A mass brawl with a shootout took place on Thursday night in the village of Pelagiada, Shpakovsky District, Stavropol Territory. Presumably, 300 people became participants in the fight, one died, a source in the region's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. "About 300 people participated in the fight, one person died. Now operational services have left for the place, the reasons for the incident are being investigated," the source said.

The Russian Air Force has begun testing the second sample of the fifth generation fighter. According to RIA Novosti, Colonel-General Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, said this on Thursday at the MAKS-2009 aviation and space show. "The second machine, which is undergoing ground tests, is already here in Moscow," the general stressed. According to him, flight tests of the new aircraft are scheduled to begin in November 2009.

The insurance company will pay compensation to all people who suffered any damage as a result of the collision of two Su-27 fighters, which took place last Sunday at a rehearsal of a performance before the MAKS-2009 air show. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Colonel-General Alexander Zelin. According to him, before the start of the air show, an agreement was concluded with an insurance company regarding insurance of damage to third parties.

1. About grief to me, about grief Favorite free muses: Disappeared in the Baltic Sea Our peaceful cargo ship. And I cling to the screen Like the whole electorate What a soft sofa Comrade, friend and brother. 2. In the Strait of Laperuse, In the area of ​​Cape Gorn Dry cargo is not visible - He disappeared from the radar. Not SOS sends Not even SMS Where he is - no one knows Including the Ministry of Emergencies. Measures taken They did not give anything. It seems like a woven They attacked him.

The mastermind behind the Lockerbie bombing has been released from a Scottish jail and is on his way to Libya, Reuters reports. According to a Libyan government spokesman, Abdel Basit al-Megrahi "flies home by plane, accompanied by the son of Muammar Gaddafi." Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill said that Al-Megrahi was released from prison on humane grounds - a 57-year-old terrorist, who spent eight years in prison, is ill with prostate cancer in the terminal stage.

The Moldovan parliamentary ruling coalition will hold a referendum on the country's integration into NATO. According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova Vlad Filat told Timpul newspaper. According to experts, the prospects for Moldova's entry into NATO will spoil the relations of the republic, which has so far maintained a neutral status, with Russia.

The Air Force plane with 15 crew members of the Russian dry cargo carrier Arctic Sea arrived from Cape Verde to Moscow, a source in the Russian military department told RIA Novosti. The plane with the hijackers of the ship will arrive in the capital in the first half of the day, the source added. The cargo ship Arctic Sea, missing more than two weeks ago, was found in the Atlantic on August 16, near the island nation of Cape Verde. All 15 Russians on board the ship are alive.

The Military-Industrial Commission submitted to the Russian Ministry of Finance a draft state defense order for 2010, the volume of which is 1.109 trillion rubles. According to Interfax, this was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Sergei Ivanov. For comparison, in 2009 the amount of the state defense order will amount to 580 billion rubles, in 2009-2011 - more than four trillion.

The Krasnodar regional court confirmed the legality of the court decision to refuse to cancel the results of the election of the mayor of the future Olympic capital - the city of Sochi, RIA Novosti reports. Boris Nemtsov, a former candidate for the head of the resort, insisted on revising the election results. In his lawsuit, Nemtsov alleges numerous violations of the electoral law recorded during the election campaign on Election Day.

"Mosgaz" denied the information that appeared earlier about the explosion and another rupture of the gas pipeline on Ozernaya Street, ITAR-TASS reports. "There is no explosion and, accordingly, a gas pipeline rupture on Ozernaya Street," the ministry said.

The Abakan prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the editor-in-chief of the online magazine "New Focus" Mikhail Afanasyev, reports Khakassia news agency. The case was initiated on the basis of the dissemination on the Internet of deliberately false information about the situation at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station under Part 3 of Article 129 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“slander combined with accusing a person of committing a serious crime”).

The British Council was able to prove in the arbitration court that out of the tax claims against it for 210 million rubles, about 200 million were demanded by the tax inspectorate unreasonably, Kommersant writes. This is the most serious victory for the council during the trial, which has been going on for a year and a half. The court also found illegal all claims for income tax and VAT.

At the largest defense enterprise in St. Petersburg - the Arsenal machine-building plant - there was an attempt to forcefully change the leadership, Kommersant reports. The security service of the enterprise, with the support of the police, expelled from its territory Sergei Korolev, the ex-director and one of the main shareholders of Arsenal, who had occupied the office of the head of the plant days earlier with the help of bailiffs and 50 armed people.

In Dagestan, in the building where the office of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan" is located, a fire broke out tonight, Ekho Moskvy reports. As the head of the "Mothers of Dagestan" Svetlana Isayeva said, most of the property was destroyed in the fire. The organization itself has no doubt that it was arson, Isayeva added.

An unidentified bomb exploded at the entrance to a stadium in the town of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria. As Infox.ru was informed in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, as a result one person died, another one was hospitalized with injuries. The victim's head was blown off by the explosion. The investigation checks the involvement of both men in illegal armed groups. Based on the results of the inspection of the scene, a decision will be made on the initiation of a criminal case.