The military prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk garrison and the prosecutor's office of the Volga-Ural Military District began an investigation of an unprecedented in their scandalous case of sexual violence in one of the military units of the Chelyabinsk region. Strors accused their commander of harassment and rape.

Near the Military Hospital of Percy, in which the Palestinian leader of the Arafat, the Palestinian leader, died at night, a helicopter landed, reports AFP. It is not known whether the helicopter is intended for the transportation of the body of the Arafat to the military base near Paris, where Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffaren and members of the delegation of Palestinian autonomy in France will take part in the farewell ceremony with the Palestinian leader.

The tax authorities began on -site inspections of a number of oil companies in 2001, a source in the tax authorities told Interfax. He noted that the time has already expired when the companies can be checked for 2001 - when tax benefits were still operating for closed administrative -territorial entities (but) and many companies applied taxes minimization schemes through them.

The star of the films about Harry Potter Fiona Show and the actress, who played in the film "Troy", Seffron Burrose, want to live together like in love partners. According to rumors, the two actresses and lesbians known throughout the world demonstrate a strong love of each other and plan to continue to seriously build their relationships, betraying their publicity. Fiona, who played the evil relative of Harry Potter Aunt Petunia, is 45 years old.

The shares of OJSC Mobile Telesystems decreased at the auction on the New York Stock Exchange by 3.89%-to $ 148.1 after a report of the intention of Deutsche Telecom to sell a 25.1% share in the company. The German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that the sale of MTS shares will become part of a strategic program that provides for the sale of all shares in companies where Deutsche Telecom will not be able to get a control package of shares.

In Moscow, 25% of the population suffers with obesity, up to 30% - overweight. About 40 thousand Muscovites have the most complex, third degree of obesity. This was announced by the head of the Commission on Health and Public Health of the Moscow City Duma Lyudmila Stebenkov at a meeting of the commission, Interfax reports. According to her, Russia is included in the top ten countries with the largest number of diabetes patients.

Most Israeli Jews do not believe that with the new Palestinian leadership it will be possible to reach an agreement on the world. This is evidenced by a survey of public opinion, the results of which is published by the Ha'Aretz publication.

International sports structures do not have the right to intervene in the internal affairs of Russia, said Vyacheslav Fetisov, head of the Federal Agency for Physical Education, Sports and Tourism.

Russian woman Elena Dementieva lost the first match of the 2004 final women's tennis tournament WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles with a prize fund of $ 3 million. Sowing the fifth in the Red Group Dementyev lost the first racket of the tournament to the American Lindsay Davenport virtually without a struggle - 0: 6, 1: 6. The key in the second batch could be the moment with the score of 4: 1 on the submission of Davenport.

In the capital, during the detention of robbers the night before, a police officer was seriously injured. According to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, at about 18:10 in the house N 23 on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, an alarm button worked. Two outfits of the private security department at once left for an emergency call. The police, rising into the apartment, found three armed robbers at the scene, who opened fire on the guards.

Confiscation of property, canceled as a punishment from the beginning of this year, may soon return to the Criminal Code. Such a bill was introduced to the Duma deputies of "United Russia", led by the vice speaker of Lyubov’s love. Currently, it is now possible to take property from the convict only in the form of compensation for damage to the civil lawsuit of the victim. However, as it turned out, not everyone likes this order.

The Ministry of Education plans to introduce a course in the history of religions in the schools of several regions of Russia, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko at a press conference in Perm said today, Interfax reports. According to him, by the end of this year, the Ministry expects to approve two textbooks on this subject.

In Krasnouralsk, the Sverdlovsk region on Thursday was arrested by a man who stole the 11-year-old daughter of the deputy of the city Duma Y. Sagdeev. According to the spokesman for the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh, the attacker fraudulently put the schoolgirl in the Zhiguli car, when the girl was returning from the sports section. As established, the abduction was committed in order to obtain a ransom.

The coffin with the body of Yasir Arafat was delivered to the capital of Egypt around midnight. The plane with a coffin landed on the night of Thursday to Friday at Cairo Airport. The official farewell ceremony with Arafat will be held in Cairo. In the evening, the aircraft of the French Air Force A-319 flew to Cairo from the air-air base of Villakuble near Paris.

There is no unity in the ranks of the United Russia -faithful Kremlin. On Tuesday, the largest faction in the Russian parliament was excluded from her ranks of the deputy Anatoly Yermolin. This is written today by the newspaper Berliner Zeitung . Last week, Ermolin filed an open letter to the Russian Constitutional Court and to the speaker of the Duma Boris Gryzlov, accusing the Kremlin administration of providing pressure on deputies of the United Russia faction.