The commemoration ceremonies were held on Monday on the burials of Japanese prisoners of war near Komsomolsk-on-Amur and in other places of the Khabarovsk Territory. They were traditionally held by Buddhist monks in the presence of relatives of the dead.

About two hundred western VIP last weekend visited St. Petersburg at the invitation of the Microsoft co-owner of Paul Allen, reports The Daily Telegraph . A weekend tourist trip was organized with Allen's money and, judging by the newspaper reports, the program of visiting the Northern capital was very extravagant. The details of this voyage are stored in the strictest secret.

In Lviv, a group of doctors involved in the illegal sale of human organs was revealed, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Employees of the Office for Combating organized crime of the Lviv Regional Internal Affairs Directorate arrested three people. There is every reason to assume that the detainees cut the kidneys from the victims in an accident and sold them outside the region.

In the new television season, a number of changes will occur in the broadcasting net of the Channel Channel. This was announced on Monday by Interfax, Deputy Chairman of the VGTRK, Alexander Ponomarev, who oversees the Culture television channel. In October-November, new programs will appear on the channel that will turn to the topics of the current state of culture.

The American spacecraft Discovery on Sunday at 22:42 Moscow time successfully attached to the International Space Station. This was reported in the Russian flight control center, which maintains constant communication with the American flight management center in Houston. Discovery started at 1:10 Moscow time from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral, Interfax reports. This was the second attempt to start Shuttle, and it ended successfully.

On the last day of the World Athletics Championship, which ended in Canadian Edmonton, the Czech speaker Jan Iron and Begun for one and a half kilometers Moroccan Hisham El Herruzh confirmed that they were the best in their disciplines. Each of them won the third gold of the World Cup in his career, Sports Express reports. At a press conference, after a 1,500 m race, El Herruzh said that from that moment he would perform at a five-kilometer distance.

Two thieves died while trying to kidnap the copper electric cable at the Polusukhinskaya mine in the city of Mezhdurechensk of the Kemerovo region. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 4 people went to the "fish" of non -ferrous metals last Sunday. Two of them went down to one of the pits and did not return. A few hours later, rescuers called to the scene raised their bodies from a depth of almost 800 meters, RIA Novosti reports.

The first specialized customs warehouse "Car" on Monday began to work in Moscow. It is located 34 km of the Moscow Ring Road. Customs warehouse "Automobile" was the first and so far the only warehouse in Russia, where importers and official car dealers can place cars up to three years. Until recently, cars belonged to goods that were not allowed to premise under the customs warehouse, RIA Novosti reports.

After a break that lasted almost 20 years, Meryl Streep returns to the New York theater scene, reports Associated Press. On August 26, the premiere of Chekhovskaya "Seagull" will be held in the Central Park in the production of Michael Nichols, in which Strip will play the role of Arkadina.

A special train on which the DPRK head Kim Jong Ir is returning from Moscow to Pyongyang today will make short -term stops in Irkutsk and on Lake Baikal. At the Irkutsk-Passenger station, where the train will arrive at the end of the day, a change in electric locomotive, technical inspection of the composition, replenishment of its food supplies will take place. Then, after about two hours, the express will reach Lake Baikal, ITAR-TASS reports.

In St. Petersburg, an investigation was completed on a loud custom murder of the chairman of the board of directors of Plastolimer OJSC Sergey Krizhan. It is reported by "Interfax." The entrepreneur was shot on March 22, 2000 in his own jeep at the railway crossing at the Mozhaiskaya station. Then Krizhan himself and his 21-year-old son were killed. The businessman’s wife, his daughter and friend of his daughter, students of the 9th grade, received firearms.

This afternoon, directly from the hall of the Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region, a convicted person, who had just been sentenced, was escaped. According to Interfax, 33-year-old Konstantin Borzykh for malicious hooliganism and the infliction of serious bodily injuries gave four years in prison. The escape became possible, according to RIA Novosti , because the convoy after the sentence "relaxed".

The State Duma deputy from the LDPR Evgeny Ishchenko made a sensational statement.

According to the Kommersant newspaper , the MUSTCOM shareholders 90% of the vote voted to preserve the consortium in their former form until 2004. The official life lines of the consortium ended on August 11, 2001. As you know, Mustcom owns a blocking package of shares √ 25 % plus 1 action - in the Russian telecommunication holding Svyazinvest. The decisive role in the outcome of the vote was played by the main co -owner of the consortium George Soros.

The communal services of Vladivostok continue to eliminate the consequences of heavy rains. Now the supply of electricity has been restored to almost all consumers. Without the light, only three houses on Sportivnaya Street remain, where the basements with distribution shields are flooded, Interfax reports. The power supply of these houses should be restored according to the temporary scheme. In addition, the supply of cold water to the regional center has practically normal.