The author and host of the Freedom of Speech program on NTV Savik Shuster accepted the proposal of the new leadership of the channel to take the post of Deputy General Director for Documentary Cinema. He confirmed this on Sunday on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. "The new leadership considers the documentary cinema one of the priorities of the channel.

In the center of Moscow, on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, in house 3, building 1, the cashier of the currency exchange point was killed. According to Interfax on Sunday to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at 09:00 a client entered the exchange point. He did not find a cashier at the table. After waiting for a while, he looked through the glass inside the exchange point. There he saw the body of the cashier on the couch with traces of blood. The client called the police.

In the military unit in the village of Murino (Leningrad Military District), an attempt to escape ordinary Ruslan Bakhaev was suppressed, Interfax was told on Sunday in the north-western regional center of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. They said that at 4 am Sunday Bakhaev attacked the sentry, disarmed him and tried to hide. At the same time, he wounded the sergeant who was trying to detain him. The sergeant died on the way to the hospital.

The high school building in the Georgian village of Tamarashen, located a few kilometers north of Tskhinvali, was fired from grenade launchers last night with Ossetian armed groups. According to Interfax in the police of the region Shida Kartli, as a result of the shelling of the victims or there are no wounded, but the building was damaged. The unit of Georgian peacekeeping forces, deployed in this village, did not open a response fire.

The inauguration ceremony of the new President of Serbia Boris Tadich took place today in Belgrade. He was elected to this post on June 27 following the results of the second round of elections, ITAR-TASS reports. Boris Tadich made a solemn oath to the deputies of the parliament in the presence of Prime Minister Voist Koshtunitsa and members of the Serbian government. The ceremony continued in the residence of the head of the republic, which is located opposite the parliament building.

In the Russian Air Force, Russia refutes information about the violation of the airspace of Georgia. According to RIA Novosti, the head of the press service of the Russian Air Force, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, the information distributed by the Georgian side of the allegedly accidental violation of the airspace of Georgia by the mortal devices of the Russian Air Force, is not true.

As a result of squall winds and heavy rains in Western Ukraine, 237 settlements are de -energized. As ITAR-TASS reported today in the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies, the revelry of the elements happened on the evening of July 10. The Ternopil region was most affected, where a monthly rainfall fell in two hours.

Hundreds of Iraqi went out today for a demonstration in support of the former president of Saddam Hussein in the city of Baakuba. Eyewitnesses report this. Armed people in masked marching around the city shouting slogans against Prime Minister Iraq Ayayad Alaiu and in support of Saddam. The manifestants also carried the posters of the Iraqi dictator.

On Sunday, the confrontation in South Ossetia sharply exacerbated Russian-Georgian relations. Russia demanded the immediate issuance of the Georgian side of the captured Russian military property, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced to journalists by the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Ivanov upon arrival in London. It is interesting that on Monday, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili also arrives in London on Monday. "It (military property) should be returned where it was stolen.

Specialists from 160 countries of the world, including Russia, participate in the 15th World AIDS Conference that opened today in the capital of Thailand. She passes under the auspices of the UN. More than 20 thousand conference participants for the first time gathered in one of the capitals of the Asian continent.

In Moscow, in the Eastern Administrative District, a trained bear attacked a man, RIA Novosti was told in the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. "In the eastern administrative district of the capital on Sovetskaya Street, the house 80, who was sitting on a chain, attacked a man," the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, a man approached the bear, after which the beast suddenly grabbed him and bit his head.

The Pope John Paul II intends to transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church the miraculous Kazan icon of the Mother of God, which has been in his personal apartments in the Apostolic Palace for many years. “A few weeks ago, the Holy Father informed the Moscow Patriarchate with his desire to give the Russian Orthodox Church the Kazan icon of the Mother of God,” the VAVAKINA Navarro Valsa, who was widespread on the eve of the press service of the Vatican , said on the eve of a statement.

Five people were killed and 34 were injured today as a result of a bomb explosion in the city of Herat in the west of Afghanistan. This was reported by police representatives. The explosion thundered near the military post, which is located near the market. The bomb was laid in a garbage container. It is likely that the attack was carried out by the members of the Taliban movement. According to medical sources, the number of victims can increase, since several victims are in critical condition.

Two-time world champion in car racing in the Formula 1 class-1 class, Finn Mika Hakkinen thinks about returning to “big prizes”. Khakkinen's last statement dated last year says that he will no longer return to F-1. This was stated by Boss "McLarena" Ron Dennis. “We had a long conversation,” Dennis said. “Mika was interested in my opinion whether he needs to return.

In Australia, the Akula-killer attacks on the surfed today occurred today. From the wounds received, the athlete died on the spot. The incident happened on the west coast of the Green Continent near the city of Graistown. Patrol boats and helicopters immediately began searching for a sea predator, receiving special permission from the authorities to destroy it. However, while their efforts have not been successful. Cases of sharks attacks on people in the waters of Australia are quite rare.