The aerobatic team "Russian Knights" on four Su-27 aircraft made a lap of honor over the territory of the Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow, where the MAKS-2009 air show is completing its work. According to RIA Novosti, the pilots did not perform all the previously planned aerobatics, paying tribute to the memory of their commander Igor Tkachenko, who tragically died during a training flight.

Yugra Governor Alexander Filipenko flies to the Kanda oil station, where a strong fire broke out the day before. The governor's press service said that as soon as the head of the region arrives at the scene, he will make all the necessary decisions related to the elimination of the consequences of the emergency, RIA Novosti reports. "During the destruction of the tank, one person died, two firefighters went missing, five were injured," the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

The Writers' Union of Russia will open a branch in the capital of South Ossetia, Zhanna Zasseyeva, an aide to the president of the republic, told RIA Novosti. "On August 30, a group of the Writers' Union of Russia is coming to us. Russian writers are planning to open their branch here. Just like our writers in Russia will be welcome guests," she said. The action "Mutual assistance. Cooperation.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov dismissed the deputy chairman of the government, the head of the housing and communal services and issued three warnings to officials. According to Ekho Moskvy, Yevkurov said that he was dissatisfied with the way in which the work on the development of the region was carried out in the republic during his absence.

August 21, 2009. The city authorities refused to agree on an opposition rally on St. Isaac's Square in connection with the "organization of preparations for the winter period of housing and communal services." Olga Kurnosova, the leader of the St. Petersburg UHF, and Alexander Trubin, the chief of the defense staff of the Mariinsky Palace in 1991, speak with the Petersburgers. Author: Mikhail Eliseev for Grani-TV.

A student from Russia was injured in Alaska during a road robbery, according to the Anchorage Daily News website, citing police. The conflict occurred when 20-year-old Stanislav Teodorovich drove up in a car to a gas station. The suspect, 19-year-old local resident Pesamino Famasino, approached Teodorovich and began to threaten him with a gun, demanding that he and passenger Stanislav give him weapons and money. Teodorovich stepped on the gas, but Famasino managed to fire.

A tanker with 200 tons of oil on board ran aground on Sunday at the mouth of the Kukhtui River near Okhotsk in the north of the Khabarovsk Territory. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region. The incident happened around noon local time. According to operational information, there is no leakage of oil products. Emergency services are on the scene.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov plans to meet with human rights activists. He reported this to Ekho Moskvy. According to Yevkurov, the fears expressed by human rights organizations regarding the situation in Ingushetia are "partly true", but "they do not know many questions, because no one has brought them (the information - Ed.) to them." "When I return to the republic next week, I will definitely collect them and bring these things up.

Special operations to search for militants in Chechnya will continue to be intensive, told Interfax President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov . "The leaders of the gangs and their masters are making considerable efforts to force us to curtail operations, to abandon our tough position on the issue of combating terrorism and banditry. These attempts are doomed to complete failure," he said.

Member of the Presidium of Movement "Solidarity" Ilya Yashin will file an application with the prosecutor with a complaint about the illegal actions of the riot police. In an interview with "Echo of Moscow", Yashin called the actions of the police and riot police lawlessly. The day before, on the day of the Russian flag, Yashin was detained on the memory of the victims in August 1991 ( Video faces-TV ).

Three of the four children who disappeared a week ago in the Verkhnesaldinskiy district of the Sverdlovsk region were found in a hunting lodge, Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the region, told RIA Novosti. “Three of the four children were found 25 kilometers from the village of Basyanovsky, from where they left.

In connection with the strong forest fires that have been raging for the third day in the vicinity of Athens, Greek President Karolos Papoulias interrupted his vacation and hastily flew to the capital, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Greek state television. The head of state returned to his workplace in the afternoon. The situation with the fires has not yet been brought under control, the forest is burning for 30 kilometers. On Sunday, the flames came close to Athens.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that the time has come to return to the country its national shrines, which are in various museums around the world, including Russian ones. This was reported by the UNIAN agency. "The time has come to do everything for the authorities and for every citizen of Ukraine so that they can be returned home," Yushchenko said.

In Ryazan, a conscript soldier left a military unit with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and two equipped magazines for it, a told Interfax . law enforcement source “In the Zheleznodorozhny district of Ryazan, on Oktyabrsky Gorodok street, a conscripted serviceman left the perimeter security post, carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle with 60 rounds of 5.45 mm caliber,” the source noted. As BaltInfo clarifies, 19-year-old private Khanenya resigned from his post on the perimeter protection.

The death toll in the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station increased from 67 to 69 people, six people are considered missing, Sergey Shaposhnikov, director of the Civil Protection Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told RIA Novosti. Work in the engine room is now being carried out at around 308 meters, added Pavel Plat, head of the operational headquarters, chief military expert of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.