The reason for the disaster of the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber was the refusal of the generator, Interfax reports. "This conclusion was reached by experts of the 13th Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation who completed the decoding of on -board recorders (black boxes)," a source in the commission investigating the reason for the flight incident said on Monday. He noted that the bomber crew could not eject because the board was completely de -energized.

Terrorists threaten to blow up aircraft heading from South Korea to the United States. According to South Korean radio, the air transport department of South Korea received a letter from Thailand last Sunday, which states that a certain terrorist of Indian origin under the name Abdul Rajab will try to blow up one or more aircraft operating in the United States. The message also indicates that Abdul Rajab, associated with al-Qaeda, must arrive in Seoul on a plane on Monday.

On Monday, July 12, the famous film director Pavel Lungin celebrates the anniversary: ​​he is 55 years old. On the eve of this date, he began to implement a new film project called Dead Souls, but so far all his details are kept secret. Work on a new production will be carried out at the Mosfilm studio, ITAR-TASS reports. A remarkable event was the film “Wedding” shown at the festival in Cannes, awarded the prize “For the best acting ensemble”.

The Presnensky court of Moscow partially satisfied the lawsuit of the parents of Inna Gizoeva , who died during the attack near the National Hotel in Moscow, the court said. The court ordered MAPT-Media CJSC and CJSC Top-Secret-Media to pay the plaintiffs 15 thousand rubles for the harm done to the good name of the family. " In addition, the court ordered the journalist the newspaper "Version" to pay Gizoev 20 thousand rubles, reports .

The American authorities consider the possibility of postponing the date of the presidential election. This was reported to the influential Newsweek magazine by sources in the US Department of Internal Security. The US intelligence services are seriously concerned about the intentions of Al-Qaeda to arrange powerful terrorist attacks on the eve of the presidential election.

In Kaliningrad, to the 750th anniversary of the city, two sculptural compositions dedicated to the famous German storyteller Ernst theodor Amadeus Hoffmann are intended to establish at once. The sculptural compositions were prepared as a gift by sculptors Mikhail Shemyakin and Vyacheslav Hazaru, Yuri Savenko, Mayor of Kaliningrad, told reporters on Monday.

Guta-Bank will accept customer statements about the return of funds from July 12, the Guta-Bank official report posted on the bank’s website said. "For the convenience of customers, accepting applications for the return of funds will be made from July 12, 2004 from 10 to 16 hours," the report said. Applications will be accepted in all branches of the bank at the place of customer service. The Guta-Bank branches suspended their work on July 6 .

In Morocco, eight people died and 47 were injured from an electric current blow. According to the local news agency, MAP, the tragedy occurred in the Sunday Bazaar in the village of Sidi Hajaje near Casablanca. One of the companies arranged a presentation and free distribution of the washing powder of the new brand to visitors to the bazaar. The action was carried out at the base of a large metal advertising cabinet installed by the company under the power power line, RIA Novosti reports.

A letter from the Yukos oil company with a proposal to resolve the debt to the budget is at work in the relevant departments of the Russian government. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" informed source in the Government of the Russian Federation. According to him, an official note by the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin is also studied with a proposal to work out the concept of creating an international investment bank.

The bodies of three people were discovered on Monday in a collector in the center of Moscow. According to Newru.com in the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the capital, information about the detection of corpses was received at 11:52. According to the source in the State Pedagogical University, the bodies of three men were in the collector near the house 8 on the street of the Soviet Army near the building of the Russian Army Theater.

A specialized program for lending to higher education has appeared in Russia. “The participants of the Credo program (education lending) were four leading university - the Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy, the St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State University Lomonosov and the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after Timiryazev,” said Lyudmila Verbitskaya, rector of St. Petersburg State University.

Russian writer Viktor Erofeev recently in an interview said about President Putin: "There are two Putin, and maybe more. He has not yet decided what he wants to be: Russian or European, democratic or authoritarian." The same duality is often characterized by the opinion of the West about the mysterious Putin and about the huge empire controlled by him. Undoubtedly, after the turbulent and chaotic era of Yeltsin, Putin stabilized Russia in many respects.

The Abu Graib prison near Baghdad is fired from a grenade launcher, AFP reports citing the American command. According to him, during the shelling, one foreigner was wounded - a civilian who performs an order in the prison. His nationality is not specified. The Abu Graib prison gained sad fame after it became known about the inhuman attitude of American warders to the prisoners languishing there, RIA Novosti notes.

The Russian goalkeeper Nikolai Khabibulin, who won the Stanley Cup in the Tampa Bay Lighting NHL club, will bring this trophy next Saturday to the capital of Belarus. According to ITAR-TASS, the 31-year-old goalkeeper decided to present the most honorable trophy of this league in Minsk, where his wife and mother-in-law come from.

About one and a half tons of cocaine was confiscated on Sunday as a result of a special operation of Colombian law enforcement agencies. A large batch of drugs was discovered on the island of Santa Catalin in the Caribbean, which belongs to Colombia. During the operation, two people were detained. The police also confiscated three high -speed boats, on which criminals, allegedly, transported drugs to one of the countries of Central America for subsequent transfer to the United States.