In the near future, President Vladimir Putin will award three judges who participated in the Yukos case, orders and medals. The judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court Nikolai Logunov can receive the Order of Friendship, and his colleagues Anatoly Antoshin and Andrey Grechishkin - medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the II degree.

The presidents of the unrecognized republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation. According to Eduard Kokoita and Sergey Bagapsh, a contract, which provides for the development of relations in the field of economics, culture and science, reported on Monday and Press Committee on Monday. After signing, Bagapsh told reporters that in the near future joint economic projects will be developed regarding communication, communications, and delegations.

The lawyer of the former FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, convicted of the disclosure of GOSTaina, appealed his arrest in the Strasbourg court, said one of his defenders Elena Lipzer. "I sent to the European Court of Human Rights an addition to the previously filed complaint about the illegal arrest of our client," she said. The lawyer recalled that on September 18, Trepashkin was arrested in his apartment in Moscow. “We still do not know anything about his whereabouts,” she said.

Demonstration exercises with the participation of military personnel from 18 countries began on Monday at the Vasani training ground 30 km from Tbilisi. In particular, the military from Armenia, Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Latvia, Macedonia, USA take part in the exercises. The exercises are led by a colonel of the joint command of the US Armed Forces in Europe Russell Richardson.

During the Rail of the North RAS, held in Northern England between the cities of Newkasl and South Shields, four participants in the competition at this half -marathon distance (21 km) died at once. Moreover, two of them died shortly before the finish. This half marathon is considered the most massive in the world and therefore there is nothing surprising in the fact that this time about 50 thousand people came to the start.

The Moscow City Court summoned on Monday all defenders of the ex-head of the Yukos on a hearing on a complaint about the verdict in the case of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Kraynov, lawyer Elena Levina said, representing the interests of Khodorkovsky in the court of first instance. “We were called to the court by telephone numbers, and by 10:00, that is, an hour before the appointed hearings on the complaint about the verdict,” the lawyer noted.

Mikhail Shvydka said that no one would take a license from the Moscow Conservatory. The head of the Federal Agency for Culture said that this is not in the interests of his department. “You can fantasize anything, we live in the age of rumors. But our interest is that everything is normal in our industry,” Mikhail Shvydka explained. Today there was information that the metropolitan conservatory may lose the right to issue state diplomas.

Akram Khazam was removed from the post of chief editor of the Moscow Bureau of the Qatari satellite television channel Al-Jazeera. He himself told Interfax on Monday evening. According to Khazam, the leadership of the channel did not explain to him the reasons for this decision. The journalist has so far refused to talk about his further creative plans. Akram Khazam led the Moscow Bureau AL-JAZeera since its opening in 1996.

For the first time after the end of the 2004 presidential campaign in Ukraine, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko met with the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych, the press service of the Ukrainian president said. The meeting took place at the request of Yanukovych. Yushchenko at a meeting with one of the opposition leaders and his rival in the elections Viktor Yanukovych spoke out for the beginning of the political dialogue between all the political forces of the country.

One of the most important events of this year in Russian politics was the national conference of the Republican Party of Russia (RPR). Perhaps this is the last worthy attempt to create a democratic opposition, attractive enough to resist the Kremlin’s control over the Duma in 2007 and over the post of president in 2008, journalist Leon Aron writes in the author’s article in The Weekly Standard magazine .

Last weekend, the main Ashkenazi rabbi of Israel, Jonah Metzger and the main Sephardsky rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar met with the head of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI . The main rabbis, religious leaders of the Jewish state, asked the pontiff to speak categorical censure of the burning of synagogues in the gas sector, the newspaper reports today. Gzt.ru.

The application "Alfa-Groups" for the purchase of 27% of the shares of the largest mobile operator of Turkey TurkCell can be killed in the same way as Alpha itself interrupted the application of the Swedish-Finnish Teliasonera. According to Bloomberg , Cukurova Group, which in June agreed to sell Alpha part of its package in Turkcell, is now negotiating the same deal with Arab investors who are ready to offer 15% more than Russians.

At Istanbul airport, the Russian aircraft, due to the malfunction of the brake system, could not stop on the runway. According to Haberturk television company, the AIRLINES 400 Tu-154 passenger aircraft has a flight along the Moscow-Istanbul route, RIA Novosti reports. Due to the problems, the liner could not stop at the Ataturka airport in the runway and went beyond it. The plane was able to stop only after turning on the emergency braking system.

An explosion occurred in the building of the British Embassy in Croatia on Monday morning. According to the press secretary of the embassy in the capital of Croatia, the city of Zagreb, as a result of the explosion, one person received slight injuries, Sky News reports. Tessa Fras said: "The explosive device detonated the room for the mail at about 7:30 in the morning by local (5:30 Moscow) time. One person received minor injuries.

Today in Naples, the so -called "Miracle of St. Janoire" again occurred. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, at about 10.00 local time during the solemn mass in the Cathedral of the city, Cardinal Michele Jordano announced that the dried blood of the patron of Naples, stolen in a special capsule, once again became liquid. The sign about the miracle, according to tradition, was given a wave of a white scarf from the altar.