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.

As part of the capital's People's Garage project, more than 100 plots of land are already in operation. Almost half of them have acts of permitted use, and a third have held competitions to select a general designer. The most important news for Moscow motorists is that they will have to pay shared contributions only when construction has already begun, Novye Izvestia reports.

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.

Egyptian authorities banned the sale of the latest numbers of three European newspapers in the country. According to the order of the Minister of Information of Egypt UNS al-Fiki, the ban on import and distribution in the country is imposed on the British weekly Guardian Weekly, the French newspaper Le Figaro and the German Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung, ITAR-TASS reports.

The heads of state and governments of eight countries of Southern Europe turned to the presiding in the European Union of Finland with an appeal to urgently develop joint measures within the EU in order to suppress illegal immigration.

The Pope Benedict XVI accepted on Monday in his summer residence near Rome 22 ambassadors and temporary attorneys in the affairs of Islamic states, in particular, Iran, Turkey and Morocco. The meeting was organized with the aim of establishing a dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Islamic world, as well as put an end to the conflict that arose due to the recent statements of the pontiff about Islam , BBC reports.

Russia's expenses for the maintenance of a separate bridge battalion and special equipment, which are planned to be sent to Lebanon to restore the destroyed road infrastructure of the country, will amount to more than half a billion rubles, Viktor Ozerov, Chairman of the Committee of the Council of Defense and Security, told Interfax.

In the village of Kiselevo, the Suksunsky district of the Perm Territory, in 14 out of 29 hospitalized pupils of the correctional boarding school, doctors confirmed the disease of Dysentery Zonne , the Rospotrebnadzor said on Monday. At the moment, two of them are in a state of moderate severity, the rest are in satisfactory, ITAR-TASS reports. The flash of the disease was registered last Friday. According to RIA Novosti, on September 23 at 4:50 a.m.

Olympic champion, multiple world champion Alina Kabaeva at the European Championship ended in Moscow, could not defend the title of best gymnast of the continent, losing to his teammate Vera Cecina. However, in an interview with "New Izvestia" one of the most famous athletes in the world admitted that she was not upset because of a silver medal, and considers it an excellent incentive to continue her career.

A significant improvement in Orthodox Catholic relations is currently evidenced by the two recent visits of the chairman *of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) in Rome, the participation of a representative delegation of the Catholic Church in the recent World Summit of religious leaders in Moscow, as well as the resumed dialogue of the mixed mixed The Orthodox Catholic Theological Commission, which continued its work from

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.

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.

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.