In Moscow, several hundred supporters of the Communist Party of the Communist Party reached a rally of protest against rising prices and mass layouts. The leaders of the Communists, as well as members of patriotic movements, participated in the action - the Left Front, “Labor Russia”, the vanguard of red youth. At the rally, criticism of measures that the government and the State Duma to combat the crisis was taken by the rally. Communists conduct similar actions today in many Russian cities.

In Tehran, the office of the Iranian human rights group, which is headed by the Nobel Prize of the World, Shirin Ebadi, is closed in Tehran. As her deputy Narges Mohammadi said in an interview with our radio station, the police forced everyone to leave the premises of the Center for Human Rights Defenders and sealed it. Mohammadi called the actions of the authorities illegal. Human rights activists were preparing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

According to updated data, as a result of yesterday's explosion in the south of Moscow, 13 people were injured. 12 of them are hospitalized, law enforcement agencies said. The victims received minor injuries, mainly burns. Before that, nine wounded was reported. According to preliminary data, a home -made explosive device broke on the market near the Prague metro station. An investigation is underway. A criminal case has been opened under an article on hooliganism.

About 20 participants in the protest of motorists were detained in Moscow, including its organizer, the head of the Moscow branch of the Russian car owners, Sergei Kanayev. As one of the participants in the protest told Ekhu Moscow, this happened on Sunday evening in the VDNH metro area. Police and Kanaev treated politely, but they did not explain what was charged with him.

On Sri Lanka, the rebels from the Tamil Tigers group announced the destruction of 60 government troops. On the site close to the leadership of the rebels on the Internet, information appeared about the successful operation of the Tigers, which rejected Lankan troops from the city of Kilinochkh - the political center of the rebels. Sri Lanka authorities admitted that their troops suffered losses, but refuted data on the number of dead.

People's Artist of the USSR, pianist Nikolai Petrov.

In dozens of cities of the country today there will be mass protests of drivers against raising duties on foreign cars. In Moscow, a rally is expected to hold on Bolotnaya Square. According to Echo of Moscow, the capital's authorities allowed to gather there no more than one and a half hundred people. The Russian Automobileists Federation applied for two pickets on theater square and in the Novopushkinsky square, but - received a refusal.

The deposed President of Mauritania Sidi Sheikh Abdallahi was released from house arrest, ”France Press reports with reference to the Moorish Security Service. Earlier it was reported that last night Abdallahi was taken away by special services in an unknown direction. On August 6, the president was overthrown by a military junta. Western countries refused to provide assistance to Mauritania, demanding the liberation of Abdallahi.

In the south of Afghanistan, Afghan military and international forces destroyed two and a half tons of marijuana. The drug was discovered in an abandoned school in the Argistan area in the province of Kandahar. In the province of Zabul on Saturday, four armed militants were killed by the coalition forces. According to the military, the purpose of the operation was to search for one of the Taliban, involved in the transportation of weapons and mining roads. Five suspects were detained.

The head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas visits Chechnya. The Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov gave a dinner in his residence in Grozny in honor of the guest, after which Abbas was present at the concert of the Chechnya folklore ensembles. The Palestinian leader would arrive in Moscow. His negotiations with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were appointed on Monday.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Saturday the government to support automobile plants. The Canadian subsidiaries of the American automotive industry will be allocated about three and a half billion dollars. The statement of the head of the Canadian office followed the decision of US President George Bush to allocate almost $ 17 and a half billion dollars to American automakers. Bush made an appropriate statement on Friday.

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