The Moscow authorities decided to protect the drivers’ wallets and decided to remove people in vests from parking lots along the capital’s streets from September 10, 2008, that is, to make parking along the roadsides free, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Dzerzhinsky court of St. Petersburg terminated the criminal case against the head of the city branch of the Yabloko party Maxim Reznik. At a meeting on Wednesday, three victims filed a motion to terminate the criminal case in connection with the reconciliation of the parties, Interfax reports.

On September 1, a checkpoint was fired in Ingushetia, at which 15 military personnel of the internal troops and eight employees of the Khabarovsk Internal Affairs Directorate served. The shelling was led from under -barrel grenade launcher and small arms.

Celebrity estates are glowing one after another - maniacs specially set fire to the summer cottages of stars, the newspaper "Life" claims. In Valdai in the Novgorod region they set fire to the cottage of the popular actor Sergei Nikonenko. In the late night, the unknown threw a bottle of flammable liquid into the window of a two -story mansion of a bottle. The fire flashed with terrible force. The actor and his 34-year-old son Nikanor rushed to save his home.

More than 15 civilians were killed as a result of the NATO forces raid in the Yuzhny Vaziristan district border with Afghanistan, at least 26 were injured, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local information agencies. According to eyewitnesses, NATO soldiers, who arrived on three helicopters from Afghanistan, attacked one of the villages in the area of ​​Angur Adda. Among the dead are three women and four children.

Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva became a semi -finalist of the opening championship of the United States. Olympic champion Beijing, sown in New York under the fifth number, two sets with a score of 6: 2, 6: 3 beat the fifteenth racket of the tournament - Patti Schnider from Switzerland. The match lasted 75 minutes.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko announced a possible dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament due to the latest events in the Verkhovna Rada, which the president considers the political and constitutional coup. He said that he would impose a veto on the laws adopted on September 2, including the Law on limiting his powers and simplifying the impeachment procedure.

A senior employee of Euroset is involved in the abduction of a person, the fact of involvement of the company in the smuggling of mobile phones is established. This is stated in the official report of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, which received on Wednesday in ITAR-TASS.

AvtoVAZ on September 2 published data on his sales from January to August: 428 thousand cars. AvtoVAZ did not disclose the sales of August, as he had not previously disclosed the results of the sales of June and July. According to the calculations of Kommersant experts, sales in June 2008 amounted to 48.9 thousand cars, in July - 56.1 thousand, and in August - 49.3 thousand. Thus, the fall in sales by similar months of 2007 amounted to 7.7%, 9.5% and 29.9%, respectively.

Today photos of the new version of the Lexus IS sedan appeared on the Internet. The new product, as the Japanese automaker promises, will go on sale on the world market as a 2009 model. The premiere of the car is scheduled for the Paris Motor Show in October this year. Judging by the presented pictures, the updated IS will receive only cosmetic changes in appearance.

In the Ingush city of Malgobek, a rally was held on Wednesday in memory of the owner of the site "Ingushetia.ru" Magomede Evloev, who was killed on August 31 in Nazran. Malgobek is the hometown of Evloev. “Several hundred people gathered for the rally,” the Ingush oppositionist, the head of the organizing committee of the national rally, Magomed Khazbiev, told Interfax .

The Ambassador of Russia to Australia, Alexander Blokhin, called Kanberra’s intention to abandon the further supplies of Russia Australian uranium in connection with the events in Georgia. Blokhin said that such a step would have caused serious damage, both the Russian and Australian economy.

The house of the ex-champion of the world in five weight categories of Floyd Mayweather Jr. was robbed by unknown. The attackers entered the mansion in Los Angeles through the window of one of the bedrooms and abducted jewelry worth $ 7 million. The boxer himself at that moment was at home with his family. No one was injured, and the loss was noticed a few days later. Mayweather has already promised a reward of $ 1 million for information about criminals.

The head coach of the English "Newcasl" Kevin Kyan decided to leave his post. Kigan made such a decision after the not -successful transfer policy of the team leadership. In particular, he was dissatisfied with the sale of James Milner. On the last day of the Forties transfer window, only 5.7 million pounds spent. The ranks of the club were replenished by the Spanish striker of Hisco and Ignasio Gonzalez from Valencia.

Ikram Yakubov, a former agent of the National Security Service (SNB) of Uzbekistan, a man from the close circle of Islam Karimov gave an interview with Radio Liberty, in which he accused the president of the country of unleashing a massacre of Andijan and other crimes. According to the radio station, on September 1, the 27-year-old Ikram Yakubov arrived in London, where he immediately surrendered to the British authorities, asking for political asylum, Uznews.net reports.