In Chechnya, one policeman died and one was wounded. They tried to break up a mass brawl of local residents in the Shelkovsky district, RIA Novosti was told at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. According to the source, the incident occurred at 22:30 near the village of Oraz-Aul, where a domestic fight broke out between ten local residents.

OMON units under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and other law enforcement agencies of the republic are conducting an operation in Grozny to search for weapons, ammunition, explosives, aimed at preventing possible terrorist attacks. This was announced on Wednesday by OMON commander Artur Akhmadov, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax.

Mushketon from the fourteenth century In China, the oldest Mushketon in the world, made at the end of the XIII century, was found. The report on this opening was made at the tenth international conference on the history of Chinese science, which last week took place in Harbin. Mushketon is not only the name of the devoted servant of Portos, well known to all readers and admirers of the glorious trilogy of Dumas about three musketeers.

Pictures in the infrared range obtained using the new Spitzer Spitzer space telescope, directed towards the NGC 246 planetary nebula, demonstrated what it was never possible to see before: a clumped ring from a substance emitted by a dying star. The composition of this monstrous "donut" and the history of its formation so far represent a secret, but scientists hope to solve it soon.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy has asked the government to temporarily unblock Yukos' accounts, Sergei Oganesyan, head of the Federal Energy Agency, told RIA Novosti. "The ministry has raised a question with the government about unblocking Yukos' accounts so that the company can continue to operate normally, at least for this month," he said.

The presidential candidate of the Chechen Republic, Abdulla Bugaev, accuses his competitors of non-compliance with the principles of the declaration on the rules of the election campaign signed by all the candidates. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, Bugaev withdrew his signature, saying that "from the very beginning, most of the candidates deliberately violated" the requirements of the document.

The Belarusian authorities refused to issue entry visas to US Senator John McCain and his colleagues, NewsRu.com reports. McCain and three other senators gathered hold several meetings in Belarus, including with the president of the country. According to the senator, Lukashenka refused to issue visas "out of fear of criticism of his totalitarian regime." John McCain considers the entry ban as clear evidence that Lukashenka does not intend to enter into a dialogue.

Human rights organizations have joined the trial on the case of insulting journalist Irina Aroyan by singer Philip Kirkorov. By order of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, an expert assessment of the statements of the "star" was given by Doctor of Philology, Professor Vladimir Nemtsev.

Employees of the All-Russian Artistic Research and Restoration Center named after Grabar on Tuesday sent an appeal to Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' with a request to intervene in the situation around the Church of the Resurrection in Kadashi, which houses the workshops of the center. The text of the appeal, which was provided to RIA Novosti at the center, was signed by a number of its employees - honored figures of arts and culture.

The Moscow prosecutor's office brought new charges against seven NBP activists who broke into the building of the Russian Ministry of Health on August 2, 2004 and seized the office of Minister Mikhail Zurabov. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the lawyer of one of the defendants in the case, Dmitry Agranovsky.

Firefighters. Photo from Newsru.com In Moscow, a building belonging to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital and the firefighters of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation burned. According to Interfax in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the signal of the fire entered the panel of the “01” on duty at 7.20 Moscow time. Employees of the fire department immediately arrived at the scene. The house number 2 on Oslyabinsky Lane caught fire.

The island is fiery. Photo from the site www.booksite.ru Dmitry Gritin, sentenced to death, answered the questions of the faces. In 1989, the city of Magnitogorsk of the Chelyabinsk region stirred a series of murders and attempts to kill minor girls. The attacks were mainly made in elevators. The search for a maniac, nicknamed the "lifter", took control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Magnitogorsk investigators rushed.

An employee of the Lithuanian Consulate General in Kaliningrad, Thomas Valiukas, who knocked down a child in Kaliningrad and fled the scene, was fired from the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry. According to RIA Novosti, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis said that in this way Valiukas could not try to avoid responsibility under the pretext of diplomatic immunity.

Georgia map from the site www.wineworld.ru/countries_types/geography/article564.html Almost the entire territory of South Ossetia was shelling last night, two people were injured, the chairman of the Information and Press Committee of the Non -recognized republic Irina Gloheva told RIA Novosti.

SCISSOR SISTERS participants. Photo from the official website of the group At first glance, Scissor Sists have become famous very suspiciously quickly. This group from New York was organized in 2001. In the second half of 2003, after she made sacrilege over the Pink Floyd song, the producers were seen. And now they are already megazvets. To the music, Scissor Sisters dances behind the scenes of Lisa Minelli, Kylie Minouge herself is locked with them at the studio.