Moscow actually recognized its mistake in the incident with 39 Japanese schooners, which entered Russian territorial waters a few days ago, reports Radio Echo of Moscow . According to the official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kamynin, the Japanese acted as part of a bilateral agreement on the fishing of sea cabbage. It was signed 25 years ago.

**September 4, Monday** The main events: Russian President V. Putin will be in Greece on a working visit, during which he will hold talks with the country's Prime Minister K. Karamanlis and Bulgarian President G. Parvanov on cooperation in the field of energy, in particular on the project for the construction of the Burgas - Alexandroupolis oil pipeline. . The program of V. Putin’s visit also includes separate meetings with Prime Minister of Greece K. Karamanlis and President of Bulgaria G.

A study of a group of biologists led by Dr. Anna Gagliardo from the University of Pisa (Universita di Pisa) shows that smell plays a significant role in the orientation of postal pigeons, ABC Science reports . Previously, a hypothesis was put forward that birds are guided by magnetic particles in their beak, which thus play the role of a living compass.

According to media reports, journalists of the Belapan news agency, Radio Liberty, newspapers Z -year and our Niva are released. Yesterday, during the protest in the city of Bobruisk (Belarusian), 10 journalists were detained by the local police.

The Ministry of Economic Development is ready to go to an active industrial policy to stimulate economic growth. This is evidenced by the content of Mart's report on measures to stimulate industrial growth, which at the disposal of the newspaper Kommersant . The most radical of the proposed innovations is the creation of a commission on the development of sectors of the economy, direct subsidizing exports of high -tech products, and creating departmental targeted programs.

On the anniversary of the events, a state of State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Women, Family and Children , Tamara Anatolyevna Fraletsova, commented on the investigation of the attack. “Many are now annoying that the commission has been working for a very long time. However, such an event requires a thorough and comprehensive study.

Israel skeptically reacted to the promise of this Syria to stop the supply of weapons of the Lebanese Shiite Group "Hizball", RBC reports with reference to AP. "Israel does not believe that Syria during the last conflict and after it gave a reason to consider itself a reliable force," said Miri Esin, a representative of the Israeli government. She noted that all this time Damascus provided military militants, financial assistance, as well as moral support.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding by state awards of Russia, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. "For a great contribution to the development of Russian science and many years of fruitful activity, he was awarded the Order" For Merit to the Fatherland "of the fourth degree Evgeny Dianov - Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Scientific Center for Fiber Optics at the Institute of General Physics named after A.M.

The new academic year in four Russian regions begins with a scandal - parents and teachers protest against the obligatory teaching of the foundations of Orthodox culture, reports Echo of Moscow. The chairman of the Duma Committee on Relations with Public Associations or Religious Organizations, Sergei Popov considers it correct to teach the foundations of the Orthodox religion to the school - but only if this will happen on a voluntary basis.

The first two groups of Italian military landed on Friday in the south of Lebanon, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Italian television. Arriving Italians must meet with the command of the UN International Peace Forces and reconnaissance before the arrival of the main contingent, which is expected on the next Saturday. The main contingent has 2 thousand 496 people.

As the publication “Personal Money” notes, commenting on the results of the week in the stock market, the shares market “trampled” at the same levels. The beginning of the past week was fraught with fine growth, but a noticeable market decrease on Thursday leveled this growth - and according to preliminary data, the RTS index ends a week with a small, about 1%, with a decrease, with a value of about 1630 points. Further, a week of changes in shares are calculated on the basis of these MICEX.

August 30 is the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance. We are publishing materials for the speech of Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the board of the International Memorial Society, at the round table “Terror, counter-terrorism and human rights” that took place on July 3-4, 2006 in Moscow during the Civil G8.

Sergey Osovzov became the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern. This was stated in the press service of Rosatom, RIA Novosti reports. At the final meeting of the Commission of the Agency for the Competition of the Position of the General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, the Russian State Concern for the Production of Electric and Heat Energy at Nuclear Power Stations (Rosenergoatom), the competition was recognized as the winner of the competition.

On September 21, the Supreme Court of Russia will consider a complaint about a criminal case against 13 participants in the attack on Ingushetia in June 2004, RIA Novosti reports. “In cassation complaints, some of the defendants in the case are asked to mitigate the verdict, and some can cancel and justify them in all respects,” said the court representative. He recalled that on August 3, 2005, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia sentenced 13 accused to imprisonment for a term of 8 to 25 years.

7 paintings by Fedor Reshetnikov are stolen from the memorial museum of the Soviet artist in the Dnipropetrovsk region, reports Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. The preliminary investigation found that thieves penetrated the premises of the museum, which is located in a rural school, breaking the glass. Reshetnikov bequeathed after death to transfer 20 of his paintings to the Museum of the School, which is located in the native village of the artist of the Sursko-Lithuanian.