Since 1961, to this day in accidents in Soviet and Russian atomic submarines (nuclear submarines), more than 507 people have died. The most serious accidents caused by fires ended with flooding of submarines. As a result of the accidents of nuclear power plants, the active zone of the reactor occurred. Most of the nuclear submarines, victims of large accidents, were based in the Northern Fleet.

The NTV√PROFIT company decided to continue filming the series “Birthday of the Bourgeois”. After the screening of the last episode of the film, the company's website was filled with demands for an immediate continuation of the adventures of Bourgeois. Therefore, the authors of the series thought about it and invited fans to send their story ideas. There were many offers. Some recommendations were useful to the creators.

Yesterday a meeting was held under the leadership of the first deputy heads of the Ministry of Railways of Russia and RAO UES of Russia, Alexander Misharin and Leonid Melamed. During the negotiations, an agreement was reached on the procedure for interaction between the parties in order to end the energy crisis on Russian railways.

The Government of the Russian Federation decided to provide financial assistance to the families of sailors who arrived in Murmansk with the Kursk nuclear submarine. According to the Department of Government Information, it was decided to allocate 500 thousand rubles for these purposes. This decision was made on Friday evening at a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov.

The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano criticized the decision of the British authorities to allow experiments with human embryos. Although the ban on human cloning has not been lifted, embryo cloning to grow human organs for transplantation could open the green light to human cloning experiments, the Vatican says. Limiting the age of the embryo used for experiments to 14 days also does not seem to the Vatican newspaper to be a way out of the situation.

A kurultai (congress) of Muslims from the Asian part of Russia opened today in Omsk. Its participants will discuss issues of political and religious life in Russia. The continuation of the congress will be a meeting of the socio-political movement "Refah" ("Prosperity"), scheduled for August 19, speaking on behalf of all Russian Muslims.

Macaulay Culkin is about to make his theatrical debut. He is currently in talks to star in the London production of Madame Melville, in which his character is a 15-year-old American living in Paris who is in love with his French teacher (to be played by Irene Jacob). The premiere of "Madame Melville" is expected in October at the Vaudeville Theater.

The representative of the Canadian immigration service said that all eight people who have already photographed and removed their fingerprints from them are interviewing and filling out the papers. The procedure for considering applications can last about a year. As a rule, all this time immigrants have the right to stay in Canada.

Vladimir Putin admitted that immediately after receiving information about an emergency in the Barents Sea, his “first desire” was to fly to the flooding of the Kursk atomic submarine. “But I resisted, and I think that I did the right thing,” said the Russian President on Friday, answering the question of Interfax about why he did not interrupt his vacation in connection with the accident accident.

Authorities in the state of Borno in northwestern Nigeria announced the introduction of Sharia law in the state. According to sources, tomorrow the governor of the state, Mala Kashalla, will sign the corresponding bill approved by the local parliament. The introduction of Sharia law in Borno involves a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages and the introduction of penalties for violations of Islamic morality.

The tragedy at the bottom of the Barents Sea from the very beginning went beyond the domestic. The point is not that most of the naval powers proposed their help to save submariners who were in distress at the Kursk atomic engine. From the first day, the catastrophe of the underwater missile carrier has become one of the most illuminated events in the world.

4 people died, another 46 were injured as a result of a car accident, which occurred today at 1201 kilometers of the Moscow-Chelyabinsk highway near the village of Severny in the Orenburg region. According to the Center for Disaster Medicine (CMK) of Tatarstan, today at about 13:00 there was a frontal collision of the MAZ truck with the Ikarus bus, which followed the flight Almetyevsk-Samara.

In Chechnya, nine bases of militants were destroyed over the past day, the press center of the United Group reports. 5 terrorists were killed. In various regions of the republic, 50 units of ammunition of various types, as well as 11 kg of TNTIL, were seized. The militants fired on units of the federal forces seven times. It is reported that the shootout occurred in Grozny. Nothing is known about the losses among Russian troops.

The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church has officially completed its work. However, the celebrations dedicated to the Council will continue for three more days. Today, a solemn act dedicated to the celebration of the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ took place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

As analysts predicted, the downward correction on the Russian stock market turned out to be very shallow and, judging by the course of trading on Friday, will not last long. The day before, the RTS index never dropped to the key level of 220 points, having consolidated around 224-225 points. One of the main factors of stabilization was the persistence of the highest (10-year record) oil prices and the stable situation on the US stock market.