In Yekaterinburg, a KATO truck crane fell on a residential building, RIA Novosti reports. As Vadim Grebennikov, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region, told reporters, no one was injured as a result. The crane fell on a five-story building on Schmidt Street. According to Grebennikov, the failure of one of the crane supports is believed to be the preliminary cause of the fall.

Two militants killed during a skirmish in the Shatoi region of Chechnya on Sunday were listed as students of higher educational institutions of the republic. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday by a source in law enforcement agencies of the region.

Last weekend, the first case of death from hypothermia was recorded in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports, citing a police source. "Sunday morning in the east of Moscow, at a bus stop on Tkatskaya Street, the body of a man was found," the source said. A preliminary examination showed that the man died as a result of hypothermia. "On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the temperature outside in Moscow dropped to plus 8 degrees Celsius and it was very humid," the agency's source said.

Channel Five explains the reductions in the TV version of the TEFI award ceremony by technical reasons. As the channel's press secretary Larisa Konashenok told RIA Novosti, there was no censorship during the editing of the broadcast.

Mikhail Kasyanov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The recognition of Russia's independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is illegitimate, Moscow should cancel it. According to Rosbalt, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov, who was at the Autumn Session in Strasbourg, was informed about this in an interview with the Imady television company.

Vladimir Pozner's speech was cut from the television version of the national TEFI award, writes Kommersant . He attended the ceremony in the rank of an ordinary member of the academy and was awarded the "For Contribution to the Development of Television" award. Pozner’s words dedicated to the fathers of perestroika were cut out of the television version: “I want to thank fate ... I came to the screen when I was 52 years old, when many people are thinking about retirement.

Joseph interprets the dream of the pharaoh. The picture of the German artist Peter Joseph von Cornelius (Peter Joseph von Cornelius, 1783-1867) from the site http://en.wikipedia.org/ Joseph interprets the dream of the pharaoh.

Large consignments of counterfeit Swiss watches, Vertu phones and more than 100,000 pirated DVDs were confiscated at the Moscow markets Gorbushka, Luzhniki and Mitinsky Radio Market. According to RIA Novosti, the operation in the markets was carried out by employees of the UBEP. According to Filipp Zolotnitsky, a spokesman for the Moscow police department, as a result of the raid, it was possible to stop the activities of criminal gangs that had settled in the markets.

The ex-husband of a Russian woman, Rimma Salonen, who is accused in Finland of kidnapping her own son, demanded before the start of the trial to recover 50,000 euros from the mother of the child for moral damage and put her in jail for a long time.

The Moskva shopping center in the southeast of the capital has been closed for wholesale trade since Monday. As Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the department of the consumer market and services of the city, told RIA Novosti, buses with goods are not allowed to visit him. After the closure of the Cherkizovsky market, some entrepreneurs, mostly Chinese, moved to the Moskva shopping center in Lyublino, which caused discontent among local residents.

Moscow, September 26, 2009. A rally against the persecution of student Vsevolod Ostapov, who was beaten last year in the Sokolniki police station. Shooting by Dmitry Zykov for Grani-TV. Photo report

On Sunday late in the evening, the vice-governor of Khakassia, Abrek Cheltygmashev, was beaten, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the government of the republic. He was hospitalized. The agency adds that Cheltygmashev is registered as a candidate for the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Askizsky district of the republic. "We received information about his beating today and are now checking it. I have not been able to contact him yet.

Andrey Piontkovsky The Medvedev PR specialists are very reverent to each golden word that they invest in the mouth of the throne. Congratulations to the supreme ruler of some Furkino-Baso with an accuracy to the last comma are reproduced on the sites of the blogger Medved'a. And suddenly, on Kremlin.ru there is some bashful “The beginning of a meeting with the participants of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

The court gave 4.5 years in a penal colony to a girl who knocked down an employee of the Novosibirsk traffic police to death. According to RIA "Novosti", the examination showed that the defendant hit her in a state of intoxication. The court established that at the end of April, 22-year-old Olga Melnichenko accelerated in a sports Toyota Soarer and knocked down inspector Dmitry Chulkov on one of the highways in Novosibirsk. He was on duty on the road as part of the traffic police crew.

Well-known artists, the French Minister of Culture and even the woman, because of whom he is being persecuted by the American authorities, stood up for Roman Polanski. They are asking the United States to drop charges of child molestation against Polanski, in connection with which the director was detained in Switzerland at the Zurich airport over the weekend. In Zurich, he flew to the international film festival to receive an honorary award for his contribution to cinema.