The prosecutor's office of Veliky Novgorod opened a criminal case on the facts of children's tortures in the summer labor camp. According to Olga Mazhnikova, assistant to the prosecutor of the Novgorod region for media relations, the Prosecutor of Veliky Novgorod Valery Zheltkov instituted a criminal case immediately under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 117 (illegal imprisonment) and 285 (abuse of authority) .

In the Tula region on Thursday morning, at the Novomoskovsky Azot plant, one ton of chlorine into the atmosphere was released, sources said in the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Tula region. The territory was numb. According to the Main Directorate of the Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Tula region, the poisonous cloud moved towards settlements.

The An-26 aircraft with an experienced small-sized mobile radar installed on board flew out on Thursday morning in search of a Mi-6 helicopter, which missed a week ago, Interfax reports. The An -26 will repeat the Mi -6 route, which executed the Norilsk - the island of Dixon - the Eklips site at the border post - Cape Chelyuskin on order of the central exploration expedition.

In the east of Moscow, unknown criminals put a combat grenade in the mailbox. RIA Novosti was reported to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The F-1 fighting defensive grenade was discovered in his mailbox by a man living in house 16 Corps 2 on Moldagulova Street. Under the grenade lay a note in which unknown people threatened him with physical reprisal if he did not return 80 thousand US dollars. The operatives immediately arrived at the scene.

Deputies from the State Duma Culture Committee are trying to find out how legal the publication of the book "President" of the Latvian writer Alexander Olbik is legal. Among other things, they are interested in how appropriate the use of the names of the current leadership of Russia in this novel is appropriate. In addition, as the Echo of Moscow transmits, they are afraid that the book contains secret information.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) established the representative office of the Moscow Patriarchate under European international organizations, ITAR-TASS reports. As already reported, the Synod meeting was held yesterday in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, chaired by Patriarch Alexy II .

At a meeting on Thursday, the government summed up the results of the country's socio-economic development for the first half of the year. Opening the meeting, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Kasyanov complained that not all indicators of the development of the Russian economy are characterized by positive trends (namely, for obvious reasons, reports of ministers will be concentrated).

The Argentine icebreaker Almirante Irisar on Wednesday managed to break through to Magdalena Oldendorf, closed in the ice, closed in the ice. This was reported in the press service of the Argentine Navy, which includes an icebreaker, reports ITAR-TASS. Russian polar explorers from the board of Magdalena Oldendorf are already evacuated, and now the Almirante Irisar team will have to try to free the ship itself from ice captivity. Both ships surround ice with a thickness of 5-6 m.

Bangladesh decided to get rid of Russian fighters MiG-29, the contract for the supply of which was concluded in 1999. According to the publication by Jane's Defense , Prime Minister Bangladesh Khaleda Ziya said her country decided to sell these planes, as they are too expensive. Bangladesh cannot spend 17 million per year on maintenance and repair of aircraft that are now standing idle, the prime minister said.

The record number of prisoners in Thailand is awaiting the death penalty after toughening the punishment for the distribution of drugs, RIA Novosti reports. According to official figures, 649 criminals were sentenced to the highest degree of punishment, of which 451 are involved in various forms of drug violations. After the arrival in 2001, Prime Minister Thailand Tasin Shinavatra declared war on drugs and drug dealers to power.

"Historically, Georgia is alien to religious intolerance and antagonism, a model of coexistence of representatives of different religions is an achievement not only for the country, but also for the Caucasus as a whole." This, according to ITAR-TASS, said today by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, speaking to the participants of the International Conference "Religion in the Caucasus: Cooperation in the Name of Peace." The president emphasized that Orthodox Christians (they make up about

Women from the settlements of Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya Sunzhensky district Chechnya on Thursday from the early morning blocked traffic on the Caucasus federal highway. This was reported to "Interfax" by the press secretary of the Government of Chechnya Alla Vlaznova. Several dozen women for the third day in a row hold a rally three kilometers from the border with Ingushetia. They require the authorities to establish the whereabouts of five inhabitants of these villages.

The Ukrainian boxer Vitaly Klitschko, who recently received back injury in one of the training, was successfully operated on in one of the German Hamburg clinics. According to the official website of the brothers , the next day after the operation, Vitaly left the clinic, and on Wednesday the doctors conducted an examination and confirmed that the results of the operation were satisfied and soon he will be able to start training.

At one of the large enterprises of St. Petersburg, the Obukhov plant, on Thursday morning there was a strong fire in the administrative and production four-story building, Interfax reports. The press service of the City Department of the State Fire Service reported that the fire signal entered 6:10 Moscow time. There was a real threat to the spread of fire to other rooms and the roof of buildings. 14 units of basic and auxiliary equipment were pulled to the scene.

The Ministry of Information of Iran said that the resignation of a prominent religious figure Jalaladin Tahuri could become a reason for new clashes in the Iranian political arena, RIA Novosti reports.