The US authorities are launched a large -scale campaign under the motto "exceeded the norm - he was arrested." As part of the campaign, many ignition locks with an alcohol smell detector will also be bought, which will install "drivers" drivers in cars. On the eve of the Day of Labor, which is a national holiday in the United States, the American authorities began a more active struggle against drunkenness at the wheel.

At the Moscow Energy Institute (MPEI), a corpse of a teacher with a knife wound in the neck was found. Presumably, the man committed suicide. The body of the deceased teacher of the military department of the MISI was found on Tuesday in one of the audience of the institute, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. "The 37 -year -old man, presumably, committed suicide to the knife hit in the neck," the police explained.

The hurricane "Dean", moving over the Yukatan peninsula, gradually loses destructive power. The level of its danger today is reduced from the fifth (higher) to the first on the five-point scale of Suffira Simpson. Now the speed of the winds that the hurricane carries with it is 140 km/h, ITAR-TASS reports. However, as weather forecasters warn, Dean continues to pose a great danger.

Data on inflation that state statistics gives are noticeably diverge with the practical experience of citizens, experts of the National Agency of Financial Research found out. So, Rosstat calculated that food products over the past two months have risen in price by 3.1%(in June - by 1.7%, in July - by 1.4%). However, 80% of Nafi respondents are sure that the products have risen in price by more than 5%. Comparative information on inflation was published by Vedomosti .

The head of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network Osama Bin Laden is alive and well, ”said Mansur Dudull, one of the leaders of the Taliban movement. His statement was announced by an American organization that controls extremist sites. On Wednesday, the organization announced a video on which Mansur Dadulla, one of the leaders of the Taliban movement, said that "Osama Ben Laden is in complete health." The video was accompanied by subtitles in English, reports Bloomberg . The record is dated June 15.

Russia has regained a place in the highest governing body of the most powerful organization in Olympic sports - the Council of the International Association of athletics federations. During the first day of the IAAF reporting and election congress, which started today in the Japanese Osaka, the President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (WFLA) Valentin Balakhnichev was elected a member of the Council of this largest athletic structure of the world with the second result.

In anticipation of the parliamentary and presidential elections, the Russian Center for Teaching Electoral Technologies (RTCOT) under the Central Election Commission compiled a list of all well -known black technologies today. According to the Gzt.ru newspaper , the list consists of 26 points. The topic of the fight against illegal technologies on Wednesday will be considered at a meeting of the heads of regional election commission.

The ex-president of Latvia, Vike-Freiberg, plans to put up his costumes for auction, which were acquired during her presidential powers, the ex-president of the Baltic Republic said in an interview with Latvian radio , ITAR-TASS reports. Vick-Freiberg spent his entire salary on the wardrobe, critically speaking about her size. Now she intends to return her money spent on the "replenishment of the cabinet".

In Rostov-on-Don, the student led the wholesale trade of marijuana. During the "control procurement", law enforcement officers managed to purchase a half kilogram of potions from a teenager, after which he was detained. According to the detainee, he prepared marijuana on his own by drying a wild hemp. He estimated the cost of the finished drug at 2.5 thousand rubles per glass, reports REGNUM , citing the press service of the Federal Drug Control Service (UFSC) in the Rostov region.

Recently, several large Swiss companies have partially transferred to the ownership of foreigners. The latter was the engineer-building concern Sulzer, a 31.9% of the shares of which went to Russian businessman Victor Vekselberg. After Vekselberg, another Russian oligarch wants to settle in Switzerland, Blick writes. Oleg Deripaska shows interest in Implenia - the leader of the construction market of Switzerland. Russian billionaires belong to the most diligent investors, the newspaper writes.

Nord Stream, the operator of the project of the North European gas pipeline on August 21 officially announced a change in the gas pipeline route in the Danish island of Bornholm. "The new route will be held north, and not south of the island, as previously planned, and will be more than 8 km," the company said. As Kommersant explains, Nord Stream will take place in the territorial waters of Sweden, away from the dangerous zone of flooded ammunition from the Second World War.

Russian volleyball players started at the final Grand Prix tournament in China from the defeat from the Italian national team 1: 3 (18:25, 17:25, 25:23, 17:25), EUROSPORT reports. In the first two sets, the superiority of Italians, in the ranks of which a two -time Olympic champion in the national team of Cuba Thaismari Agero stood out (with a growth of 177 cm, the height of the jump - 322 cm) was undeniable.

The Czech financier Joseph Toshovsky, who at one time, headed the government and the National Bank of the Czech Republic, became the second official candidate for the post of director of the administrator of the International Monetary Fund. According to the Reuters agency, which on Wednesday night reported the nomination of Toshovsky, Russia proposed a candidacy in the peak of the European Union. The Ministry of Finance of Russia also made an official appeal on this.

The toilet washer Travis Brukins found a gun, stolen last week from the Elvis Presley Museum in Graceland. Brukins immediately transferred the police exhibit, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ar. The Black Nine-Millimeter Smith & Wesson King Rock and Roll was exhibited at the Elvis After Dark Museum in American Memphis. Last week in this city, fans of the singer celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his death . One of the fans, visiting the museum, discovered the loss of a pistol.

The secretary of the Iranian National Security Council Ali Laridzhani called on the United States not to impose a Western system of values ​​to Islamic society, Interfax reports. “Islam is not just a decoration for our lives, unlike how the Vatican is in the West,” Larijani said at a meeting with Islamic theologians in Tehran.