In Belarus, there were permutations in power structures. The new chairman of the KGB was appointed by the decree of Alexander Lukashenko, Major General Yuri Zadobin, who had previously held the post of head of the Presidential Security Service.

The former single opposition candidate for president of Belarus, Alexander Milinkevich, was detained on Tuesday evening by the Belarusian police in Ostrovts (Grodno region), located near the border with Poland. "Alexander Milinkevich was detained for being in the border zone without appropriate permission," his press secretary Julia Kotskaya told Interfax. According to her, Milinkevich was on a working visit to the Grodno region.

On Tuesday, at a special meeting of the Cabinet of Israeli Cabinet in Jerusalem, the ministerial commission approved the decision on the early release of 256 Palestinian prisoners from prisons, including a significant group of Fatch activists, the People’s Front of the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front of the Liberation of Palestine, convicted of terrorist activities, reports Newsru. ISRAEL , citing a source in the office of the head of the Israeli government.

In the Lviv region, on Tuesday, an evacuation of the population is carried out from the district where 15 wagons with a liquid yellow phosphorus turned up and caught fire on the eve of the evening (at about 19:30 Moscow time). The emergency occurred near the Station of Othersov, which is 80 km east of Lviv. Meanwhile, chemical anxiety has been announced in the Busky district of the region.

The cost of training in the most popular Moscow universities over the past year increased by more than 15%. Such data are quoted by the Russian rating agency "Reutor", which conducted a study of commercial education in the capital. The most expensive, as in 2006, in Moscow were faculties of the "Economics and Management" direction.

The President of the Republic Murat Zyazikov was elected the head of the Ingush Republican branch of the United Russia party last Saturday. But to take the highest party position Zyazikov was not so simple, the newspaper "News Time" notes. Zyazikov, who joined the party in June, managed to make a quick career in United Russia, but not without obstacles.

On Tuesday, the Chita Regional Court refused to satisfy the cassation submission of the prosecutor's office for the decision of the Central District Court of Chita. Recall that the court then recognized the actions of investigators conducting the case against the ex-head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev in Chita. The date of consideration in the regional court of a similar cassation appeal of lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky has not yet been determined.

In Chechnya, the theft of 1.5 billion rubles were identified, made under sub -sub -subject documents for compensation for lost housing. In the case, more than 4.5 thousand false applications for receiving compensation payments for destroyed housing, for which each applicant were paid at 350 thousand rubles, said Chechen Prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta .

In Russia, there are 141 youth groups of extremist. These groups include about half a million people. Such data are contained in the report of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau (MBPC), which was at the disposal of the newspaper New Izvestia . Sociologists of the Levada Center, in turn, reported that they have not observed such youth activity since 1988. Human rights activists found that they are mainly concentrated in large cities of the Central, North-West and Ural Federal Districts.

To ensure public order during the football match of the Russian Championship between Khimki and the capital's “locomotive”, which will be held on Wednesday at the Rodina Stadium, more than two thousand police officers will be attracted. This, according to Interfax , at a press conference on Tuesday, said Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Moscow Region Viktor Krykhtin.

Entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky in an interview with French Le Figaro once again said that Vladimir Putin personally ordered the murder of Litvinenko. According to Berezovsky, the FSB organized everything, entrusting the performance of Andrei Lugovoi. The businessman brought two arguments. The first of them is Polonius. Without the participation of the state, the secret services of Polonia can neither be produced, nor transport or use. This poison leads right to the Kremlin, said Boris Berezovsky.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov believes that the party he heads will get a good result in the upcoming elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in December 2007. Zyuganov said this to Izvestia in an interview published on Tuesday.

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov on the morning of July 17 went with an official two -day visit to China. This is the first visit to the PRC of the new head of Turkmenistan, which took office on February 14, 2007, ITAR-TASS reports. Several rounds of negotiations with the chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao will take place, following which a package of bilateral documents will be signed.

As it became known to the sports online publication Football.ua , the St. Petersburg club Zenit is considering the possibility of acquiring another top game of the Ukrainian championship. Sources from Russia report that Zenit’s leadership plans to make a specific Dynamo offer regarding the acquisition of the Ukrainian national team midfielder Oleg Gusev. As in the case of Anatoly Tymoshchuk, the St.

The Government Commission on the Safety of Cultural Values ​​revealed the absence of 160 thousand art of art in museums. This was announced by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday at a meeting of the commission to coordinate issues of comprehensive verification of the safety of cultural values.