The US Armed Forces lost during a military operation in Iraq, which began on March 20, 2003, 853 soldiers and an officer. According to Pentagon, 632 of them were killed in combat clashes with the enemy. The rest died as a result of accidents. About 5.4 thousand American troops were injured. Units of other countries from the coalition forces also suffered losses in Iraq. The military command of Great Britain reported the death of 59 of their soldiers and officers, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Thursday, the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) in an official press release announced that the goalkeeper Evgeny Nabokov, who was playing for the San Jose Sharks NHL club, is allowed to play for the Russian national team. Recall that Nabokov at the age of 18 played in 1994 in the world championship of the group “C” for the national team of Kazakhstan, after which, according to the IIHF rules, he lost the right to play for any other team.

The General Director of the largest Russian media holding Gazprom-Media Alexander Dybal was removed from his post, a source close to Gazprom said on Thursday RIA Novosti . Holding press secretary Irina Gan did not confirm this information. Other sources also refuse to comment on the message. “Only our shareholders - Gazprom could make a decision on Dybal. I have no information about such a decision,” Gan said.

The rapidly progressive 17-year-old Russian woman Maria Sharapova first reached the final of the most prestigious competition from the Grand Slam, winning today in the first semifinal match at the 1999 champion, experienced American Lindsay Danport with a score of 2: 6, 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 1. Only one girl - the former tennis queen Martin Hingis, was able to achieve such a breathtaking success at a younger age.

On Pushkinskaya Square Moscow, a rally was held against the abolition of benefits and social guarantees, "the correspondent of Newsru.com reports. More than a thousand people gathered in the square under numerous posters and flags, mainly people of middle and elderly.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the lawsuit of the regional public organization (ROO) “Setting” on recognizing illegal to the numerous violations of the order of the Moscow Government of the accident and the complete reconstruction of the house, where the premises of the Educational and Brotherhood Brotherhood “Settling” and the Holy Filaret-Christian Institute (SPI) are located.

The question of closing the public organization Open Russia is not yet worth it, a member of the board of the organization Alexander Osovtsov said on the air of the Echo of Moscow . Open Russia was created by the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On Thursday, her extraordinary meeting took place.

A year before the expiration of the Classie contract agreed to provide the Dutch striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbine with the status of a free agent, reports UEFA.com. Forward was acquired by Londoners from Madrid "Atletico" in 2000 for an amount equivalent to 22 million euros. Over the four seasons, Hasselbainink spent 177 matches at Stamford Bridge and scored 87 goals.

British tennis lovers again did not wait for the victory of a compatriot at the Wimbledon tournament, which is considered the most prestigious in the world and unofficial championship of the planet on herbal courts. On the eve of the owner of the court, Tim Henman, sown under the fifth number, in a quarter -final match for 2 hours 12 minutes fought with Croat by Mario Anchich, whom he had lost in the end with a score of 6: 7 (5: 7), 4: 6, 2: 6.

On Wednesday, by the decision of the Court of Court, Tel Aviv and the Supreme Court of Israel, the details of one of the most serious scandals related to the bribery in the country's military-industrial complex were allowed to publish.

Parents of children from Bashkiria who died in a plane crash on the Bashkiria Bashkiria on July 2, will not go to Germany to the place of tragedy, but will gather in Ufa for a memorial service. According to Interfax, relatives of the victims of the disaster will collect on Friday at the Memorial Complex at the Yuzhnoye cemetery in Ufa, where there will be a requiem with the participation of clergy.

On June 28-29, 13.7 tons of beef liver from the United States, allegedly infected with cow's rabies, were discovered at the 14th refrigerates of Moscow on June 28-29. This was announced on Thursday by the Echo of Moskvy radio station, head of the Moscow Association "Veterinary Association" Alexander Tunik. According to him, the liver entered the refrigerated plant in November last year without veterinary certificates and certificates of conformity.

The church must intensify human rights activities. This was announced today by the Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin at the forum "Freedom and dignity of the individual: Orthodox and liberal views", RIA Novosti reports. "The discussion about human rights and freedom of personality should cease to be a monopoly of secular (atheistic) circles.

In Moscow, a group of robbers was detained, which included police officers, a source in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate told RIA Novosti . "The operation to detain the gang that made armed attacks on trucks in the Moscow Region was carried out in the early morning on Wednesday. In total, four people were detained, including the major and senior lieutenant of the police," the source said. According to him, two other detainees are natives of Georgia.

As a result of a shootout in Riyadh, one of the 26 most wanted militants in the country-the spiritual leader of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula Abdullah Mohammed Rashid Ar-Roshud, reports Reuters. In total, two militants and a policeman died in a shootout. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saudi Arabia, six more law enforcement officers and three civilians were injured as a result of an armed clash.