The authorities of Iran forbade their airlines to lease or buy Russian -made used aircraft. This, as reports Reuters, said the head of civil aviation of the country, Mohammed Ali Ilhani. According to him, after two airlines in July of this year with the participation of the Tu-154 and IL-62, the Iranian authorities issued the appropriate new directive prohibiting airlines to acquire any aircraft, except for new and local security requirements.

The American Auto Concert General Motors Corp. (GM) signed an agreement on the sale of 100% of the shares of his unit Saab automobile AB of the Swedish company Koenigseg Group AB. The transaction is planned to be completed next month, the Finmarket agency reports with reference to the GM Europe message.

On Monday, in the north-west of Moscow, a serious accident occurred with the participation of Zhiguli and a motorcycle. According to Life.ru , the accident occurred on Marshal Tukhachevsky Street, opposite the house 30. The woman driving the VAZ 2114 rode towards the street of the people's militia. A motorcyclist moved towards her. Suddenly, the driver decided to turn to the pizzeria and, without missing the motorcyclist, cut off the angle of rotation in the oncoming lane.

The election campaign, which lasted two months, ended with the onset of midnight in Afghanistan. On the next 48 hours before the planned on Thursday, August 20, the presidential and local elections, any agitation and advertising of candidates, as well as rallies and press conferences dedicated to elections, are prohibited.

The version 0.95 Wireless Power is presented - the first version of the official specifications of wireless electricity transmission, as well as an official logo that will be placed on wireless charging devices. The standard was published by companies included in the Wireless Power Consortium consortium, Cybersecurity.ru reports. Fulton Innovation, which leads a consortium, also introduced Ecoupled technology, which supports the available Wireless Power specifications today.

While the West is chosen from the crisis, countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia continue to roll in inclined, writes the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, which is quoted by Inopressa.ru . Romania Prime Minister Emil Bok wants to send all civil servants on unpaid leave for 10 days.

The Perm Culture and Sports Agency on Tuesday demanded from the local Ural-Grade basketball club to return the budget subsidies received by him from the regional treasury in the first half of 2009. According to ITAR-TASS, citing the head of the department Ruslan Sadchenko, otherwise they threaten to sue the basketball club. “The club is obliged to return the funds within a month,” the official explained.

Deputy Minister of Finance Yuval Cohen (CHAS Party) promotes the latest addition to the Israeli stock market, namely: investment instruments that have received the full approval of leading religious authorities. The program will allow a rich and religious audience with a clear conscience to get into account on the fluctuations in the stock market, today the portal mignews.com notes.

VTB will place its shares at a price above market quotes: preliminary shares of the bank are estimated at the level of 4.8 kopecks per share, which is significantly higher than the current quotations. Network placement can cause short -term speculative growth of quotations, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to a source in the bank.

The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Sign", called the Kursk-brown, the main shrine of the Russian abroad, will be delivered to Russia on September 12. This was reported to the Interfax agency was reported in the Kursk diocesan administration. The relic will first be in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, and on September 23, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will arrive in Kursk, who will deliver this famous image to the city.

The head coach of the Moscow Football Club "Dynamo" Andrei Kobelev extended the current contract with blue and white until December 31, 2011. "In accordance with the decision of the Board of Directors of CJSC" Football Club "Dynamo-Moscow", a new contract was signed with the head coach of FC Dynamo Moscow Andrei Nikolayevich Kobelev, " the club’s press service informs. - This contract is designed until the end of 2011.

Rescuers found alive of all four Russian divers who disappeared in Egypt on Monday during a dive in the Red Sea, near the resort of Mars-Alyam. This was announced on Tuesday at Tuesday attache of the Russian embassy in Egypt. The condition of all four Russians is satisfactory, reports Echo of Moscow . Vitaly Ivanov, born in 1966, was the first to find - he was able to independently get to the shore and was found on the beach of the El -Suer resort city, local media reported.

The Latvian Foreign Ministry does not confirm the information that there are citizens of this country among the arctic sea invaders and asks for evidence from Russia. This was announced by Ekho Moskvy on Tuesday evening the acting head of the press and public relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Gints Serasovich.

US pressure on the Israeli government brought its results. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ("Likud"), Minister of Defense Ehud Barak ("Avoda") and Minister of Construction Ariel Atias (Shas) decided to temporarily terminate the construction in Judea, Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem, NEWSRU Israel reports with reference to Kol IDSRAEL. According to the agreement reached, all announced construction tenders will be frozen. Thus, at this stage, we are only talking about new construction projects.

The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko believes that it should be extremely selectively approached by the provision of Russian citizenship to foreign athletes. "Russia will not follow the seductive path of the least resistance like the United States, Great Britain and Germany, which provide citizenship, for example, athletes of Kenya," the minister said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station. "I am not a supporter of such ways.