The recently created Union of Parliamentary Journalists in Azerbaijan will fight against violations of the rights of media representatives accredited in the Milli Majlis (parliament) of the country. According to PRIMA, chairman of the Union, correspondent of the opposition newspaper "Azadlyg" ("Freedom"), Abbasali Rustamli stated that very often the deputies and even the leadership parliament, journalists are insulted and humiliated right in the meeting room.

On Thursday, in the village of Bira, Jewish Autonomous Region, criminals threw two F-1 grenades onto the balcony of an apartment in a residential high-rise building. As Data.Ru was informed by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District, one of the grenades exploded, as a result of which windows were broken in the apartment and the balcony was partially destroyed.

In the south of Moscow, an attempt was made on the life of banker Yuri Kovalev and oilman Alexander Zaitsev. According to RIA Novosti, both businessmen with severe gunshot wounds are in the hospital. Yuri Kovalev is the manager of one of the branches of the largest Russian bank, Alexander Zaitsev is the chairman of the board of the Khanty-Mansiysk oil company. At about nine o'clock in the morning on Thursday, a Mercedes 320 car, in which there were businessmen, was fired from a machine gun.

The situation with the Eastern Oil Company (VNK), against whose leadership a criminal case was recently resumed, is far-fetched, Yukos press secretary Alexander Shadrin told RBC. According to him, the issue of misappropriation of a block of shares by the former head of VNK Ramil Burganov was resolved back in 2002.

The Moscow Railway has allocated two special carriages for passengers detained at the Lithuanian border on their way to Kaliningrad. According to RIA Novosti, two compartment cars have been installed at the border station Gudogai (Belarus). They are intended for those who are detained at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border without properly issued travel documents. Now 11 people are placed in these cars.

On Thursday, an American soldier was wounded in Baghdad, reports Reuters. He was in a car that was hit by a grenade launcher. It happened in the morning in the city center. In addition, according to an agency correspondent who was at the scene, several passing Iraqis were wounded.

Image from the site www.newscientist.com A cave with amazing rock painting, performed about 4 thousand years ago by Australian Aborigines, was recognized as the most important find of this kind over the past half -century. The cave was discovered by a certain tourist in a remote and almost inaccessible part of the Vollemi National Park (Wollemi) in the New South Wales.

The Russian government allowed management companies to invest in 2004 up to 50% of the amount of pension savings under their management in Russian corporate bonds. Up to 40% of pension savings are allowed to be invested in shares of Russian joint-stock companies, Interfax reports. These restrictions are established by government decree N 379 of June 30.

Two employees of the Sheremetyevo customs were detained while receiving a bribe in the amount of 4.5 thousand dollars, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the State Customs Committee of Russia, the customs officers and their intermediary were caught red-handed after the statement of the businessman from whom they extorted a bribe. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

On Wednesday, early in the morning, an explosion occurred at the door of the service entrance to McDonald's at 116 Engels Avenue in St. Petersburg. An improvised device exploded, according to preliminary data, equivalent to 70 grams of TNT. As the correspondent of Rosbalt was informed in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the region, the door of the service entrance was slightly damaged by the explosion, there were no casualties.

The traffic police of Russia does not exclude the possibility of introducing in the near future medical standards for the permissible content of alcohol in the blood of drivers. "According to the international convention that provides for this, we are simply obliged to do this. We will determine this level," Viktor Kiryanov, head of the Main Directorate of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, said at a press conference on Thursday.

The most honored guests of the 3rd Festival of Opera in memory of Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, which takes place in the city of Sudak in the Crimea, will be the daughter and granddaughter of the great Russian singer: Marina Fedorovna Chaliapin-Freddie and Angela Freddie-Monteforte. They arrive from Rome to Simferopol on Thursday. Immediately from the airport, Chaliapins will go to Foros, where there was the estate of Fyodor Ivanovich, which was often visited by famous figures of Russian culture.

The Moscow riot police are demanding through the court that they be paid their debts on "combat" in Chechnya. According to Ekho Moskvy, on Thursday, the Zamoskvoretsky Court will consider the claims of OMON officers. For each month of stay in the republic, the fighters were to receive almost 27 thousand rubles. However, they were never paid. As a result, more than 50 riot policemen, who served in Chechnya from January to April 2001, filed a lawsuit against the authorities.

Children from a kindergarten in Oslo found a human skull in the playground. According to Ananova, the children decided to search underground for Harry Potter and dinosaurs. The teachers gave them shovels, and the preschoolers began to dig in the ground. According to one of the tutors, Gard Solstad, "After a while, one of the boys came to me with some kind of lump of mud in his hands and asked me what it was." "I immediately saw that it was part of a human skull," he said.

Vladimir Rushailo. Photo by ar The investigation in the werewolf case is going to interrogate at least as a witness to the former Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo, who is now held by the post of secretary of the Russian Security Council. According to the press center.ru, such a statement was made by a certain employee of the investigation group.