Former world middleweight boxing champion Vernon Forrest was shot dead in Atlanta (USA), RIA Novosti reports. The murder happened on Saturday late at night at a gas station. Police believe that an unidentified man tried to rob 38-year-old Forrest. Taking possession of the boxer's purse, he ran. The boxer was rushed after him, then decided to return to his car and received several bullets in the back. The police have no suspects yet.

The presidential elections have ended in Kyrgyzstan. According to the preliminary results, which were available at the time of signing the issue for print, the current head of state, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, won. He got 89% of the vote. “The outcome of the elections and the events after them are quite predictable, and they could hardly have developed differently,” comments Andrey Grozin, head of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan department at the Institute of CIS Countries.

In Chechnya, relatives of militants are enemies of the people. They are trying to instill this experience in other republics of the North Caucasus. A month ago, on the eve of Barack Obama's visit, several Russian citizens were deported from Egypt for expired visas. One of them, Maskhud Abdullayev, a student at Al-Azhar Islamic University, got off the Cairo-Moscow flight and disappeared. After 10 days, he appeared on Grozny television and called on his father to surrender.

The first victim of influenza A/H1N1 was an Italian - 56-year-old Giulio Masserano died on Sunday evening in an Italian clinic in Buenos Aires. A native of Rome, he has lived permanently in Argentina since 1993, where he owned the Erica travel agency. Masserano was hospitalized three weeks ago and has been in intensive care. When he was admitted to the hospital, he was found to have a novel influenza virus.

AvtoVAZ stopped. There will be no protests now, but in September a social explosion in Togliatti risks setting the tone for the entire political season. The former head of the International Association of AvtoVAZ Dealers, Yuri Tselikov, puts it this way about the current president of the auto giant, Boris Alyoshin: "It would be better if he did not return from vacation." The change of managers could, according to Tselikov, give at least some hope for saving the sinking production.

Perhaps AvtoVAZ will be lucky: cars made in Russia are getting cheaper before our eyes, the demand for them has begun to grow Alexander, a businessman from Tolyatti, would love to burn his new car in a wasteland, but so far, albeit with difficulty, he controls himself. Recently, he urgently needed money. He sold his beloved Corolla and switched to Lada Kalina, because VAZ is much cheaper to maintain than Toyota.

Large Russian business calls on the state to restrict or take control of the operation of IP-telephony systems (telephony over the Internet) in Russia, primarily the popular Internet service Skype. Such an initiative was made by a special commission of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

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This year, for the first time since the collapse of the USSR, schools are expecting an influx of applicants A graduate of the 11th grade, Olga Kuznetsova, thought for a long time about where to go. At first I looked at universities in my native Nizhny Novgorod, then I thought about the capital. Olga wanted to become a fashion designer - like Roberto Cavalli, Jean-Paul Gaultier or Valentin Yudashkin. Their work is not dusty, but life is beautiful. True, Olga studied at the "troika".