During August, almost all the factories of the company did not work. KAMAZ sold cars collected earlier. A week earlier, the implementation of the production plan of the month began three plants of the procurement cycle. On Monday, the largest Russian manufacturer of trucks of KamAZ OJSC resumes the work of the main assembly conveyor, which has been stopped since the beginning of August, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the director of the Department of Information Policy of Oleg Afanasyev.

According to the results of 2009, sales of cars in China can grow by 28% and reach 12 million units by overtaking the US market, said the head of the sectoral coordination of the State Committee for Development and Reforms of China Chen Bin. According to him, government measures to stimulate internal auto-consumption have already led to the fact that in January-August 2009, more than 8 million cars of domestic production were produced and sold in China, the Chinese agency Sinhua reports.

Libya intends to resist the requirements to pay compensation to relatives of victims of terrorist attacks arranged by the Irish Republican Army (Ira). This was announced on Monday by the son of the country's president Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, reports Breitbart.com with reference to Ar. Relatives of more than 100 victims of Ira insist on compensation, since Libya once supplied explosives to the detachments of the North Irish terrorists.

While sales of new cars in Russia were almost doubled, the secondary market in the first half of 2009 sagged by only 10%, Autostat agency analysts report. For many car dealers, trading in used cars is now becoming that "saving circle", having caught on which they can swim in the current financial whirlpool.

The results of the last rating of trust of the first persons of the state indicate that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is clearly gaining political weight. However, Persona No. 1 in the country is still the Prime Minister, writes on Monday "Independent Gazeta" . This indicates the preservation of the strong positions of the tandem, which the crisis has only benefited, experts say.

The commander of the Baltic Fleet (BF) of the Russian Federation, Vice Admiral Viktor Mardusin, will not lead the fleet on the exercises of the West 2009, since he will be appointed to a new place of service, reports on Monday Interfax with reference to the source in the Baltic Flood headquarters. As expected, Mardusin will be appointed deputy chief of the Military Academy of the General Staff or to the post in the Main Headquarters of the Navy.

Russian troops Alexander Glukhov and Dmitry Artemyev , who fled to Georgia, can avoid criminal liability in case of their extradition in the Russian Federation, if the investigation establishes that difficult circumstances of the service were the reason for their desertion, the head of the military investigative department (Armed Forces) of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General of Justice Sergey Sorochkin.

According to the Olympic program in Sochi, 600 multi -storey buildings will be repaired. This was announced by the head of the capital construction department of the Sochi administration Sergey Pavlenko. He noted that 152 high -rise buildings are reconstructed this year. "The reconstruction will include the repair of the facade, roof, and, if necessary, engineering networks and elevator farm," Pavlenko quotes Interfax quoted.

Russian woman Maria Sharapova became the highest paid tennis player in the world according to Forbes magazine. Shoulder injury and operation did not stop her from earned $ 22.5 million, mainly due to the advertising of goods of such well-known corporations as Canon, Colgate-Palmolive, Motorola, Nike, Tiffany and Land Rover. According to RIA Novosti , only on promoting shampoo from the dandruff of Unileve 22-year-old tennis players will earn more than $ 2 million.

According to the results of the finished summer season, the absolute leader of the international rental was the cartoon "Ice Age 3. Dinosaur Era" - he managed to earn more than $ 640 million outside the United States. The total fees exceeded $ 807 million, Variety reports. The film "Harry Potter and Prince-Hallowing" lost to the "glacial period 3", earned a little more than $ 611 million, that is, 50 million less than during the same period managed to collect the "Order of the Phoenix".

As a result of the collapse of the passenger ferry in the south of the Philippines, nine people were killed, nothing else is not known about fate. Such updated data were brought by the Philippine Coast Guard Service, ITAR-TASS reports. Earlier, three dead were reported.

The governments of Malta, Italy, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic expressed their disagreement with the directive to combat discrimination - a document that is currently being prepared in the European Commission. The directive suggests, in particular, the ban on an unequal attitude to sexual minorities, and also recognizes the equivalent of all religious groups, Interfax reports with reference to the British newspaper Sunday Times .

On Friday in Polish Gdansk, the European basketball championship among men's teams started. The Russian team successfully began the tournament, having outpassed the Latvian team in the first round with a score of 81:68 (28:21, 11:15, 19:16, 23:16). The most effective in the current European champions were Kelly McCarti (24 points) and Sergey Bykov (22). At the Latvian team, Caspers Kambala scored 22 points.

The social network "VKontakte" acquired the domain name vk.com, writes the newspaper "Vedomosti" . The largest company of this kind in Russia, according to the executive director of VKontakte, Leva Levieva, is going to develop abroad and by October will launch versions of the VK.com website in 12 languages. The combination of VK will become an international brand of the social network, he explains. Leviev does not call the amount of the transaction.

To reduce pressure on the hryvnia course, the National Bank decided to completely ban foreign exchange loan in Ukraine. Bankers discussed this perspective last Friday at a closed meeting with the NBU. The regulator has already expressed the willingness to lend to hryvnia banks on the security of the foreign exchange deposits they have.