The inhabitants of Ingushetia received an order to voluntarily surrender an illegally stored weapon, in return for a reward. The government of the republic promised persons who voluntarily surrendered firearms, ammunition, explosives, explosive devices, means for initiating and production of an explosion, and monetary rewards.

A repeated investigation of a criminal case on the assassination of the murder of the ex-head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais in 2005 was completed. After approval of the indictment, the case will be again referred to the court. The attempt on Chubais was made on March 17, 2005 at the exit from the village of Zhavoronka, Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. An explosive device worked on the path of the motorcade.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sore - 24 ORE, the former head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky said that he could not afford to count on individual pardon, especially if he is determined by a plead of guilt in the crimes that were not committed to them.

The SCP of Russia in the Southern Federal District continues to investigate the criminal case on the murder of the deputy head of the UK on Dagestan Seyifutdin Casiasimedov, initiated on the grounds of crimes under Art. 295 and Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (an encroachment on the life of a person conducting a preliminary investigation, and illegal weapon turnover).

The Federal Antimonopoly Service will recommend to the owners of enterprises in Pikalevo (Bazelezzent Pikalavo, Fosagro, Metakhim, Euro -cement) to combine them. This statement was made today by the head of the antimonopoly body Igor Artemyev, news agencies report. “They must unite within the framework of the joint venture or joint -stock company, proportional to the shares of the appropriate stake packages, or shares in the joint venture and have a single leadership,” Artemyev said.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked the head of the Republic of Khakassia Viktor Zimin for two weeks to prepare the verified lists of the dead and missing people in the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. In addition, the prime minister noted the need to submit proposals to solve problems in the field of employment, social support and education of minor children, as well as housing difficulties.

On the Mediterranean coast in Turkey, an accident occurred in which 11 Russians were injured, there are no dead, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax . The accident occurred at about 9 am local time. According to Ivan Tzepkov, director of the Sanraise Tour tourist company, tourists flew from St. Petersburg on Friday morning and headed on a minibus to their hotels.

Why is the state needed in its social form? There are people for whom it is enough just not to interfere, but there are those who need help. First of all, those who, for various reasons, have limited ability to take care of themselves and enter society. The state may not do this itself, but actively helps those people who create their own initiative projects and perform these functions for it. This is the normative picture. The reality looks different.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine overcame the veto of President Viktor Yushchenko on the bill on amendments to the state budget for the current year in terms of financing preparations for the final part of the European Football Championship. “For” such a decision was voted by 384 people's deputies, Prua.com reports.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the publishing house "Education" fear the mass emergence of counterfeit textbooks on the eve of the new school year, the newspaper writes. According to the publication, during the crisis, the production of printing products fell by more than 40%, however, in August - September, great demand appeared for educational literature and the leaders of printing houses can take advantage of this.

The number of those killed as a result of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station increased to 30 people, the SCP of Russia said. The analysis of blockages in power units and technical premises continues, pumping water is carried out. 15 pumps are installed, two of them are stationary. They reached the performance of 4 thousand cubic meters. 30 thousand cubic meters of water are already pumped out. The water level decreased by almost 2 meters.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0” - a joint project of the information and analytical channel “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. The guest of the program is a doctor of biological sciences, a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, the head of the laboratory and the deputy director for science of the Institute for the Problems of Information RAS, Professor of the Faculty of Bioenginery and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University Mikhail Gelfand.

“Bioinformatics is a way to engage in biology without observing living creatures, as zoologists, without making experiments in a tube as experimental biologists, but analyzing the results of mass data or entire projects,” said Mikhail Gelfand , professor of the faculty of bioenginery and bioinformatics of Moscow State University, Doctor of Biological Sciences, deputy.

Rosstat published data on the socio-economic situation of Russia in January-July 2009. According to these data, industrial production in the country continues to decline - the fall of GDP in July 2008 increased to 10.4%. The release of cars in Russia in July 2009 fell by 55.9% compared to July 2008 to 60.6 thousand pieces. The production of trucks during this period decreased by 63.8% to 9.4 thousand, buses - by 42.7% (up to 396 pieces), the newspaper writes.

The funeral of actor Semyon Faradu will be held on August 24 at the Troekurovsky cemetery, RBC reports with reference to the message of the Guild of Cinema Actors. The civilian memorial service will take place on the same day at 12.00 in the Cinema House. Yesterday, Semyon Farada died in one of the capital's hospitals at the age of 76. A few days ago, the media, citing the son of actor Mikhail Poloymako, reported that Farada was in the hospital at a planned examination.