Vladimir Putin discussed the crime situation in Russia with Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov, RIA Novosti reports. The Minister informed the President about the results of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the first half of the year. In particular, Gryzlov said, the number of registered crimes is 5% less than in the same period last year. In addition, according to him, there is a significant decrease in serious and especially serious crimes.

Grani.ru collage Zarem Muzhikhoev, arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in the Ginger restaurant on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street in Moscow, admitted at the first interrogation that a woman was a customer. This was reported on Monday by Kommersant. During the interrogation in the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, Zarema Muzhikhoeva said that she flew to Moscow on July 3 from Nazran. According to her, at the airport she was met by Chechen, who was called anyone.

Lawyers for Yukos said on Monday that they do not rule out new searches or arrests by law enforcement agencies of members of the company's management. "Any normal lawyer cannot rule out further arrests in such a situation, including among company executives. He cannot rule out that there will be new searches, including at the parent company," Dmitry Gololobov, deputy head of the Yukos legal department, told reporters.

The famous British football player of the past years, George Best, who became famous not only for his game, but also for his addiction to alcohol, again got into a scandalous situation. According to Ananova.com, on Saturday, Best was detained by police in the pub of the Checkers Hotel (Walton, Surrey) on suspicion of assault. However, soon both participants in the brawl - a football player and a 31-year-old reporter - were released without charge.

In the Novosibirsk region, a 69-year-old man died from a bite of a forest tick, RIA Novosti reports, citing the regional center of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision. This man became the first victim of dangerous forest insects this year.

An underground fire was recorded in the Kuzbass Gramoteinskoye mine on Monday night, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the Kemerovo Regional Department for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations, after receiving a signal about a fire, all 68 miners who were underground were evacuated. There are no victims. Mining operations at the enterprise, located in the city of Belov, have been stopped. Rescuers take measures to eliminate the consequences of the fire.

In Vladivostok on Sunday, the third prisoner, Anatoly Sitnikov, was detained, on June 22 he escaped from the correctional colony in the village of Volchanets. As RIA Novosti was informed on Monday by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, Anatoly Sitnikov was detained by patrol officers on Sunday in one of the apartments on Borisenko Street. Anatoly Sitnikov was put on the federal wanted list.

On Monday, the City Election Committee of St. Petersburg registered the 19th candidate for governor, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax. They became the director of the 1st pasta factory Viktor Efimov, born in 1948. According to the election commission, he was nominated by the Unity Concept Party.

Three victims of the terrorist attack in Tushino were discharged from Moscow hospitals on Monday. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the Moscow Department of Health. Thus, according to the department, today 29 victims remain under treatment in the medical institutions of the city. On Saturday, July 5, two explosions thundered near the site of the rock festival "Wings" in Tushino. As a result of the attacks, 16 people were killed, including 2 suicide bombers.

The leader of the Chinese diaspora in Novosibirsk, Chinese citizen Diao Bin was detained for illegal possession of drugs. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday at the regional Department for Combating Organized Crime (UBOP). Diao Bin has been heading the interregional Siberian-Chinese society in Novosibirsk for almost five years. UBOP officers detained 45-year-old Diao Bin in a car on a street in Novosibirsk. During a personal search, several doses of heroin were seized from him.

In the center of Baghdad, near one of the buildings used by the newly created Iraqi ruling council, a car bomb exploded. According to preliminary data, the power of the explosion was small, according to the BBC. Even the cars parked next to the one in which the explosive device was located were almost not injured. According to Reuters, a car with diplomatic plates exploded.

Harry Potter. Photo from the site www.mtv.com The fifth book of Harry Potter will be on sale in Russia on February 7, Natalya Dolgova, head of the press service of the Rosman publishing house, the copyright holder of the Russian version of books about young wizards, told Interfax on Monday. “A group of translators, which Viktor Kholyshev, Vladimir Babkov and Leonid Motylev, has already begun work on the text of the book. Harry Potter’s layout was also created,” she said.

Israeli intelligence agencies arrested an Irishman in the West Bank. According to the BBC, the detainee is suspected of belonging to the Irish Republican Army, as well as that he arrived in the Middle East in order to train Palestinian radicals in the technique of making explosive devices. According to an Israeli radio report, the Irishman was detained at a checkpoint outside Ramallah. The interrogation of the suspect is conducted by the Israeli internal security service Shin Bet.

AFP The euro of the euro relative to the dollar decreased to Monday to almost a two -month minimum after the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder spoke out in favor of weakening a single European currency last week, Reuters reports. Investors are awaiting the speeches of the head of the US Federal Reserve Alan Grinspin in Congress, appointed on July 15 and 16, as well as the publication of corporate reports.

In the northern capital, two signalmen cadets caught in vandalism were detained. The investigation found that on Monday night they damaged the Minerva sculpture at the intersection of the Central and Neva alleys of the Summer Garden. According to the Department of Private Security at the Department of Internal Affairs of St.