Russia completed the early repayment of the debt to the Parisian club of creditors. In total, 16 countries of the former USSR paid $ 15 billion. Of these, 13 billion was transferred by two tranches on July 15 and 29 this year. Then payments were made to 11 countries (Australia, Great Britain, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the USA, France, Finland and Sweden).

A criminal who escaped from the places of conclusion with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and eleven diamonds were detained in Yakutia. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District on Monday, the detainee was convicted of illegal turnover of weapons and fled from the colony. The 42-year-old fugitive was found in the area of ​​the Verkhnyaya Muna River in the Olenek district.

Michael Jackson arrived in the United Arab Emirates last Saturday. He flew on a private plane with a personal guard from Bahrain and stopped in the Royal Royal Royal Royal Royal Hotel in the world of Burj al-Arab under Dubai. Several Bahraines flew with him, including a member of the royal family. According to local media, Jackson’s safety was also provided with hotel protection and additional police outfits that guarded the hotel around the perimeter.

In St. Petersburg, on Marat Street, a teenager was poured out of gasoline. In the evening last Friday from home 6 to the children's hospital N 1 "Ambulance" took a 12-year-old boy. Doctors determined the sixth grader thermal burns of the face, neck and chest. His condition is currently evaluated as moderate, reports Ima Press . The teenager who arrived at the clinic said to the clinic that unknown criminals doused him with gasoline and set fire to him.

Journalists from the Altai Territory, who took part on Monday in a seminar-meeting for regional newspapers in Moscow, asked the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) by Arkady Volsky by his opinion about whether the death of the Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov was an accident.

The ancient Valaam icon of the Virgin, now in Finland, can be delivered to Russia. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the information of the Moscow Patriarchate Communication service on the eve, said the rector of the Finnish Novo-Laam Monastery Archimandrite Sergius.

British leaders of the death investigation of Princess Diana turned to American pathologists, experts in mummified bodies. This was written by the British tabloid Sunday Express, according to which this fact indicates that the exhumation of the body of Lady Dee, embedded a few hours after death, is real.

By August 22, Russia collected 52.3 million tons of grain, which is 3 million tons more than on a similar date of 2004. According to the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, the yield of grain crops is on average in the country 2.3 tons per 1 ha, which is 0.03 t/ha less last year, Interfax reports. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, harvesting is carried out by the farms of all federal districts.

Newspapers discuss the statement of the Minister of Economics of Ukraine Sergei Terekhin about the intention of his country to withdraw from a single economic space. Officials in Kyiv appreciated this statement as premature and bearing a “recommendatory nature”, but in fact they did not refute Terekhin. Terekhin said that his country was going to refuse to participate in the EEP and switch to a bilateral format of relations with Russia.

Last Saturday, a ship arrived in the United States with units of the Zurab ceremettia monument, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the attack on September 11, 2001 in New York. This was reported by Interfax himself the president of the Russian Academy of Arts and the author of the monument. “The ship recently moored and is currently being designed and unloading the ship.

The ex-prime minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov believes that recently Russia has receded from the path of democratic reforms. "Almost all the main characteristics of the modern democratic state have actually disappeared in Russia for a short period of time.

Representatives of the movement "Our" and 15 other youth organizations held a crowded action in the capital of Mordovia demanding the ban on the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Mordovia, ITAR-TASS reports. On the square in front of the Russia cinema, in which this religious organization holds its meetings, more than 500 people gathered, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic.

Cuba and Venezuela categorically reject the accusations from the United States of "attempts to destabilize" the situation in Latin America. This was announced on Sunday by the Kubinsky leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a television program, which was broadcast live. “It was the United States that constantly tried to destabilize the situation in our countries, and now they themselves accuse us of this,” Chavez said.

In one of the villages of the French department, a brutal murder occurred. 36-year-old Portuguese Manuel Fontie-Retell, an unemployed mason and omnipotent head of the family, died on Sunday evening from blows inflicted by an ax, sledgehammer and a kitchen knife. His wife Francin and two senior daughters dealt with a man: the reception of 17-year-old Cynthia and his native 15-year-old Melina.

The inhabitants of Prague are seriously suffering from young British hordes, whose hordes have recently begun to come to the weekend in the Czech capital for the only purpose - to get well and lose innocence, writes Le Temps (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). “We come here for the sake of culture - the culture of pretty blondes,” 24 -year -old Jason jokes proudly, who arrived here in the morning from Manchester, but is already finging the fourth glass of beer.