The Central Election Commission of Russia has data that employees of Western intelligence services work as part of the missions of international observers along the OSCE line, Igor Borisov, a member of the Echo of the Echo of Echo of Echo of Moskvy, said on Wednesday. “There is such information. I can’t speak specifically,” Borisov said.

Pakistan and Iran agreed on cooperation in the fight against religious extremism. This was announced today by local information agencies following negotiations by the adviser to the Prime Minister for internal affairs Rehman Malik and the acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Iran Sayed Mehdi Hashemi, who is here on a visit, ITAR-TASS reports. The main attention in negotiations was devoted to the issue of overcoming extremism in the relations of Shiites and Sunnis.

By the decision of the city deputies of Lutsk (Ukraine, Volyn region), adopted at an extraordinary session, the local monument to Lenin will be re -melted to church bells. This monument was dismantled in Novovolynsk 17 years ago. All this time, he was under guard on the balance sheet of the production department of public utilities, the website of the Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" reports with reference to the Khreshchatyk newspaper.

Representatives of the Jewish community of Odessa turned to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko with a request to help stop construction work on Tolbukhina Street, where traces of mass burials were discovered. According to the community press secretary Boleslav Kapulkin, the remains discovered by the builders - the burial of the Jews executed during the occupation in the fall of 1941.

The US State Department has criticized the decision of Russia to sell Venezuela modern weapons of $ 2 billion. “We have repeatedly expressed the concern of Russia's concern about the increase in weapons by Chavez, we intend to continue to do this,” said the representative of the American Foreign Department, Gaonsalo Galigos, commenting on the conclusion of the Russian-Venesuel contract for the supply of 20 air defense systems, 12 military transport aircraft and 24 fighters, Interfax reports.

Entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov filed a lawsuit against his former business partner Vladimir Potanin and publisher of the newspaper Moscow Times LLC United Press on the protection of business reputation. As Interfax reports with reference to the materials of the Moscow Arbitration Court, the lawsuit went to court on July 21.

The Arbitration Court of the Tyumen region on July 23 granted a lawsuit by Tetlis CJSC against TNK-BP and invalidated an agreement with BP on the provision of services by foreign employees, Interfax reports. The question of foreign employees is one of the elements of the conflict of shareholders TNK -BP (BP and the consortium of Russian shareholders, AAR).

A British actress who used the YouTube video service in her divorce from her husband has lost all recourse after a judge convicted her of online insulting her husband, the "Broadway mogul," The Times reported Wednesday. Judge Harold Beeler granted a divorce to 76-year-old millionaire Philip Smith, president of New York's largest theater chain, on grounds of cruel and inhumane treatment of him by his wife. The judge rejected Mrs.

Businessman Alisher Usmanov agrees to buy a share in Digital Sky Technologies (DST) - co -owner of Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and a number of other assets, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Today, the Odnoklassniki.ru project, launched in early March 2006, has about 20 million registered users. The investment company, founded in 2005, is controlled by the Executive Director of NCH Advisors Grigory Finger and the former top manager of the Menatep group Yuri Milner, 5% for Renaissance Group.

The lawyer of the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzhich, said that he intends to protest the decision of the Serbian judicial authorities to issue the international tribunal in the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) in the Hague of his client and wants to be tried in Serbia, according to CNN . Karadzhich defenders can appeal within three days, while the Belgrade court is preparing documents on the transfer of the arrested to the Hague.

Tehran does not intend to make concessions in the settlement of the crisis around the Iranian nuclear program. This was once again confirmed by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad, saying that in the development of the nuclear program his country "will not retreat neither the yota." The statement of the Iranian leader followed after the next round of negotiations held on Saturday, July 19, in Geneva.

For all the years of the existence of investment funds, the Russians knew almost nothing about their condition, the Moscow Komsomolets reports, recalling that from February 1, 2008, the Stabfond, having reached $ 157.4 billion, was divided into a reserve fund, which received 125.4 billion, and the national welfare fund, where the remaining 32.0 billion.

The Senator-Democrat from the state of Illinois Barack Obama, who should become a candidate for the US president, confirmed on Wednesday in Jerusalem "Special obligations of the United States in relation to Israel and its security." Obama promised the Israeli President Shimon Person that he would “serve as an effective partner” both as a senator and the president’s post in case of his election, ITAR-TASS reports. The schedule of Obama's visit to Israel and Palestinian autonomy is very dense.

Plans to create a single local church in Ukraine are sent against the Russian Orthodox Church , according to the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots, Director of the Institute of CIS countries Konstantin Zatulin. “First of all, I would like to express my vision in connection with the abuse of the word“ one. ”It is something from the Western language when the split is called unity.

Last month, Madonna, who calls herself the "ambassador of Judaism", flew to Poland, and already the next month, according to unofficial data, intends to secretly visit Ukraine, where he will visit the places sacred for the Kabbalists, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the newspaper "Today" . Most likely, during this visit, Madonna will stop not in hotels, but in places that will be stored in the strictest secret.