Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, who was forced to resign due to accusations of sexual harassment of his apparatus, received 1 million 200 thousand shekels from the financial committee of the country's parliament, which is about 282 thousand US dollars. This amount will be spent annually for the maintenance of personal protection. Newsru Israel recalls that Katsav was sentenced to a conditional time for sexual crimes.

The federal "troika" of the "Union of Right Forces" in the upcoming elections to the State Duma will be headed by the leader of the party Nikita Belykh, said Boris Nemtsov, a member of the political council of the ATP. “We know for sure who will lead the federal“ three ”“ Union of Right Forces ” - it will be headed by Nikita Yuryevich Belykh. We know this one hundred percent,” Interfax quoted Nemtsova.

Archbishop of Cyprosy Chrysost II reported a new hostile act in relation to the Orthodox in the Turkish part of Cyprus. This is stated in a press release, distributed on August 16 by the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the Vatican, reports "Religion and Media" The document states that the Turkish police did not allow the Orthodox believers to perform a worship in the monastery of St. Barnabas in the city of Famagusta.

Ukrtransnaft resumed the transportation of oil along the Friendship main oil pipeline in the amount of 63 thousand tons per day. On the morning of August 17, due to the accident, the transformer substation control system was damaged by the Chizhivka pumping station in the Zhytomyr region (the Mozyr-Broda Plot of the Druzhba oil pipeline). The transportation of oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline was suspended.

In Russia, from August 17, the procedure for inspection of passengers by airports has been tightened. As explained to reporters in the press service of the Ministry of Transport, it now complies with the European rules for inspection of passengers. According to the order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, passengers, for security purposes, will be inspected both before the flight and after.

Russian citizen Alexander Zakharov is extradited from Spain to Russia. He is suspected of killing the governor of the Magadan region Valentina Tsvetkov. The plane, on board which is located under the escort, departed on Friday afternoon from the Madrid international airport Barahas and at about 19:30 landed at the Moscow Sheremetyevo-2 airport.

Now, in order to cross the border with Belarus to Russian children, it is necessary to present either their own passport, or to be inscribed in the parental passport - birth certificate is no longer a document giving the right to cross the border with the Republic of Belarus. RATA-NEWS has information that Belarusian border guards on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border plant Russian children from trains following, for example, along the route St.

The collapse in world financial markets continues: on the eve of the Russian stock market, he survived the largest collapse since the beginning of the year, and Japan “collapsed” on Friday. According to the results of Russian trading on Thursday, the RTS index fell by more than 3.5%, Rosneft's papers, VTB and Sberbank - folk IPO hits of the first half of 2007 - lost from 2.6%to 4.2%. In Japan, the Nikkei index lost 3.46%.

In Bryansk, two motorcyclists shot a witness at the court building, which listened to the case of drug trafficking. The murder was committed near the Bezhitsky District Court, Interfax reports with reference to the regional Department of Internal Affairs. At that moment, when the man got out of the building and began to get into the car, two motorcyclists arrived at him. Immediately after shooting, they disappeared.

The icon of the Boar Prince Alexander Nevsky with a particle of the relics of the saint will be transferred to the chapel-monument of the headquarters of the long-air air forces of Russia, Interfax was told on Friday to the Air Force. The solemn transfer of the image to the headquarters on Tuesday, August 21, at 11:00, will be headed by the Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Bishop of Bronnitsky Ambrose.

Delhi City Council thinks on how to get rid of stray dogs that terrorize the capital of India, and some deputies express original ideas, writes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph (full text - on the website inopressa.ru ). For example, the adviser Mohan Prashad Bharadwaj read somewhere that the Koreans like to eat dogs and exclaimed in the hearts that the flocks of dogs should be grabbed and sent to Korea to the soup to the local population.

A strong fire in a residential building on Otradnaya Street was liquidated, Interfax was told on Friday to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Before the arrival of firefighters, according to eyewitnesses, from the windows of the 4th floor, unable to withstand high temperature, two people were released. Two more bodies are looking for in a burned apartment.

In the case of the undermining of the "Hevsky express", the first detentions of the suspects were made. Three had to be released, the fourth detainee is checked. In addition, according to some reports, one of the inhabitants of Moscow identified the published photobot - according to his tip, the police are looking for a resident of the city of Borovichi, the Novgorod region. Perhaps he disappeared in Moscow. Earlier, the detention of three citizens was reported: two Chechens and one Russian.

As a result, the bold theft from the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office disappeared the materials of the criminal case of fraud. The accused in this case is the famous Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, who was previously justified in the court in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian Forbes Paul Khlebnikov, the publication "Your Day" writes on August 17.

Skype network users cannot communicate with each other for the second day in a row due to a malfunction in the service. Skype stopped working on the afternoon of August 16. The company's website reports that problems have arisen with the service software. Skype apologized to users and promised to establish work during August 17-18. The XAKEP network edition, citing one of its readers, claims that the attack of Russian hackers was the reason for the fall of the Skype network.