Today at nine in the morning, Kim Jong Ir nevertheless visited the Piskarevsky memorial cemetery in St. Petersburg and laid a wreath to the foot of the Mother Motherland monument. This visit was scheduled for yesterday, but canceled, according to the official version, because of the rain, and according to the unofficial-due to the fact that the security was frightened of the open space.

The Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, released today on bail in the United States, may be waiting for a criminal case in his homeland. According to NTV.ru, the Russian special services became interested in the activities of the programmer and even arranged a search in his Moscow apartment.

Base Metal Trading, Alucoal Trading and Mikom, the head of which is the entrepreneur Mikhail Livilled, filed a new lawsuit against the American court against Rusal and Sibal about compensation for damage worth $ 3 billion, RBC reports. The charges are complemented by claims for 2.7 billion dollars filed in December 2000. The victim claims that she suffered losses due to falsified bankruptcy of the Novokuznetsk aluminum plant.

Mikhail Kasyanov signed a decision on the creation of a government commission on the reform of the Ministry of Railways. Ilya Klebanov was appointed chairman of the commission, and his deputies were appointed Nikolai Aksenenko, German Gref and Ilya Yuzhanov, RIA Novosti reports.

Stay of Kim Jong Ira in St. Petersburg. In Moscow, the window of his trains was broken by stone. The route of his return to his homeland is unknown. The organizers of the picket at the North Korean embassy were a warning. The Russian military forces are no longer troops of constant combat readiness, ”says Kornukov, the Commander -in -Chief of the Air Force. In St. Petersburg, negotiations of the Russian and German defense ministers are negotiating.

The mayor of Novosibirsk Vitaly Gorodetsky said that the murder of his deputy Igor Belyakov is a political crime, and it is associated with the activities of Belyakov as the director of the department of the consumer market and land relations of the city administration, NTV.ru reports. It should be noted that Belyakov was already attempted a year and a half ago, when he was the deputy chairman of the property management committee.

Three people died today in Vladivostok during the strongest rain. The bodies of all three dead were found on the shore of the second river, their personalities are established. According to hydrometeorologists, a deep frontal cyclone brought down a sedimentary rate for Vladivostok in two hours in two hours. On Amurskaya Street with powerful streams of water, a rock washed, which collapsed onto a residential cottage.

Newspapers continue to talk about orders made by Mikhail Kasyanov before leaving on vacation. According to Kommersant, the prime minister allowed the Ministry of Finance to increase this year the volume of the issuance of the StateBomag by more than a third.

According to Kommersant, by August 15, the project of the presidential decree on the establishment of a single tariff authority - this should be ready. The concept of this was discussed by Putin and Kasyanov on Friday and, apparently, did not cause complaints about the president. Kasyanov achieved this, somewhat rejecting the concept of the Ministry of Economic Development, whose overly tight relations with RAO UES are not quite satisfied with the presidential administration.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations report details about the damage, which was applied by powerful rains that fell on Vladivostok. Three people drowned, three - were injured. More than 10 kilometers of roads were destroyed by rains, a section of railway tracks is turned, the railway bridge was destroyed, Interfax reports.

A single tariff body in Russia will not be created. According to Izvestia, on August 17-18, a decree of President Vladimir Putin will appear on the transfer of all powers to regulate the tariffs of natural, and possibly state monopolies of the Federal Energy Commission. It can become a government in the government. Iran said that he would do everything possible to protect his sector Caspian. The words clearly addressed to Azerbaijan were perceived in Baku calmly.

The Supreme Court ruled that nonresident can freely receive a compulsory medical insurance policy in Moscow (compulsory medical insurance). Previously, to receive it, a special registration at the place of residence was needed. The Moscow City Court canceled this rule on June 25, but the Moscow City Committee of the compulsory medical insurance protested his decision in the Supreme Court. Now the committee intends to complain to the Prosecutor General.

The United States and Germany continue unofficial contacts with the Taliban, trying to achieve the release of employees of the international humanitarian organization arrested in Kabul on Saturday or Sunday. As it became known yesterday, the Taliban was arrested on charges of disseminating Christianity 24 employees of the Benefit Charity Organization (Shelter Now International; Sni). Among the arrested are two Americans, four Germans and two Australians.

The train Kim Jong Ira drives up to the Leningrad station. The North Korean leader may stop in one of the most prestigious metropolitan hotels - Metropol. About a dozen security officers of the North Korea security service are already waiting here. In anticipation of a tall guest, already in the afternoon, along the entire perimeter of Metropol, the traffic police posted were set.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs refutes reports about the search in the Moscow apartment of the programmer Dmitry Sklyarov. According to the press secretary Sergei Sklyarov, no management and services of the Ministry of the Interior did not take any actions against Dmitry Sklyarov, Interfax reports.