The winner of the next, eighth European chockered tour will be determined in the final series of two matches. Also for the first time in all the time of this unofficial continent championship, his winner will work 75 thousand euros. Such changes in the regulations of Eurotour, as ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the International Hockey Federation, adopted at a special meeting of representatives of four national associations-Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

Iraq announced the results of a tender for the purchase of 10 million barrels of oil from storage facilities in port terminals in Jaehan and Mina-al-Bakra. The Iraqi State Marketing Company SOMO, which is an export unit of the Iraq Ministry of Oil, said that six companies were the winners.

The Kurdistan working party (RPK) has 400 suicide bias on the territory of the Northern Iraq, who are ready to carry out terrorist attacks and sabotage in Turkey. This was stated at the trial in the city of Diyarbakyr, who voluntarily surrendered to the Turkish intelligence services, the former head of the military units of the RPC in the Judy Mehmet region, a certain Güngerdyu.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On awarding by state awards of the Russian Federation of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Iraq". This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the President of Russia, Interfax reports.

Last night, the fourth match of the final series of the NBA championship between the New Jersey and San Antonio teams was held. Before yesterday’s match, San Antonio had an advantage in the series-2: 1, but on Wednesday in the home match, New Jersey managed to replay rivals with an advantage of only one point (77:76) and equalize the score. As in the last match, the game went, as on a swing, both teams were in turn in the score, but by the end of the meeting, New Jersey had a small advantage.

Unpretentent security measures were taken in Chechnya during the celebration of Russia Day. The entire personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was transferred to an enhanced version of the service, Colonel Akhmed Dakaev, chief of staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, told Interfax on Thursday. According to him, four thousand police officers carry round -the -clock protection of public security.

In the Novosibirsk airport "Tolmachevo" on Thursday morning a drug courier was detained, transporting a batch of heroin in the stomach. The detention operation was carried out by employees of the transport police together with the border guards. According to a representative of the territorial department of the Southeast Regional Administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, a citizen of Uzbekistan, who arrived in Novosibirsk from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, was detained.

The star of world football French Zinedin Zidan made the initiative to hold a charitable friendly match between the French team of 1998, when the “tricolor” were world champions, and the Marseilles club Olympic, in which Russian Dmitry Sychev acts. All income received from the game will be sent to the fund for helping the victims of the earthquake in Algeria.

The defense ministers of NATO countries approved on Thursday a program of large -scale reforms of the Alliance Military Organization. The Alliance decided to get rid of the legacy of the Cold War - the military structure will be radically simplified to better comply with modern realities. In particular, the ministers at a meeting in Brussels agreed to reduce the number of military bases of the Alliance by 40%.

The 25-year-old resident of Blagoveshchensk Denis Soinikov, who suffered atypical pneumonia, was completely recovered and discharged from the hospital, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced today by the deputy chief physician of the infectious clinic of the Amur Region Irina Lakocenina. The decision on the discharge of a patient in the hospital for more than a month was made on Wednesday.

130 Saudi Ulems (theologians) made a collective statement requiring the preservation of the status of women under the canons of Islam, the Arab electronic newspaper Ilef reports. This statement was the next step in this war, declared by Klerikov by the Al-Watan newspaper. The newspaper’s editors asked residents with a request to send materials about the atrocities repairing the employees of the Saudi religious police "Muttavain". Saudi Arabia has long been tormented by religious scandals.

The leader of the Russian Football Championship could not break away from his pursuers, having lost two points in the Dynamo stadium in the match against the outsider - "Shinnika". Moreover, the Moscow army men were inferior in the course of the match with a score of 0: 2, but still were able to equalize the score. Andrei Rubin printed his head with his head with Veniamin Mandrykin’s gates in the 16th minute after the mistake of army defenders.

The police of Los Angeles and the FBI are trying to catch a bandit whom journalists call Michael Jackson, preferably before his next "performance". The robber received such a curious nickname due to the fact that he robs banks exclusively in the gauze bandage and rubber gloves. There are already 16 robberies on the criminal’s account, the first of which he made in October 2002, and the last on May 16, 2003.

On the Independence Day, the new federal television channel "Sport" began broadcasting. The broadcast of the new channel programs is carried out at the 25th decimeter frequency and spread throughout Russia through the satellite of the Yamal-100. The first spectators of the channel will be residents of Moscow and the nearest Moscow region. A room antenna is required to receive the signal. On Thursday, at 7.55 Moscow time, the television broadcast opened the release of sports news "Vesti-Sport".

Russian Muslims will receive a fever on economics and banking. Thus, the leaders of the spiritual departments of the Muslims of Russia decided, who, to discuss these issues, held a special seminar "Islamic financial relations and the prospects for their implementation in Russian Muslim society." According to Islam.ru , the final third day of the seminar was dedicated to the review of the literature available today in the country of Islamic principles in the economy.