After a recent performance at the UN of the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez in America sharply increased the demand for the book "Hegemony or Survival. Strategy of US imperialism." Thanks to the increased number of orders, it took first place in the list of bestsellers of a large Amazon.Kom online store in the USA. Speaking last week at the UN, the President of Venezuela fell up with a sharp criticism of the United States and personally the head of the American administration George Bush.

The head of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, is ready to exchange the captured Israeli corporal for two "resistance fighters". On Sunday, the Palestinian leader said in an interview with Egyptian television that he intends to demand the release of Marwan Barguti and Ahmed Saadat among the prisoners, whom Israel is ready to release in exchange for the freedom of Gida Shalit. Many political forces in autonomy insist on this. However, Israel refused Abbas.

The prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region sent a criminal case against two former cadets of the Ryazan branch of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who was charged under Article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (paragraph "E" Part 2) - torture by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. This was reported on Monday by the website of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

British soldiers in Iraq were convicted of illegal export of stolen weapons from this country in exchange for cocaine and cash on the "black market". Last weekend, the British security officers confirmed that the Royal Military Police launched a criminal case against soldiers from the 3rd battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. The soldier is suspected of implementing the “trunks in exchange for cocaine”, writes The Times on Monday.

In Voronezh, the body of the journalist of the local 41st canal Vyacheslav Plotnikov, who disappeared in June 2006, was discovered. According to Interfax on Monday in the criminal police of the railway police department, the corpse was found in the forest in the area of ​​the extension of the railway district of the city on the shore of the reservoir. There were no stab or bullet wounds on the body, there are also no traces of strangulation.

The management of Royal Dutch Shell is considering the possibility of initiation of judicial actions in order to cancel an environmental license to a project in Russia worth $ 20 billion, says the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal . Last week, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has withdrawn a key environmental license for the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in the Far East of Russia.

In Lithuania, the control service for equal capabilities for the first time proved the fact of sexual harassment at work. As the head of the service, the head of the service Aushrina Burnekene, said on Monday, the guilty of sexual harassment issued an official warning. The investigation began after the manager of the personnel department of the construction company turned to the service, whose manager told her that she should thank him with sex for working.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC), called on clergymen and laity to refuse to participate in television and radio programs with Mikhail Ardov, the clergy of the so -called Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (RPAC) - the Raskolniki group in Suzdal.

Perhaps the most luxurious in the world a hotel room made of gold appeared in the Chinese Syangan (Hong Kong). The day of residence in supra -skim apartments with golden toilets, a bed and a bathroom will cost $ 25 thousand. Walls, ceiling, chandeliers and bedside tables of the room in the "palace style" with an area of ​​650 square meters. Meters are decorated with shameal gold, and more than two tons of precious metal were spent on the decoration.

In Chechnya, on suspicion of involvement in the abductions of people, the former commander of the special group of the Republican Directorate of the FSB “Hoter”, one of the bodyguards of the former president of the Republic Ahmad Kadyrov, is 40-year-old Movladi Baysarov . He himself believes that he is pursued due to personal conflict with Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

A group of National Bolshes penetrated on Monday to the building of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation on Ilyinka Street, sources in the capital's law enforcement agencies told Interfax. Meanwhile, the representative of the Ministry of Finance at first did not confirm this information. “Everything is quiet and calm for us. We continue to work. But I’ll go out and check now,” the representative of the press service of the ministry said.

As part of the investigation of the case of the leader of the Chechen fighters Shamil Basayev, a genetic examination of his remains is carried out. This was stated "Interfax" on Monday of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Ivan Sydoruk.

The main event of the festival of Russian cinema "Cinema" in Stuttgart and the Platform film book "Platform" this year will be the signing of the Protocol on Intent between the Committee for Support for Cinematography of Germany and the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinema of the Russian Federation. The movie book opens on Monday in the castle of the city of Ludwigsburg, which has a reputation as one of the most promising Germany media registers. The city has a film academy.

The Government of the Russian Federation has introduced a bill to the State Duma providing for the ensuring free higher education for persons conscientiously serving under a contract in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

In the Muslim world there is a rumor that the United States occupied Iraq, so as not to let the Messiah be born. Although the messianic expectations do not occupy such a place in Islam as in Judaism or Christianity, the Muslim religion also teaches that at the end of time the Messiah - Mahdi, "Twelfth Imam." He must come when evil will rule on the whole earth - and with his arrival it will be crushed, and Islam is restored in its purity and integrity.