The Spanish government allowed its fishermen to arm themselves in order to repulse the Somali pirates. According to the SAPA agency, Madrid gave the “good” to ensure that the Spanish Tunzel vessels in the Indian Ocean are hired by private security armed with large-caliber rifles. However, the agency notes with reference to the Deputy Minister of Defense of Spain Konstantino Mendes, fishing companies are denied a request to place soldiers on their ships, since this contradicts the laws.

Residents of the military town of Shatalovo in the Smolensk region, where the 47th reconnaissance aircraft regiment is based, threaten to arrange a "New Pikound" and block the federal highway if the regiment is not left at the place of deployment. According to the Directive of the Minister of Defense, by October 1, part should be relocated to Voronezh, Kommersant writes.

The capital's authorities plan to restore green spaces on the main street of Russia, coming from the Kremlin - Tverskaya, which disappeared from the center of Moscow in the mid -90s of the last century, Leonid Bochin, head of the environmental management and environmental protection department, told reporters on Wednesday. “On Tverskaya Street, we plan to restore landscaping - to plant trees. Most likely, it will be the so -called container landscaping,” RIA Novosti quotes.

The Moody's International rating agency predicts that British banks over the next 12-18 months will incur tremendous losses of 130 billion pounds (148 billion euros). Experts note that British banks now suffer not only from the consequences of the crisis associated with the high -risk mortgage, but also from the most severe recession since the Second World War , writes on Wednesday of RBC Daily .

"Kommersant Publishing House plans to launch the radio station of the same name. It can be aired in the spring of 2010. To develop the concept of the Kommersant radio station, he invited the former editor -in -chief of Business FM Dmitry Solopov, which, perhaps, will head the new radio station, write " Vedomosti " . According to the publication, Solopov should prepare a business project in a couple of months, and if he arranges the ID, Solopov will head the Kommersant radio station.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko assures that he does not plan to transfer to his children the brothers of the board of the country and, moreover, does not want them to be presidency. “I will be a categorical opponent so that my children are presidents after me. They“ ate ”his father’s presidency,” Lukashenko told reporters during a visit to Lithuania , where he arrived with his younger son.

The metropolitan police are looking for a young Israeli, who inflicted stab wounds on a hostel to a hostel, originally from Central Asia. A student of one of the capital's universities, an Israeli citizen, inflicted two stab wounds on a young native of Tajikistan, who studies at the same university and lives with him in a hostel. Now the victim has been hospitalized in a nearby hospital.

Russian hockey player Nikolai Zherdev, who played in the NHL season for the New York Rangers club, can continue his career in the Continental Hockey League. According to the newspaper Sovetsky Sport , a 24-year-old striker, currently in the status of an unlimited free agent, in the near future may sign a contract with Atlanta near Moscow. Zherdev already played in this club at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, when he could not agree on a contract with Columbus.

The flights of pigeons and air snakes are prohibited in the Chinese capital for the period of anniversary celebrations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the PRC. The holiday will be celebrated on October 1, but the ban is introduced for three weeks - from September 15 to October 8. According to Chinese television with reference to the capital's police authorities, the prohibition applies to any sports, recreational and advertising and commercial activities in the sky over all Beijing.

The famous Russian liberal politician, a former State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov believes that in 2011 the period dangerous for the current authority of Russia will begin, because, according to economists, at this time, a real shortage of money may arise in the country, and it will also be necessary to pay increased pensions and prepare at once for two campaigns - Duma and presidential.

Almost half of Russians - 48% give to friends, a quarter to relatives and only 7% to work colleagues, says Superjob.ru research center. Friends and colleagues are more often borrowed by men than women (49% and 9% versus 46% and 6%, respectively).

Exactly a month ago, the Su-27 of the Russian Knights pilot group collapsed at the Sosna-2 summer village. Pilot Igor Tkachenko died. And five days after the disaster in the hospital, 51-year-old nurses Olga Elizarova died from the heavy burns. Olga’s husband is still in the hospital, in the place of their house - a six -meter funnel.

At the South Ossetian State University, library books were not burned, as eyewitnesses reported on Wednesday, confirming their words with photographs. Interfax distributed a commentary to the rector of the Teymuraz Kokoev university. "This information is a provocation. There was no burning library of the Library of South Ossetian State University in Tskhinvali. There are disposal of the storage units," Kokoev said.

As expected, the new novel of the famous American writer Dan Brown's Lost Symbol became a bestseller on the first day of sales, RIA Novosti reports. The total original world circulation of the book in solid binding amounted to 5 million copies. At the same time, in the Bookscan online store, the book is sold for a week in advance. It is noteworthy that through the Internet a book worth $ 29.95 is sold with a 40 percent discount.

The Tatarstan Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate refused to institute criminal proceedings against the head and accountants of the Agora interregional human rights association due to the lack of corpus delicti in their actions. The decision on the refusal was issued by the operative of the department, and approved by the head of the operational-search part No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan Sergey Markelov.