The world recorded the first case of infection with the influenza A / H1N1 virus before birth, reports Reuters. In Thailand, an infected baby was born to a mother with the new flu last Saturday. The baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section, according to the Thai News Agency, the baby's condition did not inspire fear, he is now recovering, he is being carefully monitored.

JSC AvtoVAZ intends to lay off 27,691 employees, Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax. The executive director of the company, Igor Komarov, announced the upcoming dismissal at a meeting of the company's suppliers. Currently, the plant employs about 110 thousand people.

The Russian Orthodox Church considers the collapse of the existing financial and economic system in the world to be inevitable. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for the interaction of the Church and society, Vsevolod Chaplin. "The modern financial and economic system is doomed to collapse - which means it must be changed," Chaplin said.

The Moscow authorities refused to hold a rally on Triumfalnaya Square on Friday, July 31, to a group of citizens led by Alexander Averin, a member of the executive committee of the opposition coalition "Other Russia", RIA Novosti reports. Averin said that he would still take to the square with his supporters that day. "A group of citizens led by Averin applied to hold a rally on Triumfalnaya Square from 18.00 to 19.00, 500 people were supposed to participate.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov demanded that the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs completely eliminate the bandit group, which included a suicide bomber who, last Sunday, committed a self-explosion near the theater and concert hall in Grozny. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

The former head of the Tsaritsyno police department, Denis Yevsyukov, became a defendant in a criminal case on the kidnapping of Andrey Vlaskin, manager of the Euroset company, writes Trud . The investigation is trying to find out what connected the head of this company, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, with Major Yevsyukov. Igor Trunov, the lawyer for the victims in the Yevsyukov case, confirmed that the policeman was being interrogated in the kidnapping case.

A draft law has been submitted to the State Duma, which assumes that car owners must pay for evacuation, and not just for the use of a car impound. According to Novye Izvestia, the author of the amendments, Vera Lekareva, a member of the Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, believes that these measures will help save local budgets. Forced evacuation costs 1.6 thousand rubles, the newspaper notes. Until 2007, car owners paid for evacuation to impounded parking lots.

Every month, more than 100 fake diplomas are revealed from employees of the internal affairs bodies of Russia, Konstantin Kikot, head of personnel support for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told reporters. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is creating a database of all diplomas issued in Russia. It includes data on 5 million diplomas, including 67,000 diplomas issued to employees of internal affairs bodies.

The Primorsky Regional Court overturned the conviction of boxer Roman Romanchuk and returned the case for a new trial, ITAR-TASS reports. The Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok sentenced the boxer to 1.5 years in prison for murder in excess of self-defense. This verdict satisfied neither the defense nor the prosecution. The regional court decided that the previous instance had committed a number of violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure during the consideration of the case.

In the Nogai region of Dagestan, as a result of a collision of several VAZ cars, 11 people were killed. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 9 people died on the spot, two more died already in hospitals from their injuries. The accident occurred on Monday at 21.47 Moscow time on the Terekli-Kizlyar highway between the settlements of Kalinin and Terekli-Mekteb. According to various sources, three or four VAZ cars collided there.

In the suburbs, an engineer of the financial and economic department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was detained, who knocked down a pedestrian to death, reports Infox.ru. He hit him while under the influence of alcohol. After the accident, he reported the theft of his car. A criminal case has been initiated against the detainee by the investigating authorities of the Moscow region. The investigation asks the court to take him into custody.

The case against actor Vladislav Galkin, who fired at a Moscow bar, has not yet been opened. Anatoly Bagmet, the head of the investigative department of the UPC, told RIA Novosti that the materials had only just arrived at the department. "Currently, a pre-investigation check is being carried out on this fact under two articles - "hooliganism" and "use of violence against a representative of the authorities," Bagmet said.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow banned the broadcast of the Dom-2 TV project from 04:00 am to 11:00 pm, RIA Novosti reports. Now Dom-2 goes on the air three times on weekdays: at 15.00, at 21.00 and after 23.00. Some Sergey Davydov, Nadezhda Khramova and Elena Strekalova earlier filed a lawsuit against JSC TNT-Teleset to ban the broadcast of the program. The decision of the court may be appealed to the Moscow City Court within ten days from the date of announcement.

Fragments of a skull were found in the Belotserkovsky district of the Kyiv region, which may belong to the murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze. This was reported to UNIAN by an informed source in law enforcement agencies. According to the source, fragments of the skull were found in a place pointed out by the former head of the external surveillance department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach. At the place where the fragments were found, a road has now been laid.

The identity of a suicide bomber who detonated a bomb at the entrance to a cinema and concert hall in Grozny has been established. According to Interfax sources in law enforcement agencies, it was Rustam Mukhadiev from the city of Argun. Sources described him as an "active militant" who was a member of Muntzigov's bandit group and was on the federal wanted list on suspicion of a number of terrorist crimes.