The chief editor of the NTV TECHKOMA, Artem Protasenko, was charged with attempted murder of the general director of the TV Capital Television and Capital Dmitry Pappe. According to the press service of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, on Friday the sanction of the Ostankino court of the capital in relation to Protasasenko elected a preventive measure - detention.

The Constitutional referendum, who held in March in Chechnya, showed that the Chechens are rightfully reading themselves an integral part of a single multinational Russian people. ” This was stated by Vladimir Putin, who spoke in the Kremlin with an annual message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the village of Romanovka, the Saratov region, on suspicion of committing a double murder, was detained by a 32-year-old manager of one of the commercial enterprises. Employees of the Saratov Central Internal Affairs Directorate established that on May 9, a suspect in his office, during a quarrel, shot 5.5 mm of two residents of the village of Republic Vershina from an assault rifle.

Speaking today with a message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out for a radical reduction in the functions of state bodies. "The bureaucracy needs to not be convinced of reducing its appetites, but to limit them to directively," the president said, speaking with the annual message to the Federal Assembly. “And it is necessary to conduct a radical reduction in the functions of state bodies,” said the head of state.

In his message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the economic situation as difficult. After certain achievements of recent years, according to the Russian leader, some had the feeling that all our problems have been resolved, that the future of Russia is quite predictable and successful, and the only question is that our economy should grow by 4 or 6 percent a year. “I want to say this is not so. We are facing serious threats in the face.

The Italian Sassoli, who weighed 200 kg, died of losing weight tablets. According to today, La Stampa (translation on the website inopressa.ru ), he tried all funds to lose weight. Excess weight oppressed him and threatened his life. The drug prescribed by a doctor seemed the last chance to decide on extra pounds. But the new drug delivered a mortal blow.

President Putin in his message to the Federal Assembly announced the need to put an end to the policy of "empty promises" by the authorities. According to him, "both the executive and the legislative power for many years promised people as much as the Russian economy is simply unable to give." “Moreover, under the populist slogans, unfulfilled promises are growing up,” the president noted.

The star of American cinema, the holder of Oscar for the best female role in 2001 Helly Berry, broke her hand on the set of Gothic in Canada. This was announced on Thursday by the representative of the Warner Brothers film studio Joe Everett.

Another high-ranking member of the Iraqi regime Adil Abdalla Mahdi Af-Duri Austikriti was detained by the American military. This was announced on Friday by a representative of the American Central Command (Sentkom). The widespread command of the Communik said that this person held the post of head of the regional branch of the ruling party of the BAAS in the province of Dikar (the center of which is the city of Nasiria), Interfax reports.

The adopted son of the Canadian Prime Minister - 34 -year -old Michel Chretien - was tried for rape of a minor girl. The story occurred in July 2002 in the city of Yellow -Afire, the Air Force television and radio company reports. In the courtroom, the girl barely restrained her tears, trying to recall the details of that night. The attempts were not very successful, but not only because of the embarrassment of the girl - the victim admitted that at the time of rape was very drunk.

Israel insists on introducing 14 amendments to the Middle East settlement of the road map , without which, most likely, the government of the Jewish state will not begin to implement it. Such a statement was made on Friday in London on a visit to the UK to the British Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Silvan Shalom. "We do not want to create new obstacles, but at the same time we must eliminate certain flaws so that this peaceful initiative is implemented," said the Israeli Foreign Minister.

Shiite Imam Muhammad al-Fartusi, speaking with a Friday sermon in Baghdad, threatened "sinners, alcohol merchants and cinema owners" with the most severe consequences if they do not abandon their deeds "in the coming week," reports AFP. “Owners of cinemas on As-Saadun Street twisted obscene films. I warned them: if in a week they stop doing this, we will talk to them differently,” Imam said during a preaching in the Al-Mokhsen mosque in the suburbs of Baghdad Sadr City (former Saddam-City).

Russian President Vladimir Putin considers it possible to form a government by the parliamentary majority. “I support the general course towards strengthening the role of parties in public life and taking into account the results of the upcoming elections to the State Duma I consider it possible to form a professional effective government based on the parliamentary majority,” the president said on Friday, speaking with the annual message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

At the end of the war in Iraq, Iraqi Jews living in the USA and Europe are considering the possibility of filing claims with a demand to pay them compensation, equivalent values ​​of property and assets that they were forced to leave once.

The gold medal of the eighth all -Russian festival “Orthodoxy on television and radio broadcasting” was awarded the documentary film by Ilya Shakhrai “Old Man” (“RT Alliance”, Moscow), telling about the life of the clergy who passed the Chechen war, RIA Novosti reports. The award ceremony of the winners of the festival, which was held on May 12-16 in Moscow, took place today at the Danilovskaya hotel.