The accused in the “Sychev case” made his final speech The Chelyabinsk Garrison Military Court yesterday scheduled the announcement of the verdict in the scandalous criminal case of the crippled soldier Andrei Sychev for September 26. The court announced this date after the arguments between the parties ended at the last meeting.

Major train accidents resulted in no casualties Two, without exaggeration, grandiose train wrecks occurred in less than 24 hours in the Voronezh and Ryazan regions. In one case, a collision between two freight trains derailed and mangled more than 40 cars carrying, among other things, hazardous chemicals. As a result, about 20 tons of hydrochloric acid spilled onto the ground. In another case, a trailer carrying an excavator damaged a railway bridge, onto which a train soon arrived.

Watch from September 21 on Moscow screens “Twin Towers” ​​(USA, 2006, Oliver Stone). As the film's advertising tagline states, “On this day (that is, September 11, 2001), the world saw evil. Two people saw something else." These people - John McLaughlin (Nicolas Cage - "The Wicker Man") and William Gimeno (Michael Peña - "Million Dollar Baby", "Crash") - are the last firefighters to be rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

There are about five thousand Russians in Thailand Yesterday, a military coup took place in one of the most popular countries in Southeast Asia among our tourists - Thailand. The army took power, and the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, who was at the UN General Assembly session in New York during these events, was overthrown. At night, rebels captured Bangkok, blockading government offices and national television.

Andrey VOROBYEV, director of the Hematological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. - Why are we still forced to send oncohematological patients for operations abroad - due to the lack of a donor bank or lack of places in clinics? - We have excellent conditions for bone marrow transplantation; such conditions are not available everywhere abroad.

The visa application will have to be filled out on the State Department website Starting October 25, the US Embassy in Moscow and the US Consulate General in Vladivostok will require electronic applications for non-immigrant visas, and only in English. The previous handwritten application format using a choice of Russian or English is abolished. The US Embassy in Russia reported this yesterday.

Yemen's President Faces Serious Rival This Wednesday has been declared a gun-free day in Yemen. In honor of today's direct presidential elections and the local elections being held simultaneously with them, citizens are prohibited from appearing with weapons on the streets, much less at polling stations.

Bush and Ahmadinejad share a lunch break Yesterday, US President George W. Bush and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke from the rostrum of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly that opened in New York. But this happened at meetings separated by a lunch break. There was no personal meeting between the presidents. They did not get closer in politics either.

The future prime minister will rewrite history and strengthen the army Today, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan will elect its new leader, who will replace Junichiro Koizumi not only in this post, but also as the country's prime minister. No one now doubts that the 21st post-war head of government will be the current Secretary-General of the Cabinet of Ministers, 52-year-old Shinzo Abe (pictured) .

Americans criticize the court at the Olympic Stadium On Friday, the semi-finals of the Davis Cup, where the national teams of Russia and the USA will meet, start at the capital's Olimpiyskiy sports complex. Yesterday the first press conference took place with the participation of tennis players from both teams.

Forecast for the coming days It became warmer in the European territory of Russia, the temperature in most parts of the day rose to +18...+20°C, in Kuban it was +26°C. At the same time, frosts were observed in the west of the Central Federal District (down to -1°C). The reason for the weather diversity was the former polar anticyclone, on the northern periphery of which warmer air began to circulate.

Theater Ad Spectatores at “New Drama 2006” An independent theater from Wroclaw came to the festival with Russian plays: Alexander Vartanov’s verbatim “Big Zhrachka” (the Moscow premiere took place three and a half years ago at Teatr.doc) and Ivan Vyrypaev’s miniature “Dreams” (written in 1999 in Irkutsk, about the productions I don’t know anything).

There will be no well-known human rights activists among the recipients of public funds The recruitment of the first batch of contractors for the construction of civil society in Russia is officially completed.

There are no democrats in Russia yet who can come to power There is just over a year left before the next elections to the State Duma. Non-parliamentary parties are already declaring their political ambitions. All of them hope to enter parliament, and some, in the future, to win a constitutional majority. The Union of Right Forces, in particular, promises that the “united democratic party” led by Nikita Belykh will achieve the presidency. True, with a caveat - in 2016.

The Ministry of Economic Development intends to resume the investigation into the supply of radioactive metal to the Russian Federation Increasing cases of detection of radioactive scrap metal from the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became the basis for the Ministry of Economic Development to resume an investigation into the penetration of “fouling” metal products into Russian territory.