Today, in the Prigorodny district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, a car with three passengers was blown up by a mine. As reported by the press service of law enforcement agencies, the explosion occurred in the vicinity of the village of Sunzha. According to preliminary data, the car was blown up by an anti-tank mine. As a result of the explosion, the chief agronomist of the Druzhba collective farm and a woman in the car were killed.

In the city of Aleksin, Tula Region, a verdict was passed in a case of cannibalism, Regions.ru reports. A criminal case was opened a year ago regarding the murder of 11-year-old Nikolai Savenkov. For the theft of 50 rubles, Nikolai paid with a terrible death: Sergei Komarov, Tatyana Lyamkina and Sergei Kostryuk beat him, and then Lyamkina strangled the boy. Her friend Sergei Komarov took the child’s body to the bathroom, where he cut off his leg.

On Wednesday evening, on one of the sections of the Tajik-Afghan border, a detachment of border guards from the Pyanj border detachment came under fire from the adjacent territory, RIA Novosti reports. The car of the head of the outpost, who arrived at the scene, also came under fire. As it was established, the fire was conducted by a group of armed men of up to 20 people who arrived in the area in three jeeps.

The main problem in implementing the program for reforming and modernizing the housing and communal services of Russia is the restructuring of the debts of housing and communal services enterprises, said on Friday, May 25, Chairman of the State Construction Committee of the Russian Federation Anvar Shamuzafarov at a press conference in Moscow. According to him, at the moment the debts of housing and communal services enterprises amount to about 168 billion rubles.

Speaking on Thursday, May 24, US Federal Reserve board member Lawrence Meyer said that the interest rate measures taken by the Fed in 2001 will help the US economy gradually achieve growth rates of 3.5-4% per year. As reported by Bloomberg, citing the words of Mr.

On Thursday, May 24, the premiere of the comedy “Small Scoundrels” took place at the Moscow cinema hall “Rolan”. The director and screenwriter of the film was Woody Allen, who also played the main role. According to the plot of the comedy, a former prisoner, along with his wife and friends, is preparing a bank robbery. They rent space for a pizzeria opposite the money vault and are going to dig a tunnel.

About 300 residents of Ivanovo on Friday at about 17.00 blocked the exit from the city, protesting against rolling power outages reaching 14 hours a day. In addition, the supply of hot water in the city has been stopped and interruptions in cold water have begun, as the city’s water pumping stations are also cut off from electricity. This is not the first such protest in Ivanovo. Last Saturday, after the same blockage of highways, the power supply was restored, RIA Novosti reports.

As a result of a sharp rise in water in the middle reaches of the Yenisei, dozens of houses were flooded in the two villages of Vereshchagino and Baklanikha located along its banks in the Turukhansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. As ITAR-TASS reports, the water level in the Yenisei here exceeded the critical mark by three meters. In addition to housing, fuel and lubricant warehouses, a kindergarten, a club, a library, and a diesel power plant were flooded.

According to the latest data, 400 Georgian soldiers who staged a mutiny on Thursday are still on the territory of the Mukhrovani base they occupied. As news agencies report, army units are massing at this base, but according to one of the leaders of the Georgian Ministry of Security Simon Nozadze, no one is planning to storm the rebels yet.

Austrian Catholic Bishop Egon Capellari criticized Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider on Thursday, demanding that he refrain from interfering in the affairs of the clergy, Agence France-Presse reported from Vienna. “The times when political influence was exerted on the liturgy should be a thing of the past,” emphasized Egon Capellari, who until recently headed the bishopric of Gurk-Klagenfurt in the federal state of Carinthia (southern Austria).

Border guard Sergei Strochikhin, who fled from his post to Finland, committed suicide. Private Strochikhin, who was serving at one of the outposts of the Vyborg detachment of the North-Western Regional Directorate of the Russian Border Service, left the guarded area on Thursday at 23:40. The soldier had with him an AK-74 assault rifle and two magazines with 50 rounds of ammunition.

As the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Friday, Lieutenant Colonel of the Central Regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime Mikhail Ignatov was detained in Moscow for extorting a bribe.

Mandatory monogamy as an institution of external coercion cannot lead to the emergence of love and harmony in marriage. It only promotes unofficial polygamy, in which numerous social vices flourish and women's rights are not protected in any way. This was stated in the social concept of Muslims in Russia adopted by the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR), the content of which was discussed in an interview with Echo of Moscow by the Chairman of the CMR, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin.

The Russian diamond monopolist, the ALROSA company, plans to organize the sale of a batch of unique registered diamonds belonging to it at a large Western auction in order to use the proceeds to help those affected by the flood in Yakutia, a representative of the company's management told Interfax. “We propose that this should not just be exported, say, to the De Beers corporation, but sold on an auction basis, for example, at Sotheby▓s,” he noted.

A resident of Stavropol was detained by police officers in Nevinnomyssk for counterfeiting 500-ruble banknotes. An ITAR-TASS correspondent was informed about this on Friday at the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Stavropol Territory. The fraudster took advantage of the provision of Russian financial legislation that banks are obliged to accept and exchange banknotes damaged in a fire if the fire damaged less than 55 percent of their area.