An An-12 plane with 12 people on board crashed 50 km from Omsukchan Airport in the Magadan Region. Earlier it was reported that the plane requested an emergency landing due to engine problems. As Farid Akhmetgaliev, director of the airline, told RIA Novosti , it is not yet possible to fly to the crash site due to thick fog. As the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed the agency, there is low cloudiness in the area of ​​the incident, visibility is 180 m.

Context 924 1 min. ... Georgia began celebrating the anniversary of the 2008 armed conflict on August 7 - according to Tbilisi, on that day three years ago, Ossetian artillery bombed Georgian villages north of Tskhinvali, and the Russian army entered the territory of South Ossetia through the Roki tunnel. On Sunday, an exhibition of artists and a theatrical event dedicated to refugees took place in Batumi.

The market is recovering, but slower than last year Finance The construction equipment leasing market in St. Petersburg is showing positive dynamics. According to experts, by the end of the year this segment will grow by an average of 50%. However, its growth rate will be significantly lower than last year. In 2010, this segment grew by an average of 70%.

SENTENCE The Trans-Baikal Regional Court yesterday sentenced two men for the brutal murder of Nizhny Novgorod biker traveler Alexei Barsukov in August 2010 to 17 and 11 years in a maximum security colony; they will also pay more than a million rubles in compensation for moral damage to the wife and father of the murdered man, a court representative said.

356 2 minutes. ... Riots in London and other UK cities continue. Presenter Andrei Norkin asked Kommersant FM international columnist Konstantin Eggert about the reasons for the British lawlessness. –– I find myself thinking that since the beginning of the year you and I have been constantly discussing street riots in Arab countries. -- Yes. –– And something is happening now, but I think this is a different story. Is it true that this is similar to the French riots a few years ago?

The Ministry of Land Property is ready to sell a stake in the company The Ministry of Land and Property Relations of the Republic put up for auction 48.83% of the authorized capital of Bashkirsky Kholod OJSC. Market participants interviewed by Kommersant believe that at least two structures are interested in the asset: companies belonging to the Neral group, controlled by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Ernst Isaev, as well as the second largest milk processor, Allat CJSC.

The riots in London were well coordinated On Monday night, riots broke out again in London. Hundreds of people, mostly young people, clashed with police, smashed shops and set cars on fire. It turned out that members of unrelated street gangs and youth groups coordinated their actions in advance through social networks. In this regard, the police leadership of the capital, which knew about the impending pogroms, but could not prevent them, came under fire from criticism.

Today, August 9, the international rating agency Fitch upgraded the rating of Eurobonds of Ukraine Mortgage Loan Finance No.1 Plc class A from level BB- to level BB, and class B from level B- to level B. The forecast for the rating of Eurobonds of class A is positive, class B is stable. Eurobonds of class A Ukraine Mortgage Loan Finance No.1 were issued in February 2007 in the amount of $134.1 million, class B securities - in February 2007 in the amount of $36.9 million.

Members of the Pirogovka admissions committee were caught falsifying applicants Yesterday, the Ministry of Health and Social Development and Rosobrnadzor summed up the interim results of a joint audit of the scandal involving the admission of several hundred applicants to the Russian National Research University named after Pirogov (RNRMU), existing only on paper.

Alleged culprits of a major fire in Volgograd detained Volgograd police officers on Monday detained the alleged culprits of a large landscape fire in the Dzerzhinsky district of the city, where about ten hectares of dry vegetation were burning, a representative of the regional Main Department of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti.

The court determined those responsible for losses from crisis investments Losses incurred by pension funds during the 2008 crisis should be compensated at the expense of NPFs’ own funds, and not at the expense of their clients - this position was taken by the arbitration court, having considered the corresponding dispute between NPF First National and the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM).

Today, August 9, the National Joint Stock Company (NAC) Nadra of Ukraine reported that in January-June 2011, according to Ukrainian accounting standards, it received UAH 0.005 million in net profit, while the company completed the same period last year with a net loss of UAH 17.259 million . According to the company, its net income in the first half of the year increased 2.58 times (by UAH 37.984 million) – to UAH 61.988 million.

Several billboards advertising Mikhail Prokhorov's projects have been dismantled in Moscow. Representatives of Right Cause claim that this advertising was social, not political. However, the performers may not have taken into account the procedure for approving social advertising in Moscow, the specialist believes. In Moscow, posters of the leader of the Right Cause party, Mikhail Prokhorov, are being dismantled.

Instead of its own police department, crimes at the enterprise will be investigated by two police units Instead of the police department for servicing AvtoVAZ OJSC, which was liquidated in July, two groups of police officers will deal with the problems of the car plant - from the Tolyatti criminal investigation department and the Department for Economic Crimes. Moreover, the number of “VAZ police officers” will be several times smaller than before.

Yabloko members challenged the height of the Lakhta Center on the same grounds as the Okhta Center Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Yabloko members, as promised, challenged in court the order of the city committee on urban planning and architecture (KGA), to which the authorities allowed the construction of a 500-meter skyscraper for Gazprom structures in the north of the city.