The stop of the AvtoVAZ conveyor led to an unplanned vacation of a joint venture that produces Chevy Niva. Meanwhile, the dismissed activists of the GM-Autsovaz trade union committee are trying to return to jobs through the court. The decision of the AvtoVAZ board inhibit the conveyor for the whole of August led to the stop of the work jointly with the General Motors of the enterprise.

The top manager of the largest supplier of military products "Almaz-Antei" was shot dead on a crowded street in Moscow. The investigation suspects that the murder is registered. The concern itself claims that the murdered person was not engaged in commercial projects, but by analytics. The head of the department of the Air Defense Air Defense of Almaz-Antei, Andrei Barabenkov, was shot dead on Thursday at about 20.00 Moscow time in the courtyard of house No. 14 on Lomonosovsky Prospekt.

Barack Obama decided to put an end to the scandal, flared up around the arrest of a black professor from Harvard. The president decided to invite the main participants in the conflict to the White House for beer. The story of the arrest of a black Harvard professor Henry Luis Gates Jr. has not been leaving the first lanes of American newspapers for two weeks. The famous scientist, who was arrested while trying to get into his own house, accused Sergeant James Crowley detaining him of racism.

Mi-5 assumes that the author of the intercepted e-letter under friends meant chemicals, and a terrorist attack under the wedding Mi-5 claims that a Muslim suspected of terrorism sent encoded messages to the al-Qaeda leadership. The emails in which the Pakistani student talked about the upcoming wedding, according to the security service, are the details of the impending terrorist attack in the UK.

American Josh Barnett, which was denied by the sports commission of California in a license for a fight by fighting without rules against Fedor Emelianenko, continues to deny the intentional use of prohibited drugs. On the eve of the representative of the fighter Shannon Hooper made an official statement. "Josh is very disappointed that Affliction decided to cancel the tournament without fully understanding the situation and without waiting for all the official results of medical tests.

In the upcoming KHL season, Russian hockey player Sergei Zubov will play for the St. Petersburg SKA. According to Sport-Express , the defender, having signed a two-year contract with the St. Petersburg team, will arrive at the club on August 12. The 39-year-old Zubov began his career in CSKA, later moved to the United States, where he played in New York, Pitsburg. His last club was Dallas, for which he played for 13 years. Twice the hockey player won the Stanley Cup.

During the only Russian concert of Madonna this year, which will take place on Sunday in St. Petersburg, spectators may not be afraid of the wealth of weather. The organizers of the concert have applied for the services of a special acceleration of clouds for this day. According to weather forecasts, in the evening of August 2, cloudy weather, rain and thunderstorm are expected in the northern capital. According to RIA Novosti , Madonna will arrive in St. Petersburg tonight.

London Chelsea won the case against his former player Adrian Mutu. Now the football player must pay the club of Roman Abramovich 17.1 million euros. Mutu moved to Chelsea from Parma in 2003. The acquisition of the Romanian striker for 15 million euros was one of the first major transactions of the club of Roman Abramovich. The football player entitled great hopes that Mutu, however, did not justify. A year later, he was expelled from the club for the use of cocaine.

At once, four world leaders - Angel Merkel, Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy and Viktor Yushchenko went on vacation within a week. The presidential holidays promise to be difficult for almost all heads of states. During this week, world leaders went on vacation one after another or announced that they were going to rest.

On November 9 this year, it will turn 20 years since the day the wall destroyed by the Berliners fell, sharing the city, and together the East and the West. A large chronicle exhibition, which opened in the Moscow Manege "Fall of the Berlin Wall", is devoted to this event. She tells the story of the main symbol of the Cold War. Waking up on the morning of Sunday August 13, 1961, the inhabitants of Berlin experienced shock.

Two policemen were detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe in Dagestan. The detention was conducted by employees of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. The first detention occurred in Makhachkala. Upon receipt of a bribe in the amount of 400 thousand rubles in his own office, the senior investigator of the investigation department was detained at the police department Leninsky district of Makhachkala.

In one of the past columns, I mentioned the new ideologist of the Chechen underground - a certain Sheikh Said Buryat, who is widely known in the narrow circles of fundamentalists with his sermons with vile insults of all world religions, except Islam in his most orthodox version. The investigative bodies of Chechnya opened a criminal case against him, and Ramzan Kadyrov found traces of the propaganda work of this newly -minted Sheikh.

There is a legend in Hollywood: when Walt Disney died, he was not buried, but put in a cryogenic chamber. So that later, of course, to resurrect at the first opportunity. The possibility, supporters of this theory say, appeared. A young animator came to Disney - John Lasseter - the reincarnation of the great master.

Russia may enter the project for the construction of the Transafgan gas pipeline On Thursday, in Dushanbe, the leaders of Russia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan discussed the topics of security and energy transit from Central Asia to the countries of South Asia. Moscow has a chance to participate in the project of the Transafgan gas pipeline (Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India).

On Thursday, representatives of a dozen public organizations and political parties announced on August 11 a joint rally against the project of the General Development Plan of Moscow until 2025 and the procedure for public hearings on the general plan that started on July 23. There were many complaints.