In the Moscow office of the publishing house "Hell Margin", publishing the books of the writer Vladimir Sorokin, the police on Thursday again carried out the seizure of documents, Interfax reports. “We took some documents related to the publication of the novel by Sorokin Blue Salo. We gave all the required papers voluntarily,” said the head of the publishing house Alexander Ivanov.

The Egyptian security forces arrested 36 people in various provinces of the country, suspected of their intention to revive the prohibited religious and extremist group "At-Tacter Val-Hijra" ("Accusation of unbelief and the outcome"). This became known on Wednesday from informed sources in local law enforcement agencies, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the suburbs, a suspect of the murder on September 20 in the city of Zhukovsky four people was detained in the suburbs, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Thursday. According to the source, 30-year-old Navruz Achilov, a resident of Uzbekistan, is suspected of murdering a 57-year-old man and three women from Uzbekistan at the age of 21-37 on the basis of the newly used drugs from the trade in drugs. This crime became known last Friday.

Oil companies of various countries of the world fight for a prize of several billion dollars, which may go after overthrowing the Saddam Hussein regime. And when it comes to such money, there are simply no reliable allies. According to Independent, from which Inopressa publishes, the United States, which are trying to get preferences from the UN Security Council, and Russia - which is directly associated with the Iraqi opposition.

After the successful US anti -terrorist operation in Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban regime, the production of heroin in this Asian country increased by 1400%. However, even these data are much lower than the size of the poppy crop collected this year in Afghanistan, Ananova reports. Experts of the UN drug control program predict a sharp increase in the production of potions in Afghanistan this year.

Israeli journalists visited the dilapidated, surrounded by the Israeli tanks of the residence of Yasir Arafat "Mukata". However, they failed to meet with the Palestinian leader. Instead of Arafat, an interview was given to them by the head of the intelligence service on the western coast of Jordan Tofik Tiraui, Jewish.ru reports. Tiraui leads the list of persons on whom Israel insists.

The strongest grandmaster of the world is Russian Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Kramnik will represent humanity in a duel with the most “dangerous” Deep Fritz computer chess program at the moment. According to ITAR-TASS, a representative of the organizers of the “XXI Match”-the company Einstein-TV and the Bahrain government, the fight will be held from October 2 to 22 at the Center for Intellectual Games in Manama. There will be eight meetings in total.

The largest mobile phone manufacturer Finnish Nokia predicts global sales growth in the next few years. One of the leaders of the company made such a forecast on Wednesday. Speaking at the industry conference in San Francisco, organized by BANC of America, president of the American unit Nokia Americas K.P. Vilska said that next year and further annually, sales growth will increase by 10-15%. K2kapital notes that Nokia was the first company to dare to make forecasts for the next year.

The cleaner, who was tired of washing several floors of dental hospital, decided to "become a dentist", without making any efforts to do this. He was not going to study with a dental technique, but decided to prove that he was capable of more than a simple cleaning of hospital rooms. Now a proud leader of the bucket and rags awaits imprisonment, Ananova.com reports. The 28-year-old Austrian penetrated the office room where dental tools were stored, and stole the equipment he liked.

The Euro-Finance and Gazprom Bank create a new media holding in which Gazprom will control 51%, Euro-financial √ 49% of the voting shares. This is stated in a joint statement by the bank and the company, reports Prime Tass. The press release notes that the state of the NTV television company has the main influence on the development of Gazprom-Media. In this regard, a decision was made to transfer 10% of the shares to the television channel.

At about 13:00 in the Middle Eastern time, about 30 Israeli tanks and two army bulldozers were introduced into the territory of the village of Beit Khan (the north of the Gaza sector). It is also reported that Israeli military helicopters inflicted missile strikes on two cars moving around the Sheikh-Radwan district in a suburb of Gaza, Reuters reports. There were four Palestinians in the cars. All of them died.

A resident of Saudi Arabia Abdo Hikmy decided not to cut his mustache and hair on his head until their length became worthy of registration in the Guinness Book of Records. But, as the ITAR-TASS correspondent notes, in the kingdom this caused disputes. In fact, can a faithful Muslim allow himself to let go of his mustache if the Prophet Muhammad did not approve of this? For some time, Abdo hesitated between belief and ambition, growing curls and mustache.

Having spent more than a year in an American court, the “Close -on shoes” case ended in virtually nothing. This is the result of a lawsuit excited in New York by the famous tennis player Martina Hingis against the Italian company Sergio Tacchini, which produces sportswear. According to ITAR-TASS, this week the Manhattan court announced the decision: to reject the lawsuit, because it is better to consider it elsewhere.

The most famous American author of horror novels Stephen King decided to complete his literary activity. He stated this in an interview published in the last issue of Entertainment Weekly. King said that he was currently preparing the last - seventh part of his fantastic saga "Dark Tower", the first of which was written by him 33 years ago, and this will be his last work intended for publication.

The employees of the Moscow criminal investigation department and the operatives of the Department for Combating the Economic Crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Council carried out a joint operation to eliminate the brothel, the Interfax press service reported on Thursday.