At the end of August, an international autoralli was held in the Austrian city of Graz, in which more than 1,000 law enforcement officers from European countries took part. The winner of the competition in the category "D" was the team of the Dynamo Escort Moscow traffic police near Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.

The Government of Ukraine is convinced that at the upcoming meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in September, a positive decision will be made, which will leave the right to hold Euro 2012 for the country. According to Interfax , the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Ivan Vasyunik at a briefing on Monday, after a meeting of the EURO -2012 preparation in Ukraine, said.

The organizers of the prestigious music contest "Eurovision" decided to correct the existing voting system. Now not only viewers, but also specially created in every jury participating country, will be responsible for the results of the competition, BBC reports. Thus, the project managers hope to balance the vote and avoid the possible bias of the audience.

By the fifteenth year of its existence, the annual forum of book publishers in Lviv turned into a large book exhibition-fair. The writers Tatyana Tolstaya, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Zakhar Prilepin and Vladimir Sorokin, as well as poets Elena Fanailova and Fedor Swarovsky, represented Russian literature on the forum, writes Kommersant . The streets and Square of Lviv, as well as almost all the premises where the forum events took place, were decorated with Georgian flags.

For the second time for the current month, the Oceanographic vessel of the US Navy Pathfinder ("Running Open") went to Sevastopol for the second time in the current month. Pathfinder has already entered Sevastopol on September 4.

Since September 15, the main player in the mortgage market in our country is the State Agency for Mortgage Housing Lending (AIZHK) radically changes the rules of the game. From the current 13% per annum on a mortgage loan can rise to a mark of 15-16%, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . The main innovation that introduces AIZHK is the conditions for refinancing mortgage loans. Now banks cooperating with AIZHK will not be able to credit cheaper bets established by the agency.

On September 15, on Monday, a private house in which the family of the rector of the Holy Ilyinsky Cathedral of Vladimir Kuziva lives, they tried to set fire again. This was reported by REGNUM , citing the leading specialist of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Arkhangelsk Region Natalia Zhukov. According to her, at about 6 o’clock in the morning, a container with an incendiary mixture was abandoned in the window of the priest’s house.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday met in the Kremlin with 50 leading Russian businessmen. The atmosphere reigned far from cheerful. The billionaires in elegant costumes gathered at the table were worried not only for the fate of their own capital - they were disturbed by the financial crisis in the country could change the course of some of the largest battles for corporations in Russia and shake the ranks of the middle hands, writes The Financial Times on Tuesday.

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav is demanding a new luxury office located in one of the most prestigious buildings in Tel Aviv. Despite criminal cases related to sexual harassment brought against Katsav, he is still entitled to all benefits. The Beit Amot Mishpat office building in central Tel Aviv may soon have a new tenant - former President Moshe Katsav.

In St. Petersburg, a woman cauterized her little daughter with a lighter to “heal” the child from Enorez. Now the victim is hospitalized with numerous injuries, and the police are checking in this incident, reports Fontanka.ru with reference to the agency of journalistic investigations of the openwork. On Monday, a telephone message was received from the city children's hospital No. 5 that a five -year -old girl was hospitalized from the entrance of house No.

Russian special services intend to adopt the latest technologies that allow us to distinguish the truth from lies. In the projects of scientists - the creation of a completely new lies detector that can literally read human thoughts. Meanwhile, lawyers insist on the development of a special law regulating such actions, Russian Newspaper writes on Tuesday. "Now our researchers are looking at the MRI method (in the Russian press it is called MRI - magnetic resonance imaging).

Eleven people died and several more were injured during the battle that occurred at the football stadium in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The instigator of the bloody incident was the goalkeeper of one of the local clubs, who tried to change the course of the match that was unsuccessfully developing for his team with the help of witchcraft, Telegraph reports. At least he was suspected of this fans.

The next, 63rd session of the General Assembly (GA) of the UN will begin its work at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday. At the suggestion of the regional group of Latin America and the Caribbean, the former Foreign Minister Nicaragua Miguel d'Ecoto Brockmann was elected by its chairman. It is planned that during the session more than 160 points of the agenda will be considered.

The American National Aeronautics and Space Studies (NASA) intends to send a new research apparatus to Mars in 2013 to collect the planet’s atmosphere, Interfax reports.

The court of the city of Vsevozsk in the Leningrad Region will consider a criminal case against a hunter who mistakenly killed a person, the regional prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.