In the city of Zakatals in the north of Azerbaijan, an armed attack on the district police department has been committed today. Five police officers are injured, two in serious condition. The attackers managed to hide. According to the investigation, these are members of the local armed group, which on June 30 attacked a military unit deployed in the same area.

The State Duma of Russia from the Communist Party, Sergei Levchenko, leads by a small margin in the governor's election in the Irkutsk region. These are the data received after the vote count of 60 percent of the polling stations. Levchenko has about 47 percent of the vote, the current governor Boris said - 46 with a little. Levchenko leads in large cities, says - in most rural areas. In the first round, 45 percent of voters voted for the say, for Levchenko - 24 percent.

The court in Pakistan sentenced one of the local doctors to the death penalty on charges of blasphemy. The Homeopath Unis Sheikh during a lecture in one of the colleges in Islamabad allowed the statements that the authorities considered offensive to the Prophet Muhammad. Dozens of people in Pakistan were sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy. None of them have yet been executed, since their appeals have not yet been considered.

"Yesterday I went to Paris. Paris does not look at me ... Why isn't anyone looking at me? My oblique word is pleasant. I am respected as a phenomenon, but my plot is not respected. I have a French plot, and not one, but I will never write." (Vladimir Maramzin, from the interview) "Who are you? - I am Russian, I always felt Russian ...

At the International Space Station, the American astronauts Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester made an exit to outer space on Saturday. Barry and Forrester are members of the crew of the American Discovery reusable use, which was fastened to the ISS at the end of last week. Astronauts carried out installation work on the station building. Discovery, which delivered a new crew to the ISS, must return to Earth on August 22.

Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev said that he would participate in the next election of the head of state scheduled for 2003.

Iranian President Mohammad Hatam presented today the country of members of his new office. According to the Hats, now he is much better ready to manage the country than four years ago, when he was first elected to the presidency. Hatam noted that over the years he managed to better understand and assess the complexity of the problems facing Iran.

The authorities of the Philippines said that a fire in one of the hotels in the city of Keson City, as a result of which at least 70 people died due to faulty wiring. Most of the victims suffocated in smoke, not having the opportunity to leave the burning building, since the windows were installed on the windows to protect against thieves, and the fire evacuation paths were blocked. Police wanted the owner of the hotel, which may be charged with violating fire safety rules.

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In the Barents Sea, work on the rise of the Kursk nuclear submarine was suspended due to the storm due to stormy weather. The height of the waves reaches four meters, the wind speed - 20 meters per second. According to forecasts, stormy weather will remain until Tuesday or Wednesday. It is still unknown how this will affect the timing of the work. It was originally planned to raise Kursk in mid -September.

In the elections of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region, according to the regional election commission, more than 32 percent of voters voted. The second round of voting is taking place today. The current governor Boris Speak and State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergey Levchenko claim the post of head of the regional administration. In the first round, 45 percent of voters voted for the say, for Levchenko - 24 percent.

In the Barents Sea, where the operation of the Kursk nuclear submarine underwent, the divers was temporarily suspended - due to the storm. According to ITAR-TASS, citing the headquarters of the Northern Fleet, the wave height exceeds four meters. To date, in the durable case of the submarine sunken a year ago, 16 out of 26 technological holes necessary for fastening the lifting devices have been cut out.

See also: RS programs dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the events of August 91st Anatoly Shot: The years of perestroika are hungry lines, as well as drunken reading, demonstrations and rallies. On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, the crowd chanted: "McDonald's - feed us!" In the fall of the 90s, the survey showed a universal foreboding of the ambulance of Gorbachev’s power and pogroms. They did not know only who they began to beat - the Communists, Jews or the Cravy -Lawless.

As a result of the accident at the mine in Donetsk, not 36 miners were killed, as previously reported, but 27. This was reported by the Ukrainian authorities after several miners who were considered dead came to their senses. According to the latest data, the fate of 18 people remains unknown. There are 28 victims in hospitals. The explosion of coal dust and methane occurred on Sunday morning at the Zasyadko mine in the Donetsk region.

Three people - among them, the leaders of one of the criminal groups of Moscow - were seriously injured last night as a result of the explosion of their car in the vicinity of the Russian capital. According to Interfax, the armored Mercedes was blown up on the Leningrad highway near the Moscow Ring Road. In the car were the Dato and Nodar Chograshi brothers, known as one of the leaders of the Armenian criminal group. Their relative rode with them.