The Government of Scotland lost the vote in parliament on the release of the "Locherbian bomber" Abdel Bassit Ali Al-Migrahi, Interfax reports with reference to local media.

The new wave of the crisis is postponed before next year, according to Alexander Turbanov, head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). Optimism is given to the agency by statistics: over seven months, the growth of population deposits amounted to 12%. Faced with mass layouts, citizens began to more actively save money, Kommersant writes. “At the beginning of the year, we came to the conclusion that a second wave is possible in the fall of this year.

The police of Kazakhstan detained an official who theft of a party of diapers from the railway personnel right during movement. The head of one of the units of the West Kazakhstan railway was detained on suspicion of theft in the Mangistau region. They caught a thieving official when trying to sell prey in the local market, Interfax reports with reference to the linear department of the internal affairs (crawl) of the Mangistau station.

China signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the purchase of a fund bonds worth up to 50 billion dollars, Bloomberg reports. This was the first agreement of this kind, since earlier the IMF did not place bonds. The decision on the issue of debt papers nominated in special borrowing rights (SDR) - the calculated unit of the IMF, tied to the basket of the main world currencies - was adopted in April of this year at the Great Twenty summit.

In the old city of Jerusalem, a massive wall was discovered eight meters high, composed of huge boulders of limestone. The age of the building, built, according to scientists, to protect the water sources of the city from nomads and looters, is more than 3700 years. We are talking about the oldest strengthening of this kind in Israel, reports Newsru Israel with reference to AFP.

The Russian Presidential Administration announced a tender for the purchase of almost two hundred cars for senior federal officials: BMW 750 and 525I, Ford Mondeo and minibuses.

The Syktyvkar court sentenced human rights activist Igor Sazhin to a fine of six thousand rubles for an insulting blog entry for local officials. On March 3, Sazhi on the Internet accused the “cunning officials” of speculations in the implementation of the “Available Housing” national project, the local Red Banner newspaper explains. It was about municipal construction in the area of ​​the towns of Kochpon and Chit.

The development company Mirax Group Sergei Polonsky asks its main creditor, Alfa-Bank, to reduce the amount of debt almost twice-from $ 241.5 million to $ 110-120 million, Vedomosti write. In accordance with the MIRAX scheme, the company is ready to repay part of these 110-120 million at once, and on the rest of the installment plan.

Greece Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis spoke on Thursday with a television appeal, in which he said that he appointed early elections of the country's parliament on October 4. Earlier, the prime minister addressed the dissolution of the parliament and the appointment of early elections to the country's president Karolos Papulis. The elections will be held two years ahead of schedule. Karamanlis explained that he is guided by national interests.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill asks the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin to take into account the opinion of Orthodox believers who refuse the TIN and other technical means of identification. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church set out his request to the official in a letter, writes "Independent Gazeta" .

On Thursday in Beslan, a three -day memory watch dedicated to those who died during the terrorist seizure of school No. 1 in 2004 ends. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. At 13:05 Moscow time, when five years ago the first explosion thundered in the gym of the captured building, 334 white balls would fly into the sky - according to the number of victims of the tragedy. They will be brought by classmates of dead children.

In the capital of the Xinjiang-Uygursky Autonomous region of the PRC, demonstrations were held with a demand to punish criminals who attacked passers-by with needles from syringes. Uyghurs are suspected of attacks, and in some cases the crowd tried to deal with them, ITAR-TASS reports. The Chinese demonstrators demanded the resignation of the Secretary of the Committee of the CCP Xinjiang Van Laceyan. He is accused of inability to ensure security in the region.

In the Sverdlovsk region, law enforcement officers detained the alleged hired killer who committed crimes in Moscow and was on the federal wanted list. Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a citizen of the Russian Federation of Shchipantsev in Yekaterinburg, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the FSB in the Sverdlovsk region. He is suspected of committing a series of serious and especially serious crimes.

The leader of the opposition Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych said that if the President of Ukraine is elected to ensure that the Russian language becomes the second state in the country, reports Newsru.ua . He reported this live on the air of the regional state television and radio company Odessa. Yanukovych emphasized that he wanted to answer Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who made a statement in Lviv that the Russian language should not be the second state.

In Moscow on Thursday, negotiations of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev began with the President of India Pratichbo Patil. The meeting addresses the issues of trade, economic and scientific and technical cooperation, as well as interaction in the field of nuclear energy and space. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a source in the Kremlin. The Indian president arrived in Moscow on a state visit at the invitation of Medvedev.