According to operational data, a group of terrorists with a single leadership that prepare terrorist attacks in cities operates in Russia. This was stated on Thursday by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov. "We have a certain information that will allow us to go on the trail of this group in the near future, which forms suicide terrorists," Gryzlov said.

According to the results of trading on Wednesday, the indicator of the Russian stock market, the RTS index, rolled up to a level below 500 points after the statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the start of verification of some oil companies for tax evasion. The leaders of the fall were Lukoil shares (-7.27%) and Yukos (-5.12%). The Prosecutor General began the audit at the request of the State Duma deputy Mikhail Bugers ("Regions of Russia").

The Palestinian movement of the Islamic resistance "Hamas" warned Israel that it would withdraw from an agreement on a truce if all Palestinian prisoners would not be released from Israeli prisons. “Our patience is at the limit,” the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yasin said on Wednesday in Gaza. The head of another radical group "Islamic jihad" Muhammad al-Hindy announced a truce with Israel "Completed" on Wednesday.

In Moscow, a man who is intoxicated, attacked an 11-year-old boy the night before. According to the capital’s Central Internal Affairs Directorate, on Academician Pavlov Street, a 47-year-old criminal armed with an ax, attacked a 4th grade student. With a chopped wound of the neck and a fracture of the finger of the right hand, the child is hospitalized. The criminal was detained. An investigation is being conducted, MK-News reports.

The city of Piacenza, located in northern Italy, wants to get back the "Sistine Madonna" Rafael, leasing it. Once the "Sistine Madonna" adorned the Church of the Holy Sikst in Pian. Pope Julius II in 1511 ordered this picture to Rafael. However, then the monks needed money to expand their monastery. In 1753, they sold the "Sistine Madonna" Elector of Saxony, who shot down the price from 36 to 25 thousand scuddings. “However, it was still a very large amount.

The European Commission was at the center of the most loud scandal for four years of the chairmanship of Romano Prodi. According to The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ), the Brussels leader, whose task was to end abuse, had to go to an unprecedented measure: to start a disciplinary investigation of the activities of three high -ranking officials, presumably guilty of fraud.

In Moscow hospitals, 35 victims are still treated as a result of a terrorist attack in Tushin. According to the official representative of the Health Department, according to 06:00 on Thursday, the condition of the four wounded is assessed as extremely serious, four more are in serious condition. According to the reception chambers of the capital's hospitals, two "extremely heavy patients" - men of 30 and 20 years old - are at the Research Institute of Klifosovsky.

The Russian hockey player Roman Lyashenko, who died in Turkey under unclear circumstances , was not sick with AIDS or any other disease. This was reported by the Agency of AR, citing the Turkish media. The doctor of the hospital, where Lyashenko’s body was delivered, said that the tests conducted did not reveal either the AIDS virus or other diseases from the hockey player. Thus, the version that Lyashenko committed suicide due to serious illness is not confirmed.

In the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court today, preliminary hearings in the criminal case of entrepreneur Vilor Struganov, known in criminal circles as Pasha-Tsvetzyk, will be held, ITAR-TASS reports. As stated in the regional court, the hearings will be held closed. On the eve of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Prosecutor's Office removed part of the charges from Struganov before the trial.

When cleansing the explosive device on Thursday night at the Ginger restaurant, in the center of Moscow on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, the high-grade explosive engineer Major FSB 29, 29-year-old Georgy Stanislavovich Trofimov. July 30, he was supposed to be 30 years old. Trofimov had a daughter. It was he who cleared the belt of the Shahida last Saturday, which did not fully explode during the terrorist attack in Tushin .

The Israeli police detained the Arab teenager at the Golan altitudes, who threw stones at the excursion bus. Most likely, this case would remain not seen by local journalists, since the cases when young Arabs throw stones at Israeli buses with stones are not a rarity, RIA Novosti notes. This incident attracted the attention of local media when it turned out that the name of the detained Arab teenager is Saddam Hussein. Hussein was caught at the crime scene with red -handed.

The US troops in Iraq during the war in Iraq lost more than 200 people killed, over a thousand people were injured. For the first time since the beginning of the fighting in Iraq, the Pentagon provided comprehensive statistics covering the period until July 9, 2003. From this summary, it is clear that from May 1, when US President George Bush officially announced the cessation of basic hostilities in Iraq, there, according to the Pentagon, 73 American troops were killed.

Law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation take all the necessary actions to search for a journalist stolen in Chechnya who worked for the AFP agency. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko, ITAR-TASS reports.

A resident of the Spanish capital Madrid burned her own house, trying to cook a potion, just as the famous book wizard Harry Potter does it. According to Sun-Sentinel , the 21-year-old fan of the young wizard pulled firefighters from the fire. Doctors recorded only light burns in the failed sorceress, but half of her house was destroyed, and all the property burned down.

Journalists of the Main British BBC television company will not be invited to the press conference of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in London. The visit of the head of the Israeli government to the UK will begin next week. Sharon’s office has already sent invitations to briefing to all British media reporters. The briefing should take place after the meeting of Prime Minister Sharon with his British colleague Tony Blair. BBC is also denied an interview with Ariel Sharon.