The heads of the state -owned company "Rosoboronexport" and the Russian aircraft -building corporation "MiG" today announced the legality of the transaction related to the supply of Russian MiG fighters in Peru in 1998. They explained their speech on this occasion by the conduct of the investigation in Peru about the alleged violations related to the supply of MiG-29SE aircraft in 1998.

Today at 17:40 the morgue caught fire, located on the territory of the Moscow Regional Clinical Research Institute. Vladimir, reports Interfax with reference to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. The fire occurred in the basement of the 2-story building of the morgue. The fire area was 25 square meters. meters. About 10 fire crews went to the scene. The fire was liquidated around 18:00. There are no victims. The reasons for the fire are established.

On Thursday morning, a car tunnel under the New Arbat Street in the center of Moscow was flooded with water. The traffic police reports that the water in the tunnel began to flow at about 7:30 from the wells located on the roadway, Interfax reports. Because of this, now a huge traffic jam has accumulated on the site of Smolenskaya Square to the New Arbat Street, the movement of vehicles is difficult.

In the capital, a robbery on the driver of a service car was committed. According to the 33-year-old victim, three men were pushed into the Mercedes car on the Koshtyan Street, owned by a trade mission. According to Interfax, threatening with a knife, the criminals laid the man face down, brought to the intersection of Lobachevsky Street with Leninsky Prospekt, where they pushed him out of the car and disappeared. According to eyewitnesses, natives of the Caucasus made the attack.

The operation to check the passport regime in Samashki, which ended the day before, was held “in compliance with all legal norms,” said Shamil Buraev, head of the administration of the Achkhoy-Martan district, ITAR-TASS. "The military informed the leadership of the district and the Samashkin administration in advance.

For the first time in the history of Russian football championships, Dynamo lost torpedo. In today's match, an account of 0-4 was recorded. The account on the 31-minute was opened by Vyacheslav Kamoltsev, then Alexander Lukhvich (45), Igor Semshov (49) and Dmitry Vyazmikin (90) spent one ball. Thanks to this victory, the Torpedo scored 29 points and went to fourth place in the standings.

On the Neva, in St. Petersburg, the passenger ship "Konstantin Tsiolkovsky" is on fire, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, the fire arose in the machine department. There are no passengers on board. Two people from the team of the ship are hospitalized with burns of varying degrees. The reasons for the fire are not yet known. Firefighters are currently fighting fire.

The deserter detained in the suburbs is suspected of a double murder, Interfax reports. On the night of July 8, the 20-year-old corporal Pavel Ananiev, a native of the Belgorod region, while at the post, arbitrarily left the military unit located in the Lukhovitsky district. He had a Kalashnikov assault rifle with him, two stores to him with 60 cartridges and a bayonet-knife. On Wednesday, July 11, at about 3:45 it was detained by employees of the Ozersky police department.

The Italian newspaper La Repubblica published the first material from the planned "sensational" series about Russian President Vladimir Putin. These publications are expected to dispel the "halo of mystery" around the president. The Russian Kommersant notes that the articles of journalists Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Awanszo are confined to the upcoming Eight Summit. Earlier, these same authors "exposed" in the press of Boris Yeltsin, "family" and Pavel Borodin.

The Chechen "field" commander Abu Umar turned out to be a major prey of federal troops. According to the command of the OGV, he was personally familiar with the international terrorist Osama Ben Laden and "was a sign figure for Chechen terrorists." The militant was killed yesterday in the village of Mayprop, RIA Novosti reports. A native of Saudi Arabia Abu Umar headed the training camp of saboteurs-explosors located on the outskirts of Sergeni-Yurt.

As it became known today, on Wednesday, July 11, at about 18:00 Moscow time, a robbery of the election headquarters of the candidate for governors of the Nizhny Novgorod region Dmitry Savelyev in the Nizhny Novgorod district was committed. This was told to journalists by the chief of the city election headquarters of the candidate Dmitry Raskopin. According to him, about 30 unknown people made an attempt to seize and defeat the staff of the headquarters.

The investigation group of the prosecutor's office of Belarus completed the investigation of the criminal case of the abduction of the ORT operator Dmitry Zavadsky. In the framework of this case, other serious criminal offenses were also investigated. As Interfax was told in the press service of the republic’s prosecutor’s office, in the case, former employees of the Almaz special forces Valery Ignatovich and three more people were involved as accused.

The United States in the coming months, perhaps, will violate the software agreement from 1972. The Washington Post had a copy of the 14-page instruction of the State Department, sent to the American embassies and consulates abroad. The document notes that Washington’s plans for testing elements of national missile defense (NPRI) will “enter into conflict” with the requirements of the Russian-American software agreement for several months rather than years.

During the shelling last night, the central regions of Baghdad missiles were released along one of the palaces of Saddam Hussein in the capital's quarter of Carrad. This was announced today by the opposition Iraqi Shiite group of the Higher Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, who previously took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

As follows from the materials of the case, on May 26, 2000, 19-year-old Sergey Kolesov and Valery Starikovich and 16-year-old Alexander Loparev, before his death, were scored by the older operational attendant Tonkinsky police department, police captain, 30-year-old Vladimir Mashkin. The criminals themselves say that they did it out of revenge.