On Monday afternoon, sappers removed a military grenade from under the car of a capital lawyer in the north of Moscow, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. According to him, the grenade under the bottom of his SUV was discovered at about 16:00 by the owner of the car himself, when he drove to a gas station at 21 Dmitrovskoye Highway.

Relatives of those killed in the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP blamed the management of the hydroelectric plant for the death of their loved ones. According to "Kommersant", they believe that the station's management "takes too long to decide on closing the dampers and pumping water out of the engine room." According to relatives of the victims, many of the bodies were taken to the morgue without clothes.

A resident of Astrakhan fined 500 rubles for criticizing the regional governor in the presence of President Dmitry Medvedev. The magistrate of the Kirovsky district of Astrakhan found Nadiya Fokina guilty of hooliganism. According to Kommersant , the prosecution succeeded in proving that the woman swore obscenities and clearly violated public order. The fined believes that she has the right to say what she thinks.

The body of a third firefighter was found, who died during the elimination of a fire at the Konda oil station in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a representative of the Ural Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. The fire is localized, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are engaged in extinguishing residual fires and cooling the surviving tanks.

The regime of the counter-terrorist operation, introduced in the Nazran district of Ingushetia on June 22 after the assassination attempt on President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was canceled on Monday, the press secretary of the FSB department for the republic told RIA Novosti. "The CTO regime in the Nazran district of Ingushetia was introduced at 10:00 Moscow time on June 22 after the assassination attempt on the president of the republic, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

Russian banks could already today issue mortgage loans at 14 percent per annum, and a return to the pre-crisis level of the rate is possible in two or three years. According to RIA Novosti, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made such a statement at a meeting with workers at an aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude. “Miracles will not happen here, but I think that in the next two or three years, not earlier, we will return to the situation on the mortgage, which we had, but it does not suit us either.

The fire at the oil station "Konda" in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, which started on Saturday evening, was completely extinguished at 12.10 Moscow time on Monday. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the Ural regional center of the EMERCOM of Russia. The death toll in the fire has reached four: one of the firefighters injured during the extinguishing died in the hospital. Three more victims remain in hospitals. One firefighter refused hospitalization.

In the suburbs, an FSB officer fired a machine gun at a policeman after arguing with him over a parking space. According to Life.ru , the incident occurred in the village of Ozeretskoye, Dmitrovsky district. The policeman was hospitalized, the counterintelligence officer was detained. According to the investigation, a 27-year-old employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived in Ozeretskoye to visit his mother. He parked near 130 Sadovaya Street.

On Sunday, two Estonian sappers were killed in Afghanistan while performing a combat mission, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the main headquarters of the Estonian defense forces.

On the night of Monday in Israel, at the age of 76, the poetess Renata Mucha died. This is reported by the site NEWSru Israel. A few years ago, she was diagnosed with cancer. Despite her illness, she continued to work - she taught English at the preparatory department at Ben-Gurion University. Renata Mukha was born in Odessa in 1933, then her family moved to Kharkov, during the war she was evacuated to Tashkent.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov announced the resumption of economic growth in Russia, Reuters reports. Answering a question about whether the Russian economy is coming out of recession, he said that economic growth from the bottom of the recession has already been recorded, but in order to call it sustainable, it is necessary to observe it for several months.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru So he has come, this one year the sad anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. 70 years, by the way, from the date of the USSR entered the Second World War on the side and on equal terms with Hitler Germany. The USSR, like a jackal, like the latest striped hyena, feeding on a carrion, lived well from the Nazi table.

The St. Petersburg network of travel agencies "World Without Borders" stopped communicating after 150 of its clients could not go on vacation and the network's executive director was put on the wanted list. Writes about this "Kommersant". The executive director of the management company, Dmitry Machikhin, is wanted by the Department for Combating Economic Crime (OBEP) of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg. Machikhin is suspected of fraud.

The Moscow-based Avtoframos, which manufactures Renault cars, launched the conveyor of the car factory on Monday after the summer holidays, Interfax reports citing company representative Olga Sergeeva. The production leave of the enterprise continued from August 3.

The criminal case against the ex-governor of the Amur Region Leonid Korotkov, accused of abuse of office, was sent by the court to the prosecutor's office to eliminate shortcomings, Interfax reports. "The regional court confirmed the decision taken earlier by the city court, according to which it is necessary to eliminate a number of shortcomings in the indictment," the press service of the regional court said.