On Saturday evening, a murder was committed on Dmitrovskoye Highway in Moscow, NEWSru.com reports with reference to Interfax. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at about 19.00 two unidentified persons shot a man with a pistol with a silencer. He died on the spot from his wounds. The criminals fled in a beige Zhiguli car of the first model.

On Sunday morning, near the village of Sida, located in the Gali district of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia, two Abkhaz border guards were killed. According to Interfax, to which Lenta.Ru refers, the attack on the border guards was carried out by a Georgian sabotage group. This is the data of the state security service of the unrecognized republic. The head of this service, Givi Agrba, said that the attack took place at 7.30 am.

On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the explosion in Haifa. In this document, the official representative of the department, Alexander Yakovenko, expresses "deep condolences to the families of the dead and sympathy to the wounded." The Russian Foreign Ministry condemns the terrorist attack and those who committed it. “Obviously, these are the same forces that were behind the previous terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

A small plane carrying Brazilian congressman José Carlos Martinez and three others went missing on Saturday. This was reported by representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Brazil, as AP reports. The plane went missing shortly after taking off from Curitiba (about 350 km southwest of Sao Paulo). The passengers were on their way to go fishing. Communication with the crew was lost 15 minutes after takeoff.

Tu-204. Photo from the site www.vesti.ru Iran intends to purchase 30 new passenger airliners in Russia and other countries in order to replace the outdated civil aviation park. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, the Minister of Road and Transport of Iran Ahmad Horram said here. At the same time, he noted in a statement made today, Iran refused to purchase a number of aircraft in Western countries.

One person died and five were injured of varying severity as a result of an accident in the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the traffic police at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. The accident occurred at the intersection of Prosveshcheniya Avenue and Ushinsky Street. According to preliminary data, a VAZ-2104 car “cut off” a fixed-route taxi, as a result of which the minibus crashed into a pole.

Siamese twins were separated at the Vienna General Hospital, Reuters reports. Twins - girls Melissa and Michaela - were born on Wednesday, the operation took place on Thursday. The girls have grown together in the area of ​​the intestine. The operation lasted 7 hours and passed without complications. The twins are said to be in stable condition. According to Dr. Ernst Horcher, who performed the operation, the girls would not have survived without this operation.

In Chechnya, more than 21% of the total number of voters voted at the presidential elections in the republic at 11.30 Moscow time. Elections are already considered to have taken place in six rural districts and one in the urban city of Grozny. As reported by ITAR-TASS, this was announced by the chairman of the electoral committee of Chechnya, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

In the military unit, located in the village of Roshinsky, Samara Region, a serviceman died due to careless handling of weapons. The press service of the Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti that the incident took place on Sunday night. The guard guard, after changing sentries at the posts, followed to the guardhouse. When passing the checkpoint due to careless handling of weapons, a shot occurred. As a result, the sentry was mortally wounded. After that, the breeder shot himself.

The City Election Committee of St. Petersburg on Sunday allowed gubernatorial candidate Anna Markova to vote without the absentee ballot she had lost. As Yelena Bolgarova, Markova's press secretary, said in an interview with Graney.Ru, "the head of the city election committee, Alexander Gnetov, personally spoke with Anna Markova by phone and asked her to vote at her place of registration, he had already sent all the documents by courier to the territorial election commission.

On Sunday, in the northwestern administrative district of Moscow, a robbery was committed on a cell phone store. According to ITAR-TASS, at about 2 p.m., two masked men broke into the store on the Leningradskoye Highway. Threatening store employees with a gun, the criminals took a large amount of money and a large number of mobile phones, and then fled. So far, the attackers have not been apprehended. According to some eyewitnesses, they fled in a Zhiguli car.

Poland apologized to France in connection with the erroneous dating of the release of French missiles found the day before in Iraq. According to AP, shortly after Jacques Chirac's protest, Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller met with him twice and explained the mistake. Chirac previously dismissed the possibility that France sold arms to Iraq in violation of a UN embargo. The Roland missiles found in Iraq, which the Poles mistook for recent production, have not been produced for 10 years.

Responsibility for violations of electoral legislation in Russia should be toughened, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District Vladimir Zubrin told reporters in St. Petersburg on Sunday. "First of all, it is necessary to toughen the pre-election legislation regarding the organizers of "black" technologies. The use of such technologies harms the constitutional rights of citizens," he said.

NTV frame from the site www.lenta.ru Elections in Chechnya took place, told RIA Novosti the official representative of the Chechnya administration with reference to the data of the election commission of the republic. "The member of the election commission Baudi Yushaev informed me that the voter turnout at 13.00 exceeded 30%," the administration officer said. According to him, there are no violations during the election.

Tony Blair. Photo by ar British Prime Minister Tony Blair knew that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, which could be expanded within 45 minutes. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain Robin Kuk stated in his new book, as reported by the Air Force. Excerpts from a book based on the diaries of the former minister, which he kept during the preparation of the war, began to be printed in Sunday Times. In one of them, published on Sunday, Mr.