into the cafe building. According to UN spokeswoman Andrea Angeli, 35-year-old Milomir Slavich died in hospital on Monday night from his injuries, reports Reuters.

In Moscow on the night from Saturday to Sunday, strong gusts of wind knocked down several trees, three women were hospitalized with serious injuries, reports Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. According to law enforcement sources on Monday, on Saturday at 23.16 in the north-east of the capital, on Yeniseiskaya Street, two women, 37 years old and 31 years old, were seriously injured as a result of a tree fall. Both were taken to the hospital with spinal fractures.

Five Dutch nurses were poisoned by marijuana pie. The girls were going to celebrate the birthday of one of them, so they went to one of the pastry shops in Amsterdam and bought a pie there. Shortly after the nurses tried it, all five immediately felt sick. They were all sent to the district hospital, where doctors concluded that there was cannabis in the pie eaten by the girls. Three of the nurses felt nauseous, and two had tachycardia, Ananova reports.

Vneshotorgbank. Grani.ru collage Pensions? You can live on this With the advent of a special dositoral, a pension triumvirate was finally formed: a pension fund that controls the receipt of pension funds; VEB of the USSR, engaged in their placement; And now - the United Depository Company (CSK), a subsidiary of Vneshotorgbank, which will maintain pension savings.

The list of victims of the car accident that occurred last Friday in Mordovia has increased to 14 people, the chairman of the state commission to investigate the causes of the incident, Deputy Prime Minister of Mordovia Vladimir Sushkov, told RIA Novosti. As it turned out, initially the bodies of the four Kadeevs were mistaken for the remains of one person. According to Sushkov, the remains of the spouses, who were sitting on adjacent bus seats, were badly burned.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community Prega Ramsami signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation on Monday. "The signed memorandum provides a flexible and capacious format of cooperation, makes it possible to interact in a whole range of areas," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told reporters after the signing ceremony. The Southern African Development Community was established in 1980.

In Grozny, a terrorist act was prevented in one of the schools in the Staropromyslovsky district. As RBC reports with reference to the Regional Operational Headquarters, the militants intended on September 1, during the solemn line on the occasion of the start of the new academic year, to fire from a grenade launcher at one of the schools in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.