The Soviet-French spy scandal of the early 1980s, the main person involved in KGB Colonel Vladimir Vetrov , left such a trace in Russia that even his modern adaptation turned into a separate "spy" history. According to the director of the film, Frenchman Christian Karion, during the filming he himself, as well as producers and actors were subjected to pressure from the outside and received mysterious telephone calls.

US President Barack Obama tore “special relations” with Eastern Europe, questioning the placement of the Pro system in the Czech Republic and Poland. As a result, residents of Eastern Europe decided that they were betrayed, writes inopressa.ru with reference to The New York Times .

The new technical regulation on car safety obliges the owners of SUVs to abandon the Kangarios. According to the document, it is forbidden to use forward designs of steel structures or similar materials, the website BFM.ru reports. The new technical regulation was approved by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. He will enter into force in September 2010.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the police detained the watchman of the recreation center, who seriously wounded two fishermen. According to the suspect, the men began to disassemble the fence on the territory entrusted to him to use boards to maintain fire in the stake. Currently, the injured fishermen of 1973 and 1975 are in intensive care.

Bishop of Zaraisk Mercury opened the day before in the Vysokovsky Monastery, in the center of the capital, an exhibition of painting "Window to Paradise". The exhibition is organized by the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechization, which is headed by the bishop, in cooperation with the Ano-Nerecht cultural fund. The oil canvases of the artists I. Pokladova, G. Gordon, N. Konovalova, A. Korovin, A.

The State Duma intends to tighten the criteria for the selection of candidates for work in the police. Deputies from the Security Committee propose to prohibit the police to recruit those who passed the accused in any criminal case, but left the liability of "on non-rehabilitating grounds" to the court decision. The corresponding package of amendments to the Law "On the Police" was made by the Communist Alexander Kulikov and United Russia Alexander Gurov and Alexei Rozuvan.

The General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia launched an investigation on the burning of books from the library of the South Ossetian State University to Tskhinvali. As Interfax told the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic Eldar Kokoev, if information about illegal actions is confirmed, a criminal case will be instituted under Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement of someone else's property).

A group of deputies of the Kyrgyz Parliament during a plenary meeting on Thursday turned to the government with a request to help in resolving the issue with the adoption by citizens of the Republic of Children left in the maternity hospitals of Moscow by Kyrgyz migrants. While they automatically become the "Russians". "According to public organizations of Kyrgyzstan, 230 Kyrgyz babies have been in Moscow shelters over the past two years," said deputy Irina Karamushkin.

Aeroflot’s largest Russian air carrier, which has already refused 500 people, will reduce to 2 thousand employees within six months, and if the volume of passenger transportation continues to decline, the company can dismiss another 4 thousand people, the general director of the company Vitaly Savelyev said on Wednesday in an interview with Reuters. According to Savelyev, the global financial crisis is still far from its completion.

The President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon at the end of the Holy Muslim month Ramadan committed an act of charity, giving hundreds of Dushanbin residents to eight energy -saving bulbs. Previously, he also issued a decree prohibiting the import of cheap incandescent bulbs into the republic, for a complete transition to their energy -saving analogues, which, however, are not affordable for the majority of the population of the republic.

Law enforcement officers continue to search for a daring criminal, whose victims two policemen were at once. However, forensic experts believe that the murderer of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is more logical to look for the dead, since he had practically no chance of surviving without medical care.

In the capital of Ingushetia Magas, unknown people tried to kidnap the former owner of the Ingushetia.org website, a member of the expert council of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Maksharip Aushev, Echo Moscow reports. Aushev himself spoke about this incident of the radio station. According to him, on the way from Magas, where he met with the head of the UFSB department to combat extremism, his car was stopped to verify documents.

The Court of the Central District of Khabarovsk on Tuesday recognized the leader and spokesman for the regional branch of the informal public organization "Union of the Russian People" (SRN) guilty of arousing interethnic enmity and sentenced each of them to three years in prison, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District.

The Ministry of Energy has prepared a list of regions in which there is a risk of disconnects in the autumn-winter period. In connection with the accident on the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, the Republic of Khakassia first fell on the list, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States is studying banking risks associated with commercial real estate due to significant problems in this sector and wide distribution of mortgage loans and securities, Interfax writes with reference to The Financial Times. The American Central Bank intends to find out how great the stability of US banks is regarding risks in this segment.