Russian footballer Alexei Smertin, who is now training in Moscow along with Lokomotiv, while refusing to return to his club - French Bordeaux, motivating this with the possibility of moving to another team. This was reported today by the Bordeaux leadership, whose players have already held two matches in the championship of the country.

The military personnel guilty in a fire in the military town of Babstovo near Birobidzhan were arrested. This was reported on Thursday at the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District (Dalvo). After a preliminary investigation, representatives of the Dalvo prosecutor’s office gave the arrest of Private M. Lonchenkov and junior sergeant A.

Wild cats, as well as raccoon dogs, black-brown foxes and other exotic animals, will soon appear again in the Chinese markets, despite the evidence that they could be the source of an epidemic of atypical pneumonia, today The Wall Street Journal (translation of the article on the website inopressa.ru ).

The authorities of Saudi Arabia were sent from the country of citizen Eritrea Girmeye Ambaye, a Christian on religion, Blagovet-Info reports with reference to the Religion Today.

Seven people died on Thursday in South Korea as a result of the disaster of a military helicopter. According to YTH television companies, all the dead are military personnel who were on board the helicopter. The incident occurred at about noon near the city of Yonchon of the Kensan-Poom province. The UH-1H helicopter fell on a rice field 10 meters from a nearby railway and 20 meters from the nearest residential building, RIA Novosti reports. The causes of the disaster are established.

In the 86th year of his life, the famous sculptor, the national artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize Leo Karbel died. This was reported on Thursday at the Russian Academy of Arts. Lev Karbel created more than 70 monuments installed in Russia and abroad, ITAR-TASS reports. In particular, Karbel is the author of the monument to the heroes-submariners of the sanking nuclear power plant "Kursk" in Moscow.

The new novel by Joan Rowling about the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix was dropped from the top of the rating of the popularity of books by no less exciting narrative about the famous diet of Atkins, which are, in particular, stars such as Brad Pitt, his wife Jennifer Aniston and former Spice Jerry Hollille.

The US administration abandoned the idea to provide the UN with wider powers in the occupation in Iraq, as France, India and a number of other countries as a preliminary condition for their participation in the peacekeeping mission. This was stated by administration officials, today New York Times (translation on the website Inopressa.ru ). Instead, the United States intends to expand their own efforts to attract other countries in the occupying forces in Iraq.

Kaliningrad investigated the circumstances of the use of weapons by a police officer in relation to a Turkish citizen. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of Neuded-Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the use of weapons is recognized as legitimate by preliminary verification.

In Dushanbe, against the backdrop of the fall of the dollar exchange rate, there is a sharply increased interest in the national currency - Somoni. Local bankers believe that one of the causes of fluctuations in the foreign exchange market is associated with a stir around the activities of a limited liability company Jamal and K.

Chechnya’s law enforcement agencies discovered a video cassette with the appeal to Aslan Maskhadov under the treatment of militants in Turkey . This was announced by Interfax by the representative of the regional operational headquarters (Rosh) on the management of the counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

Astronomers made one of the saddest forecasts of the future universe: an hour will come when all the stars visible on Earth will cease to shine. Old stars die, new ones are born, but according to recent research, new stars are becoming smaller and less. As astronomers say, stars in the sky are ten times more than grains of sands on all beaches and in all the deserts of the Earth . All of them will still please the eye of earthlings for millions of years.

Six Russians immediately entered the third round of the tournament of the 1st category of the Women's Tennis Association with a prize pool of $ 1,325 thousand in the largest city of Canada - Toronto. In the second round, only Elena Likhovtseva suffered failure, who lost to the third Seyana at Amelie's tournament Mororemo from France. But all other representatives of Russia successfully solved the problem of reaching the 1/8 finals.

The Frenchwoman is suspected of hiding the skeleton of an elderly mother at home for more than three years and continued to receive her pension. Checking the signal received, the police entered the woman’s apartment in the city of Narbonn in the south of France and discovered the remains of the old woman on the bed in the room, which was isolated in such a way as to prevent the penetration of the corpse of the corpse into other rooms.

The British Prince Harry, the youngest son of the heir to the throne of Charles, failed to enter the university, having received low marks in geography and art, and now, instead of studying, he would go to serve in the army. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of his father. At a school final exam, he received D on geography and in art history. These assessments are not enough to enter the leading British universities.