Vladimir Putin called for identifying traitors in the ranks of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. The head of state stated this at a meeting in the Kremlin, in which the acting President Chechnya Ahmad Kadyrov, government chairman Anatoly Popov and the head of the State Council of the Republic Hussein Isaev took part.

The Kremlin will not intervene in the situation with the arrest of the head of Menatep Platon Lebedev. “The Kremlin has no right to intervene in the actions of the court and the investigation,” RIA Novosti told a source in the Kremlin administration.

The general manager of 'Colorado' Pierre Lacrois is not used to surprising the world with sensational acquisitions. But today he surpassed himself. The signing of contracts with Paul Caria and Teema Seveanne is not even doubly, but to a much greater extent. The announced amount of the ex-captain of Anaheim, according to the AP data, is only $ 1.2 million a year. According to NHL.ru , over the past season, Karia earned $ 10 million, and now his former club reached the Stanley Cup final.

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday that in fact he did not apologize for his joke in the European Parliament when he invited the German deputy to star as a guard of the Nazi concentration camp. Nevertheless, Berlusconi said that he regrets that his statements were interpreted incorrectly, reports Reuters.

At the next meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee, which will be held from July 9 to 10 at the headquarters in the Swiss Nyon, a new UEFA Cup format will be discussed. In recent months, the European Football Union and the leading clubs of the Old World have discussed a lot about the future structure of the second most important European cub tournament. One of the main tasks is to raise the prestige and popularity of this tournament.

The Church of Forest in the American state of Ohio caught fire after it was struck by the lightning, which was caused by a priest, asking God to give some sign. The damage to the building of the first Baptist church is estimated at 20 thousand dollars. The visiting priest himself miraculously escaped death - the lightning that fell into the bell tower passed through his microphone and disabled the sound amplifier in the church.

South Ossetia intends to join the Russian Federation, the president of this unrecognized republic said, Interfax reports. "I, as the head of state, turned to the President of the Russian Federation with a request for the entry of South Ossetia into Russia," said Eduard Kokoita, head of the unrecognized republic on Friday. He noted that he proceeded from the results of the 1992 referendum, when the residents of the region spoke out for joining Russia.

The Ministry of taxes and fees summed up the results of submitting declarations on income declarations over the past year. It turned out that last year taxpayers were much more active than a year earlier, used various benefits - they studied, treated and bought real estate. The activity of citizens will cost a budget of 4.8 billion rubles.

In Japan on Friday, a fire occurred on the experimental nuclear complex of Fugen. The facility for the processing of radioactive waste caught fire. The cause of the fire has not yet been established. The incident occurred in an increased radiation zone. There is no data on her leakage, as there are no messages about the victims or victims as a result of the incident. In the zone of the incident, smoke was visible.

The 76-year-old woman died in the village of Avtura of the Shali district as a result of the explosion, Interfax reports. This was stated by the acting head of the administration of the Shali district Abdul Sapiev. Around midnight on Gagarin Street, an explosion of a rocket thundered - as a result of which the house of Zhovazhan Akhmadova was completely destroyed. She herself died on the spot. Also, fragmentation wounds received Hava Akhmadova born in 1984.

The Catar satellite television channel AL-JAZeera handed over on the air audio recording the appeal of the former President Iraq Saddam Hussein. The president’s appeal says that he is alive and well and is still in Iraq. Hussein calls on Iraktsev to protect the "resistance fighters" and not help the "incorrect occupiers", that is, the Americans. "Saddam gave power, but did not succumb to the threats of the United States," the appeal says. “I tell you that I miss you, oh my beloved brothers.

On Saturday, residents of the Earth are going to send a space message to five star systems similar to our sunny. The addressee of this message is an alien mind. The transfer of the message to extraterrestrial civilizations will be carried out from a 70-meter transmitter, which is installed in the Crimean observatory in Yevpatoria (Ukraine). The Mission Control Center will be in Roswell, in New Mexico.

Roman Abramovich, who recently bought a control package of shares of the Chelsea London football club , intends to invest about 200 million pounds in it in the next two years. The new head of the club has already given the first instructions to the team managers, ordering to consider the possible purchase of new players. The Italian Milan has already rejected Chelsea’s proposal to purchase Alessandro Neta from him for 50 million euros, ITAR-TASS reports.

During the passage of the Kerch Gulf in the Buy region of the number 8 on Friday, under the circumstances unclear, the 47-year-old senior mechanic of the Russian ship "St. Elena" died. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, the body of the deceased was raised at 13:57 Moscow time by the crew of the Russian vessel. An investigation of the incident is being conducted, ITAR-TASS reports. The preliminary version of the death of the mechanic is suicide.

The loser armed with a toy pistol chose an incredible and almost unattainable goal for a crime - to rob a store selling weapons. The staff of the Armurrie Gare de L'est armored store in the center of Paris at first glance determined that the pistol with which the raider burst into the trading floor is completely safe, as it is a children's toy. The 26-year-old Mauritan was later arrested by the police, reports Le Parisien.