The Bank of Russia plans to ban the opening of currency exchange offices outside bank offices. According to "RBC daily", the Central Bank plans to prepare appropriate amendments to the law "On Banks and Banking". According to market participants, this measure will lead to a reduction in the number of exchange offices. In addition, it is unprofitable for banks to equip additional offices in supermarkets and large auto centers, where only the currency exchange service is in demand.

Children's groups from Russia are prohibited from traveling to the UK due to influenza A/H1N1. According to ITAR-TASS, the corresponding order was signed by Russia's Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennady Onishchenko. Regarding the A/H1N1 influenza situation, "England is the most unfavorable country in Europe today," Onishchenko stressed. It is not yet clear with the help of what legal mechanisms and public services he is going to restrict travel.

On Monday night, in the central part of the Krasnodar Territory, 8 people died in a collision between Honda and VAZ 2106 cars. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. "At 0.19 Moscow time, eyewitnesses reported that a Honda and VAZ-2106 had collided 2.5 kilometers from the village of Saratovskaya," the source said.

Three cars collided north of New York, killing 8 people, including four children, AP reported. A minivan carrying a mother with her children and three nieces drove into the oncoming lane at Taconic State Parkwa. A sports SUV crashed into it, inside of which there were three people. The minivan pushed another car, rolled off the road and caught fire. As a result, the female driver and four children were killed; the girls who died were 2, 5, 7 and 9 years old.

Travel of Russian children to the UK should be immediately banned due to the threat of infection with the new influenza A/H1N1. According to RIA Novosti, this statement was made by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. According to his department, 18 cases of "swine" flu have been confirmed in Russia, all of them are "imported".

The average bribe in Russia amounted to 27,000 rubles, which is almost three times more than last year, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The number of cases of bribery has tripled. "The number of detected and registered crimes related to taking bribes has increased by more than 26 percent - about 4.9 thousand. About 3.5 thousand people have already been brought to justice," the document says.

In 2009, the problems of all defrauded equity holders in Moscow will be resolved. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during a working meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "In 2009 in Moscow we will finish the problem with deceived equity holders, we promise this," Luzhkov assured.

In the center of Kyiv on Volodymyrska Hill, about 300 people held a protest against the visit to Ukraine of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, UNIAN reports. The action ended with a mass brawl. It required the intervention of the police. The protesters stood in separate groups in front of the Ukrainian House at the beginning of Trekhsvyatitelskaya Street from the side of European Square, as well as along both sides of the street.

The victims in the case of the murder of Galina Starovoitova Olga Starovoitov and Ruslan Linkov turned to Dmitry Medvedev with an open letter. In it, they asked the president to initiate the resumption of the investigation in the criminal case, the Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg reports. The authors of the letter reminded the president that almost 11 years have passed since the death of Galina Starovoitova, but those who organized this crime were not established or punished to this day.

The Ministry of Finance gave a negative response to the proposal of the Supreme Court to collect tax debts from citizens without a court decision, writes Vedomosti . The Supreme Court offered to write off debts from the accounts of the debtor. If there is not enough money in the accounts, the Supreme Court proposed to foreclose on cash and property. The Ministry of Finance considered that the implementation of this proposal would violate the Constitution.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov was supposed to attend the performance at the theater and concert hall in Grozny, near which a suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday and killed six people. According to ITAR-TASS, he had an invitation card in his hands and was going to go to the play "A City Built on Ice". "I had to go to this performance, I had an invitation card in my hands, and I was a little late, I lingered at one of the construction sites," Kadyrov said.

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence for journalist Oleg Lurye from eight to four years in prison, Anna Usacheva, head of the press service of the court, told RIA Novosti. Thus, the court partially satisfied the complaint of the defendant. Previously, Lurie was found guilty under Parts 2 and 3 of Article 163 (extortion on an especially large scale) and Part 3 of Article 159 (Fraud on a large scale) of the Criminal Code.

Suspected in the case of the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze, ex-head of the main criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach refused the services of his lawyer Serhiy Osyka for the period of pre-trial investigation, RIA Novosti reports. Osyka referred to the decision received from the Prosecutor General's Office, which states that Pukach had made a written statement refusing his services.

A regular bus and an Audi car collided at the Moldovanovka mountain pass in the Krasnodar Territory. Two people were killed, a 3-year-old child was injured, RIA Novosti was told in the Krasnodar Regional Emergency Rescue Service. A married couple who was driving a foreign car died in an accident. Their son has been hospitalized for about three years. Nobody on the bus was hurt. According to preliminary data, the driver of a foreign car lost control on a slippery road after rain.

Ingushetia plans to reduce the subsidization of its budget from the federal center from 90 to 60 percent after the implementation of the federal targeted program for the socio-economic development of the republic. According to RIA "Novosti", this was announced by the acting head of the region Rashid Gaysanov at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. According to Gaisanov, currently subsidies from the federal budget cover the current needs of the republic.