The suicide bomber who blew up the building of the city police department in Nazran on August 17 of this year may have been one of the main ideologists of the Wahhabis of the North Caucasus, 27-year-old Alexander Tikhomirov, better known as Sheikh Said Buryatsky, reports Gzt.Ru. A video showing this appeared on Wednesday, August 26, on a website controlled by Chechen fighters.

The Effective Policy Foundation intends to open a public dialogue laboratory at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University to clarify the position of the party in power, Radio Liberty reports.

The Leninsky District Court of Samara arrested the former head of the criminal investigation department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the Samara Region, police lieutenant general Vyacheslav Efremov, accused of fraud, told Interfax . a source in the law enforcement agencies of the region He explained that the decision to arrest the general under investigation was connected with the threats that had appeared against the witnesses in the case.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced student Ivan Belousov, who was found guilty in the case of the explosion on Manezhnaya Square on December 27, 2007, to six years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. The court found that the 22-year-old defendant had left an explosive device with a capacity of 90 grams of TNT on the square, which was later set off by his unidentified accomplices.

On the night before the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, seismologists recorded a new frequency in the operation of one of the station's hydroelectric units. This may be due to the output of the hydroelectric unit in a different mode of operation, the head of Rostekhnadzor Nikolai Kutyin told reporters. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The new frequency appeared around 3.30 - 4.00 am on August 17th. Kutyin added that during normal operation, the units operate at one constant frequency.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko declared the impossibility of war with Russia. According to LigaBusinessInform, he said this during an interview with a number of Ukrainian media. "I would immediately rule out any steps that can be called military. This is superficial. Today, scaring with weapons or aggression is a very primitive behavior," the Ukrainian president said.

Internet encyclopedia " Wikipedia " is preparing to revise the fundamental principles of the formation of its pages. According to the new requirements, all changes to articles about living people and some organizations will be made only after approval by the editor, writes BBC News . Until now, the site has allowed anyone to make almost any edits to the content of almost all pages.

Sergei Mikhalkov, poet, writer and playwright, author of the texts of the Anthem of the USSR and the last edition of the Anthem of Russia, died at the age of 97, ITAR-TASS reports. On Wednesday, he was taken to the Burdenko Research Institute in serious condition, Life.ru clarifies. He died on Thursday at 12.30. "He died of old age, he just fell asleep," Mikhalkov's grandson Yegor Konchalovsky told RIA Novosti.

In Moscow, the police detained a 53-year-old swindler who posed as a major general, the head of the coordinating work of law enforcement agencies in the presidential administration of the Russian Federation and promised to help lobby the interests of entrepreneurs in government structures for millions of rubles. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the press service of the department for combating economic crimes (UBEP), Philip Zolotnitsky, told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

Near the village of Pokrovskoye in the Orenburg region, lightning struck oil tanks of the Orenburgneft company, resulting in a fire, RIA Novosti reports, citing a law enforcement source. The press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations told journalists that two tanks caught fire near Pokrovka on Wednesday evening, each of which contained five thousand cubic meters of oil. 37 units of equipment and 140 people were engaged in extinguishing the fire.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to create a single all-Russian bureau for registering accidents, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Currently, 34 such bureaus operate in different regions of Russia. In particular, databases, which collect information about all accidents that have occurred on the territory of the city, exist in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Boris Sokolov Today, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion in our country, the history of the Soviet atomic project is known, it would seem, in all details. However, the disputes between physicists and glassist veterans are still continuing about who played a decisive role in the creation of domestic nuclear weapons.

In the next six months, the rules for the professional training of policemen will change. The new instructions on organizing training were signed by Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev. The document was published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The publication notes that such instructions are published in the press for the first time.

The division of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, the deployment of which in the Far East on Wednesday was announced by the head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov, did not reach its destination, Kommersant reports, citing sources in the Defense Ministry. According to the interlocutor of the publication, the installations in the Far Eastern Military District have been waiting for a long time, but they have not yet been delivered.

Dmitry Baranovsky. Photo from the site s-pravdoy.ru In Moscow, the deputy head of the interregional public human rights organization "Justice" Dmitry Baranovsky was detained. As RIA Novosti reports, his associates associate this with anti -corruption investigations. “Dmitry has been on the interrogation for more than a day on Petrovka.