In the department of Hermann Gref, a corruption scandal erupted. Two high -ranking officials from the MVAR were detained when receiving a bribe of 1.5 million rubles. This was announced today by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Central Federal District.

In Chicago, the busy track was blocked for as long as 7 hours due to scattered fat, pork hooves and ears, AP reports. The accident occurred on Sunday morning. The 39-year-old truck driver exceeded speed and lost control. The truck overturned at the bend. Road services for cleaning the road from fat had to apply sand, salt, as well as a special foam, which is usually used to neutralize hazardous materials. Movement along several highway lanes was opened only by the evening of Sunday.

Classic security problems, which include military threats, the outbreak of hostilities or terrorist threats, or threats in the border area (incompleteness of the creation of the border system itself in the states of Central and Central Asia, drug trafficking, border demarcation) have recently become the most difficult for interstate relations of the CIS.

In the sports town of Beijing University, an object of the Beijing Olympiad is ongoing, at which the table tennis competitions should be held next year, Reuters reports with reference to the Chinese information agency "Sinhua". Firefighters received a message about a fire at 08:14 local time (04:14 Moscow time). 17 fire brigades arrived at the ignition site, but they failed to cope with the fire during the first two hours. It is not clear whether the fire managed to put to date.

The crew of the Su-24 aircraft, which was able to prevent a plane crash, was awarded the orders of courage, RIA Novosti reports. “The crew commander Lieutenant Colonel Edmond of Nezvorov and the navigator, Captain Sergey Shipov, are presented to the orders of courage for courage, courage and high professionalism,” said General Alexander Drobyshevsky, commander in chief of the Russian Federation.

On the first day of competitive impressions at the jury press conference, his chairman Fred Skepsy uttered a prophecy that completely came true. He said: “Festival awards are often given not for what they should be given. Prizes for the best role are awarded to actors who play famous people or disabled people and psychopaths, because in these cases it is easy to evaluate the acting. ” The distribution of prizes on the XXIX MMKF justified the skepticism of the Australian director.

In 1992, the Islamic Salvation Front won the elections in Algeria. After the intervention of the Algerian army, which took the side of the current government, the election results were declared invalid. In turn, France also supported the official government and opened its borders to those who fled Algeria for political reasons, as a result of which the majority of Islamic radicals, outlawed in Algeria, poured into France as “political refugees”, where they continued their extremist activity.

The air message between Tbilisi and Moscow will not resume tomorrow, since the Georgian Airzena airline has not yet received a written permission to execute flights from the Russian side, news-group reports. The company recalled that on June 30 , the Airzena leadership was held in Moscow with representatives of the Russian aviation authorities, during which the Georgian side received permission to execute three flights a week before the end of August.

Vladimir Putin proposed creating information on missile launches in Moscow and Brussels and, in addition, using the rocket launches in the south of Russia, under construction in the south of Russia, RIA Novosti reports. “We propose to create an information exchange center in Moscow. We agreed on this several years ago, and it was time to implement these agreements, ”the Russian President said today after negotiations with George Bush in the USA.

The Ministry of Transport does not exclude the expansion of restrictions on the flights of Russian airlines to Europe, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the ministry.

The Russian company atomenergomash and the French group of ALSTOM on June 29, 2007 signed the authorized documents to create a joint venture for the production of turbines for nuclear power plants. “After the Soviet Union was divided, the only enterprise that produced low -speed turbines for nuclear power plants - this is a“ turbiata ” - remained in Ukraine.

According to Live Science , sociologists from the University At Buffalo found that scientists are less religious compared to the American population on average. Sociologists conducted a survey of 1646 scientists of various specialties from the 21 elite University of the United States, and also took detailed interviews from a 271 scientist.

Tonight, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. The President of Afghanistan arrived at the Government Palace of Kiji after a meeting with the president of the Italian Republic, Georgio Napolitano. Karzai is on an official visit to Rome. The purpose of the trip is to participate in an international conference on the problem of creating a rule of law in Afghanistan.

Strong showers and thunderstorms will take place in Moscow during the day, reports Meteonovo . According to weather forecasters, precipitation is most likely from 12:00 to 18:00. It is expected that the southwestern wind can reach 8 m/s, with a thunderstorm, its impulses can grow up to 15 m/s, strong short-term rains are possible. Forecasters predict that in the coming days the character of the weather will not change.

Going to the two-day scientific conference “New Electoral Technologies on the eve of the 2007-2008 elections”, I admit, at first I experienced internal constraint, how to watch decent people to run without pants, but with ties. Most of all I was delighted with the words “scientific” - in relation to the conference, and “new” - in relation to selective technologies. However, my fears were in vain.