On the territory of the Ryazan region, a fireforn fire on an area of ​​more than 870 hectares does not fade. “He became the largest in the Central Federal District this year,” Interfax told on Monday the press service of the regional Ministry of Natural Resources, clarifying that the fire had already spread from the peat bogs into the territory of the Tuman forestry.

If the early elections of the President of Ukraine took place in the next weekend, the first place would be taken by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych (29.8%), the second was the leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (15.4%), and the third is the current President Viktor Yushchenko (11.6%). Such sociological data is given by Interfax.

In the UK, a young man died who was stuck in the grate of storm drain during a flood in the northeast of the country. According to Skynews , he spent three hours in a trap, firefighters and divers all this time tried to save him. As the representative of the rescue service said, "there was just a nightmare situation, he was stuck in an iron grate.

On Monday, the avant-garde of the delegation of the Sochi-2014 Base Committee, led by its General Director Dmitry Chernyshenko, arrived in the capital of Guatemala, where the election of the capital of the 2014 Olympic Games will be held in ten days. Recall that the competitors of the Russian city will be the Austrian Salzburg and Korean Pion Rechang.

The abducted Israeli soldier Gilahit is in one of the secret shelters near Rafiah (south of the Gaza Sector). This was announced the day before by the second channel of Israeli TV in the program dedicated to the first anniversary of the capture of the corporal of DSACAL SHALIT. The TV channel referred to sources in the leadership of the Hamas movement, notes Newsru Israel .

The Moscow authorities intend to sue five owners of the land in the village of Butovo, the prefect of the South-Western Administrative District Alexei Chelyshev told reporters last Saturday. “In the village of Butovo, only 13 houses remained, according to which we have not yet managed to reach an agreement with the owners. And five of them are just the case when people in June 2005 issued a small plot of land in the property, and now we will require a separate apartment.

In Belarus, four representatives of the Belarusian opposition were detained on the border with Poland. In their laptops in hidden files, terrorism manuals were found. The plot about the detention of opposition was shown in the program "Panorama of the Week" on the Belarusian State First Channel. "The four activists of the radical Belarusian opposition, who are trained in Poland, have two laptops with electronic terrorism manuals at customs," the program said.

The European Union opened on Monday as part of the process of Turkey’s entry into the EU two new negotiation articles - “Statistics” and “Financial Control”. For negotiations, one more integration dossier, “Economic and Monetary Union”, imposed France, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the Belgian RTBF television channel. At the end of March this year, the EU and Turkey began negotiations on the second section of the integration dossier - "enterprises and industry" .

The applicants for vacancies sometimes have to run on fire alarm, sing, dance, begging on the street, crawling on the floor on all fours and depict a monkey. Such "non-traditional" methods of personnel selection revealed the contest "Loor of employment" , held by a large Internet portal, work dedicated to a career. The first place was taken by the story of the original method of testing for dedication. During the next stage of selection, the sound of a fire alarm was heard.

The Georgian authorities intend to invite Moscow to stop all contacts with the unrecognized President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoita and in the future to do business only with the head of the temporary Ossetian administration Dmitry Sanakoev. In the event of the consent of Moscow, Russia will be entrusted with the role of an official guarantor of future agreements on the provision of the status of a wide autonomy as part of Georgia.

A surge of organized crime in Kenya: the prohibited sect "Mungiki" intensified her activities, writes The New York Times . According to the member of the Kenyan Parliament of Kihara Mwang, this is a secret society, which is a cross between the Sicilian mafia and Chicago street gangs, with an admixture of occultism. “These guys worship the devil,” says Mwangs. “And no one knows what they want.” The deputy was recently abducted by people from Mungicia.

Baghdad resumed a contract with the State Chinese oil company, signed by the administration of Saddam Hussein. This was announced in Beijing by the newspaper Financial Times, the Minister of Oil Industry Iraq Hussein al-Shakhristani ((full text on the website of Inopressa ). In addition, the Iraqi Minister said that Baghdad would welcome China’s participation in “honest and open -offs” for the right to sign the following contracts.

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych traveled to Russia in order to "get directives on the latest events in Ukraine and election consultations." Thus, Yanukovych’s visit to Russia, the deputy head of the pro-presidential party, our Ukraine Zinovy ​​Shkutyak, commented on, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the party’s press service. “We all know very well that the Kremlin has a great influence on the main political directions of the Party of Regions,” said Shkutyak.

American media corporation Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and News Corp. Close to the agreement that guarantees the independent status of The Wall Street Journal in the event that the corporation of the billionaire Rupert Murdok will acquire Dow Jones. News Corp. She proposed to include 16 representatives of Dow Jones in the board of directors, five of which will form a special committee, whose tasks will include maintaining editorial independence.

The Daimlerchrysler Auto Concert is recalling 1650 Smart Fortwo cars (European versions of Smart) due to possible defects in the steering system, the company said. According to the representative of the concern, car owners were notified of the possible improper installation of steering elements, which could lead to a loss of controllability. At the same time, the company does not have information about the incidents caused by this problem, as well as about the victims, reports Autonews.ru .