Iranian authorities have released on bail a 24-year-old French university professor accused of espionage following the recent presidential election, BBC reported. A statement released by the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Clotilde Reis is feeling well and will be at the French embassy in Tehran, awaiting the verdict in her case.

In the Moscow region, an underground sewing workshop was liquidated, in which 600 immigrants from Vietnam worked around the clock. As Infox.ru was informed in the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the workshop produced adult and children's clothing with the trademark Sochi-2014. The damage caused to the right holders exceeded 50 million rubles.

The Ministry of Energy does not rule out an increase in electricity prices in Siberia within 5-7 percent due to the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Ministry of Energy Sergei Shmatko. He noted that at the moment there are no plans to introduce any restrictions on the growth of electricity prices, but he did not rule out such a possibility if necessary.

The US does not intend to "trade democratic values" for the sake of improving relations with Belarus. According to Kommersant, this was stated by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon. He also set harsh conditions for reconciliation with the West to the Belarusian authorities: the release of political prisoners, ensuring freedom of the media and holding fair presidential elections.

Parents of twin boys who were born in a Sukhumi maternity hospital on the day of the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ask for forgiveness from President Dmitry Medvedev. Earlier, the head physician of the maternity hospital, Liana Achba, stated that the newborns were "named Volodya and Dmitry by the unanimous decision of the maternity hospital staff." Now the boys' parents, Timur and Indira, have changed their minds, reports.

The defense of the Anna Politkovskaya family appealed to the Supreme Court of Russia a decision to refuse to return the prosecutor to the murder of the Observer of the Novaya Gazeta. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by a representative of the children of journalist Anna Stavitskaya.

The victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan sent a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev, in which they ask him to meet, the Voice of Beslan website reports. The letter was signed by 254 victims and former hostages of the Beslan school.

The accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station occurred as a result of an oil transformer explosion at the moment when one of the units was being repaired in the engine room, the UPC said in a statement published on the website of the department. The explosion destroyed the wall and ceiling in the engine room, where the turbines are located, as a result of which water began to flow into the room.

The Association of Non-Profit Organizations in Protecting Voter Rights “Voice”, due to the dangerous situation in Chechnya and Ingushetia, will not control the elections on October 11 in these regions. RIA Novosti was reported about this by the Executive Director of the Association Lilia Shibanova. The republics will be held in municipal meetings, and the new mayor of Grozny will be elected. “We can’t reach there, because the election observation is almost impossible there.

Participants of the protest march of the affected co-investors of the Moscow region and some other regions of Russia, which took place in Moscow on August 15, adopted a resolution on the creation of a party of deceived equity holders, Denis Potapov, a representative of the initiative group of co-investors, told RIA Novosti. According to him, it is planned to start the process of registration of the party in September this year.

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In the province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan, three soldiers of the British military contingent were killed, according to the Air Force. Earlier, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the armed forces of his country would continue military operations on Afghan territory in any case. Protecting the UK and the rest of the world from terrorism is vital, he said. British casualties in Afghanistan have risen sharply over the past year. Only in August the troops lost 22 people.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia said they knew about a major terrorist attack being prepared in the republic, but could not prevent it, ITAR-TASS reports. "On Saturday there was information about an impending terrorist attack using a yellow Gazel car," Zyaudin Daurbekov, deputy minister of internal affairs of the republic, said.

The Czech Republic is expelling a military attaché at the Russian embassy. Another diplomat was advised not to return from vacation. This is reported by the Czech agency Ceske Noviny. Agency sources claim that the Czech military intelligence received information that both diplomats, apparently, work for the Russian special services. Meanwhile, the Czech Foreign Ministry and representatives of the Russian embassy refuse to comment on reports of the expulsion of Russian diplomats.

The commander of the Russian Knights aerobatic team, Colonel Igor Tkachenko, who died during the dress rehearsal before the MAKS-2009 air show, will be presented with a high state award, RIA Novosti was told in the defense ministry's press service and information department. "For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, Anatoly Serdyukov decided to present Colonel Igor Tkachenko for the state award (posthumously)," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.