The head of the Kaliningrad regional branch of United Russia Nikolai Tsukanov is endowed with the powers of the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region. As ITAR-TASS reports, as a result of a secret vote at an extraordinary meeting of the regional Duma, 30 deputies supported his candidacy, 9 opposed. Recall that Tsukanov, President Medvedev submitted the candidacy of Tsukanov to the regional parliament on August 23.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is not going to engage in “showdowns” between the shareholders of Norkel in Norilsk, is not going to find out who is right and who is to blame, who to give preference to whom to infringe on, ” the“ Finmarket ” reports the details of the prime minister with journalists during lunch on the Amur highway. Putin believes that the plant needs to resolve many other issues: raw materials, housing and communal services, resettlement problems, environmental problem.

The Pope Benedict XVI and his initiatives are subjected to systematic attacks from the international media, Italian journalists Paulo Rodari and Andrei Tomelli believe. This is narrated by the book “The attack on Ratzinger” (“Attacco a Ratzinger” that they published on August 25, containing 315 pages, reports “Sedmitsa.ru” with reference to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

One of the 33 Chilean miners, who turned out to be walled underground at a depth of 700 meters, handed up a letter for his lover with a proposal to get married. According to CNN , Esteban Rohas turned to his civilian wife Jessica Yanez, with whom they lived together for 25 years and have three children and two grandchildren. “Please continue to pray that we get out of here alive. We will buy a wedding dress and get married,” the miner’s note says.

The United States was wasted billions of dollars designed to reconstruct social facilities in Iraq. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports on Sunday, writes AP agency, referring to a source in an American audit agency that controls the spending of budget funds.

The waiting list in Moscow refuses to move to residential buildings built in the Lyubertsy fields of aeration, due to the neighborhood with a landfill, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the city administration. The Moscow authorities decided to develop the Lyubertsy aeration fields in 2008. The city plans to build about five million square meters of housing on this place.

The head of the press service of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov brought the "prison" tattoo on his finger, which attentive bloggers recently noticed in one of the photographs. According to RIA Novosti, a source from the close environment of the police colonel, he was removed at the end of the last week in one of the medical institutions of the capital.

Google, which owns the popular YouTube video hosting, is negotiating with the largest Hollywood studios to launch a new service - paid watching full -length films, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Financial Times . It is expected that the service will begin work by the end of 2010. At first, it will be available only to US residents, but Google plans include a gradual expansion of the geography of the service.

Foreign banks included in the "black list" a number of senior Russian officials related to the case of a lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in the pre -trial detention center. According to The Daily Telegraph , there is a total of 60 names in the list, including Viktor Grin, Deputy Prosecutor Grin, the head of the FSB economic security department, Viktor Voronin, and the head of the Investigative Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Alexei Anichin.

In the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg on the night of August 20, the inhabitants were awakened by a helicopter that flew between high-rise houses and for some time dependent at 10-12 floors. As it turned out, the dangerous flight was carried out unauthorized, the pilot has already been installed and promise to apply the most stringent measures to it.

The militants who died during a special operation under the Chechen village of Centor on Sunday had on the left shoulder the controlled explosive devices in a lead shell with detonators sewn into the unloading vest. Seven of 12 destroyed militants managed to act after the wounds received, RIA Novosti said on Monday the representative of the regional department of the SCP of the Russian Federation.

The famous Swiss theologian Hieromonk Gabriel (Bung) passed from Catholicism to Orthodoxy. On the eve of the festival of the Assumption, he took part in the worship, which the head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Metropolitan Ilarion made in the Moscow church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "all mourning the joy" in the Big Horde, the portal "Interfax-religion" reports with reference to the website of the MPS MP.

The media appeared more or less complete characteristics of the new tablet computer of Toshiba, the images of which were published the other day. It is expected that the announcement of the novelty will take place at the IFA 2010 exhibition, which will open on September 3 in Berlin (Germany). Previously, this model appeared under the name SmartPad, it now turns out that it will be called Folio 100, reports the comprehension with reference to Notebook Italia .

In Los Angeles, the 62nd presentation ceremony was held. For the first time since 1976, it was broadcast over the entire territory of the United States. This year the most prizes were awarded the mineserial "The Pacific Ocean" (The Pacific).

The Moscow District Military Court reduced the term for the conclusion of the special services officer, who was found guilty of the attempt on the life of a construction security guard. The victim tried to prevent the Chekist and his parent to steal building materials. An employee of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bocharov received 4.5 years in prison.