The celebration of the City Day on the approaching weekend will not be canceled, despite the explosion on the "Riga". This was stated by Yuri Luzhkov, who was at the site of the tragedy, reported to reporters. “We will not cancel the celebration of the city day. Of course, all the necessary additional security measures will be taken in connection with the terrorist attack, but the celebrations will take place,” the mayor emphasized.

To the south of Sakhalin and the southern Kuril Islands on Tuesday in the afternoon, a powerful tropical Typhoon "Cup" collapsed from Japan, RIA Novosti was informed in the regional hydrometeorological service. The epicenter of the typhoon is located in the north of the Japanese Island of Hokkaido, separated from Sakhalin by the Laperuse Strait and from the Kuril Islands - just a few miles of the Kunashirsky Strait. At a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, the “cup” shifts to the northeast.

Manchester United reached an agreement with the striker of the national team Wayne Runi, who, after taking a medical examination, will begin to play for Manchester United. Recall that up to Tuesday, the future of Rooney was between two clubs: “Mu” and “Newcasl”. As a result, one of the best snipers Euro 2004 chose Manchester. Manchester United has reached an agreement on Wayne Runi’s transfer from Everton to Manchester United.

The Russian Orthodox Church is criticized by France’s decision to prohibit the wearing of a hijab in schools - a measure, which recently caused a hostage of two French journalists. “Even at the very beginning, when this law was worked out, we expressed concern with such a ban on expressing a religious feeling,” the official representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, Priest Mikhail Dudko, told the Interfax agency.

Three buses with the inhabitants of South Ossetia were detained on Tuesday by Georgian police at the village of Echen. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the Committee on Press and Information of South Ossetia, Irina Glogloeva. According to her, regular buses followed the Georgian village of Eredvi along the Tskhinvali-Damens route. The incident occurred at 8:30 local time.

In Khabarovsk, mass poisoning of the city residents occurred with products produced by NK City . According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday in the regional center of the state -owned -season, in total, about 40 residents of the regional center who tasted vegetable and meat salads turned to the city hospitals with food poisoning. More than 20 people had to be hospitalized.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory on Tuesday opened a criminal case against the head of the Krasnodar administration Nikolai Priza. According to the head of the investigative department of the regional prosecutor's office, Yuri Shapovalov, the criminal case was opened on the basis of the investigation under Art. 286 h. 1 of the Criminal Code - excess of official powers.

Since September 1, Russian Railways OJSC reduces the fare on long-distance trains, the press release posted on the company's website says. Prices for tickets to reserved seats and common cars of long -distance trains will be reduced by 17%, in compartment cars and CB - by 16%. For example, the fare in the compartment carriage of the soon Moscow -St. Petersburg train is now 693 rubles. From September 1, it will cost 595 rubles.

In the Moscow metro, malicious hooliganism with the use of cold weapons was recorded. The day before, late in the wagon of the electric train at the Riga metro station, a fight occurred, which ended with the fact that one of its participants took out a knife and attacked his opponents.

In San Francisco, with the selection of jury, the trial of the native of Russia, lawyer Nikolai Tekhin, began. The immigrant learned to be a lawyer and for three decades of lawyer practice realized the American dream: he has a 73-foot yacht, an endless string of chic cars and a house for $ 8 million. However, the saga "from the mud to the riches" may end for a lawyer in a federal prison, notes The New York Times (the translation of the article publishes Inopressa.ru ).

The facade of the house of the Belgian pedophile-recidivist Mark Dutra, in the basement of which he raped young girls , was closed by a wooden panel with an area of ​​45 square meters by decision of the city of Charlerua. The panel depicts a child who triggers an air snake, which, according to the author of the picture, symbolizes the spiritual purity and defenselessness of children, Delfi reports.

At the opening US Tennis Championship in New York on Monday, the first round matches were held by six Russians. In the duel of compatriots, the sixth racket of the tournament Elena Dementyeva did not easily prevail over Dinara Safina - 2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2. Meanwhile, the Russian Vera Zvonareva reached the 1/32 finals. "Sowing" under the 10th number a 19-year-old Muscovite without problems with a score of 6: 1, 6: 1 won the Slovak by Henrietta Nadoy.

Russia is still the first place in the number of people who want to get asylum abroad, despite the fact that the number of Russians, mostly Chechens who asked for asylum in developed countries of the world, was reduced in the second quarter of 2004 by 4% compared to the first quarter to 7305 people. This was reported on Tuesday by the Office of the Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees (UVKB).

NATO member countries began to transfer reinforcements to Afghanistan - infantry units and combat aircraft - to ensure security during the presidential election planned in this country on October 9. The military contingent of the international security forces in Afghanistan (Isaf) will be increased from the current 6 thousand 500 military personnel to 10 thousand, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Belgian media.

Thailand offers Russia a kind of deal: for five years, exchange 250 thousand tons of poultry meat for a Sukhoy Aviation Holding Company, Bloomberg reports, citing a statement by the Thai Poultry Exporters Association. Currently, Thailand is experiencing problems with the export of poultry meat in connection with the identification of cases of “chicken flu” in the country, Interfax notes.