The leader of the all -Russian public organization “For a decent life” Sergey Glazyev prepares a referendum against the monetization of benefits, Rosbalt reports. It is planned to bring 10 questions to the referendum.

The entire crew of the International Space Station will be released today in open space for six hours. For the first time in a long time, Gennady Padalka and Michael Fink will work outside the station when there will be a day in Russia. All previous exits were held late at night, RIA Novosti reports.

Today, the Ministry of Economic Development is expected to be a message “The main indicators of the socio-economic development of Russia for the first half of 2004”. The topic is not very interesting, since the economic year in Russia is still very far from the completion and the state of affairs in two influential sectors of the economy - agriculture and construction - it is completely not clear.

The State Duma will consider today in the second reading the so-called “big law” - a government bill on preferential payments. It is expected that the meeting of the chamber will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov. The document was adopted in the first reading by the Chamber on July 2.

On August 13, the opening of the Russian Cinema Film Festival “Window to Europe” will be held in Vyborg. Today, at the press conference held at the Roland Moscow Cinema, Armen Medvedev, President of the review, told reporters that three contests will be held at the festival: game, documentary and animated films and, accordingly, will work three jury, ITAR-TASS reports.

The American company Lockhid Martin received a Pentagon 6-Hill Contract for the development of a new spy aircraft. The contract includes the development of spy aircraft that will control the movement of troops, as well as intercept the enemy signals, RIA Novosti reports. The price of one aircraft will be $ 879 million. As part of the contract, 57 aircraft will be created. 38 of them will be purchased by the US Army, 19 aircraft will acquire the country's Navy.

The leader of the Jordanian terrorists Abu Musab al-Zarkavi tried to get in touch with the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization Osama Ben Laden, writes Gazeta.ru. This, with reference to a senior source in the US Department of Defense, reports the Fox News TV channel. According to the source who wished to preserve the anonymity of the source, a courier was recently detained in Iraq, in which the Epistle of Zarkavi Ben Laden was discovered.

The British Lonmin PLC, the third largest platinum manufacturer, in the near future may become an object of absorption by one of the world's largest mining companies. Analysts include the Norilsk Nickel and OJSC of these MMCs, the monitor reports. Meanwhile, in Norikele refused to comment on such assumptions.

The brainchild of Regina Dubovitskaya program "ANSHLEG" will remain on the "second button", however, in a somewhat changed format, the Rossiya channel reported. The main time of the program will be given to humorous numbers, reports Jewish.ru. The conversations of the hostess of the transfer with the stars of satire and humor will become shorter, and going to visit the artists will happen only on special occasions. Perhaps, over time, Dubovitskaya will generally disappear from the frame.

Group Menatep announced the support of the “peacekeeping” mission to Jean Chretien, who, according to Ukohos co -owners, is already engaged in solving the problems of the company, Kommersant reports. ” The ex -Prime Minister of Canada was proposed as an intermediary in the negotiations by the supervisory board of Group Menatep - the former politician became the fourth contender for the role of the Savior of Yukos.

During the explosion of a rocket in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabulapulapo was a Afghan worker at a nearby construction site, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that the incident occurred on Monday evening, near the US Embassy building. According to observers, the number of such explosions has significantly increased recently. Behind this are militants of the overthrown of the Taliban, who seek to disrupt the elections of the new president of Afghanistan on October 9.

On August 29, in the Moscow club "B2", the performance of Alexei Khvostenko will be held in conjunction with the team "DEGENERATION". The concert will begin at 21:00. Alexey Lvovich Khvostenko was born on November 14, 1940 in Sverdlovsk. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he participated in Samizdat, composed songs, painted paintings and poems. In 1977 he emigrated.

The players of the English “Wolver -Empton” inflicted a devastating defeat of the Scot Rangers with a score of 7: 0 in a friendly match. It is Glasgow that can become an opponent of the Moscow CSKA in the third round of the Champions League if the army team succeeds tomorrow in a fight with Neftechi. Five goals at the goal of bewildered Scots sent Tom Stewart.

Scientists from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (Department of Biomedical Engineering), created jointly by the American University of Emory (Emory University) and the Georgia Institute of Technology, developed a new class points ”that can find and clearly display the position of a malignant tumor in a living organism, reports a membrane .

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov promised to continue the application of organizational measures against those communists who went to opposition to him, the monitor reports. Meanwhile, he expressed satisfaction regarding the decision of the Ministry of Justice, who recognized the Congress of the Communist Party of the Communist Party illegitimate, held by his opponents, led by the governor of the Ivanovo region Tikhonov.