The 18th Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair will be held in Moscow from September 7 to 12. According to a press conference on Thursday, General Director of MMKVVI Nikolay Ovsyannikov, this year "The exhibition is a record for the number of participants and the number of occupied areas." About 3 thousand companies will take part in it. At the fair, it will be possible to purchase books of Russian and foreign authors with a 20-40 percent discount.

On September 2, on the day of the 60th anniversary of the Second World War, near the Orthodox memorial "Reconciliation of the peoples" at the walls of the Moscow Church of all saints on Sokol, a church commemoration of all who died in the world, local and civilian wars of the twentieth century, as well as victims of mass repressions, took place.

In Britain, the squirrel nearly killed the dog who had driven after her. Labrador named Karl pursued a small rodent through the forest when he suddenly turned and attacked the dog. With her teeth, the squirrel tore the dog’s neck and hung for 30 seconds, digging into the animal, while Labrador, whining in pain, was not able to shake it. The mistress saved the life of the dog, Alison Campbell, hurrying him to the veterinarian, who put 25 seams to the dog, Mirror reports.

The weather of the end of the working week in Moscow will be windy and rainy. According to Roshydromet, on Friday afternoon, the thermometer columns in the capital will rise to marks of 16-18 degrees above zero, in the region-to plus 14-19 degrees. The north-eastern wind is expected very weak. The first weekend autumn will bring short -term rains - on Saturday the air temperature will be 16-18 degrees. In the dark, the temperature will drop to 8-10 degrees, ITAR-TASS reports.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov believes that the State Tretyakov Gallery should be held by the city. “Pavel Tretyakov is the creator of the gallery, which gave it to the city. I think it should be returned to the city,” Luzhkov said on Friday at the ceremony of the Honorary Citizen of Moscow to the General Director of the House Building Plant N1 Vladimir Kopelev.

Five Russians went on Thursday in the third round of the US Open championship on tennis. In the men's tournament, Mikhail Yuzhny, sown under the 24th number, won a confident victory over the representative of Sweden Jonas Bjorkman - 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 3. Another Russian, Igor Andreev met with American James Blake in the last game day match at the Arthur Ash Central Court and, apparently, could not cope with excitement.

A witness to the Yukos case, the former General Director of Fargoil LLC (Trader company OJSC NK Yukos, Mordovia), Spain citizen Antonio Valdes-Garsia is in the hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences with a traumatic brain injury, a concussion, numerous legs and without teeth. The Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Interfax reported that Waldes-Garsia entered the hospital on August 19 from the clinical hospital in Istra.

In Scotland, a couple of computer games were put in jail for three months. The reason for this punishment was that, because of their passion for the video, the spouses criminally neglected their parental duties. The case was instituted after the neighbors of irresponsible parents complained to the police that a young couple did not pay any attention to their three children.

In Afghanistan, two corpses were discovered in the south of the country, possibly belonging to Japanese tourists who disappeared in August. The bodies were found in the desert about 7 km from the highway connecting the Kandahar with Kabul. According to the governor of the province of Kandahar Abdalla Khalid, two people, a man and a woman, were shot, and then their corpses were thrown into a ditch. “We found 2 corpses in the irrigation channel,” said the governor of Kandahar.

The mourning psalms ("Tegilim") in memory of the innocently killed and injured during the tragedy in Beslan sounded today in the synagogues of Russia, the press service of the congress of Jewish religious communities and the organizations of Russia and the Moscow Jewish religious community reported. “Give vitality, for the sake of justice to bring my soul out of my trouble ... He heals with heart, he heals their sorrows ...

In Volgograd, during the joint operation of the regional prosecutor's office, regional FSB and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, three suspects of the murder of the justice of the peace Stanislav Zinchenko were detained. According to the investigation, the detainees were active members of the criminal group who committed a crime.

In the Moscow Metro, an experiment is being conducted to replace the plates for passengers warning about the ban on the passage to certain places of the subway. The fact is that often the inscription "There is no exit" "acts oppressively on passengers, especially on the part of them in depression," ITAR-TASS was told in the management of the metro. “We decided to try to replace this categorical phrase with a milder:“ There is no passage, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

The leader of the Vodoplyasov City group Oleg Violin refused the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine, the assignment of which he was timed to coincide with the Independence Day of Ukraine.

The price of oil regularly exceeds for $ 70 per barrel, and the choir of votes warning about the negative impact of this circumstance on economic growth is becoming louder day by day. According to the International Monetary Fund, the increased prices for oil and raw materials are partly guilty of reducing global economic growth this year by 0.8%.

The Pope Benedict XVI today expressed condolences to Iraqi Shiites in connection with the death of more than a thousand people during the religious ceremony at the mosque in Baghdad. The head of the Roman Catholic Church called on all believers in a single god to unite against violence.