Employees of the seventh department of the Department for Economic Crimes of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate detained a man who made purchases in the Bolero online store using stolen credit card numbers, the Infoart news agency reported on Wednesday. When making the purchase, the defendant used the numbers of ten credit cards, which, according to the agency, were stolen in the United States and transferred to Russia by an American accomplice of the defendant.

The first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, spoke out categorically against the return of the USSR anthem as the state anthem. Boris Yeltsin noted that “under Stalin, at first they sang only words, then Khrushchev came, threw out the lines about the “father of nations”, and left the melody.” “Under Brezhnev, something was changed in the poems again. And now - what, will there be a new text? No, they don’t joke with such things,” the ex-president emphasized.

An unusual auction took place at the London Academy of Film and Television Arts. Seven popular English writers have auctioned off the names that the characters in their next works will bear. It turns out that readers are willing to shell out hundreds and thousands of pounds to admire their name on the pages of their favorite author's books. Apparently, they are ready to identify themselves with the strong and successful characters in best-selling books.

In Poland on Wednesday, a mourning ceremony was held to open cemeteries in Bogusz and Kosówka, where 21 thousand Soviet prisoners of war are buried, as well as Poles, Italians, and French who were tortured by the Nazis during the Second World War. As reported by RIA Novosti, these cemeteries, which contain the ashes of about 23 thousand people, were reconstructed and equipped at the expense of Russia. During the war there was a prisoner of war camp here.

The governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, asks that Alexander Tikhonov’s recognizance not to leave the place be lifted, ITAR-TASS reports. Let us recall that the four-time Olympic champion in biathlon is accused of preparing an assassination attempt on Tuleyev. Having been released from the pre-trial detention center due to deteriorating health, Tikhonov had already been forced to go to the hospital twice.

Employees of the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department solved the murder of an Austrian television cameraman, Moscow law enforcement agencies told Interfax. Let us recall that the body of Pavel Asaulchenko, an operator of the state company Austrian Radio and Television, was discovered on November 20 in the stairwell of the house on Krutitsky Val, where Asaulchenko lived.

The Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP) proposes to introduce registers of inspection agencies at enterprises to register all inspections that have ever been carried out by regulatory authorities. Registers must be a document of a single established form. They will, in particular, record the purposes and grounds of the inspection, the agency that carries it out, the date, the name of the inspectors, the list of seized documents and the results of the inspection.

Two crew members of Endeavor, docked to the International Space Station, performed their second spacewalk on Tuesday. Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega successfully solved the task assigned to them - they connected the cables of solar panels to the station, ITAR-TASS reports. The battery panels, which span nearly 80 meters, had been installed and deployed over the previous two days. The ISS's energy needs have now been resolved for the next 15 years.

A powerful explosion occurred on Wednesday in the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg. An explosive device went off in a VAZ-2105 car driven by a woman. As Interfax was told by the press service of the FSB Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the signal about the incident was received at the control panel of the Vasileostrovsky District Department of Internal Affairs at about 17:30. The Zhiguli was blown up near house No.

At the general meeting, the troupe of the Satire Theater unanimously supported the idea that People's Artist of Russia Professor Alexander Shirvindt should become the head of the theater. However, the situation took an unpleasant turn after some media outlets rushed to report that Valentin Pluchek allegedly objects to Shirvindt’s candidacy. Then Alexander Shirvindt categorically refused to take the place of artistic director of the theater.

On December 6, the Eksmo-Press publishing house will publish Bill Gates' new book, Business@The Speed ​​Of Thought, in Russian, the American edition of which took place last year. The Eksmo-Press publishing house reports this on its website. The book is dedicated to the thoughts of the richest man on the planet about ways to effectively conduct business and the correct use of modern information technologies.

On Wednesday morning, Boeing-737, flight No. 503 Almaty - Moscow, made an emergency landing. As Interfax was told by the Agency for Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan, the plane landed at the airport of the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. The Boeing 737 was forced to land 10 minutes after takeoff due to an air conditioning system failure. None of the 78 passengers and seven crew members of the airliner were injured. The plane belongs to the state airline Air Kazakhstan.

On Wednesday morning, the head of the Murom city administration, Pyotr Kaurov, was killed. According to ITAR-TASS, the body of the mayor with a gunshot wound to the head was found at the entrance to the garage. The head of the Murom District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexey Zhagrov, confirmed that Kaurov was killed.

On December 5, the premiere of the film “Shiri” took place at the Prague cinema. This is a spy action film by South Korean director Jae Kyu Kang, which outperformed Titanic at the domestic box office, won several major Korean film awards, the Golden Bell, and received the largest number of reviews from the foreign press in the history of Korean cinema.

By executing a man who killed and raped a 7-year-old girl on Tuesday, Texas broke the US record for capital punishment, Reuters reports. Harry Miller's lethal injection was the 38th execution carried out in Texas this year, the most in the United States since execution statistics began in 1930. That record is likely to be broken soon, as two more executions are scheduled for this week in Texas. The previous record, by the way, was also set in Texas in 1997.