In Belgium, police detained several suspects in connection with the theft of diamonds worth 37 million euros from Brussels airport in February 2013. This was reported on May 8 by the local publication SudInfo. On Wednesday morning, police carried out 40 searches across Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders. About 200 law enforcement officers took part in the operation to detain the criminals and collect evidence. The police found some of the stolen jewelry.

About Surkov V.Yu. Putin “nullified” the former Kremlin ideologist Vladislav Surkov. Photo: Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti Vladislav Surkov, the theorist of “sovereign democracy” and the former eminence grise of the Kremlin, was dismissed from the post of Deputy Prime Minister - head of the government apparatus. On May 8, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On V.Yu.

MUR officers detained the alleged mastermind of the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Igor Domnikov. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. The website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation lists the name of the detainee - Moscow businessman Pavel Sopot.

Lomonosov Moscow State University took 42nd place in the QS ranking of universities in mathematics for 2013. For the first time, the university was included in the top 50 universities in the world according to QS in any specialty. The University of Cambridge topped the QS Mathematics rankings, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, UC Berkeley and Oxford.

In April, on the primary housing market in Moscow, the average supply price per square meter decreased to 184 thousand rubles (5,870 in dollars). As stated in the review of the NDV-Real Estate company, the decline affected all classes of housing. According to realtors, the cost of a square meter in economy class at the beginning of May was 134 thousand rubles, in comfort class - 149.5 thousand rubles, in business class - 221.2 thousand rubles.

Young people of athletic build attacked participants in the procession on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation in Dnepropetrovsk. agency reported this on Wednesday The Interfax with reference to the organizer of the action. As Nikolai Lukashov told reporters, the attack occurred when a column of 80 people, which mainly included women and elderly people, began moving along European Square. “They tried to beat women.

David Bowie's video for the song "The Next Day", in which actors Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard took part, was removed from YouTube a few hours after the premiere. The reason is a violation of YouTube's terms of service. The video for “The Next Day” from Bowie’s album of the same name, released in March 2013, was posted on video hosting on the morning of May 8, but in the afternoon it was no longer available through links posted on the musician’s website and his pages on social networks.

The territory of Syria on the evening of May 7 was cut off from the Internet. This was reported by Umbrella Security Labs, a company specializing in network security issues. A sharp drop in traffic was recorded starting at 22:45 Tuesday Moscow time. In particular, the ns1.tld.sy and ns2.tld.sy servers turned out to be inaccessible from the outside. the unavailability of all its services in Syria since Tuesday evening .

on its website The British Yorkshire Police posted a wanted notice for the Hulk (a superhero from Marvel comics) . “Police are searching for the Incredible Hulk after an attack in York,” reads the headline of a news report about the search for a girl suspected of committing an offence. The text is accompanied by a photograph of the suspect, whose body is covered with green paint (the Hulk is most often depicted in green).

Former governor of South Carolina, Republican Mark Sanford, won the by-election to the US Congress on Tuesday, May 7. He beat his Democratic rival, businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert-Bush, by nine points, winning 54 percent of the vote, Reuters reports .

Moscow police have undertaken to check information about a white horse, which, according to unconfirmed reports, is galloping along the Simferopol highway. was told about this RIA Novosti by the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Information about the white horse, which allegedly found itself alone on a busy highway, was transferred to the territorial police departments,” law enforcement officials told the agency.

The most expensive apartment in a wooden house in Moscow, as of early May, is on sale for 111.7 million rubles ($3.6 million). The BEST-Novostroy company reports this with reference to its own data. A two-level apartment is offered in a four-story wooden multi-apartment building located at 17 Petrovka Street, building 2. The total area of ​​the property including the attic is 450 square meters.

Sir Alex Ferguson will leave his post as Manchester United manager at the end of the current season. As stated in a statement posted on the official website of the English champions (Manchester United secured another title back in April), Ferguson will step down as coach on May 19, after the Red Devils play the last match of the season with West Bromwich Albion. .

The Ministry of Economic Development has developed a plan to stimulate economic growth in Russia in the face of an impending recession. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated May 8 The Vedomosti , which managed to get acquainted with the document. The plan includes four steps. The first measure is adjustment of monetary policy. The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to make the Central Bank responsible for stimulating the domestic economy by lowering interest rates.

The rally in defense of political prisoners on May 6 could have been canceled altogether due to the death of worker Maxim Melkov, who was installing the stage. But the action took place and illustrated the level of protest sentiment today: not the most confident speakers and bickering supporters of various political movements, united only by hatred of the current government. Neither those speaking on stage nor ordinary citizens know anything about the future of peaceful protest.