A law comes into force that gives bailiffs the right to check a citizen's documents, conduct a personal search of a citizen, enter his home and, if suspicions are confirmed, take him to court. We are talking about the recently adopted amendments to the law "On bailiffs", which on Wednesday published "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". To resist these actions would be against the law. The publication notes that many lawyers and human rights activists do not like the new rules.

On the Hawaiian Islands, on Mount Mauna Kea, will be built the most powerful telescope with a mirror with a diameter of 30 meters, writes Compulenta . It should start work in 2018. Construction will be deployed on top of a dormant volcano at an altitude of 4,200 meters above sea level. The sky here remains cloudless for three hundred days a year. In addition, remoteness from large industrial centers means a low level of air pollution.

Two men robbed a Kopeyka store on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street in Moscow. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, they hit the guard on the head with a pistol, tied him up and went to the director's office. There, the criminals opened a metal box in which the director kept the money, and took 333,000 rubles from there. After that, the robbers fled. The guard needed medical attention. The robbery is under investigation.

The former head of targeted programs of the government of the Kirov region, Roman Shipov, was arrested and charged with fraud, writes Kommersant . During interrogation, he stated that he was collecting money from commercial enterprises, allegedly for the Fund for Supporting the Initiatives of the Governor of the Kirov Region. In fact, Shipov had nothing to do with the fund. Shipov was detained in Moscow on July 7, 2009.

In August AvtoVAZ may stop production for a month - the second time since the beginning of the year. According to Kommersant , this decision was approved by the Russian Technologies state corporation, but has not yet been agreed with the government of the Samara region. Vedomosti was informed by the company's press service that the final decision would be made at the end of the week.

Inflation in Russia since the beginning of this year has amounted to 7.9 percent, Gazeta.ru reports citing Rosstat data. Since the beginning of this month, prices have increased by 0.4 percent. The average daily increase in prices in July amounted to 0.022 percent. Over the past week, the increase in prices for eggs amounted to 1.3 percent, for chickens, frozen fish, dry milk formulas for baby food and certain types of confectionery - 0.2-0.4 percent.

The Russian sailors, who were captured by militants in Nigeria on July 4, have been released and will be taken to Lagos on Wednesday. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Russian Ambassador to Nigeria Alexander Polyakov. The condition of the released is satisfactory, but they will undergo a thorough medical examination in the capital. While the former captives are in the city of Wari (Niger Delta State).

The Presidium of the Moscow Regional Court overturned the decision to release Yekaterina Leladze on bail of 700,000 rubles, accused of smuggling furniture into the Tri Kita and Grand shopping centers, ITAR-TASS reports citing the lawyer of one of the defendants in this criminal case, Kirill Polishchuk. "The Presidium of the Moscow Regional Court considered the supervisory submission of the prosecutor's office on the decision of the Cassation Board to release Leladze on bail.

Six people died in the crash of a Mi-8 helicopter of the Gazpromavia airline in the Volgograd region, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in Rosaeronavigatsia. "According to preliminary data, six of the eight on board were killed. The helicopter circled the gas pipeline," the source said. The helicopter took off from Volgograd to the settlement of Kotovo at 08.02, at about 10.20 the connection with it was interrupted, the source of the agency said. Mi-8 is a multipurpose helicopter.

Activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation held pickets at the embassies of Poland, Lithuania and Slovenia in Moscow, expressing dissatisfaction with the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, equally condemning Stalinism and Nazism, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, about 50 people participated in each picket.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus temporarily banned the operation of the Belarusian section of the Unecha-Ventspils oil product pipeline (owned by the Russian JSC Transnefteprodukt) due to unsatisfactory technical condition. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Vitaly Novitsky, head of the ministry's press service.

Four children who arrived in Yekaterinburg from the UK are sick with the new influenza type A H1/N1. According to "Uralinformburo", this was confirmed by laboratory studies of the analyzes of the sick, conducted in Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. Among those infected are students of Yekaterinburg gymnasiums number 9, 35 and secondary school number 10.

The Economist magazine has published another Bigmak index. Based on the assessments of American economists, the fair price of the dollar today is 18.8 rubles/dollars. Well, you give, damn it, however! What am I in the edge of my native aspen To the Basurman Bigmak? Our Russian pancake nourished me. Its mighty breed Nothing in the world will pass We passed fire and water with him, Caviar, sour cream, oil, honey.

Moscow, July 16, 2009. "Moscow Shatalishche" - a city carnival organized by the "Arhnadzor" movement. Shooting and editing - Dmitry and Anna Borko. Read more about the event on the Arkhnadzor website

The commander of the Mi-8 crew, Alexander Zakharov, who survived the crash near Volgograd, gave the first testimony about what had happened. According to RIA Novosti, before the fall, Zakharov heard a pop in the tail of the car. "The helicopter began to shake at a level of 100 meters from the ground. It began to descend to 10 meters. At the moment of hovering above the ground, there was a bang in the tail area.