Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation against three militants in Ingushetia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the republican department of the FSB. The operation took place in one of the houses in the village of Kantyshevo. According to the representative of the special services, local residents drew the attention of the security forces to this house, who noticed that suspicious people often gather there. It turned out that three militants had settled in the house.

The Moscow authorities are planning to transfer money for the overhaul of housing to the townspeople themselves, so that they themselves are engaged in repairs. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Artur Keskinov, head of the department for capital repairs of the capital's housing stock. "We are working on the issue of transferring funds for repairs to residents.

The former mayor of Vologda, Alexei Yakunichev, was sentenced to four years of probation with deprivation of the right to hold public office, Rosbalt reports. The official was charged under part 2 of article 285 (“Abuse of official powers”).

About two kilograms of TNT, flares, igniter cords, detonators and cartridges were found on Thursday by police in a sports bag at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. The owner of the bag fled at the sight of the policemen. According to the source, in the morning on the square of the Belorussky railway station, policemen were patrolling the territory, when, at their sight, one of the arriving passengers threw a sports bag.

Patriarch Kirill during his visit to Ukraine could not hold a meeting with the head of the Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret, since this structure does not have a canonical status, Archbishop Mitrofan of Belotserkovsky and Boguslavsky told RIA Novosti. "In order to meet, it is necessary to have certain grounds, because today it is possible (for Kirill - Ed.) to meet only with those who represent some specific canonical structure.

The work of Russian driving schools was criticized by President Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, there are no qualified instructors in driving schools, exams are taken formally, and drivers do not receive proper skills, RIA Novosti reports. "In driving schools today there is practically no responsibility for the behavior of their graduates on the roads. There is neither a modern material and technical base, nor qualified instructors," Medvedev said.

Gazprom confirmed that Naftogaz Ukrainy paid in full for the fuel supplied from Russia in July this year, RIA Novosti reports. A day earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced that she had no debts to Gazprom. In total, Naftogaz transferred $605 million to Gazprom. Naftogaz must pay for gas no later than the seventh day of each month following the month of delivery. Thus, we can say that this time Ukraine paid off ahead of schedule.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District has resubmitted for approval to the Prosecutor General's Office a criminal case on tax evasion by the owner of the Arbat Prestige perfume and trading company Vladimir Nekrasov and his alleged accomplice, financial consultant Sergei Schneider, also known as Semyon Mogilevich, Kommersant reports. ".

Investigative actions are being carried out in the Moscow restaurant "Prague", Ekho Moskvy reports. The restaurant itself is closed. Telephone orders are not accepted. The jewelry store, which is located in the same building, is also closed. The building is cordoned off. Interfax sources say that the investigative actions are connected with the investigation of criminal cases on the situation on the Cherkizovsky market.

The Rostokino-Lada network, an AvtoVAZ dealer, has initiated its own bankruptcy proceedings, writes Kommersant . In a letter from the general director of the Rostokino-Avto group, Pavel Markov, to the head of the department for the supply of cars to the domestic market of AvtoVAZ, Vyacheslav Kochetkov, it is noted that auto centers cannot repay the Sberbank loan and the bank refused to defer payment. The press service of Sberbank did not comment on the situation.

In Balashikha, near Moscow, a market was built, which is called "New Cherkizovsky". According to Vedomosti, there will be about 20,000 trading places on the territory of 21 hectares. The first line of pavilions for 2,500 seats will open on August 15th. The shopping center is owned by the Real Estate Market company. The name "New Cherkizovsky" is unofficial and is primarily a marketing ploy, a company representative told the publication.

A rally against the stop of the AvtoVAZ conveyor and the transition of the plant for an incomplete working week took place in Togliatti in front of the Palace of Culture and the plant’s equipment, ITAR-TASS reports. According to police officers, more than 500 people take part in it, including not only the workers of the plant, but employees of other city enterprises.

The Moscow department of Rospotrebnadzor began to check Moscow travel agencies in connection with the order of the chief sanitary doctor of the city, Nikolai Filatov, not to send children to the UK. This was reported by Ekho Moskvy with reference to the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT) Irina Tyurina. According to her, a delegation from Rospotrebnadzor arrived at the Albion travel agency on Wednesday and checked its work.

Vladimir Abarinov The chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko once merit to his predecessors "Boldin Autumn": "Unable to return from Boldin to Moscow and continue the troubles of his marriage, Pushkin settled at the desk." Say, if there were no cholera quarantines, imprisoned by Pushkin in the fall of 1830 in the village, we would not see us neither the final chapters of Onegin, nor the "small tragedies", nor "Belkin's Stories".

Ilya Milstein Bill Clinton returned with a victory. Victory has young female faces. The American of Chinese origin Laura Lin and Korean, Yuna Lee, worked on the Current TV cable television channel. On March 17, they were captured by North Korean border guards under circumstances, which are still called obscure.