In Moscow, a policeman from the private security department of the Central Administrative District, through negligence, wounded his fiancee in the leg with a shot from a service pistol. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, this happened at about seven o'clock in the evening in the building of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development. The policeman guarding the building decided to show his service weapon to the bride, who came to his work.

Iraqi militants say they have executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, who was taken hostage. According to Gazeta.ru, this was reported by the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera. The message was given in a running line without specifying the details. The channel's journalists told Reuters they received a videotape showing the body of the murdered Italian. Al-Jazeera's leadership has not yet decided whether it will broadcast this material.

The American oil company ConocoPhillips, which is considered the favorite at the September auction for the sale of the state-owned stake in Lukoil in the amount of 7.6 percent, wants to consolidate up to 25 percent of the shares of the Russian oil company and will buy additional shares on the open market. This was told Reuters by a source familiar with the details of the negotiations. "Conoco will take from the market and will take a lot, perhaps up to a quarter," the source said.

Lieutenant-General Ivan Teterin, head of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, and Viktor Shkareda, head of the regional center for civil defense and emergency situations of the Rostov region, had an accident on the Voronezh-Rostov-on-Don highway while returning from the crash site of the Tu-154, Gazeta.ru reports.

Iraqi rebels in En-Sajaf. Photo by ar On Friday, in the basement of the building, where the supporters of the Muktada of the AS-Sadra conducted a religious court, at least 25 bodies of executed were found, Sky News reports. Among the dead there are civilians and police representatives. Some of the bodies are mutilated or charred. A terrible find was made after the al-Sadr handed over to Ayatolla ali ali-Sistani control over the mosque of Imam Ali in En-Sajaf.

The collapse of the Russian aircraft. Photo from the BBC website In the Tula region on Friday morning, the body of one of the passengers of the Tu-134 aircraft, which broke on Tuesday evening, resumed. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the telephone by the operational duty officer of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region.

On Thursday, while performing training flights in the sky over Romania, two MiG-21 fighters of the country's Air Force collided, Lenta.ru reports citing AFP. The incident occurred in the central part of the country near the city of Cristesti. The pilots of the aircraft managed to eject. They received minor injuries. In addition, one man suffered a leg injury after the wreckage of one of the fighter jets fell into his courtyard.

Vasily Panov, director of the Kolomna food market Novinka-torg, was killed in Moscow. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the official representative of the Moscow police department Kirill Mazurin. Panov was killed on Thursday at about 23.20 with two shots from a pistol. Judging by the casings, this is a Makarov pistol, Mazurin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, released Viktor Kalyuzhny from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and from the duties of the Special Representative of the President of Russia on the settlement of the status of the Caspian Sea. According to RIA Novosti, Kalyuzhny has been relieved of the post of deputy minister and duties of the president's special envoy in connection with his transfer to another job.

The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Transport identified violations at the Domodedovo airport in terms of aviation security. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the head of the Ministry of Transport, Igor Levitin, following a meeting on Friday with Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

The Romanian authorities intend to file a lawsuit against Ukraine at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, RIA Novosti reports. The reason for the trial is the construction of the Danube-Black Sea canal in the Ukrainian part of the river delta. Romanian President Ion Iliescu held an emergency meeting with the government on Thursday, attended by Prime Minister Adrian Nestase and several other ministers.

Installation 'Grad'. Photo from the site www.gs.promedia.by The crisis in South Ossetia, which began with a new attempt by Georgia to return it to its jurisdiction, seems to be transformed into a Russian-Georgian confrontation. The Georgian politicians have never spoke so aggressively to the northern neighbor. On August 25, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in a recent skirmish in Ossetia directly accused Russia.

On August 29, 1924, at a trial in Moscow, one of the leaders of the Combat Organization of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and the head of the Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom, Boris Savinkov, was sentenced to death. Five hours later, the USSR Central Executive Committee commuted the death sentence to 10 years in prison.

Since Friday, all key facilities in Chechnya have been taken under round-the-clock control, ITAR-TASS reports. Security is being strengthened on the eve of the presidential elections, which will be held in the republic on August 29. According to the Plenipotentiary Representative of Chechnya under the President of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Ziyad Sabsabi, specifically to facilitate this task, Friday was declared a day off.

Alfa Bank. The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the claim of Alfa-Bank against the Kommersant Publishing House. The plaintiff considers the newspaper Kommersant the main culprit of his financial problems and requires compensation of 320.77 million rubles. The lawsuit claims that it was the publication in this newspaper of July 7 that led to the outflow of deposits from the bank from July 7 to 12. The article "Banking Crisis went outside" is dedicated to the events of July 6.