Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the way from Irkutsk, where he was immersed at the bottom of Lake Baikal on a deep-sea apparatus "MIR-1", dwell on one-day vacation in the Republic of Tuva. He went down the empty river and enjoyed the hospitality of the local shepherd. As RIA Novosti reports, the head of the government spent the rest of Sunday and Monday in a tent camp on the banks of the Khemchik River.

Moscow managed to convince Bishkek to place a Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan, recalling the loan of $ 2 billion provided. The negotiations took place last weekend at Cholpon-Ata (Kyrgyzstan), reminds the Kommersant newspaper on Monday with reference to the participants in the discussion from the Russian side.

Officially, taking office as Secretary General of NATO, the ex-Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fog Rasmussen began to work on the new priorities of the North Atlantic Alliance. Recall that, according to the official representative of NATO, James Appaturai, "Rasmussen intends to make the alliance more open and verbally active." The most noteworthy quotes from Russian newspapers on this topic are given by the headline.ru website.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronyan became the world in fast chess. In the final of the championship, which was held as part of the Chess Classic Mainz 2009 festival in Germany, Aronyan with a score of 3: 1 defeated the Russian Yana Nepomnya. Two parties ended in Aronyan’s victory, two more games rivals strung. It is reported by "News-Armenia" .

Gosinvestia in the Olympic construction in 2009 was first reduced from 49.8 to 16.6 billion rubles, due to the "real financing situation," as the Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin explained - now these funds will not be transferred at all. In addition, in 2009-2010 the promised subsidies will not receive the Organizing Committee of Sochi-2014. The planned amount of financing of Olympstroy in 2010 - 35.2 billion rubles - has not yet been reviewed, recalls the newspaper Gzt.ru.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whom the police suspect of corruption , is ready to resign if the prosecutor's office at the request of the police charges him. Law enforcement agencies say that they collected enough evidence that the Russian -speaking politician took bribes, was engaged in fraud, abuse and prevented justice. Lieberman promised to resign immediately if he was charged, and after another four to five months to leave the chair of the deputy of the Knesset.

A new conflict arose in the Zenit football club (St. Petersburg). The goalkeeper of the team from the shores of the Neva and the Russian national team does not want to know his partner on the command of the defender Roman Shirokov, who publicly criticized the goalkeeper’s actions in the last match against the Saturn near Moscow.

July became the most profitable in the history of Wall Street, when the stock index of 5 thousand American companies Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index increased by 7.75%, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Wilshire press release. The fifth month of the growth of stock indices, optimistically perceived by the market as a sign of a quick exit from the recession, played an average of $ 800 billion. "The percentage of Wilshire 5000 was the best for all 39 years of the index.

In the US state of Massachusetts, the request of the prisoner, who spent almost 30 years after the brutal murder of an elderly relative, will be considered. The criminal imagined himself to be a 700-year-old vampire and even drank the blood of the victim. On Tuesday, the commission on parole will decide the future fate of 52-year-old James Riva, writes The Boston Herald newspaper. At one time, a brutal killer acted like the characters of the game "The killer of a vampire".

In Chechnya, terrorist attacks continue, despite the statements of local authorities that the world had returned to the republic. Not far from the village of Itum-Kale on Sunday, a motorcade was fired with police officers. The shelling occurred the day after the entry into force of the divorce of the fighters on the Chechen police declared by one of the leaders of the separatists by Ahmed Zakayev.

The correspondent of The New Times, the head of the organization of Think Moldova, Natalya Morar, is not allowed into Russia legally. At the disposal of the "Russian newspaper" there was a ruling of the Constitutional Court on the complaint of journalist Natalia Morar against law enforcement agencies. The report of the journalist was dismissed.

The famous Hollywood actor Mel Gibson was again involved in the scandal. This time, for his temper, he can pay a large fine or even imprisonment - the actor fought with the paparazzi, and he sued him, reports Newsru Israel with reference to Worstpreviews . At the end of last week, the American paparazzi submitted an application to the police, in which he accused the star of attack and injuries.

More than 52 thousand families of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and almost 19 thousand pensioners do not have housing, Interfax reports with reference to the press release of the department. "They have no housing for permanent residence 52,407 families employees of the internal affairs bodies and military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Russia.

In a number of high-rise buildings in the New Dubai area, glass simultaneously and spontaneously flew out. Experts say that the culprit is the poor quality of work of builders and insufficiently thought-out building codes and regulations. According to a resident of one of the skyscrapers, “people were sitting right next to the windows when the glass burst. Fortunately, no one was hurt,” writes Prian.ru with reference to Arabian Business.

The new NATO Secretary General Danes Anders Fog Rasmussen said that the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance would continue. He also considers it necessary to establish a true partnership between Russia and NATO. Rasmussen took office as Secretary General of NATO on Saturday. On Monday, he started working at the Brussels headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance, where he gives the first press conference, RIA Novosti reports.