During the fireworks display in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company, one person died and two were burned. As a source in the law enforcement agencies of the city told Interfax, on Sunday evening, during the salute, one of the shells fell into the crowd of spectators and exploded. As a result, one young man died, two more victims, a man and a woman, were hospitalized with burns. Law enforcement agencies are investigating the incident.

The Moscow City Court postponed until September 16 the consideration of a criminal case against a group of Muscovites accused of robbing mobile phone stores. As RIA Novosti was informed in court, the hearings were postponed due to the absence of two defendants' lawyers, one of whom is in the hospital and the other on a business trip. In total, there are five people in the dock. All of them are Muscovites, young people of 20-30 years old.

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng will visit Chechnya and Ingushetia during his visit to Russia. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday at the UN information center in Moscow. The purpose of the visit, which will last from Monday to Friday, is to study the situation with internally displaced persons in the North Caucasus.

The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Claude Mandil, appealed on Monday to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) with a call to reduce the cartel's oil prices, Reuters reported. OPEC members will gather for a meeting in Vienna on September 24, and IEA experts believe that the organization should decide to reduce prices due to increased global demand for "black gold" with the onset of cold weather.

The Yukos oil company has announced that it will not be able to fulfill its annual oil production plan due to a lack of transportation capacity, writes Vedomosti . Transneft, on the other hand, says that the company itself provides less raw materials than the pipeline system could receive. Analysts believe that there is some truth in both explanations. Yukos has released operating results for the 2nd quarter and the first half of 2003.

Search and rescue teams found the second "black box" from the Ka-32 helicopter that crashed on September 4. This flight recorder recorded the conversations of the helicopter crew, Gazeta.Ru reports. Earlier, a flight recorder was found that recorded the flight parameters of the Ka-32. On Monday evening, search operations near Mount Fisht were suspended due to bad weather.

In the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district of the Kyiv region on Sunday evening, a Mercedes and VAZ-2105 collided. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, as a result, 4 people were killed and 5 more were injured of varying severity. One child was among the wounded.

Dushuev In the magistrate court of London on Bow Street, on Monday, the hearings of the extence of Ahmed Zakayev, representative of Aslan Maskhadov in Europe are renewed on Monday. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia made charges of murders, terrorism, and abduction of people against him. It is expected that the final stage of the hearings, appointed for the period from September 8 to 12, will begin with the cross interrogation of the Duk-Vahi Dushuev.

Director Andrei Zvyagintsev with a reward. Photo AFP On Saturday, September 6, the 60th Venice Film Festival ended in more than a joyful and flattering way for us: Andrei Zvyagintsev, “Return”, received the “Golden Leo”. Another Russian participant - the film by Alexei German Jr. "The Last Train" - was awarded the jury as a promising debut, but Zvyagintsev should still be considered the main triumph.

US President George W. Bush is asking Congress to increase funding for the deployment of US troops in Iraq, as well as the allocation of funds for the reconstruction of the country by billions of dollars. According to the AP, the amount allocated for these purposes in the next year's budget may exceed $80 billion.

Agatha Christie. Photo from the site www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/featurearchive/crimescene2001/christie.html The Play of Agatha Christie, which was not yet unpublished and not ever put on a professional scene, was discovered in the British library, BBC reports.

Elena Kiper, a former co-producer of the Tatu group, decided to terminate the contract with the Neformat company, which owns the copyright for the songs written by Elena for the group. This is reported by the publication Dni.ru with reference to the agency "InterMedia". On September 10, at a press conference on the copyright issue, Elena Kiper will announce how she will dispose of the rights to Tatu's hits.

The last participant in a group escape of prisoners from an educational colony in the city of Sterlitamak (Bashkiria) was detained, ITAR-TASS reports. As recalled in the Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, on the evening of July 26, 6 teenagers who were serving sentences for robbery, robbery, theft and hooliganism escaped from the colony, one of them for murder.

Microsoft officials on Friday said that Japan, China and South Korea's plan to develop an operating system that would be an alternative to Windows was a concern in terms of maintaining fair competition, Reuters reported. Tom Robertson, spokesman for Microsoft Japan in Tokyo, told Reuters in an interview that his corporation would prefer to see free competition in the software market, rather than a situation in which the government decides who wins the competition.

Israeli Defense Forces helicopters fired missiles at the Khan Younis refugee camp, Reuters reported. Rockets hit the house of one of the Hamas activists (Abdel Salam Abu Moussa), which, according to Israeli intelligence, was used as a weapons depot. The building is completely destroyed, as the explosives stored inside detonated when the rockets exploded, Israeli sources say. The explosions injured 15 people. The owner of the house fled shortly before the shelling.