In Russia, one closed settlement will become less. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the abolition of a closed administrative -territorial education - the village of Kedrovoy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory." The President instructed the government and the highest executive body of state power of the Krasnoyarsk Territory within six months to carry out organizational measures related to the abolition of this closed administrative-territorial education (but).

Russian woman Maria Sharapova became the winner of the San Diego Classic women's tennis tournament with a prize pool of $ 1.34 million. In the final match of the tournament in San Diego, the first racket of the competition Kim Klesters from Belgium, under the second number of Sharapova, opposed the second number of Sharapova. In each of the two sets, everything was decided in his ending.

In the Altai Territory, commemorative events are held today dedicated to the anniversary of the death in the car accident of Governor Mikhail Evdokimov. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the regional administration, a memorial complex was opened at the scene of the accident near the village of Pleshkovo. An open chapel was built here in the name of St. Archangel Michael. The project of the chapel was developed by Altai architects.

There are currently several hundred citizens of Russia in Lebanon. “At the time of the end of the mass evacuation, at the end of July, about 500 Russian citizens remained in Lebanon,” Vladimir Cherepanov said the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Beirut on Monday.

On Monday, the European Athletics Championship will start in the Swedish Gothenoe. In an interview with RIA Novosti, the head coach of the Russian athletics national team Valery Kulichenko said that the athletes was given the task of taking the first team place. “Our plan is to win six gold, silver and bronze medals, that is, a total of 18 awards and take the first team place,” Kulichenko said. “I was given such a task. If we won 20 medals at the World Cup, then why not get 18”.

British experts question the authenticity of the outstanding Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh "Men's Head", estimated at $ 20 million. In their opinion, the picture may turn out to be a fake. Specialists of the Victoria National Gallery in Melbourne intend to conduct an investigation, the Australian ABC television channel reports.

The leadership of the metropolitan football club Dynamo adopted the resignation of Yuri Semin. Andrei Kobelev was appointed acting head coach of the Moscow Club. On Monday, at the base in Novogorsk, after the morning training, a team was held, in which the chairman of the Central Council of the Moscow Dynamo V.E. Pronichev, D.A. Ivanov and Yu.V. Zavarzin took part.

The police neutralized an ethnic criminal group that held a 60-year-old Moscow resident for two weeks in order to illegally re-register his apartment in their name. The hostage has been released. As the head of the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Oleg Elnikov told reporters on Monday, the criminal investigation department received information that a hostage was being held in an apartment by unknown persons in the village of Vnukovo.

In the United States, the robber raided the store, putting his panties on his head. In the police, he was jokingly nicknamed the thief with glasses-trusses, reports Courttv News . “It was an unusual disguise, but it worked,” Jordan Weight said the police capital. The video filmed by surveillance cameras in the store shows how the robber rummages in the cash register and takes the revenue.

The Egyptian extremist group "Jamaa Islami" denied information about the unification with the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. The statement posted on the website of the group says that "the message transmitted on the air of the Al-Jazeera television channel on behalf of Dr. Ayman Az-Zawakhiri is not true." “There are deep disagreements between our movement and al -Qaeda regarding the ideology, determining goals and methods, as well as the development of a further strategy,” the commander notes.

In the north-east of Sri Lanka in the city of Mutur on Sunday, 15 employees of the French humanitarian mission to provide food assistants from the tsunami were found killed on Sunday. All of them are local residents. Their bodies were discovered by colleagues who came to the office of this organization to combat hunger. The circumstances of the death have not yet been established, reports ITAR-TASS.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky made new legislative initiatives regarding changes in the apparatus of public administration. The Vice Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation offers all officials to serve in the army, receive higher education, have at least 2 children, and also reduce their weight to at least 90 kg. According to Zhirinovsky, it is possible to improve the moral climate in society and the social situation in the country using personnel changes in the state apparatus.

The PRC Foreign Ministry expressed concern in connection with the information received that the most likely successor to the current Prime Minister of Japan, the current Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers Sinzo Abe, was currently visited in 2006, the Tokyo Church of Yasukuni twice, Interfax reports. “We express concern in connection with the facts made in the Japanese media,” said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Qin Gan.

The American soldier admitted to the rape and murder in Iraq of a 14-year-old girl and the execution of three members of the family. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the US investigative commission in Baghdad, where on Sunday the hearing of the military tribunal on this high -profile case began . The tribunal takes place in the Liberty military camp in the Iraqi capital.

As a result of the explosion at the chemical plant in China, three people died, six were injured and two are considered missing. The incident occurred on Monday in a large industrial port city of Tianjin, located near the Bajay Gulf of the Bay 120 km from Beijing. According to the Xinhua agency, the explosion practically equalized the enterprise with the land.