A place that was once known primarily for what would now be called ecotourism - the shore of Lake Seliger - has acquired a specific fame thanks to “political tourism” - the annual camps of “Nashists”.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, at a meeting of the foreign ministers of 27 EU member states on Monday, spoke out against the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence for Kosovo, RIA Novosti reports . "Of course, if Kosovo declares independence on its own, some countries will support it, and this must be avoided," Kouchner told reporters in Brussels.

The president of India was first elected a woman, reports Ar . On July 21, the Central Electoral Commission of India announced the victory in the presidential election campaign of the 72-year-old Pratibhya Patil, who will become the first woman-president in the history of the country. Patil acted as a candidate from the ruling party of the Indian National Congress and its political allies.

In Khimki near Moscow, a protest was held against the construction of a high -rise building on the site of a forest park, Echo Moscow reports. As the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Sergey Mitrokhin said. There was no one from the district administration at the rally. The police reacted to the protesters loyally.

Andrei Mayorov, Deputy Head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Particularly important cases, called the British version about Andrei Lugovoi's involvement in the murder of “insolvent” and “vulnerable”, and put forward another option: it was Litvinenko who irradiated Polopovy and Kovtun, reports “Echo of Moscow”. According to him, the traces of Polonia were discovered in some places in London, where Lugovoi and Kovtun were, but were not found in other places that they also visited.

In Kabul, at the age of 93, the former king of Afghanistan Muhammad Zahir Shah died, Reuters reports with reference to the Afghan television channel Tolo. Zakhir Shah ruled Afghanistan 40 years old, from 1933 to 1973, when he was overthrown by his nephew Mohammad Daud. He returned to the country only in 2002, when it was finished with the regime of fundamentalist-plots. He did not possess any real power, but wore the honorary title of “father of the nation”.

In Indonesia, the Airbus A330 JetStar airline, heading from Thailand to Australia, made an emergency landing. There were 330 passengers on board, reports AR . Emergency landing was due to technical problems in the engine operation. The liner captain decided to turn off the faulty engine and land the Indonesian Island of Bali at Denpasar Airport. The plane sat safely, none of the passengers was injured.

In the west of Switzerland there was a plane crash: a small plane with one person on board fell on a residential building, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. The local police noted that the plane flew out of the airport in the city of Bal, and fell in a residential quarter in the west of the city, near the French border. At the site of the disaster, a fire began. Currently, the exact number of victims and the amount of damage caused are established.

The Moscow prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder of two men in Zelenograd. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the Moscow prosecutor's office, RIA Novosti reports. The investigation established that on Monday at 14.05 Moscow time on Kryukovo Square (Zelenograd), the unknown shot two men who died before the arrival of doctors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation", the Kremlin press service said. In April, at the Kurchatov Institute, Vladimir Putin approved the concept of development of nanotechnology. The program for the development of nanotechnologies also involves the creation of the National Center for its implementation - a kind of main coordinator and the brain center at the same time.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin signed: - Federal Law "On the Budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2008 and for the planning period of 2009 and 2010." The predicted total income of the fund in 2008 is 2 trillion. 330.63 billion rubles, of which 2 trillion. 107.2 billion rubles is a part not related to the formation of funds to finance the funded part of labor pensions. The predicted total cost of expenses is 2 trillion.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Moscow Spartak Leonid Fedun said that the club was acquired by a foreign striker. True, Fedun refused to call the name of this new acquisition, limiting himself to a somewhat contradictory phrase: “We have already signed a foreign striker, and for the first time the press did not know anything about this,” said Spartak, in an interview with Soviet sports . - Before saying anything, let him first pass a medical examination.

The Norwegian Corporation A-Pressen sells its share in the Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House (KP) to its majority shareholder-the ECH group Grigory Berezkin. According to Kommersant, the ESN will pay for Norwegians 25% plus one promotion of ID, based on the estimate that the asset gave the asset when purchasing 60% of the KP of Prof-Media in January.

The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov visited the leading enterprises of the Smolensk region, in particular the Smolensk Polygraphic Plant, RIA Novosti reports. Enterprise managers told Ivanov about the specifics of work, production facilities and immediate plans.

Near St. Petersburg, a whole tank of smuggled alcohol was detained - almost 60 tons of raw materials of dubious quality. The goods came by rail from North Ossetia, reports Fontanka.ru. The resellers were detained with a vibal -shaped on the Volokhovskoye Shosse. Entrepreneurs of the company "Petrochimprom" have no documents confirming the legality of the transaction. According to operational data, this is far from the first supply of smuggling from North Ossetia.