The pilot of the fourth-generation Russian fighter MiG-29, which broke under Chita, died. His body was found at the crash site, the Ministry of Defense said. It is noted that there was no ammunition on board the fallen aircraft. Before clarifying the causes of the disaster, flights of MiG-29 fighters are suspended. This decision was made by the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov.

The press appeared that the three members of the same family found by the killed in the French Alps were the British. The British Foreign Ministry has not yet confirmed this. The French police established the personality of the family father - this is Saad al -Hilly. He, his wife and, apparently, the mother -in -law were found shot in a car, near Lake Annesi. Nearby, the body of a local resident was found, which, apparently, became a witness to the crime.

In Nazran, an attempt on the commander of the military unit has been committed today, Interfax reports citing a source in local law enforcement agencies. Under the bottom of the Volga, assigned to the unit commander, the detonator of an explosive device consisting of two hundred grams of plastic and a mobile phone worked. According to the source, no one was injured as a result of the incident.

A 19-year-old soldier, who was serving in one of the military units of the Naro-Fominsk near Moscow, turned to the organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg”. 57 military personnel from the military unit 19612 were sent on a business trip to the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. On August 23, at 22.30, according to the victim soldier, drunken officers appeared in the tent and forced everyone to push up.

German pensioners have already objected to a decrease in their income (Berlin, 2003) In Germany, the future of the country's pension system is actively discussing. The reason for this was the publication of a report prepared by the Ministry of Labor of Germany. From the document it follows that by 2030 at least a third of German pensioners will live in poverty.

Yakov Gordin. In Russia, the intensity of the anniversary campaign associated with the two hundredth anniversary of the Victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 does not subside.

The Pakistani authorities obliged to leave the country of foreign employees of the Charitable organization "Save children", which has been working in Pakistan for about 30 years. The reason for the decision is not officially called. According to the head of the public relations department of the group Gulam Kadri, six of his foreign colleagues should leave Pakistan within two weeks. The corresponding order was received from the Ministry of the Interior.

New bridge over the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok In the water area of Vladivostok, security measures were strengthened before the opening of the Russian business summit on the island of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Today, the leaders of the APEC member countries begin to arrive in Vladivostok. Summit’s working meetings will be held on September 8 and 9. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already arrived in Vladivostok.

Alexey Makarkin The arrival of Vladimir Putin at the APEC summit in Vladivostok was preceded by several important statements that the Russian president made for the international audience. The Russian authorities are counting on the propaganda effect of the APEC summit abroad and on economic revival in one of the most depressed regions of the country, in the Far East. Why did the country's leadership invested huge financial and political funds in the organization of the APEC summit?

In the gas sector, 3 Palestinian militants died at the Israeli shelling. Locals reported that these were members of the small Islamist group "Hemat al-Axsa". The Israeli military said that the fire was opened by a group of militants who tried to lay an explosive device in the area of the Beit Khangun refugee camp, near the border security wall. In the evening, on Wednesday, 3 Palestinian militants were killed at the Israeli airstrike.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The scandal is gaining momentum around the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, who flared up after the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said that Chechnya has legal rights to the Sunzhensky and partially Malgobek regions, which in Ingushetia consider their own. According to Kadyrov, the Chechen authorities have archival documents confirming that the Sunzhensky and part of the Malgobek regions of Ingushetia are actually part of the Chechen Republic.

According to the results of the current year, the federal budget deficit will amount to about 143 billion rubles or 0.2% of GDP, said the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, referring to the calculations of his department. Initially, the government predicted this year a budget deficit at the level of 1.5% of the total volume of the country's economy, however, in early June, changes were made to the budget providing for a reduction in this indicator to 0.1%.

Under Chita today, the fourth-generation Russian fighter MiG-29 crashed. According to available information, the pilot managed to eject. His searches are going on. According to the Ministry of Defense, there was no ammunition on board the fallen aircraft.

Is pension reform possible if Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the "pre-crisis budget"? In the Radio Studio, Liberty in the program "Guests Time" with Mikhail Sokolov is a member of the board of the Institute of Modern Development, Professor, Doctor of Economics Evgeny Gontmamer.