First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov in the absence of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Fradkov on Thursday will first hold a meeting of the Russian government. However, only Alexander Zhukov - Sergey Naryshkin and Dmitry Medvedev on vacation can theoretically be from the deputy prime ministers. According to the publication, the question of who and how should hold meetings of the government at the time of the absence of the prime minister, until recently, had no formal answer.

The injury of the legs received by Liverpool captain Stephen Jerrard in the match of the third qualifying round of the Champions League against Toulouse may prevent him from playing the national team against the Russian team. In the 65th minute of the match against Toulouse, Stephen Jerrard was forced to leave the field due to injury and give his place to Mohammed Sissoko, reports Eurosport.

State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Vladimir Medinsky appealed to the Basmanny Court of Moscow in connection with the appearance of a fake blog on his behalf in Livejournal. His statement appeared on the deputy’s website , in which he reports on the appearance of the Medinsky.livejournal.com false blog.

An unusual action aimed at raising drivers and pedestrians held on Thursday in Barnaul the traffic police department together with the Barnaul and Altai diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to Interfax in the propaganda department of the traffic police regional department, on Thursday in the city center, on October Square, with drivers and pedestrians who violated the rules of the road, not only the traffic police inspector, but also the clergyman.

In the west of Moscow, by 2009, a complex of buildings of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia will be built. According to the order of the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, the construction of a land plot of 1.55 hectares on the street of the Ulofe Palma, ownership of 3 next door to the embassies of Angola and the United Arab Emirates will be leased for 49 years. More than 190 million rubles will be paid to the capital’s budget, RIA Novosti reports.

The next meeting of the Council of the Heads of the SCO state was decided in 2008 in Dushanbe, and in 2009 - in the Russian Federation, in Yekaterinburg. This was stated by Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev following the results of the SCO summit in Bishkek on Thursday, Interfax reports. He explained that in this way, from today, the relay of the chairmanship in the SCO from Kyrgyzstan is transferred to Tajikistan.

In the city of Mytishchi near Moscow, three employees of the metropolitan police were detained, who are suspected of robbery, drug trafficking and abuse of authority. The victim of the criminals was a marital couple, from which the robbers took the jewelry right on the street, reports REGNUM with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The police explained that on the afternoon of August 15, a man turned to law enforcement agencies.

The basic retirement pension from October 1, 2007 will increase by 13.2% to 1260 rubles. This was announced at a government meeting on Thursday by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, who for the first time holds a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in the absence of his head Mikhail Fradkov.

In Krasnoyarsk, a pensioner was detained red -handed, who kept 27 thousand rounds in the garage. At the time of the appearance of the police, the man loaded ammunition into the car. The illegal ware of ammunition was located in the garage on Gusarov Street, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the regional police department. At the same time, the 70-year-old owner of the cartridges was detained by the employees of the ARC with red-handed.

The head of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko gave an official press conference at which he spoke on the trial with the Moscow Spartak, related to the advent of a banner of racist maintenance during their guest match with the Wings of the Soviets. According to the Mayak radio station, Vitaly Mutko urged more to complete the work on the security concept. “In England, it has already been accepted,” the head of the RFU recalled. “And in 5-7 years, they changed the situation in the root there.

In Moscow, robbers stole a portfolio from a car, in which there were 15 million rubles. The stolen money belonged to an engineer of the company working in the housing and communal services market, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. “Last Wednesday evening, when a man was sitting in a car parked at the residential building in the 5th Don passage, three unknown people approached her,” the police explained.

World commodity markets completed trading last Wednesday, August 15, with an increase in oil prices. So, the barrel rose over the session on the New York Exchange at 84 cents and reached the level of $ 73.22. On the London International Oil Exchange, the price of a barrel at the time of the end of the auction amounted to 71.74 dollars, here the growth reached $ 1.23, ITAR-TASS reports.

British writer Joan Rowling completed her last novel about Harry Potter - Harry Potter and Gifts of Death. However, this does not prevent the "pirates" to release illegal continuation of Potteriana. Typically, such works are called "fan fiction" (from the English fan - a fan and fiction - fiction), but under the name Rowling itself and almost nowhere is not published.

The long -awaited novelty has appeared in the UK - a school uniform capable of protecting from a knife. It is a jacket of $ 240 and a sweater - for $ 120, ITAR -TASS reports. The form was created from a special composite synthetic material - Kevlar, from which the British soldiers who are fighting in Iraq are made. The material contains threads that are five times stronger than steel. Knife wounds and murders using cold weapons for British schools have now become a real problem.

The British newspaper The Times took advantage of the consultation of professional lawyers so that its rating includes really the strangest quirks of legislators around the world. “Do you know that in France you can’t call the pig Napoleon? Or is it forbidden to save fish in Ohio?” The observer Alex Uyd is surprised, thanks to the help of the rating of the heels of lawyers from world names. (Full text on the website inopressa.ru .) 25.