The governments and central banks of the leading Western countries have been conducting intensive consultations from the early morning in order to prevent the world systemic financial crisis. Events today took on a crisis character after it became known about the bankruptcy of the fourth largest US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (Lbhi) .

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived on Monday to the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. According to reports, the visit is associated with personnel permutations in the commanding of American forces in Iraq. It is expected that on Tuesday Gates will be present at the ceremony of transferring the command of the American contingent in Iraq, Lieutenant General Raymond Odirno, ITAR-TASS reports.

The most successful Russian artist Ilya Kabakov in the West represents his retrospective exhibition in Moscow. Having left the USSR in 1987, he has never been to his homeland since then. After twenty years of emigration, the visit will be marked by an unprecedented on scale of the project: the retrospective of Ilya Kabakov and his wife Emilia starts at three metropolitan sites at once, ITAR-TASS reports. The first vernissage will be held on Monday at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

The main version of the Boeing-737 fall in Perm considers the technical malfunction of the aircraft, Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, told Interfax . Recall that the investigation considers about 10 versions of the crash of the Boeing-737 aircraft in Perm, the victims of which were 88 people.

The north of the European part of Russia since last week has been under the rule of a cold Arctic anticyclone. It will get colder primarily in the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov regions, in Karelia and the Komi Republic, on the night and early morning hours in the past days in these regions in some places the air temperature was reduced to -2 ..- 5 degrees, the website of Meteo News reports.

The State Duma intends to consider the draft federal budget for 2009 and for the planning period of 2010-2011 in the first reading on Friday, September 19, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced today by the speaker of the lower house of parliament Boris Gryzlov. The Presidium of the United Russia faction at today's meeting unanimously decided to recommend the entire faction to consider the draft three -year federal budget in the first reading on September 19, ”he said.

In Moscow, in the 52nd year of his life, the former mayor of Norilsk, a deputy of the State Duma from the Krasnoyarsk Territory Valery Melnikov, suddenly died. On the eve of September 14, his heart stopped, the site of the regional administration reports. Melnikov was elected to the State Duma on the list of the United Russia party in December last year.

On Sunday, the crash of Boeing-737 at Sheremetyevo Airport, twice as much kerosene, was in the airport than the flight to Perm, the head of the Federal Air Navigation Service, Alexander Neodyko, said on Monday . At the moment, it is known that the plane at Sheremetyevo Airport has set up 11.5 tons of airlines, and 5.5 tons are required to fly to Perm, Neudko said at a press conference in Perm.

An independent expert report called Putin and Gazprom is presented in Moscow. Its authors are a well -known politician, founder of the ATP Boris Nemtsov, as well as the president of the Institute of Energy Policy, the former Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Vladimir Milov. This report is a continuation of Putin's report published in February 2008. Results.

Electronic Arts no longer intends to buy Take-Two, which created the famous Grand Theft Auto. It is reported by AP . In Electronic Arts, they did not explain the reasons for their solution. They only stated that they did not see a reason for regrets, despite the fact that the transaction was not completed. EA previously offered to sell Take-Two shareholders to sell shares for $ 2 billion. But this proposal was not perceived, since the leadership of Take-Two considers this price underestimated.

The ferry, heading to Istanbul, sank in the marble sea off the Turkish coast. The disaster occurred only 300 meters from the shore shortly after the sailing of the vessel from the Turkish city of Bandirm, located on the eastern shore of the sea. On board the ferry, transporting cars (73 trucks and two cars), there were about 150 people. While the authorities report one deceased, at least 23 people missed. 28 people were delivered to hospitals. Most passengers after loading went to the decks.

In the American state of Michigan, a sentence was sentenced to two brothers who led a large drug cartel, known as the Black Mafia family. The district court of the southwestern part of Detroit sentenced each of the Flenori brothers to 30 years in prison, Eurweb.com reports citing the local press. 38-year-old Terry Flenori lived in Los Angeles (California), and his older brother-40-year-old Demetrius-lived in Atlanta (Georgia).

The European Commission (EC) announced on Monday the intention to send to Georgia 500 million euros from 2008 to 2010 for restoration work after an armed conflict with Russia. The EC "created a package for stabilization and growth of 500 million euros for 2008-2010," said Christian Hokhmann, a representative of the EC Benita Ferrero-Waldner, which is responsible for external ties.

As a result of the blow of the hurricane "AIK" in the area from the coast of the Gulf of the Mexican Gulf to the Great Lakes (North-East of the United States) 27 people were killed, Interfax reports with reference to CNN. Messages about the dead came from the states of Louisian, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. US National Security Minister Michael Chertoff warned that the number of victims of a hurricane in the coming hours could increase.

The Lithuanian Association for the Development of Real Estate applied to the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Latvia with a request to consider the possibility of changing legal acts in order to reduce the minimum area of ​​the apartment in Lithuania from 34 to 25 square meters.