Arctic Sea crew members are free to move and can call relatives, their rights are not violated. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office. "The information that has appeared in a number of media that the rights of participants in the criminal process are allegedly violated is not true.

The Moscow Regional Court decided to forcibly place Yulia Privedennya in a psychiatric clinic for an examination. The defense appealed this decision to the Supreme Court. Details

In Moscow in 2010, the number of visiting janitors will decrease, said Andrey Tsybin, head of the Department of Housing and Public Utilities of the Capital. It is reported by ITAR-TASS.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Energy and the state company RusHydro to submit a plan for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP within six weeks. According to RIA Novosti, this order was made by the head of government in Abakan at a meeting on the elimination of consequences at the power plant. Before the meeting, the prime minister visited the hydroelectric power station and inspected the destroyed machine room, transformer blocks and the assembly site.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov is not going to sign an agreement on the Collective Rapid Reaction Force within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and has generally reduced Tashkent's cooperation with the CSTO to a minimum. In addition, the Uzbek authorities have already initiated negotiations with Washington on the possible return of the US military base, which was closed in 2005, to Uzbekistan, Kommersant reports, citing its own sources.

Poll on the streets of Moscow, August 2009. Source: Press Center of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. Part two Part three

The Ostankino Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of a former drug police officer who is accused of beating detainees. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Anna Usacheva. "Today, the court granted the petition of the investigation and chose Dmitry Cherednichenko, former detective of the 4th department of the Federal Drug Control Service for Moscow, as a measure of restraint in the form of detention," Usacheva said.

The Ukrainian Rada overcame the veto of President Viktor Yushchenko on the law on the election of the head of state, adopted by the Parliament in a new edition in July this year, Ukrainian News reports. The main lobbyists for the law - the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of Regions - said earlier that they see no problem with overcoming the presidential taboo.

On the night of August 20-21, Robert Styles, Vice President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee for Facilities Management and Services, died in the United States, Vse sport reports. In the Sochi 2014 Bid Committee, Robert Styles was an international consultant. At the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, he held the position of Vice President for Facilities Management and Services.

Chechen militants claimed responsibility for the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, Reuters reports. In their statement , they claim that the cause of the accident was the explosion of a grenade planted in the engine room. The text is signed "Brigade of Martyrs Riyadus Salihin". Previously, it was believed that Shamil Basayev led the activities of the group. She took responsibility for the seizure of the school in Beslan.

In Dnepropetrovsk, on the territory of the Nizhnedneprovsk-Uzel station, a passenger train 504 "Dnepropetrovsk-Simferopol" collided with a shunting locomotive, UNIAN reports citing a source in the propaganda center of the main department of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Dnepropetrovsk region. As a result of the collision, six people were injured - four conductors of passenger train cars and two passengers.

An application was submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia from the relatives of a woman who died in prison due to the failure to provide her with medical care. According to Radio Liberty, Natalya Vorontsova was arrested on November 11, 2008 and kept in a pre-trial detention center in Novosibirsk on suspicion of complicity in the criminal activities of her husband Dmitry.

The oil slick moving along the Yenisei downstream from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station has actually been eliminated. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the chief military expert of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Colonel-General Pavel Plat. "By now, there is no oil slick as such. However, we are constantly monitoring and controlling the situation," Plat said. According to him, boats are constantly running on the Yenisei, which control the situation.

One of the victims of the Su-27 fighter plane crash in Zhukovsky died on Friday in a hospital, Lenta.Ru reports, citing a source in medical circles. The woman was hospitalized in the Moscow hospital number 36. She was in the burn intensive care unit. The crash of the Su-27 aerobatic team "Russian Knights" occurred in the Moscow region on August 16. As a result, the commander of the group, Igor Tkachenko, died. Navigator Igor Kurylenko and another Su-27 pilot Vitaly Melnik were hospitalized.

The Moscow authorities have confirmed that they are allowing the Solidarity opposition movement to hold a rally on National Flag Day. This was reported by the press secretary of the movement Olga Shorina to Interfax. However, officials allowed the rally on the condition that the number of its participants be reduced: instead of the declared 300 people, 50 people will be able to come to the memorial sign "Defenders of Free Russia".