The families of the crew members of the crashed Tu-154 will receive compensation in the amount of one and a half million rubles. The exact amount will depend on the length of service of the deceased and the number of children in the family, the RBC agency reports , citing the legal service of FSUE Pulkovo. According to the collective agreement, Pulkovo undertakes to pay a lump sum in the event of a disaster to family members of its employees an amount equivalent to five annual salaries.

Honored Pilot of Russia Vladimir Gerasimov blamed the dispatchers of the Kharkov air transport control center for the crash of the Tu-154 plane, which occurred in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on August 22, the Izvestia newspaper writes . According to Gerasimov, the Ukrainian dispatchers who controlled flight 612 Anapa - St. Petersburg did not allow the crew of the airliner to deviate from the assigned air corridor by more than 20 kilometers in order to avoid the thunderstorm front.

On August 25, the Chechen prosecutor's office received a telegram about the kidnapping of journalist Elina Ersenoyeva, RIA Novosti reports . Previously, the media reported that Ersenoyeva is the widow of recently killed militant Shamil Basayev. According to the deputy prosecutor of the republic, Nikolai Kalugin, the telegram was signed by “the chairman of the board, Elena Vilevskaya.” However, the text did not indicate the board of which organization we were talking about.

The suspect in the murder of Mini Miss America, John Mark Carr, arrived at the crime scene, reports the Associated Press. He was flown from Los Angeles to Boulder, Colorado, on a police plane. In this city, in 1996, in the basement of the Ramsey family cottage, the father found the body of six-year-old JonBenet strangled. From the airport, Carr was taken by car to the local prison, accompanied by helicopters of television journalists.

An employee of the Regional Operational Headquarters was attacked in Ingushetia on Thursday evening, RIA Novosti reports . As representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic said, the criminals opened fire with automatic weapons on a ROSH employee at about 23:00 Moscow time, when he was approaching his house in the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzhensky district. The ROSH officer was hospitalized with six bullet wounds. Doctors assess his condition as serious.

The Austrian financial holding Raiffeisen International sold 7.71 percent of its shares in the Kazakh bank TuranAlem to a consortium led by the Swedish investment group East Capital. The transaction amount is estimated at $136.5 million, Kazinform agency reports . According to First Deputy Chairman of the Board of TuranAlem Erken Tatishchev, the deal will support the bank's growth strategy and increase its investment attractiveness.

Amur waves Russia and China cannot agree on joint measures to protect the river’s ecology As a result of an accident that occurred at a plant in the city of Jilin in the province of the same name, located in northern China, industrial waste containing benzene compounds, including aniline, entered the Mannyu River, a tributary of the Songhua River. The accident became known on August 23, 2006, but it probably occurred a few days earlier: on August 20, 2006.

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Dorogomilovsky District Court to reinstate Alexander Vasbulatov, head of the Bryansk customs, by satisfying the cassation appeal of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), the Kommersant newspaper writes . Vasbulatov’s case was returned for retrial by another judge to the Dorogomilovsky court.

As of 14:00 Moscow time, the remains of 80 people who died in the Tu-154 plane crash near Donetsk have been identified. According to ITAR-TASS , this was reported to the intergovernmental commission of investigation. According to the Donetsk regional administration, at 17:00 Moscow time, a cargo plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation is scheduled to take off from Donetsk to St.

Escalators at the Kaluzhskaya station of the Moscow metro will not work for more than a month due to repairs, RIA Novosti reports . According to the press center of Mosgortrans, the operation of the two escalators of the southern lobby (exit to Obruchev Street and Starokaluzhskoe Highway) will not be carried out until October 6, 2006 due to the overhaul of the electric drive.

The Voronezh Regional Court sentenced the main defendant in the murder of Peruvian student Angelis Hurtado Enrique. Igor Pavlyuk was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a maximum security colony, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom. The remaining 12 defendants were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Ten were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one to five years in strict and general regime colonies. Another defendant was sentenced to a suspended sentence.

Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani admitted that negotiations on the purchase of Brazilian forward Ronaldo from Real Madrid have reached a dead end. The parties were unable to agree on the player’s transfer price. According to unofficial information, the Spaniards wanted to receive 30 million euros, and the Italians were ready to pay no more than 20. “Short meetings never bring a positive result,” Galliani said.

In Russia, they will refuse to calculate the amount of the fine based on the minimum wage (minimum wage). As stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov, the innovation will also affect administrative penalties for violating traffic rules. reports this Interfax . According to the Deputy Prime Minister, fines should be calculated not in minimum wages, but in fixed amounts. To do this, the Code of Administrative Offenses should be amended.

The fire in the Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg has been localized, RIA Novosti was told by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the city. “The fire was localized around 20.00 Moscow time,” the agency’s interlocutor said. As a result of the fire, the central dome and one of the four small domes of the cathedral collapsed. The central dome was the largest wooden dome in Europe.

France and Germany demanded that Israel end its air and sea blockade of Lebanon. This was stated during a meeting by the President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, reports France Presse. According to the leaders of the two European powers, such Israeli actions against Lebanon are “completely unjustified” and cause enormous damage to the country’s economy.