On Saturday, July 19, at about one in the morning, a deputy of the municipality of the city of Kharabali, Astrakhan region, who got drunk, killed three people, reports Astrakhan.ru . MP Nikolay Timofeev lost the control of the technically serviceable Volkswagen Touareg car and drove off the roadway of the road at high speed. At the same time, he ran on the visitors sitting at the table at the Katyusha store-a 29-year-old woman, a 20-year-old man and a 6-year-old boy.

The first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Vladislav Surkov, said that the threat of "color revolutions", which, in his opinion, tried to impose on Russia, overcome, and this is a great merit of the youth movement "Our". Surkov made this statement, speaking at a meeting with the assets of the Seliger-2008 forum, Interfax reports.

Russian legislation in the fight against corruption needs to improve and, possibly, even tightening, but it is inappropriate to create some kind of "anti-corruption special forces" in the country. This opinion was expressed the day before in an interview with the final information program of the NTV television company, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Naryshkin, ITAR-TASS reports.

Ten boats of the Brotherhood organization were blocked on Monday morning, the exit from the port of Odessa, into which NATO foreign warships entered, in order to not allow them to participate in the NATO exercises Sea Breeze 2008. As Interfax was told in the press service of the organization, currently three boats are taken under control of the alliance sailors, the rest continue to block the port. NATO exercises in Odessa are accompanied by numerous protests by the local population.

The earthquake of magnitude 6 points occurred on Monday in the north-eastern part of the main Japanese island of Honsu. Meteorological management has announced the probability of tsunami. According to him, the push was recorded at 20:30 local time in the area of ​​the Miyagi Prefecture. The hearth was located at a 30-kilometer depth. The victims and destruction are not reported, ITAR-TASS reports. In Japan, 20% of all major world earthquakes occur.

In the Sakhalin region, police detained three teenagers who are suspected of killing two homeless people. The victims were brutally scored by attackers for the collection of scrap metal in the "foreign territory". Two suspects in a cruel crime turned 14, and one 16 years old, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the investigative department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Sakhalin Region.

In the United States, the mother left a 4-year-old child in a locked car, and she went to make a manicure for her wedding. From the unbearable heat, the boy died. The tragedy happened just a few hours before the moment that the 29-year-old resident of the city of Lake-Urta in the American state of Florida was to be combined. The festive bustle turned out for Mirland, Jean-Baptists with the loss of her son and mourning, writes The Daily Mail newspaper.

The Sunday match of the Russian Championship between Rubin and Terek at the Bilimkhanov stadium in Grozny turned into a scandal. According to some media reports, which was subsequently actively refuted, the fans of the Grozny team hung the flag of the self -proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, whose independence Russia does not recognize. The incident is notable for the fact that some of the residents of Chechnya clearly sympathize with the unrecognized republic, writes the Caucasian Knot .

At the Chukotka during the ceremony of presenting awards to laureates of a literary competition, one of the awarded writers died right on stage, Interfax reports. On Saturday in Anadyr, a ceremony of presenting awards to laureates of the literary contest named after the famous Chukchi writer Yuri Rytheu was held. At the end of the event, the award was presented in the most honorable nomination - "Prose".

On The Times, a rating of things related to politics and sold at the EBAY electronic auction has been compiled. As Daniel Finkelstein, responsible for heading, notes, he selected "striking lots, when viewed, which remains to be scratched in the back of the head." All of the above is currently available on eBay, which confirms direct links to lots (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

The Russian Land Code prohibits owning agricultural lands to foreign citizens and companies, as well as Russian companies, if more than 50%belongs to foreigners, but this ban does not apply to the "granddaughter" of foreign companies in practice. Vedomosti tried to determine how many agricultural land are owned by companies in European exchanges. The first agricultural company to start buying agricultural land in Russia for foreign money was the Black Earth Farming.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez arrives on Monday to Moscow as part of his tour of the Latin American and European countries. It is planned that Chavez will hold negotiations with the Russian leadership. It is expected that the President of Venezuela will discuss the issue of large purchases of Russian weapons. In addition, during the current visit of the Latin American leader to Russia, work will be completed on an agreement on mutual encouragement and protection of investments.

People trading and forced prostitution are becoming more and more urgent problems for Russia. More and more women in Russia are forced to enter the panel. Penetrates attract foreigners to Moscow and operate them. And humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm, because they cannot take care of all the victims, writes Der Spiegel .

In the Lidsky district of the Grodno region, a strange bicentral being appeared. It is about one and a half meter, covered with black hair and looks like a monkey, BelTA reported with reference to eyewitnesses. Dozens of people claimed that they saw this creature - on the corn field near the village of Krasnovtsy, at the store and in the area of ​​the villages of Kovali and Rulevichi.

By July 1, 2008, the state external debt of Russia decreased from 44.1 to 41.0 billion dollars, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation reports on its website. The debt decreased mainly due to arrears on bonds of internal state loan: it decreased from 4.5 billion on April 1 to the current 1.8 billion dollars. The arrears of Euro -ligation loans in the II quarter survived at 28.2 billion. The debt to the member countries of the Paris Club decreased from 1.6 to 1.5 billion dollars.