A criminal group of 30 people involved in insurance fraud was exposed in Chelyabinsk. From 2007 to 2009, criminals received payments for non-existent road accidents: local traffic police officers prepared fictitious documents about accidents in exchange for bribes.

05 March 2010, 23:47 News Russian Orthodox Church: the bill on the transfer of Church valuables does not apply to museum funds The bill on the return to religious organizations of property that was previously their property but was nationalized will not affect museum funds. This was announced by the head of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vladimir Legoyda.

Cars A traffic police inspector ate a bribe in front of OBEP officers A traffic police inspector with the rank of police captain in the city of Kasli, Chelyabinsk region, swallowed 2 thousand rubles, given to him for refusing to draw up a report on the offense, in front of employees of the Department of Economic Crimes, writes LifeNews . “The transfer of the bribe took place in an official car,” the publication quotes city prosecutor Evgeniy Filatov as saying.

— 05.03.2010 13:15 — In the US, a former Russian pilot robbed the same bank twice A former Russian fighter pilot is being tried in America for repeated bank robbery, reports poughkeepsiejournal.com . According to police, 46-year-old Alexander Borisov entered the Millerton bank and took out a small amount of cash at gunpoint to the teller. He was soon caught by sheriff's deputies. In 1991, the detainee was convicted of robbing the same bank and several others.

05 March 2010, 17:02 Business Bosnia will join South Stream Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that Bosnia will join the Russian project to build the South stream gas pipeline. “Now I can confidently say that we will join South Stream,” Dodik said after a three-day visit to Russia, during which he met with representatives of the Russian Gazprom. To join South Stream, Bosnia plans to build 480 km of gas pipeline with a capacity of up to 1.7 billion cubic meters.

05 March 2010, 13:19 Sport Bosingwa will miss the 2010 World Cup Chelsea defender Jose Bosingwa is out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury, Sportinglife reports . The Portuguese will need surgery and will miss the upcoming World Cup in South Africa.

05 March 2010, 04:57 News US seeks agreement with Russia on adoption The United States is looking for an opportunity to develop a legally binding agreement with Russia that would regulate issues of international adoption and control over adopted children, said William Bistranski, head of the adoption division of the US State Department's Office of Children's Rights.

05 March 2010, 15:48 Park of Culture The Third Cartoon Festival will start soon in Krasnoyarsk From March 19 to 28, 2010, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. the largest cartoon festival in Russia will start The festival program includes 250 cartoons from 20 countries, 30 children's programs and 23 film venues. According to tradition, the main venue of the Festival will be the Krasnoyarsk “House of Cinema”.

05 March 2010, 14:18 Business Turkish gas curtsy Turkish Parliament approves Nabucco Alexey Topalov Turkey approved Nabucco. Support for the European gas pipeline project as opposed to South Stream is a political nod towards Europe. However, experts say that Turkey is quite capable of allowing both Nabucco and South Stream to pass through its territory simultaneously The Turkish parliament approved a bill on the construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline.

05 March 2010, 21:01 Cars Traffic in the west of Moscow is paralyzed due to snow and special vehicles Motorists in the north-west and west of Moscow are stuck in dense traffic jams that have formed in the area of ​​Rublevskoye and Volokolamsk highways, an Interfax correspondent reports.

05 March 2010, 13:09 Cars AvtoVAZ received about 30 thousand applications to purchase a car instead of a scrapped old one AvtoVAZ dealers have received more than 30 thousand applications from those wishing to purchase new cars as part of the federal program for recycling old cars, said the company’s vice president for sales and marketing, Maxim Nagaitsev . “The flow of applications increased greatly in the week before the program began,” he noted.

05 March 2010, 17:15 Politics “I have more complaints about my president” Interview with Burjanadze after her meeting with Putin Ilya Azar One of the leaders of the Georgian opposition, Nino Burjanadze, told Gazeta.Ru why she met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Burjanadze is not afraid of a negative reaction from his compatriots, considers it necessary to resume dialogue with Moscow and places full responsibility for the loss of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Mikheil Saakashvili.

05 March 2010, 07:53 Cars Toyota held its largest staff meeting in history An unprecedented meeting with the participation of almost 10 thousand workers and employees was held today by the management of Toyota Motor Corporation , which is now experiencing an unprecedented crisis due to claims about the quality of its products. Two thousand people gathered for this purpose at the corporation's headquarters in the city of Toyoda.

05 March 2010, 07:42 News The Russian Embassy sent a note to the United States in connection with the Skorobogatov case Russian diplomats sent a note to the American side in connection with the death in August in Pennsylvania of a seven-year-old boy adopted from Russia, a representative of the press service of the Russian Embassy in the United States said.

05 March 2010, 15:21 Cars In St. Petersburg, a traffic cop caused an accident to save pedestrians In St. Petersburg, on Friday afternoon, a traffic police car took the hit of a car escaping pursuit in order to protect pedestrians in the center of St. Petersburg, told RIA Novosti .