The deadline for signing agreements on the industrial collection was scheduled for September 15, and almost all major automakers signed an agreement with the METAR. As it became known to RBC Daily , ten more applications were submitted to the Ministry, but no more than three will be signed for the remaining one and a half months. Most of the projects are Chinese. At the same time, the deadline for signing agreements on auto components will expire: 11 companies are asked for benefits.

The Russian government approved the federal target program "Development of the Far East and Transbaikalia until 2013." It involves financial injections into the region from the federal budget in the amount of 430 billion rubles. “If you add private investments to specific projects here, then the amount will amount to 566 billion, and this is far from the limit,” the Prime Minister Fradkov summed up. The program provides for the growth of gross regional product up to 3.5 trillion rubles.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia at a meeting on Thursday upheld the decision of the Right-Bank District Court of Vladikavkaz, who previously amnestied the leaders of the local police, accused of negligence in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, Interfax reports.

The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office detained two senior employees of Zelenograd customs on suspicion of receiving a bribe, the press service of the Moscow Transport Prosecutor's Office reports.

The Al-Qaeda terrorist network posted the announcement of the new video on the Internet. “Wait for a big surprise,” the banner reads, ABC reports. The video sequence represents photos of the head of Al-Qaeda, Osama Ben Laden and his key deputies, along with portraits of US President George Bush and the head of Pakistan, Musharraf Perevez, standing against the backdrop of a burning White House.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk district of Krasnoyarsk opened a criminal case against a 24-year-old girl who admitted the Internet Devil that, due to negligence, she dropped her monthly son from the ninth floor. "The corpse of a monthly newborn with signs of violent death was discovered in one of the apartments of Krasnoyarsk," RIA Novosti said on Thursday by telephone, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the region Elena Pimonenko.

On August 1, the Central Bank of Russia reported that the cash, which is in circulation in the country, increased by 36.3%in the country to 3.3 trillion rubles. Almost half of the new money (45%) is printed by five thousandth ruble bills, and their total turnover is 391.3 billion rubles. The bill with a face value of 5 thousand rubles, recalls RBC Daily , was put into circulation exactly a year ago.

The new wireless communication standard is announced by the Bluetooth 2.1 protocol with the EDR function (Enhanced Data Rate). The specification of the updated Bluetooth has already been adopted, notes ixbt.com . Among the improvements and updates, Bluetooth is also very noticeable. So, it is reported that the process of establishing communication will be significantly accelerated. Wireless headphones will be connected noticeably faster thanks to Near Field Communication (NFC), developers say.

On the Rossiya TV channel they see no problem in the news on July 30, when the host talked about the publication in The Times about Boris Berezovsky, it was presented on the screen as a first -head, with a “hat” of the newspaper, although it was actually on the internal pages. “We believe that there are no reasons for claims to us, because the host did not say at all that this material was published in the first lane.

The United States will provide financial support to the authorities of the Palestinian National Autonomy (PNA) in the amount of $ 80 million to strengthen the Palestinian security forces, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Arab television channels. US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice and the head of the PNN government Salyam Fayad signed an agreement during a press conference following the negotiations of Rice and the head of the PNN Mahmoud Abbas.

The Russian government on Thursday discussed the development of the Far Eastern region. The culmination of the meeting was the call of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to the heads of authorities from the central regions of the country to go to work in the Far East. By this, they should show interest in the development of the region.

The political movements of Ukraine began active preparation for early elections. Recall, on August 2, the election campaign for the Verkhovna Rada officially started . According to Newsru.ua , on Thursday a meeting of the Central Election Commission will be held, at which it is planned to adopt a number of decisions, as well as approve the calendar plan of the main measures to prepare and conduct elections.

In the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg, a lawyer of the city college of lawyers was killed. The murder occurred the day before at about 18:30, when 42-year-old Dmitry Sobolev returned home. When the man parked the car and entered the entrance to the house 86/3 on Lunacharsky Avenue, shooting was opened on it. The lawyer received 6 gunshot wounds, including the head.

In the American city of Minneapolis (Minnesota), on Wednesday, in the evening, the peak collapsed a car bridge over the Mississippi River. As a result of the incident in the water and on the large fragments towering above its surface, dozens of cars were, including several trucks and a school bus. A tractor with a trailer caught fire. According to the latest data, at least nine people were killed, 60 victims were delivered to hospitals. Some of them are in critical condition, reports Reuters.

The FSB of Russia helped the Poles compile a collection "Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in the materials of the special services." His presentation takes place these days in Warsaw and Zheshov on the occasion of the anniversary of the uprising. The book was prepared on the basis of archival materials of the Institute of National Memory of Poland and the Central Archive of the FSB. About 150 declassified historical documents tell about the events of the Warsaw anti -fascist uprising, Interfax reports.