The average monthly salary of civil servants for the first six months of 2011 amounted to 51.4 thousand rubles, increasing by 2.2 percent compared to the first half of last year. It is reported by Rosstat . The largest salary was recorded from employees of the Rosoboronopostavi of the Ministry of Defense - 88.6 thousand rubles and the presidential administration - 88.3 thousand rubles. Employees of the Accounts Chamber earn 79.6 thousand rubles on average.

On Tuesday morning, a residential building caught fire in the center of St. Petersburg. It is reported by Rosbalt . The victims of the fire are not reported. The fire covered 800 square meters of the attic house number 147 on Nevsky Prospekt. The fire was added to the fire, the third level of complexity due to the danger of spreading fire by ceilings. Currently, the Ministry of Emergencies managed to localize the fire.

The world champion of mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev, suspected of beating a person to death, was disqualified and removed from preparation for the World Sambo Championship. This was reported on the website of the All -Russian Sambo Federation. The World Sambo Championship will be held from November 10 to 14 in Lithuania.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine checks information about the possible seizure of Ukrainian mercenaries by the Libyan rebels who fought on the side of Muammar Gaddafi. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" . Earlier, the Ukranews portal, referring to the American journalist Sarah Corp, said that the Libyan rebels captured mercenaries from Ukraine. “I saw 10 or 11 men who marched along the site of the National Oil Corporation with hands raised to the head.

The rector of the Catholic parish in Petropavlovsk-Kshishtof Koval will bring an inflatable church from Poland to Kamchatka, the BBC Russian service reports. As the priest noted, the Russian authorities do not give him permission to build a real Catholic Church on the peninsula, and home parishes make parishioners-Catholics of the peninsula are akin to sectarians. The inflatable church is a copy of the Catholic temple in the Gothic style and weighs about 100 kilograms.

The Center for Modern Culture "Garage" opens an exhibition of one job - the famous photograph of 1857 "Two Ways of Life" Oscar Gustav Rilander. The organizers of the exhibition are the Iris Foundation, the Rosiso State Museum and Exhibition Center, and the Russian International Information Agency RIA Novosti. Among the masters of the XIX century, whose search in art changed the modern world, is the name of the English photographer and artist Oscar Gustav Rilander.

The deputy chief of the Volga Department of the State Directorate of the State Military Supervision, who was a witness in the case of the Bulgaria ship’s accident, committed suicide in Nizhny Novgorod, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia. The body of 55-year-old Alexander Khramov was discovered the night before near the house number three along Fedorovsky’s embankment, next to the house where he lived, the criminal chronicle clarifies.

The Department of Housing Policy and Housing Fund of Moscow warned that due to technical problems, the deadline for processing documents may increase. For technical reasons (disconnection of communication channels), during the month it is possible to increase the deadlines for processing documents for the privatization of housing, obtaining information about rights and transactions with residential premises registered before 01/31/1998, and from the Property Register in the housing sector.

On the eve of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow refused the members of the Party of People's Freedom (Parnas) to satisfy the claim against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation with a request to recognize the refusal of registration illegal. According to political scientists, the newspaper " Labor " explains, such a decision has become a logical result of identifying numerous violations in the party documents. The opposition themselves declared the court decision political.

Researchers at Banksy's work at the University of Bristol came up with the initiative to take the work of the famous artist Graffiti and a political activist hiding under the pseudonym Banksy, BBC reports. Last July, in Bristol, where, allegedly, an artist was born, the municipal authorities painted one of his early works called “Gorilla in a Pink Mask”.

NASA intends to spend $ 175 million on the implementation of three projects in the field of space technology, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the American Space Agency. Projects of the solar sails, laser communication systems and ultra -precise atomic hours for use on board the spacecraft will be implemented as part of the Technology Demonstration Missions. These projects are selected from 47 applicants and will be tested in real conditions.

“On August 18, the Baikonur cosmodrome was launched by the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Breez-M accelerated unit and the Express-Am4 spacecraft. The start and flight “Proton-M” went regularly, in accordance with the planned program.

In Makhachkala, the first women's beach in the republic will open in the near future, RIA Dagestan reports. The construction of the beach complex has already been completed. Only women, as well as boys under six years old, will be allowed to enter the beach. It is assumed that the service staff of the beach, including rescuers, will also consist of women. Those wishing to visit the beach will have to pay for the entrance of 30 rubles.

"Follow yourself, be careful" Forever. The representative of Russia at NATO Dmitry Rogozin on August 23 realized that in August NATO was on vacation. Life News: Killed Ivan Agafonov was a bad person! Someone urged to shift the unchilding boys.

On August 23, the Moscow City Court canceled the decision to free the world champion of mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev, suspected of beating a person to death, Interfax reports. Recall that yesterday the court released the athlete on bail of 5 million rubles, but the prosecutor's office protested this decision the next day. Today it became known that Rasul Mirzaev was disqualified and removed from preparation for the World Sambo Championship.