The investigation team inspected the Arctic Sea vessel and did not find any foreign cargo on board other than timber and lumber declared for transportation. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in the message of the UPC. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied some media reports that a dry cargo ship seized in the Atlantic was allegedly carrying S-300 missiles, and promised that the investigation into the seizure of this ship would be as open as possible.

The Kutaisi Court of Appeal released the captain of the Turkish tanker Buket, a representative of the press service of the court told RIA Novosti. Turkish citizen Mehmed Coskun Ozturk was sentenced to 24 years in prison for violating the rules of entry into the occupied territory. The punishment was replaced with a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of 30,000 lari. Thus, the court approved the procedural deal between the captain and the prosecutor's office.

The chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, rejected the accusations of political reasons for withdrawing from the elections of candidates from the Democratic Movement "Solidarity", Kasparov.ru reports. According to Gorbunov, the representative of Solidarity Ilya Yashin, whose signature sheets were completely rejected by the election commission, filled them with signatures of either dead people or residents of houses whose apartments were long demolished.

The Accounts Chamber proposes to return to a progressive tax scale for individuals. According to Ekho Moskvy, this was announced by the head of the department, Sergei Stepashin. According to Stepashin, a progressive tax scale should be introduced, at least for people with the highest incomes. The head of the Accounts Chamber believes that this will increase revenues to the federal budget. Stepashin warned that the budgetary system's need for spending would only grow in the near future.

In Nazran, the fight between law enforcement officers and militants ended. Two militants were killed, two more civilians were injured, a representative of the press service of the FSB Directorate for Ingushetia told RIA Novosti.

The UN proposes to replace the dollar with a global currency. According to the Daily Telegraph, this proposal is contained in the report of the Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). According to the authors of the report, the current system of currencies and rules for regulating the world economy does not work properly. And this is the cause of the current financial and economic crisis.

Colleagues of the sergeant of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who crushed two people in Perm on an infantry fighting vehicle, claim that it was not he who was drunk, but the victims. this They reported to Kommersant. Earlier it was reported that in the village of Alyoshikha, a drunk BMP driver ran into a bus stop and knocked down two people. One died on the spot, the other was seriously injured.

An Egyptian court dropped the charges of prostitution against three Russian women. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Cairo Shamil Utoev. "The court decided to release them," the Russian diplomat said. 27-year-old Mohammed, the owner of one of the travel companies in Cairo, told the police about the Russians.

The representative of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov appealed to the prosecutor's office the refusal of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate to institute criminal proceedings against the chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov. This was reported to Interfax by Kadyrov’s lawyer Andrei Krasnenkov. According to him, a copy of the resolution was received the day before, and the decision itself was issued on August 31.

The Accounts Chamber warned two years ago about the significant deterioration of the equipment of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced in Barnaul by the head of the department, Sergei Stepashin. "Two years ago, the Accounts Chamber checked the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, where we indicated that there is 85 percent of technological wear and tear. A submission was sent to the government and a letter to the Prosecutor General's Office.

The Federal Bailiff Service asks the Ministry of Communications to deal with mobile and fixed-line operators who refuse bailiffs to provide information about subscribers. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, the bailiffs assure that they are talking exclusively about the phone numbers of the debtors. The next step may be to write off subscribers' money to pay off debts, operators are afraid.

In July and August, the bailiffs of Transbaikalia found debtors through the VKontakte social network. Oleg Titov, a spokesman for the regional UFSSP, told RIA Novosti that thanks to this network, two violators were detained who bought foreign cars on credit and did not pay for them. Their debt in both cases amounted to more than 100 thousand rubles. Female employees of the UFSSP started Vkontakte pages and started correspondence with debtors.

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo: Radio Liberty The discussion about the appearance of the name of Stalin at the Kurskaya metro station, which coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was very lively. However, only three came from noticeable public institutions against “creeping restoration”: “Memorial”, “Yabloko” and the Russian Orthodox Church.

A strong earthquake occurred in Georgia on Tuesday night, Georgia Online news agency reports. The epicenter of the tremors was located in the Onsky region of the country, 150 kilometers from Tbilisi. There, the magnitude of the earthquake was 7-8 points on a 12-point system. There are reports of relatively minor damage, and no casualties are yet known. In the west and east of Georgia, the tremors were 5-6 points, in Tbilisi - 5 points.

Photo AP Ten years have passed after the terrible events of the fall of 1999. On the night of September 9, a nine -story residential building on Guryanov Street flew into the air in Moscow. 94 people were killed, 164 were injured. On September 13, a powerful explosion destroyed an eight -story house on the Kashirsky highway - 119 dead. Three days later, 17 people die in Volgodonsk under the ruins of the house.