Law enforcement officers detained the suspect in the Urus-Martansky district of the suspect in involvement in the attack on May 9 at the Dynamo stadium in Grozny. This was stated by Interfax on Saturday a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of the new Northern Fleet commander Mikhail Abramov, who previously held the position of first deputy commander - chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet. This was reported to reporters by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, Interfax reports.

At least 140 people were killed and 18 thousand were left without shelter as a result of floods and landslides caused by the strongest tropical hurricane over the past 36 years, in the western regions of Myanmar, bordering Bangladesh.

In the last three days, illegal armed groups in Chechnya suffered large losses - up to 20 people killed, said Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter -terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

Investigators who conducted interrogations of prisoners at the Military base of Guantanamo were sent to Iraq in the fall of last year. According to the American newspaper New York Times , they were engaged in the training of American experts for work in the Abu Graib prison.

The state contract between the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and the architectural workshop of Dominique Perrault Architecte to design the new Mariinsky Theater building on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports. The contract was signed by the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydka and the author of the project of the new building of the Dominic Perro Theater. The Governor of St.

The Ferrari pilot Michael Schumacher won the hats of the seventh stage of the Formula 1 championship "Grand Prix of Germany". A six -time world champion flew over the Nurembergring highway in a minute of 28.351 seconds. Thus, this is the fifth pool of Michael in seven races of this season. This is the 60th Powl in Schumacher's career, which is five less than that of the famous Brazilian Ayrton Senna.

In Sredneuralsk, the Sverdlovsk region on Saturday was the funeral of an employee of Interenergoservis, who died in Iraq, 56-year-old Viktor Dyunkin. As Interfax was told in the administration of Srednouralsk, representatives of the city authorities, relatives, and employees of the Central Ural GRES, where the deceased worked on an ongoing basis, was attended by the Panchid.

In Iraq, the head of the civil defense forces of the city of Kirkuk and his family were killed. According to representatives of the police, the car of General Saber Muhammad, a native of the Kurdish community, was fired by unknown people early in the morning. The general died on the spot. His sister, wife and son died in the hospital. The driver is seriously wounded. Kirkuk is a large North Irak city, which is distinguished by a variegated ethnic composition.

The Afghan court sentenced the fighter of the Taliban movement to the death penalty on charges of organizing an explosion, as a result of which fifteen schoolchildren died, Reuters reported. However, the accused Abdullah Khan does not plead guilty and denies any involvement in the explosion that occurred in January of this year in the province of Kandahar. More than fifty people were injured as a result of this explosion. Abdullah Khan became the third suspect who was sentenced to death lately.

The General Director of the organization “Doctors without Borders” Thomas Linde resigned due to disagreements about the payment of money for the release of the Netherlands of Aryan Erkel, captured in August 2002 hostage in Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Dutch information agency of the ANP.

Two participants in the illegal armed groups were liquidated on Saturday in the center of Grozny, at the intersection of Mira and Avenue of Victory, as a result of an operation carried out by law enforcement officials. This was reported to "Interfax" by phone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic.

In North Ossetia, a terrorist attack occurred on the North Caucasus Railway. The Moscow-Vladimir train was blown up. Train number 34 of Moscow-Vladikavkaz got off the rails in the area of ​​the Elkhotovo station as a result of two explosions. According to RIA Novosti in the southern regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the first explosion occurred under the latter, the second - under the fourth carriage. The total power of explosive devices was up to 800 grams in TNT equivalent.

The Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Great Luke Viktor Frolov made the initiative to rename one of the streets of the city to Dmitry Alenichev Street. Frolov proposed to name the name of Alenichev that part of Gagarin Avenue, where the famous football player spent his childhood and youth, as well as assigning the title of Honorary Citizen of the Great Luke to the champion.

Responsibility for a terrorist attack in the suburbs of El Hubar in the east of Saudi Arabia took upon itself al-Qaeda. This is stated on the website of the groups, RIA Novosti reports. Unknown people shot six foreigners there on Saturday. This was announced by the Emirate satellite television channel Al-Arabia.