Employees of the capital's prosecutor's office were caught using fake sick leave certificates The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP), as Vremya Novostey learned, has completed an investigation into the criminal case against the former senior assistant of the Simonov interdistrict prosecutor of Moscow, junior justice adviser, 46-year-old Svetlana Sharygina.

The international documentary film festival "Flahertiana" has ended It’s good that in some places Moscow sometimes ceases to be the center that directs and controls everything. The international documentary film festival "Flahertiana", the largest forum of its kind in Russia, takes place in Perm. On the very first day of the festival, a suspicious journalist asked festival director Pavel Pechenkin: who is the viewer of documentary films?

Russian companies can buy back their shares from the market for $17 billion The buy back procedure, or repurchase of one's shares from the market, can become a tool for restoring the Russian stock market in conditions of the financial crisis. Many experts and politicians have recently begun to return to this topic more and more often.

AHML changes the rules for repurchasing mortgages The Housing Mortgage Lending Agency (AHML) announced yesterday the termination of cooperation agreements with all its partners who supplied the agency with mortgages. Instead, they were asked to conclude new agreements from October 1 - so-called forward contracts for the supply of mortgages within four months at a fixed refinancing rate. First Deputy General Director of the agency Pavel Voitov told reporters about this yesterday.

Barca lose points again Football. Spanish Championship . 2nd round. “Barcelona” – “Racing” – 1:1, “Valladolid” – “Atlético” – 2:1, “Sevilla” – “Sporting” – 4:3, “Malaga” – “Atlético” -- 0:0, Recreativo -- Espanyol -- 0:1, Getafe -- Betis -- 0:0, Villarreal -- Deportivo -- 1:0, Mallorca - Osasuna - 1:1, Real Madrid - Numancia - 4:3, Almeria - Valencia - 2:2. Leading : Espanyol - 6 points, Valencia, Almeria, Sevilla, Getafe, Villarreal - 4 each.

NATO will cooperate with Georgia NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who arrived in Tbilisi yesterday to attend the opening of a visiting meeting of the Alliance Council , caused confusion in the minds of Georgian political scientists.

Session of the UN General Assembly opens Today the main international forum opens in New York - the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly. The work of the assembled delegations will continue from the third Tuesday of September to the third week of December, but the cycle will formally end only a year later with the opening of the next session. The forum will be chaired by the Chairman of the UN General Assembly, former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

Experts sum up the interim results of railway transport reform 2008 marks ten years since the start of the railway transport reform . During this time, an economic entity was separated from the old Ministry of Railways - JSC Russian Railways, which demonstrates quite good indicators of economic activity. At the start of the reform, the industry operated in conditions of an excess of technical equipment and a lack of financial resources necessary to maintain them.

A French diplomat will become the EU Special Representative in Georgia The main result of the first day of discussion of the situation in the Caucasus within the Council of the European Union at the level of foreign ministers in Brussels was the approval of the candidacy of the EU Special Representative for Georgia. It was the French diplomat Pierre Morel (pictured) . France, presiding over the European Union, sought to play an active role in resolving the situation in the Caucasus .

Israel this year celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding - Independence Day. The past six decades have included a lot of very different events, most of which were reflected in world historiography in one way or another. Including events related to Russian-Israeli relations. But one “reference point” of these relations remained in the shadows - the work of the Russian military attache in Tel Aviv.

The government is saving money to combat the consequences of the global financial crisis The clouds of the global crisis hang over Russian financial institutions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tried to drive away the foreboding of bad things from Russia and its government. At yesterday's meeting of the Presidium of the Cabinet of Ministers, perhaps with sadness, he spoke only on two topics - about the crashed plane and the banking liquidity crisis.

The increase in defense spending in 2009 remained a military secret The fate of the budget for the next three years can be considered completely predetermined. As Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told reporters yesterday after a meeting of the presidium of the United Russia faction, an actual zero reading, all the main issues of the draft budget for 2009-2011 have been resolved and the document is ready for the first reading.

The President promised business that the war would not affect economic policy “Even if there are different opinions on economic problems within the country, the position of business and government in foreign relations will be united. I have no doubt about it. The authorities, the state will protect business.

The first month of autumn is rich in top-rank tournaments At the Women's World Championship in Nalchik, the participants in the decisive match were determined. The semifinal matches between Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) and Pia Cramling (Sweden) and Hou Yifan (China) and Humpi Koneru (India) followed approximately the same scenario. In the first games with classical time control, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Hou Yifan managed to realize White's advantage in a good positional style.

The Armenian opposition held its first sanctioned rally Yesterday in Yerevan, a rally of thousands of people took place, led by the first president of this country, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The opposition is seeking the resignation of President Serzh Sargsyan, elected on February 19 of this year , who replaced Robert Kocharyan in this post. Both constitutional terms of Mr. Kocharyan's presidency expired this spring.