In the zone of the South Ossetian conflict on the outskirts of the village of Kehvi tonight, an unidentified face from a grenade launcher fired at a territory adjacent to the post of Russian battalion of mixed forces to maintain the world (SSPM). This was announced to reporters by the commander of the Georgian part of the SSP Mamu Kurashvili, who was in the conflict zone, ITAR-TASS reports.

Currently, the epidemics of "bird flu" (outbreaks of the disease among people, unlike epizootics - birds of birds and animals) in Russia, told Interfax on Sunday the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. "Today I phoned all the regions related to the situation of" bird flu ", and on the basis of all the reports received, I can say that the situation is normal," Onishchenko said.

Four military personnel were injured in Chechnya as a result of the explosion of the landmine on the highway leading from Grozny towards the Chervynoy village. As Interfax was told on Sunday in Grozny District Department of Internal Affairs, at the time when the engineering intelligence unit was in the area of ​​the road branch to the Vinogradnaya village, the explosion thundered in the immediate vicinity of the armored personnel carrier.

Almost all eastern Georgia has remained today from 11:30 Moscow time without electricity. There are no official messages about the reasons for turning off the current of the current. The current is not submitted to strategic objects in Tbilisi and other cities and areas in the east of the country. The metro does not work in Tbilisi, several thousand passengers who were in the subway are removed from wagons and stations to the street. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the duty unit of the subway.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intention to sign a decree on the appointment of the dates of elections to the parliament of the Chechen Republic on November 27. The head of state on Sunday met in his Bocharov residence a stream in Sochi with the President of Chechnya Alkhanov, the chairman of the government of the republic Sergey Abramov and the deputy prime minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

The British MI5 counterintelligence service for the first time since the London terrorist attacks on July 7 reduced from the “critical” - the highest - to the “serious” level of the terrorist threat in the country. Representatives of the government informed this decision the night before, the Sunday Times said today. It indicates that British intelligence does not have any reliable information about a possible preparatory terrorist attack in the United Kingdom.

The key point of Istanbul race was the confrontation between the leaders of the championship - the Spaniard Fernando Alonso, Renault, who started from the third position, and the Finnish racer of Kimi Raikkonen at Maklarena, who won a day earlier. Between them on the starting grille is the partner of Alonso on the command of Dzhancarlo Physicelle.

On the Mount of Ushba in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, work on the search for the bodies of two of the four of the Polish climbers that fell into the ice crack that had been torn into the ice crack, Kantemir Davydov, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Federation for Kabardino Balkaria, told Interfax agency on Sunday. According to him, the second shift in rescuers has currently begun searches.

The Israeli army began on Sunday morning to the compulsory evacuation of people from the Gush enclave in the Gaza Strip. This is the village of Catth and the adjacent settlements of Azmon and Glory adjacent to it. At the moment, several hundred opponents of the striking set fire to the tires at the entrance to the buff, so as not to let the army into it.

The grandiose fireworks on the main runway of the Gromov flight research institute in Zhukovsky near Moscow, today, ended the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2005. Millions of color lights painted the sky over the flight field in honor of the end of the event, which became the largest in the entire 12-year history of air shows in Russia, ITAR-TASS reports.

The statement of the Minister of Economics of Ukraine Sergei Terekhin about the country's position regarding the unified economic space (EEP) is not the final position of official Kyiv. This was announced live on the "5th channel" of television today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Boris Tarasuk, ITAR-TASS reports. The Foreign Minister said that on Friday evening he met with Terekhin and discussed this issue with him.

Refugees from the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya, who are in the Nadezhda tent camp near Kizlyar, are going to move to a permanent place of residence to the rural areas of the Penza region until the end of August, the representative of the refugee committee Ahmed Akhmedov said.

The Chairman of the Political Council of the ATP Nikita Belykh and the party activists came to the Vagankovskoye cemetery to honor the memory and lay wreaths and flowers at the graves of Dmitry Komarya, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, who died in the days of the August Putch of 1991.

The autopsy showed that all passengers and the crew of the Cyprus airliner Boeing-737 crashed on August 14 were killed from the shock about the rock. This was announced today by the senior investigator in this case Filippos Kutsaftis. According to him, the investigation team is now conducting identification of heavily damaged by the Earth in DNA, tooth prints and clothing, AR reports.

Dozens of passengers of the A-330 Australian airline Qantas Airways were injured after the liner, due to smoke in the cabin, made an emergency landing at the Kansay airport in the east of the main Japanese Island Honus. The incident occurred a few hours after take -off from the Tokyo airport Narit. During the flight above the Pacific Ocean, 900 km south of the coast of the Vakaiama prefecture in the pilot’s cabin, a signal of smoke in the cargo compartment worked.