Secret services from almost 20 countries participated in the release of six Bulgarian doctors sentenced by Libya’s court to life imprisonment for infection of HIV infection of Libyan children and pardoned by the president of Bulgaria by Georgy Pyrvanov. This was announced on Monday by the Internet portal Eubusiness with reference to the director of the National Security Service of Bulgaria Kircho Kirov.

The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch Feoktist died last Monday at the age of 92, Interfax reports. The Patriarch died of a heart attack after surgery on the prostate gland in the Bucharest hospital "Funden", the attending doctors of Feoktista Romanian television said.

On July 30, VTB shares could be bought below the placement price at an IPO for 13.6 kopecks. On the London Stock Exchange, the price was $ 10.5 - 0.6% less than when placing.

The Russian television holding CTC Media published the financial results of the second quarter, which were not too impressive. The revenue of the STS Media compared to the results of last year was reduced by halves. After this was announced by the President of the Media STS, Alexander Rodnyansky, the company's quotes on Nasdaq fell by almost 5%. The second quarter of the past, 2006 was the most successful in the history of STS, then the revenue grew by 83%.

The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin expects that by 2011 there will be no federal tracks "with grooves and potholes" in Russia. He clarified that by this time the government plans to reach not only the record pace of road construction, but also to a qualitatively new level of maintenance of the state of federal tracks.

In the United States, FBI agents and internal income services conducted a search on Monday at the House of Senator-Republican from Alaska Ted Stevens as part of the investigation of corruption in this state, ITAR-TASS reports. The 83-year-old senator came into the view of the federal investigative bodies after the size of his house in the city of Girdwood in Alaska more than doubled in 2000.

Perhaps in the near future to steal players, mobile phones and other portable gadgets will become pointless. Apple employees are developing a system thanks to which the future ipod players, falling into the hands of thieves, will turn into a useless piece of plastic, Cyberstyle reports with reference to Engadget . The essence of protection technology is simple.

Magna International, the largest world -class car components, received a court permission to vote shareholders to approve the agreement with Russian Machines OJSC, acquiring a large share in the Canadian company, Bloomberg said. The meeting of shareholders will be held on August 28. After a court decision, the company's shares went up by 4.2%on Monday, Interfax reports.

Participants in the Siberian Marathon -Unknown Dauria trophi -expedition in hard -to -reach places of Transbaikalia, which started from Novosibirsk on June 25, managed to get out of the swamps in the Chita region.

The College of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan determined the guilty of infection of children by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which was discovered in the Osh region. Following the results of the College of the Ministry of Health, the chief doctors of the Noocatian territorial and Osh regional hospitals, the head of the Osh regional service of the Sanepidemnadzor and the head of the Osh regional blood transfusion Center were dismissed.

The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the profession after a stroke and paralysis of the right half of the body posted six years ago. The actor will participate in the filming of Francis Haster's film "Man and his dog", who is a remake of the famous tape of Wittorio de Sica "Umberto D" (1951), AFP reports with reference to the actor's wife.

On the morning of Tuesday, deputies of the Samara Provincial Duma voted for the allocation of FC “Wings of Soviets” of a loan of 200 million rubles. This money will go to pay the debt of Millhouse Capital Roman Abramovich. The main sponsor of the club is the government of the Samara region. The first Millhouse Capital payments should take place in September 2007.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they expressed the hope that the Russian legislation will soon be amended, explaining the possibilities and procedure for organizing worships in the open air. So in the Russian Orthodox Church they reacted to the decision of the Strasbourg Court, who satisfied the complaint of the Protestants of Chekhov near Moscow to the ban on conducting such worship.

By 2010, the average pension in Russia should reach 5 thousand rubles, Mikhail Zurabov, Minister of Health and Social Development, promised. “We expect that by mid -2010 the average pension in the Russian Federation should approach five thousand rubles,” the minister said on the air of the Mayak radio station on July 31. He recalled that the president was set to find the task of finding on this.

The Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Ishakov, who arrived on Monday evening in the Zeisky district of the Amur Region, said that the departments regulating the activities of the hydroelectric power station had to follow the instructions, but the interests of people living in the area. "You had to do not fit from the point of view of the bureaucracy, but humanly.