In the Far East, employees of their own security for half a year revealed 80 cases of violation of the law in the police ranks, 375 policemen were held accountable for various offenses, RIA Novosti reports.

Kursk. Photo by the Air Force In St. Petersburg, in the Nikolo-Bogoillensky Sea Cathedral, a memorial service was served on the dead submariners of Kursk today. Memory ceremonies were held in Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk, and in a number of other Russian cities.

In the Iraqi city of An-Najaf, fierce fighting resumed between US troops and detachments of the radical Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr, reports the BBC. At about 7 am local time, American soldiers, supported by two helicopters, launched an attack on the local cemetery, where the bulk of Sadr's supporters, who call themselves the "Mahdi Army", are concentrated. The offensive is accompanied by powerful artillery support.

Hyundai Tuscan. Photo from the site www.wintonsworld.com The 2004 Motor Show, which will be held from August 25 to 29 in the Moscow Expocenter, is called international, but with the Moscow car dealership it is only possible for the price of ticket tickets. And annual parking problems. Ambulance, and besides, a leap year promises a little interesting to the Moscow viewer. Large world car conheres (such as Volkswagen or Ford) make Moscow only by odd years, and dealers will present their products.

Ostankino TV tower. Photo from the site www.vesti.ru On Wednesday near the Ostankino television center, a rally of protest of the residents of the district was held. As the correspondent of the faces reports, people protest against the illegal construction of a high -rise building opposite the television center, not far from the second building of the house # 8 on Academician Korolev Street.

General Electric DELTA Capital Management has officially announced the sale of Deltabank to the General Electric consumer lending unit - GE Consumer Finance. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to Reuters. The joint statement of the two companies says that the transaction is subject to approval by state bodies, and the parties plan to complete its part in the fourth quarter of 2004. The parties did not report the amount of the transaction.

Dagestan. Photo from the site www.vagrius.ru Chechen militants and their Dagestan allies began an offensive in Dagestan. True, so far only on the Internet. Within a few days, the Caucasus Center website has distributed a number of appeals to the police and just residents of Dagestan. Appeals signed the Dagestan Mujahideen.

The T-72 tank, produced in the Uralvagonzavod. Image from the site npo-sm.ru Georgian armored vehicles go to Tskhinvali. It is reported by Lenta.ru with reference to "Interfax". "The forces of the Gorya Tank Regiment are advanced to the perimeter of the Republic of South Ossetia and in the direction of the city of Tskhinvali," Colonel Ibrahim Gassiev, acting Minister of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia, told reporters.

Philip Kirkorov In the long -suffering latest history of the Russian, the work of the singer Philip Kirkorov is a noticeable, bright, mysterious event. It is not necessary to prove it unbearable brightness: from May, the singer’s discussion and journalist about the Romeks sprinkles menacingly in the heart of folk and excites public temperament.

In Chechnya, law enforcement agencies detained a militant who was part of the so-called presidential guard of Aslan Maskhadov, Interfax was told on Thursday at the Regional Operational Headquarters (ROSH) for managing the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. "A member of gangs, born in 1979, was detained by law enforcement officers while carrying out operational-search activities in the village of Alleroy, Kurchaloy district of Chechnya," a representative of the ROSH said.

For stealing a car and extorting from its owner for the return of a significant amount of money, police officers detained two senior high-ranking officers of the Baltic Fleet. As the correspondent of "Rosbalt" reports, this was announced at a press conference on Thursday by the head of the criminal investigation department of the regional Department of Internal Affairs, police colonel Pavel Proskuryakov.

Iraqi militants. Photo by ar Near the house of the radical Shiite leader of the Moktada of As-Sadra in Nedjaf on Thursday, a shootout began between his supporters and American troops. As Reuters reports with reference to eyewitnesses, the US Air Force apply air strikes in a nearby territory, as a result of which a fire broke out in some places. The whereabouts of the al-Sadra himself is unknown.

Georgy Baramidze. Photo from Newsru.com A heavy equipment from a number of Georgian villages, in particular, from the side of the village of Erebi, entered the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. According to Gazeta.ru, this was told by Interfax on Thursday night by the acting Minister of Defense of South Ossetia Ibrahim Gassiev. He also confirmed the information that the shelling of the city of Tskhinval and the village of Sarabuk was ongoing.

On Thursday, the Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the Yukos oil company's application to defer the execution of the tax debt payment, NTV reports. On June 29, the court dismissed the complaints of the Yukos and Yukos-Moscow companies against the decision to collect the debt for 2000 in the amount of 99.4 billion rubles, after which the court's decision to collect the debt came into force.

On Wednesday evening, after the end of the trial on the case of publicly insulting the journalist Irina Aroyan, Philip Kirkorov again allowed himself incorrect statements about the media worker. According to Lenta.Ru, Izvestia correspondent Anton Pomeshchikov called Kirkorov to interview him.