According to preliminary data, the damage from the drought in Bashkiria has already exceeded three billion rubles, the press service of the Volga Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation said. Dry hot weather was installed in the region, very low air humidity (20-30%) was registered, only 1 to 14 mm of precipitation fell in June, moisture in soil in the arable layer is 0-10 mm, and the interfax department quotes.

Two patients who were prone to the commission of socially dangerous acts escaped from the psychiatric hospital No. 6 of St. Petersburg. This was reported to "Interfax" on Tuesday a source in law enforcement agencies of the city. The day before, early morning, a man born in 1977, who was aimed at compulsory treatment by a court order with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, fled from the hospital on the Obvodny Canal, he said.

A tourist from St. Petersburg has gone crazy in Turkey and jumped out of the third floor, trying to commit suicide. Currently, the 26-year-old Sergey Papshev is in the Marmaris Hotel, the tourist is tied to the bed, the windows in his room are forced by cabinets. Friends and relatives of the Petersburger said that they turned to the Russian Embassy in Turkey, to the Foreign Ministry, to the insurance company, but it is not yet clear how to resolve this situation.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko said during a hot telephone line with farmers that her Cabinet of Ministers intends to continue the payment of compensation for the depreciated Soviet deposits, but after weakening the crisis. "As soon as the crisis goes to decline, we will return to the payment of a thousand hryvnias," Tymoshenko said. The prime minister recalled that 6 out of 8 million people who were supposed to receive compensation already received them.

The autumn regional and municipal elections in Russia will be difficult for the "party in power": feeling anxiety, the United Russia decided, so far, it was not too late to optimize the management resource in the regions. First of all, this applies to regions where the positions of the current "party bosses" are weakened, and we can expect serious competition, "Vedomosti" write.

The Federal Financial Market Service submitted a draft order for the creation of a new category of share investment and joint -stock funds - the Foundation of Artistic Values ​​for discussion.

The Cabinet of Ministers on the eve of published a resolution, which was instructed by the Ministry of Topenergo and NAC Naftogaz of Ukraine to recover dividends with CJSC Ukrgaz-Energo (UGE) and Ukrnaft OJSC following the results of their activities in 2006-2008. The funds should be aimed at paying off the payable of Naftogaz, the newspaper Kommersant-Ukraine writes.

Most Russians are positively related to the adoption of children, but only a few themselves are ready to take up a child from the orphanage, sociologists found out. They also found that women are better than men, and residents of small cities and rural local are better than residents of megacities, Interfax reports. 56% of citizens are positively relate to the fact that families are taken up to the education of orphans, a survey of the Romir research center showed.

Rospotrebnadzor explained to bank borrowers how to defend their rights when banks' attempts to recover loans through the court. The agency recommends that debtors submit oncoming claims against banks with a demand to recognize the terms of a loan agreement on the consideration of cases of debt to the location of banks, Kommersant writes.

Filming of the film "Evgeny Onegin" - a joint project of Art Pictures studio and 20th Century Fox - will begin approximately on October 1. This was in an interview with RIA "Novosti" said Fedor Bondarchuk, the head of the production company Art Pictures Group. The director of the picture, according to him, will be his student Artem Aksenenko, who worked with Bondarchuk as the second director on the set of the “Inhabited Island”. The project is already on launch.

The head coach of Argentina’s national football team Diego Maradona spoke out against a friendly match with the Russians, which is planned in Moscow on August 12. According to the legendary player in the past, the Argentines should concentrate on preparing for a meeting with Brazilians in the qualifying cycle of the 2010 World Cup instead of a trip to the capital of Russia.

The flu will not become an obstacle to the foreign tour of the Bolshoi Theater in the new season, which will open on September 22. According to the theater general Anatoly Iksanov, a lot is planned to be a tour. In particular, tours are supposed to Spain, France, China, Italy, Slovenia and Lithuania. The tour will end with traditionally performances in Covent Garden in London. Donganov noted that the spread of pork flu will not cause the abolition of touring in the UK and Spain.

In Kaliningrad, 22 people received acute intestinal infection: they ate shawarma purchased in two snacks belonging to a private entrepreneur, Interfax reports. "From July 25 to 28, a flash of intestinal diseases was recorded in Kaliningrad. Specialists of Rospotrebnadzor found that among the sick 22 people used shawarma purchased in two dineters," the press service of the territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzor communed.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov intends to attract amnestied leaders of illegal armed groups (NVF) to operations to neutralize gangs in the mountainous regions of the republic. This is stated in the press service of the head of the republic, which is quoted on Tuesday RIA Novosti .

The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia proposes to ban organized groups of children to travel abroad due to pork flu spreading in the world. Gennady Onishchenko invited the authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to take measures to prevent the departure of children to study abroad before a special disposal, the press release of Rospotrebnadzor said.