In 2004, more than 600 Catholic priests and deacons were accused of sexual harassment to minors. A significant number of lawsuits belongs to the period of time between 1970 and 1974. Some clergymen had previously been charged with accusations of this kind. By the time of filing of claims, many of the suspects of committing these crimes (71%) had already died or were excommunicated.

The role of the leader of the so-called Ingush “Jamaat”, the emissary of al-Qaeda, destroyed in Ingushetia, the international terrorist Abu Dseit, known by the nicknamed “Little Omar” and “Abu Omar Kuwait”, is greatly exaggerated. The local threat operatives are convinced of this, Kommersant reports.

The Vita Protection Center turned to the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov with an appeal to ban public sacrifice of animals in the capital of the main Islamic holiday of Kurban Bayram in the capital. “We believe that cruelty cannot be justified by religious norms and traditions or any other dogmas. The perception of scenes of cruelty and violence as norms contributes to the bitterness of people and affects the well -being of society as a whole,” the center was addressed today to Interfax.

The commander of the Israeli Air Force, Major General Elizer Shaucy, stated at a press conference that Israel, in the light of Iranian nuclear activity, should prepare for the application of air strikes through the territory of Iran. Nevertheless, Shaucky did not say whether he considers it possible to make such a decision in solitary order, as was the case in 1981, when the Israeli Air Force destroyed the unfinished nuclear reactor in the suburbs of Baghdad.

The Ukrainian footballer of the Italian club "Milan" Andrei Shevchenko, who received an injury on Saturday during the match of the Italian championship, was operated on the eve of the Milan Clinic "Villa Letica". The operation was carried out by Professor Bruzatti, who was assisted by the official doctor of the Milan club Sala. Doctors conducted an operation to restore the cheekbones and left eye sockets damaged as a result of injury. The football player will not be able to play 20-30 days.

The next general ranks were awarded to 60 Russian military leaders on the eve of the Defender of the Fatherland Day. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of the personnel and educational work of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Pankov.

In Ussuriysk, under mysterious circumstances, the criminal authority of Vasily Opalko died. According to the city Internal Affairs Directorate, a strange incident occurred on Monday at about 16 hours. Vasily Opalko, accompanied by his wife, security guard and some acquaintance, rode in his car in the direction of one of the city banks. At this time, the Saiga shotgun located in the car fired for unknown reasons. The first shot of the gun made the car door, the second in Oply.

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of an attack on a policeman in Moscow . As it became known to Interfax, the Gagarinsky interdistrict prosecutor's office agreed to initiate a criminal case under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of serious harm to health).

In the village of Prigorodnoye of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny on Monday evening, a poultry farm building collapsed. As a result of an emergency, nine military personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation were killed, three more were injured. This was announced on Tuesday morning by a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic.

Serious shortcomings in the legislative regulation of the British food industry led to the fact that a huge number of products containing carcinogenic dyes were received at store shelves. All these products did not go through the appropriate verification for compliance with security standards, writes The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). In the UK, a chili powder containing the "Sudan-1" dye prohibited by law was imported, and 6 different companies were traded by this powder.

35 fishermen, who were on the ice of ice from the shore, were saved in the Gulf of Kaliningrad, Interfax was told on Tuesday in the Civil Defense and Emergency Service in the Kaliningrad Region. According to the interlocutors of the agency, in the afternoon of Tuesday from the fishermen who found themselves on an ice floe in the Gulf of Kaliningrad in the area of ​​the village of Mamonovo, a signal was received that they were attributed from the shore deep into the bay.

The Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan said that the operation on his left eye President Saparmurat Niyazov was successfully carried out. "On February 22, an important ophthalmic operation was successfully carried out at the International Medical Center in Ashgabat to the President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, transferred by Interfax.

The earthquake by force 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred on Tuesday at 5:55 local time in the southeast of Iran in the province of Kerman in the city of Zarand, which is 700 kilometers southeast of the capital of Tehran. 20 settlements located in the area of ​​the epicenter of the earthquake were completely destroyed, in another 20 there are serious destruction.

In St. Petersburg, 25 Trotilly checkers were found in a landfill. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg, at about 21:00 Moscow time at a landfill located near Leni Golikov Street (Kirovsky district), 25 TNT checkers and four fuses were discovered. Currently, explosive equipment, who will neutralize ammunition, arrived at the place, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that in the morning of Tuesday, the police of St.

Journalists illuminating the EU summit in Brussels are sprayed with a special spray to detect explosives. Such a technical innovation was first used on Tuesday at the entrance to the EU Council building, where a meeting of European leaders with US President George Bush is taking place. Each journalist is brought into a special booth, and then from a snot spray people with a spray. “This is in case of explosives,” one of the security officers explained.