The arrested driver of the intercity bus Yuri Shumyko, through whose fault, a car accident under Novosibirsk occurred, apologized to the relatives of all dead passengers, Vesti.Ru reports. “I would like to ask for forgiveness from the relatives of the dead through the media that I could not take trouble from their relatives that terrible night.

The first arguments in defense of universal tolerance were born back in the 16th century, when the main obstacle to the introduction of this idea into the consciousness of people was fierce religious wars. Today, although our society is not burdened by the religious straightforwardness characteristic of Europe of the 16th century, we are faced with an equally significant problem - ethnic and cultural differences.

The government allowed the Ministry of Finance in the III quarter of 2009 to send 357 billion rubles from the reserve fund to 1 trillion to the federal budget, the Finmarket reports. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In accordance with the Law on the federal budget, the deficit in 2009 should amount to 7.4% of GDP. The budget is calculated based on the average annual oil price Urals $ 41 per barrel and the fall of GDP in real terms by 2.2% compared to 2008.

The Metalloinvest company Alisher Usmanova asked the government of the State Government in the amount of over 5 billion rubles. The commission, chaired by the deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Oleg Savelyev, discussed this issue on July 15, but the businessman was refused state guarantees, the newspaper writes. The Ministry of Economic Development explained: Usmanova’s company did not provide enough information to make a decision on state support.

Since August 3, 2009, AvtoVAZ can stop the conveyor for a month. This was reported to Kommersant by sources at the enterprise and a number of suppliers. According to them, now the warehouses of AvtoVAZ amount to 85 thousand non -distributed cars and, by stopping the conveyor, the plant expects to reduce them half. According to the newspaper, the stop in August has already been agreed with the shareholder of the plant - the state corporation Rostekhnology.

In 2010, residents will no longer have the question of why in the summer they take a fee for heating. In the new “two -star” tariffing system, the score is made up of two values ​​- a small fixed amount for financing the MOEC energy company and the heat fee itself, charged only in the heating season.

Today, the Presidium of the Moscow Regional Council canceled the decision on the release of 700,000 rubles of Ekaterina Leladze, accused in the case of the smuggling of furniture in the shopping centers “Three Whales” and “Grand”, the lawyer of one of the defendants in the criminal case Kirill Polishchuk said. “The Presidium of the Moscow Regional Council examined the supervisory representation of the prosecutor's office to the decision of the cassation board on the release of Laladze on bail.

The issue of approving projects to create supercomputers will be considered at one of the closest meetings of the Russian Security Council. Such a statement was made by President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the Commission on the modernization of the Russian economy, news agencies report.

Belarus was blocked by the Russian oil pipeline in Latvia, referring to the technical malfunction of the pipe, reports Reuters . The Belarusian authorities promise to resume pumping after the "elimination of defects" by the Russian side. "After two accidents, a comprehensive audit was carried out on the Unecha-Ventspils section and more than a thousand technical defects were identified. They should have been eliminated by July 17.

The “right business” did not agree with Yabloko and will not go to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The refusal to participate in the main for the right -wing campaign after the elections to the State Duma means that the party is insolvent as a political organization. The internal contradictions are great, the skills of the party leaders to conclude transactions with elites are insufficient.

In July - August 2009, Atomenergoprom OJSC plans to carry out regulated purchases for the right to conclude contracts for counseling, methodological support and preparation of consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with international financial statements (IFRS), for the 1st half of 2009; on the audit of consolidated financial (accounting) reporting, prepared in accordance with international financial statements (IFRS), for 2010 for the group of companies of OJSC Atomenergoprom;

The delegation of the China Ministry of Trade has arrived in Moscow, which plans to discuss the situation related to the employees of the Cherkizov market, news agencies report. According to the adviser to the PRC Embassy in Russia Lee Hua, the Chinese delegation is headed by Deputy Minister of Commerce Gao Huchen. In addition, its participants included representatives of the Foreign Ministry and the Main Customs Administration of the PRC.

On August 5, the Moscow District District Military Court will begin to re -examine the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Preliminary hearings will be held. According to Russian law, preliminary hearings are held closed. During the meeting, the procedural issues of the upcoming trial, including the form of legal proceedings, will be resolved, Vesti reports.

In the Mi-8 helicopter, six people were killed in the Volgograd region. In total, there were eight people on board - five passengers and three crew members. Conflicting messages come to who belonged to the helicopter. According to some data, the helicopter belonged to Gazpromavia and wept a gas pipeline. According to others, in a helicopter was the leadership of Lukoil-Volgogradneftegaz: deputy general director and four heads of departments.

Over the past year, the leading Hollywood film studios lost over $ 6 billion due to video piracy, Dan Glickman Dan Glickman said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. You can fight this, in particular, with the strengthening of anti -pirate propaganda by cinema producers and improving the technical base to protect against illegal copying, he said. Glikman also noted that among the audience the demand for film products for home viewing or demonstration on mobile devices is now increasing.