In Moscow on Friday night, an attempt was committed on the chief specialist of the Muscovite of 42-year-old Alexei Busalov, Interfax reports. According to sources in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, at about 2:00 Moscow time in the area of ​​the house ╧ 42 on Bolotnikovskaya Street two unknown criminals shot Busalov from pistols. He received four gunshot wounds in the back.

In Budennovsk, four killers of three minor girls were detained, RIA Novosti reports. According to the first deputy prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Kalugin, all detainees are also minors. They were taken into custody today, when the whole city escorted on the last journey of savage girls. Two of those killed for 13 years and one - 11. The girls disappeared on Sunday, when they went on bicycles to swim in the lake near the city.

On the basis of KAMAZ, Volkswagen assembly production can be created. The delegation of the German concern at the end of August this year will arrive in Naberezhnye Chelny to discuss this issue with the leadership of the Russian plant, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the plant.

In Israel, cases of sales by Israeli military personnel and ammunition for the Palestinians continue to investigate. RIA Novosti , citing Lebanese Radio, reports that the police found another officer of the Israeli army, who is now accused of the sale of weapons to the Palestinians. This, recall, is not the first time: on July 17, four troops were arrested , who are accused of the sale of ammunition and weapons to the Palestinians.

In St. Petersburg, ammunition was discovered in the sewer hatch, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Department of Neuded Assistance of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. On Thursday, at about 13:00, an employee of private security when going around the Vostok -West market on Ilyushin Street in a sewer hatch found four stores from a Kalashnikov assault rifle with cartridges.

The high relief "Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I", stolen from Russia more than ten years ago, was returned to his homeland. According to ITAR-TASS, on Friday the Ministry of Culture took place the ceremony of the transfer of this work of art to the Voronezh Art Museum named after Kramsky. The high relief was made according to the painting by Albrecht Dürer "Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I" and brought to Voronezh from Tartu in 1919, the site "All News News" reports.

It was decided to accelerate the reform of the military-industrial complex in Russia. The problem of implementing the defense systems was originally developed for the period from 2002 to 2010. “But by the decision of the President of Russia, taking into account the tasks assigned to the defense industry, this process had to be accelerated,” says Alexander Brindikov, First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation.

The number of vacationers in the Crimea in the first half of 2002 increased by 200 thousand people compared to the same period last year - up to 2.2 million. In addition, recreation centers and resorts in Truskavets are overflowed, where the occupancy of vacationers is 130%, the head of the State Tourist Administration of Ukraine Valery Tsybukh said on Friday at a press conference in Kyiv, Interfax reports.

In the semifinals of the World Cup 2002, the Spaniards should have played, not South Koreans. Such a conclusion follows from the public recognition of Ali Tomosang, the assistant to the chief referee in the field, that he may have made a mistake during the quarterfinal match. Moreover, fatal for the Spanish national team. In extra time, the Spaniards score the Golden Gol, but the chief referee Gamal Gandur from Egypt does not count him, guided by the actions of the Ugandan.

According to Reuters, the Swiss dispatcher, who was on duty during the Tu-154 and Boeing-757 disaster over the Boden lake, had guessed in the last seconds before the clash that both aircraft were inevitably leading to the clash, inspectors investigating the details of the crash of two aircraft.

WorldSom, the second largest long -range operator in the United States, may already file a lawsuit against creditors in the next weekend, reports Wall Street Journal with reference to sources in the company. The standard scheme for filing a lawsuit in the court for bankruptcy provides that the company continues to work and in parallel develops a plan for restructuring and calculating with creditors.

The East Siberian District Military Court of the military service of Peter Mozgunov, who deserted from his unit , was sentenced by the East Siberian District Court of Civil Service, while killing two officers, RIA Novosti reports.

The DPRK proceeds to the gradual cancellation of the card-distribution system operating since the formation of this country. According to the South Korean media, the first measures to eliminate the state retrievating system were taken in June. This led to the DPRK to a sharp jump in prices and raising the salaries of citizens, ITAR-TASS reports.

The volume of sales of books by Vladimir Sorokin from the moment the writer was initiated by the writer eight times, Interfax was told in the largest bookstore of Moscow √ “The House of the Book on New Arbat”. “The interest in Sorokin is now huge. Recently, we have been selling more than 120 copies of Blue Sala per day, although earlier on the day we managed to sell the 16th book from the strength of the year.

A package of 200 g of TNT was discovered today in the courtyard of a residential building in the center of Tbilisi, about 200 m from the state office - the working residence of the President of Georgia. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by an informed source in law enforcement agencies. A package with an explosive without a detonator was in a common toilet in the courtyard of the old building building, where about 20 families live.