The head of Nizhny Novgorod Vadim Bulavinov believes that the system of the rigid vertical of the executive branch can lead to an authoritarian regime in the Russian Federation.

Most of the districts and cities of Georgia have not received electricity for several hours. Currently, electricity supply in Georgia is carried out mainly to the central regions of Tbilisi. According to the country's energy services, on Monday in the Gori district (about 65 km from Tbilisi), two supports of the Kartli-2 high-voltage power transmission line were laid down, which ensured current from the west to the east of the country.

The Communist Party of the Communist Party in the State Duma will not support the initiative of the Rodina faction on the declaration of mistrust to the government. This was stated by the leader of the Communist Party faction Gennady Zyuganov.

Three of the eight military personnel who left one of the units of the internal troops in Moscow were detained. The deserters were detained at the Novoslobodskaya metro station. “They were detained after police officers stopped them to verify the documents. Now the representative of the military unit has arrived at the police department to establish the circumstances of the escape and detention.

The Russian pilot of the Yukos Freisinger Motorsport team, playing in the World Cup, Grandturism, Alexei Vasiliev said that another representative of the Russian Romanov Roman Roman, can deprive the title of champion of the LMES racing series in the GT class. “Now everyone is discussing the scandal related to Rusinov’s championship,” Vasiliev said in an interview with Sport -Express newspaper.

After the tragedy in Beslan, the FSB leadership announced the readiness to pay 300 million rubles (more than 10 million US dollars) to those who will help in the detention and elimination of gang leaders, in particular Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, but there is no guarantee that the allocated funds will really be used "as intended".

In Moscow, a warrant officer of the border service of the Federal Security Service (FSB) was detained, who helped cross the border for criminals on the federal wanted list. According to the head of the UPEP GUVD Moscow, Philip Zolotnitsky, some time ago, employees of the department received operational information that an organized criminal group was operating on the territory of Moscow, transporting criminals on the federal wanted list, Interfax reports.

The next stage of Putin’s reforms may well be “centralization of the economy”, which, although it will not lead to the economic management of the Soviet model, will be a widespread departure from the reforms of the free market, which Putin was striving for during the first term of stay in power, the American Business Week weekly said. (Translation on the website inopressa.ru .) “There is no doubt that he is trying to centralize all the political power in the Kremlin.

On Sunday in the Samara region, an unknown driver hit three traffic police inspectors, one of which died at the scene. As Interfax agency was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, on Sunday at 23 hours 05 minutes in the village of Pronino, Klyavlinsky district of the Samara region, an unidentified driver on the highway, following the Zhiguli car, hit the 28 -year -old police officer, as well as to his colleagues - senior police sergeants, 30 and 33 years.

On Sunday, one of the leaders of the Hamas terrorist movement was eliminated in the gas sector. This was officially announced by the Israeli military command. According to the representative of the Israeli Army, an air strike was inflicted on the Haleda Abu Shamiyya car, one of the leaders of the Hamas military wing group of the Izeddin al-Kassam brigade in the Shati refugee camp, located near the city of Gaza.

An American hostage is killed in Iraq, the message posted on the Islamist website said, Reuters reports. The report states that the American, captured in Baghdad on Thursday with another American and British, was killed by the militarized group Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi. This message was signed by a certain Abu Maisar al-Iraki.

It is important to admit that for Russians the Kremlin is something more than just the place of government meeting. He personifies the centralizing tradition of Russian autocracy.

The painting by Terry George "Hotel" Rwanda "became the owner of the main prize of the 29th Toront International Film Festival that ended on Sunday. The best tape on the largest film forum in North America is determined according to the results of the voting of the audience, who this year had the opportunity to get acquainted with 328 films from 60 countries of the world within 10 days.

US President George Bush decided to officially cancel economic sanctions against Libya to replace Tripoli to develop weapons of mass destruction, the US Department of Finance said. Back in April, Bush partially suspended the effects of sanctions against Libya, allowing American companies to conduct trade operations with this North African country and invest in its economy, as well as buy Libyan oil.

In Iraq, a subject of Jordan captured hostage was released. According to Al-ARBIA, a prisoner, stolen last month near the city of Nasiria in the south of the country, was free as a result of a joint operation of the Iraqi National Guard and American military personnel. According to the television channel, during the special operation, 16 people were arrested suspected of involvement in the capture of the Jordan. For his release, the abductors demanded 250 thousand dollars.