Academicians of the Russian Academy of Education received a five-fold increase in salaries. Russian Education Minister Vladimir Filippov said at a solemn meeting dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Education that this was a kind of gift for the anniversary.

The trial of a group of skinheads accused of attacks on immigrants from Central Asia began in the Novosibirsk Regional Court on Tuesday. According to a RIA Novosti correspondent from the courtroom, there are nine teenagers aged 17 to 22 in the dock. The investigation revealed that the teenagers were skinheads who carried out attacks in the evening or at night near one of the local markets where visitors from the southern republics sell fruits and vegetables. In doing so, they used knives.

In Australia, euthanasia advocates have developed a new "death machine" - a device that allows terminally ill and paralyzed people to commit suicide. According to AFP, the new device is very easy to use, cheap and gives results in a few minutes. It was invented by Sandra Milne, a member of the Queensland Euthanasia Association. The death machine consists of several plastic vessels with two tubes that are inserted into the nose of the buyer. Only carbon monoxide comes out of the pipes.

In Moscow, three teenagers are wanted on suspicion of murder, a spokesman for the police department told RIA Novosti. "At about 21.00 Moscow time, a 42-year-old man was killed near house 14, building 1 along Trekhgorny Val Street," the source said. ` According to preliminary data, his death was caused by stab wounds. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

Israel launched an artillery strike on the territory of southern Lebanon. Nothing is known about the dead and wounded, according to Reuters. According to eyewitnesses, two cars and several houses were damaged. It was later reported that a truck belonging to the UN had been damaged. According to the representative of the UN peacekeeping force, no one was injured. The outskirts of the village of Kfar Shuba, located near the Israeli border, were shelled.

Because of the cold in the secondary schools of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the time of lessons has been reduced, RIA Novosti was told in the city education department. Lessons have now been reduced from the standard 45 minutes to half an hour. The temperature in the classrooms of schools is kept at 12-13 degrees, with sanitary standards of 18-20 degrees.

Saparmurat Niyazov. Photo from the site www.tourism-sport.gov.tm In connection with a cold flowing against the background of fever, and local exacerbation of chronic joints of the legs, President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov undergoes a course of appropriate treatment at home. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Turkmen media.

Soon in North Ossetia will begin shooting the film "Bulgakov in Vladikavkaz." According to a REGNUM correspondent, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov allocates funds for this. The film will be shot by film director Georgy Natanson.

On Tuesday, the State Duma prematurely terminated the powers of deputies Nikolai Ryzhkov, Aslambek Aslakhanov and Yevgeny Ishchenko in connection with their transfer to another job.

Significant changes have taken place in the leadership of the Union of Right Forces party, Interfax reports. Marina Litvinovich, deputy executive committee of the Union of Right Forces and creative director of the party's campaign headquarters, left her post of her own free will. She dealt with the formation of the image of the party and left, according to Interfax, of her own free will.

The grand opening of the fair, at which Russia will be represented as the guest of honor, will take place on the evening of October 7. The fair starts on October 8. It will close on October 13. Our country's participation in the book fair is the culmination of the large-scale program "Russian-German cultural meetings 2003-2004", held under the patronage of the presidents of Russia and Germany - Vladimir Putin and Johannes Rau, reports RIA Novosti.

Storm warning number one was announced in the capital and the Moscow region on Tuesday, Interfax was told at the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. In the period from 12.00 to 22.00 on October 7, a strengthening of the western wind is expected, gusts of 15-20 m/s, in some places up to 25 m/s.

Chechen businessman Malik Saidullayev intends to sell all his assets in Russia. "I don't think I can normally do business and politics in this country. It's almost impossible to be in a country where you feel disadvantaged," said Saidullayev. In a telephone interview with RBC-TV, the Paris-based businessman said that there are "more than enough" people who want to buy. "I have a big business in Russia, but now I will do business in other countries.

In Moscow, in the first half of the day on October 7, bad weather is expected: rain, heavy in places, a thunderstorm is possible, wind intensification. This was reported to Interfax on Monday evening at the Meteorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. "In the period from 1-3 a.m. to 12 p.m.

A contract killing was committed in the north of Moscow, a source in the capital's police department told RIA Novosti. "At about 22.00 Moscow time, the police received a signal from residents of the city of Zelenograd, who said that the body of an unknown man with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the entrance of house number 623," the agency's interlocutor said. The police are looking for a jeep "Toyota Land Cruiser" and "Zhiguli", in which the alleged killer could escape.