In 2003, 150 thousand crimes were recorded in Moscow, 80 thousand were discovered. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the number of robberies is 17 thousand, robberies - 3.5 thousand, out of 1 thousand murders, about half has discovered. 13 thousand apartment thefts were committed over the year (only 7.7 percent). Law enforcement agencies managed to prevent several terrorist attacks.

One of the world's largest Citigroup financial corporations has published a report that gives a forecast of financial and economic development of both entire regions and individual countries. According to Citigroup analysts, favorable financial conditions in the past year will have a positive impact on the restoration of the world economy in 2004-2005, the growth of which will be approximately 4.2%this year. The role of the locomotive will be played by the United States.

The prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka region charged the mayor of Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky Yuri Golenishchev in abuse of official duties - a crime under Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation . This was announced on Thursday by the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor for public relations Vyacheslav Nadezhdensky. Previously, Golenishchev was charged under Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation .

The number of Russians who celebrate the Christmas of Christ , according to sociologists, is growing every year, although, as you know, the Russian Orthodox Church prevailing in the Russian Federation celebrates this holiday on January 7, which corresponds to December 25 according to the Julian calendar . This year, almost every fifth Russian (19%) celebrates Christmas in the Gregorian calendar. In 2002, these were 18%, in 2001 - 11%, in 2000 - 16%.

In an interview with the newspaper Soviet Sport, Valery Gazzaev, after a long silence, told for what reasons he left CSKA, after he won the Russian Championship with the team. According to the former coach of the Red-blue and the Russian team, he was offered to take another position in the club, to which he did not agree. "I have no unequivocal answer what happened to CSKA. I was offered another position in the club. For what reasons? These are already guesses.

In the United States, FBI agents are looking for a bank robber who went to work eight times this year, drawing a mustache with a pencil for a mask. The last raid occurred in the city of Saint Paul (Minnesota), where he robbed the cash desk of the Retail Employees Credit Union Credit Union - the second time in three months. According to the FBI, the attacker handed the cashier a note of a threatening nature and disappeared with a significant amount of money.

According to the latest data, 2 people were killed in a fire in St. Petersburg. Four victims, according to updated data: three men were hospitalized at the Ambulance Research Institute with carbon monoxide poisoning and one woman with numerous fractures. Two victims are in serious condition. This was reported on the morning of Thursday in the press service of the UGPS of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. According to the UGPS, the fire signal was received at 1:46 Moscow time on Thursday.

Two armed criminals captured a minibus around Tbilisi tonight, in which there were five people. According to the data received by ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the criminals immediately landed the driver, then along the way they freed the woman and her young child. The fate of two more passengers is still unknown. According to the Georgian police, the incident with the capture of the minibus in the vicinity of Rustavi is a banal robbery.

The Russian Orthodox Church opened in Johannesburg (South Africa) a kindergarten for children from low -income families, Interfax was told in the Moscow Patriarchate. Now about 30 babies, who were previously almost abandoned to their fate, remained hungry and stripped to this kindergarten. Their parents, who often do not have constant earnings, are not able to pay for the stay of children in state or private children's institutions.

Two suicide bomber terrorists made an attempt on the President of the country of the Musharraf President on Thursday in the Pakistani city of Ravalpindi. Two filled with explosives of the car exploded behind the president’s motorcade, reports Sky News . According to the agency, as a result of the attack, 14 people died. RIA Novosti reports 40 wounded. The head of state was returning to the residence located in the city of Ravalpindi from the capital of the country of Islamabad.

The ex-champion of the world Harry Kasparov, who was called the magazine "64" of the chess player of 2002, today in the Central House of the Chessman named after Mikhail Botvinnik was awarded the chess "Oscar". The celebration of the laureate, which immediately after the end of the Executive Committee of the Russian Chess Federation, came grandmaster Alexander Grishchuk, Petr Svidler, Alexander Morozhevich, Evgeny Bareev.

The bandit group of up to 40 people hides in a cave on the slope of the mountain on the border of the Central and Tsumadinsky districts of Dagestan. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the Khunzakh border detachment of the North Caucasian territorial border of the FSB of the Russian Federation Colonel Artemy Kostanyan. He emphasized that the signs of finding several gang groups in the Dagestan mountains were not recorded.

Israeli soldiers near the Jewish settlement shot the Palestinian suicide bomber, reports Reuters. The terrorist was shot 100 meters from the gate of the Ganya Tal settlement in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian tried to get closer to the settlement, but was discovered and destroyed by the fire of Israeli soldiers. A powerful explosive device was found on his body. According to Palestinian sources, the liquidated terrorist belonged to the extremist movement "Islamic jihad". Links on the topic

On Thursday, the Tyumen Regional Court was able to satisfy the lawsuit of the former candidate for State Duma deputies for the Tyumen single -mandate district N179 of pensioner Pavel Korostil, recognizing the correctness of the Oblazbarkom. The pensioner considered it a violation of the law that the election commission did not withdraw it from the election race.

The largest Italian food company Parmalat Finanziaria SPA filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court to protect against creditors. The country's government has appointed a special commissar for its restructuring, Interfax reports with reference to Bloomberg. The Italian police searched in the apartment of the founder and former head of Parmalat Kallista Tanzi, which is now outside the country. The investigation, according to media reports, is carried out in connection with possible fraud.