In China, a technology for making watermelon vodka has been developed. As ITAR-TASS reports, a revolutionary recipe that creates competition with traditional strong drinks based on grain, belongs to the Beijing brewer company "Jingo". The fortress of a wild product can reach from 18 to 55 degrees. Strong alcohol products are the pride of the People's Economy. Its production takes almost 20 million tons of grain - the main article in the diet of 1.3 billion Chinese.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced Viktor Tikhonov to 4 years in prison with a sentence in a maximum security colony. According to RIA Novosti , the court found Viktor Tikhonov guilty that, on the instructions of the President of Mikom, Mikhail lived in early 2000, he found and hired two qualified bandits from Novosibirsk to eliminate the Kemerovo Governor Aman Tuleyev and transferred 179 thousand US dollars as a prepayment for the murder of the governor.

In connection with the fire in the area of ​​Luzhnetsk embankment, traffic is completely closed on the section of the third transport ring of Moscow from Kutuzovsky Prospekt to the Gagarinsky tunnel, the press service of the Moscow traffic police said. At the same time, departure from Vavilov Street in the direction of the Gagarinsky tunnel is prohibited. In addition, all entrances to the Luzhnetsk overpass are closed.

With the spread of informatization and the occurrence of an endless number of electronic documents, paper consumption has only increased. According to Corriere Della Sera , there are a number of reasons because of which history began to develop in this direction. The paper really has a number of advantages, qualities that computer files never dreamed. It is tangible, and the materials printed on paper do not have to read in the established sequence, moving from the paragraph to the paragraph.

The Gorky Automobile Plant stopped the production of the new Volga - GAZ -3111 . While the GAZ -3111 was deleted from the production program before the end of the year - it is then that the final decision will be made whether to resume the release of the model or not. However, the hope that the release will be continued, the “Vedomosti” is believed - the project turned out to be very costly, and at the price that gas offers (14-15 thousand dollars), no one takes the new Volga.

As a result of the landslide in Dagestan, 40 thousand people were left without centralized water supply and electricity, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, the landslide began as a result of heavy rains. At 3:00 Moscow time on Friday, a 500-meter landslide blocked the road between the villages of Cherkeigesstroy and Circassium, destroyed two supports of 100-kilometing power lines and 500 m of the waterway.

Pope John Paul II returned today to the Vatican from his 97th foreign trip, during which he visited Canada, Guatemala and Mexico in 11 days, RIA Novosti reports. At the airfield of the Italian Air Force, the Roman high priest delivered the Aeromekhiko aircraft from the Roman high priest. According to a long tradition, the aircraft to return the head of the Roman Catholic Church is provided by the country that he visits.

On Friday, the Novosibirsk Regional Court is expected to announce the verdict to Viktor Tikhonov - one of the accused of organizing an assassination attempt on the Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev, RIA Novosti reports.

An unexpected result ended with the 8-hour stay of the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the old Siberian city of Yalutorovsk. The coordinator of the Tyumen district organization of the party Mikhail Shchukin declared the public about his decision to leave liberal democrats, ITAR-TASS reports.

In St. Petersburg on the Blue Bridge between the Isaacievsky Cathedral and the Mariinsky Palace on Friday, the Master-2002 work, RIA Novosti reported. Motorcyclists first came to the start. After a half -hour break - the handicap that is supposed to be motorcyclists for the advantage over SUVs - car crews started. The participants went to the first special section of the race.

The 18 of the 20 of the dead miners raised to the surface of the methane at the Donetsk mine named after Zasyadko were identified. This was announced today by the press service of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine, ITAR-TASS reports. Due to severe damage, it has not yet been possible to identify the bodies of two miners. On Wednesday evening at the mine to them. Zasyadko occurred an explosion, as a result of which 20 miners died.

On Friday evening, traffic was resumed along the surviving part of the flyover on Luzhnetskaya Embankment, under which a strong fire arose on Friday. According to the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, at first it will be organized in four lanes: two in one and two in the other direction. Then, for about a week, it is planned to expand the roadway to six lanes (three lanes in each direction) due to a plot of land adjacent to the railway line.

The Moscow City Court sentenced three criminals guilty of robbing the bank, the agency "Evening Moscow" reports. According to the investigation, the 20-year-old cashier-operator Oleg Andreev, with two accomplices in March last year, organized a robbery on the Izmailovsky branch of the Bank "First Society for mutual lending". Shortly before the tragedy, Andreev was transferred to a new place of work - to the bank branch that opened on Sovetskaya Street.

August 2 is a professional holiday of Russian paratroopers. Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the personnel and veterans of the Airborne Forces, Interfax reports. The President notes that Russian paratroopers are faced with important and responsible tasks to increase professional training and strengthen combat readiness. Success in the conduct of counter -terrorism operations and peacekeeping activities largely depends on their solutions.

The Russian helicopter on Friday violated the airspace of Georgia, the representatives of the Georgian border services say. Interfax, quoting the head of the State Department for the State Gorder of Georgia, Shalva Londaridze, reports that a Russian combat helicopter on Friday at about 8 hours to local time invaded the airspace of Georgia in the Chechen section of the border, on the territory of control of the Girevy border post.