The Russian businessman and senator Andrei Vavilov opens a representative office in New York for her Hedge Fund IFS Hedge Fund in order to attract third-party investors, reports The New York Times . Vavilov, the former First Deputy Minister of Finance and the owner of the North Neft oil company, created the Fund in 2004 in the Bahamas, investing $ 200 million in it, and still did not attract third -party investors in it.

According to the newspaper "Your Day" relative of the acting The Minister of Health and Social Development of Mikhail Zurabov, who recently knocked down a pregnant Muscovite, is put in a psychiatric hospital. 31 -year -old Anastasia M., which was brought up by a criminal case, has not yet testified to the investigation - after the accident, the woman is in a serious stress state. The other day, Anastasia was hospitalized in one of the Moscow psychiatric clinics.

In Estonia, a scandal erupted around the publication in the press of the secret document of the Ministry of Defense about the Gazprom gas pipeline Nord Stream, which ultimately can lead to the resignation of the government. It turned out that the key departments were not against the study of the bottom in the economic zone of Estonia just the day before the adoption of a negative decision . The secret report of the Ministry of Defense betrayed the publicity of the newspaper Postimees.

The victims of the terrorist attack committed on Monday evening in the Shiite mosque in the city of Baakub in the north of Iraq, according to the latest data, 20 people were injured over 30. According to the police, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber. He thundered at the moment when the guards at the entrance to the prayer house began to inspect the terrorist. In the evening, a "conciliatory meeting" of the Sunni and Shiite leaders of the city took place in the mosque.

Russian woman Kirilenko on Sunday won her second title in her career, becoming the winner of the Tennis tournament of the third category of WTA Kolkata Open, who was completed in India. In the final match, she forced the capital of the representative of Ukraine Maria Korytseva with a score of 6: 0, 6: 2. This success allowed Kirilenko to rise to six lines of the rating of the championship race-from 33rd to 27th place, ahead of the compatriot Vera Zvonareva.

In the Primorsky Territory, on Monday, a large-scale teaching of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation to eliminate the consequences of the destructive tsunami begins, an employee of the press service of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia said. "During the exercise, rescuers will work out practical skills to organize interaction in an environment associated with a destructive earthquake and tsunami," said an employee of the press service.

In the elite of the richest English football clubs, a change of leaders occurred. From now on, the first line is occupied by the London Arsenal, and not Manchester United, as it was previously over the years. On Monday, in the British capital it was announced that in the 2006-2007 season, the volume of the Arsenal financial turnover exceeded 200 million pounds. For comparison: Manchester United has 167.8 million pounds, and the Chelsea occupying the third position - 152.8 million.

On Monday, the Moscow City Court recognized the legal issue of the arrest of businessman Boris Berezovsky, who is accused of embezzlement of 13 million dollars of SBS-AGRO Bank. Thus, the cassation appeal of the defense was rejected, which asked to cancel the decision of the Basmanny Court of the capital as illegal and unreasonable, ITAR-TASS reports. The prosecution representative asked the court decision to be left unchanged, and the defense complaint was dismissed.

The most persistent enemies of the Canadian military in Afghanistan are natives of Chechnya, writes the Canadian newspaper The National Post (text on the website inopressa.ru ). According to the sergeant of the secret unit engaged in the information war, the military of the 22nd Canadian regiment Van Doos notes that the most stringent resistance to them is not the Afghans, but the Chechen militants.

The famous pop singer, who recently widely celebrated her 50-year creative anniversary and the 70th birthday of the USSR, People's Artist of the USSR Edita Piekh became a member of the Fair Russia party. According to Rosbalt IA , the decision on this was unanimously made on Sunday at the Socialist Revolutionary Congress. As the leader of Fair Russia Sergei Mironov noted, Piekhi’s statement about joining the party was received by the Presidium of the Congress the day before.

Getting the bank approval on a mortgage loan is not easy today. But no less difficulties await the borrower when searching for an apartment suitable for a mortgage. After all, banks have quite stringent requirements for such housing. It should be liquid, and therefore high -quality, if possible not to fall in price over time. Then, in the case of non -payments, a bank or borrower easily, without loss, will be able to sell the apartment and cover losses, the “Independent Newspaper” reports.

A small street in the very center of the capital of Croatia Zagreba almost completely went underground. Three residential buildings on Kupskaya Street, part of the roadway and sidewalks crawled into a huge foundation pit, dug under the underground garage of the new office of the National Energy Company "Hrvatsk Electrivreda". According to Zagreb police on Monday, at first, a two -story house moved into a pit 27 meters deep, and then two more houses followed during the day.

For a week from September 17 to September 24, the cost of a square meter of the Moscow Khrushchev rose by 0.3 percent, exceeding $ 4,000 and amounting to $ 4004, the weekly report of the “real estate market indicators”, which quotes Lenta.ru . By the same amount, to 3674 dollars per meter, housing in old panel houses went up. At the same time, the average cost per square meter in Moscow increased by 0.2 percent to 4073 dollars.

The European Court of Human Rights asked the Government of the Russian Federation to explain the motives for the detention of Alexander Makarov, removed from the post of mayor of Tomsk, RIA Novosti reports.

The Iranian authorities made a wide gesture to the performance of their President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad at Columbia University of the United States, releasing from the conclusion of one of his graduates, Dr. Chian Tajbaksha. The doctor worked for the George Soros Open Society Institute and was detained among several people related to the United States on suspicion of a conspiracy against Iran’s national security, Cnsnews reports.