Five instructors of the US Marine Corps have arrived in Georgia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Imedi TV company. They will train the Georgian military sent to Afghanistan on a peacekeeping mission as part of the International Security Assistance Force. According to the channel, American instructors will train the 31st battalion of the 3rd Kutaisi brigade of 750 people, which will be the first to go to Afghanistan.

The Russian government has provided Nicaragua with $3.5 million to continue mine clearance in the country's northern regions, Russian Ambassador to Nicaragua Igor Kondrashev told RIA Novosti. "A corresponding agreement was signed in Managua between Director General of the Agency for Ensuring and Coordinating Russian Participation in International Humanitarian Operations EMERCOM Oleg Belaventsev and Inspector General of the Nicaraguan Army General Ramon Humberto Calderon," the ambassador said.

An emergency landing in the Italian city of Rimini was made by a Boeing-757-200 airliner, Gazeta.ru reports. There were 225 passengers on board, including Russians. According to preliminary data, the cause of the landing was the ignition of the right engine. None of the passengers were injured during the landing. How many Russians are on board is not specified. Boeing, owned by the VIM-Avia airline, followed flight number 7722 from the Spanish city of Alicante to Moscow.

In Moscow, a robbery attack was committed on the district council, ITAR-TASS was told in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. The incident was reported to the police at about 03:30. "The attack was carried out on the administration of the Kuntsevo district, located at 42 Academician Pavlov Street," the source said. .

A private pyrotechnic plant exploded on the northern outskirts of Donetsk in Ukraine around 2 p.m. local time. According to RIA "Novosti", the glass of nearby houses was knocked out by the blast wave, a huge white-black cloud rose into the sky, which is blown away by the wind to the center of Donetsk. According to eyewitnesses, ash is currently falling from a cloud on the central street of Donetsk.

In a collision of Su-27 fighters over Zhukovsky, the commander of the Russian Knights group, the head of the 237th Guards Center for displaying aviation equipment of the Russian Air Force, Honored Military Pilot of Russia, Colonel Igor Tkachenko, died. According to RIA Novosti, his parachute did not open. The dead pilot was found near the village of Zaharikha. Two pilots - Igor Kirilenko and Vitaly Melnik - were found alive. According to media reports, one of them broke his spine.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced the murderer of the assistant to the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Alexei Belyaev. The offender received 15 years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony, RIA Novosti reports, citing a report from the UPC. Aleksey Belyaev was killed on March 4, 2009. He was an assistant to the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Alexander Babakov, a member of the Just Russia faction.

Moscow, Yasenevo, cinema "Hanoi", August 12, 2009. Public hearings on the project of the General Plan of Moscow. The performance of the ecologist, candidate for deputies of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Yablokov. Filming Oleg Kozyrev. Other speeches of the participants in the hearings: Vladimir Milov Oleg Kozyrev

A resident of the Shatoi district of Chechnya voluntarily handed over to the police about 40 mortar mines, 80 kilograms of TNT and more than 90 shells of various calibers on Saturday, a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. "Among the ammunition handed over by a resident of the village of Vashindara are also cartridges, two fuses from shells for the Grad installation and a rocket launcher," the source said.

In Zhukovsky near Moscow, where the MAKS-2009 air show starts on August 18, two Su-27 fighters from the Russian Knights group collided in the sky during rehearsals. The pilots ejected, an eyewitness told RIA Novosti. The incident happened about five kilometers from the airport. During the collision, the commander of the Russian Knights aerobatic team, Igor Tkachenko, was killed. The pilot of the second aircraft suffered a fracture of the spine.

North Korea has said it is ready to use nuclear weapons if it is attacked by the United States and South Korea, reports Reuters. In a statement released on Sunday, the North Korean Defense Ministry condemned the joint US-South Korean exercises, which will begin tomorrow and last 10 days. Pyongyang has accused the United States and South Korea of ​​plotting an attack on North Korea. Seoul and Washington say the exercises are purely defensive.

Two people died as a result of the Yak-52 plane crash in the Kaluga region. According to ITAR-TASS, this was reported in the press service of the Central Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. "Today at 12:50 Moscow time, a Yak-52 plane crashed in the Kaluga region near the village of Guryevo," a representative of the Central Regional Center said. According to him, the plane took off from the Bragino airfield and after some time fell to the ground.

The police detained 10 Zaboro signatures on Red Square in Moscow ( VIDEO ). According to the party’s press service, the Yabllenniki presented pre-prepared papers to the police, which explains that the collection of signatures on Red Square does not contradict the law and does not require any additional notifications and permits. “After some time, police officers and FSO began to tighten on Red Square.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck on Sunday off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. There were no reports of casualties or damage, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Indonesian National Board of Meteorology and Geophysics. "An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred at 14.38 local time (11.38 Moscow time) in the province of West Sumatra. There is no threat of a tsunami," the report says.

Two residents of the village of Altukhovo, Navlinsky district, Bryansk region, died in the backyard of their friend when a 152-mm artillery shell exploded during the Great Patriotic War, a told Interfax . law enforcement source According to him, the explosion occurred as a result of careless handling of ammunition. "As a result, two of the wounds died on the spot, and a non-working person passing by with traumatic leg amputations was hospitalized," the source said.