The first ship with a load of humanitarian aid for the victims of strong floods that struck the country in July went from the South Korean port of Inchon on Wednesday. North Korea first turned to South Korea with an official request for assistance in overcoming the consequences of floods.

A large accident occurred on the Volokolamsk highway in the suburbs in the evening. In a collision of five cars, two people were injured. It was completely blocked by the movement of vehicles around the highway. "The incident occurred at about 17:40 on the 26th kilometer of Volokolamsk highway," RIA Novosti was told in law enforcement agencies in the Moscow Region. The movement of vehicles was completely blocked, and the ambulance doctors had to make his way to the scene of the accident on foot.

The Gallup agency in the second half of August conducted a sociological survey in 33 countries of the world. 25 thousand people interviewed their attitude to the military operation of Israel in Lebanon.

The editors of Newsru Israel turned to four Russian -speaking journalists who worked during the Lebanese war, with a request: to express the impression that made a stay in the Lebanese territory on them. These are the diary entries of journalists, each of which chose his form to describe the war, which he became a witness.

On September 1, 2004, 70 terrorists participated in the capture of the school in Beslan. This was stated on Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow, a member of the parliamentary commission to investigate the terrorist attack, Yuri Savelyev, State Duma deputy, who presented his report on Beslan on Monday. According to the official version, there were 32 terrorists who seized the school in Beslan.

The Technical Commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) recommended that the aircraft commanders bypass the thunderclions, carefully analyze the weather consumption before departure. Upon receipt of information on the presence of thunderstorms, the pilots are ordered to “choose routes and trains of bypass, taking into account the nature of the thunderstorms, the location and movement of thunderclijah,” ITAR-TASS reports.

In the village in South Butovo, 17 families remain to live in private houses, which so far refuse to move. This was announced on Wednesday by the deputy head of the Department of Housing Policy and the Housing Fund of Moscow Nikolai Fedoseev. According to him, 326 families lived in this village in total, Interfax reports.

In the city of Malgobek, an investigator of the Nazran city prosecutor’s office Ibrahim Yandiev was attacked. The victim was taken to intensive care. As the deputy prosecutor of Ingushetia Dmitry Gurulev said on Wednesday, the criminal opened fire from the PM pistol for private household, where Yandiev lives. As a result of the shelling, Yandiev was seriously wounded. According to Gurulev, the victim managed to call his relatives, who took him to the hospital.

The draft budget of Moscow for 2007 provides for a shortage of 105 billion rubles. According to the authorities, the budget is social. The costs of maintaining the executive branch of the capital will amount to 43.5 billion rubles. Of these, 3.4 million rubles will go on the maintenance of the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov, the Izvestia newspaper writes. The mayor’s salary will amount to 3.2 million rubles a year, or about 263 thousand rubles a month - almost 10 thousand dollars.

The company "Russian aluminum" ("Rusal") will buy the Siberian-Ural aluminum company (SUEL) and clay-earth assets of the Swiss company Glencore as part of a transaction estimated at $ 30 billion, which will lead to the creation of the largest aluminum producer in the world, reports The Financial Times . According to the newspaper, the participants in the transaction have already concluded a fundamental agreement. The transaction is approved by the Kremlin, and will be announced in September.

On Wednesday, August 30, it became known about the sale of Kommersant Publishing House. The buyer was Alisher Usmanov , the head of the Metalloinvest holding and the General Director of Gazprominvestholding, which is fully owned by Gazprom OJSC. The General Director of the Publishing House Demyan Kudryavtsev confirmed this information to Interfax. “Perhaps not all the details of the transaction have been completed, but we can talk about it already as a failed fact,” Kudryavtsev noted.

In the Soviet district of Volgograd last night, the Volkswagen Touareg jeep crashed into a private residential building, as a result of which three people were injured, including girls of 12 and 15 years old, Interfax was told in the city traffic police of the traffic police. The driver of the jeep, while intoxicated, left at full speed from the roadway and crashed into a nearby house. As a result of the incident, girls 12 and 15 years old were injured in the house.

In Moscow, numbers from the service car Volkswagen Touareg were stolen by the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on the information policy of Alexander Krutov. As Interfax reported on Wednesday in law enforcement, on Tuesday morning, deputy Irina Pogorelova, an assistant to the disappearance of a statement on Tuesday. As the investigation was established, the car was parked near Krutov’s house. The deputy himself is currently on a business trip, explained in law enforcement agencies.

The European Commission announced on Wednesday the intention to allocate 42 million euros for the restoration of Lebanon. According to the press service of the European Commission, out of the indicated amount, 10 million euros will be directed directly to restoration work, 4 million - to ensure security and law and order, 18 million to support the private sector. Another 10 million euros will be allocated for other needs that the Livan government has to be determined, RIA Novosti reports.

Hong Kong doctors found the symptoms of the "cow's rabies" with a 23-year-old Briton who came to the city a few months ago. The patient, whose personality has not yet been established, turned to the hospital on April 6, but then the doctors found only mental abnormalities and recognized as mentally ill, reports AP. Recently, the British had a sharp deteriorated condition, and the doctors were forced to do his intestine, the Hong Kong Hospital said. Now he is in critical condition.