In the Volgograd region, the police detained the unemployed who has seized 20 kilograms of explosive hexogen, a source in the regional Internal Affairs Directorate said on Thursday. "The detention was carried out by employees of the Office for Combating Organizations in the city of Kalach-on-Don of the Volgograd region," said the representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate.

Russians Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov retain the leadership in the competitions of dance couples at the World Figure Skating Championships, which these days are held in the small arena of the capital's sports palace "Luzhniki". Navka and Kostomarov, who took the first place for the mandatory dance, swept the original program best of all and now with a result of 114.64 points they head the standings.

An unexpected turn occurred with the sale of the American flag, which is allegedly raw over the Pentagon during the attack on September 11, 2001 and survived. Having doubted the authenticity of the relic, the buyer - a certain Todd Shimmel from the state of Minnesota - refused the deal. Earlier, during virtual trading, he agreed to pay $ 3,7,1,300 for the banner. The owner of the unusual lot - Virginian David Nicholson - again put it up for sale through the famous E -Bay company.

One person died, more than 20 were injured today as a result of a frontal collision of a ship bus and a Gazelle minibus at the entrance to Novorossiysk. All victims, including a 7-year-old child, were delivered to the first city hospital, where they are provided with medical care. The driver of the Gazelle died on the spot, ITAR-TASS was told in the city administration.

One of the quarterfinals of a representative tennis tournament in the American Indian -Wells with a prize fund of 2 million 100 thousand dollars turned out to be purely Russian - Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova entered the court. In a stubborn duel with a score of 3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5, the top was taken by a more experienced Dementieva, thereby aiming at his compatriot for the defeat in the final of the 2004 open championship. “I think today I played much better than in the US Open finals.

A fragment of the jaw of an unknown prehistoric animal was found in Ingushetia. He found the remains of an ancient animal in the sand-gravel career of the Sunzhensky ridge, near the village of Achaluki, the Malgobek district, a local resident, said RIA Novosti , head of the inspection of the Archaeological Center under the Ministry of Culture of Ingushetia, Umalat Gadiev.

Over the entire period of the counter -terrorism operation in Chechnya, more than 6 thousand troops of the federal forces and police officers were killed, more than 8 thousand were injured. The prosecutor of Chechnya Vladimir Kravchenko reported on Thursday in Grozny at a round table meeting on the problems of interaction between authorities and civil society. According to the prosecutor, the criminal situation in Chechnya is stabilizing.

On Thursday, in Krasnodar, at the Kuban stadium, Moscow CSKA held a response match of the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Cup against the Serbian Partizan. - results of other fights of the day The first meeting of the army men in Belgrade ended in a draw 1: 1. The army team then opened the score with the efforts of Evgeny Aldonin, but at the end of the game, Ivan Tomich realized the penalty, twisting the intrigue of a two -preservation. UEFA Cup. 1/8 finals. Return match.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the cassation appeal of the defense of the sentence of a native of Chechnya Zara Murtazalieva, sentenced to 9 years in prison for the preparation of the attack. In the cassation appeal, the defense of Murtazalieva asks to cancel the verdict and send the case for a new consideration.

The number of crimes committed using the Internet is growing rapidly. At the end of March, Scotland-Jard detectives will discuss with representatives of the Ebay online auction the question of how to put fraud to the fraud-recently criminals from Romania deceived many eBay customers. Also, not so long ago, Bank of America found that computer files disappeared from the bank, which contained financial information about 1.2 million civil servants, including American senators.

Even the OPEC decision to increase oil production did not hold the prices of black gold. On the New York Exchange, $ 56.46 was given for the barrel of oil. According to Bloomberg, after the end of the trading, growth continued. Record quotation - 56.69 dollars. So much barrel of oil has never been worth it. The previous record set in October 2004 was exceeded by almost a dollar. Experts considered that in the near future demand would grow faster than supply.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday reduced for six months the term of imprisonment to the native of Chechnya Zare Murtazalieva, convicted by 9 years for the preparation of the attack. Thus, the court granted the request of the prosecutor's office in connection with amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, the court left the rest of the Murtazalieva sentence without change.

In the suburbs of Mexico City Netzaualca, the authorities create a new image of a policeman. The mayor of the city, numbering 1.2 million inhabitants, Luis Sanchez wants to leave in the past the image of a cheeky and rude gendarme, which can be bribed by a pack of chewing gum. Now police officers who want to make a career will have to read books and play chess. The mayor announced that 1100 police agents will now have to read at least one book per day to move along the career ladder.

AvtoVAZ made a final stake on cooperation with the American concern General Motors, and not only within the framework of a joint venture that assembles cars under the Chevrolet brand. As the chairman of the board of directors of AvtoVAZ OJSC Vladimir Kadannikov said on Thursday, now the VAZ, together with GM, is developing a new base model of a car, which will have to replace the rear-wheel drive “classics” of the VAZ-2105 and VAZ-2107.

The Iranian tape became the winner of the International Film Festival "Faces of Love", which ended on Wednesday in Moscow. The film "Beautiful City" was awarded the Golden Street Main Prize. This is a dramatic and touching love story in the production of the young director Asgar Farhadi, whose first film “Dancing in Dust” in 2003 received a prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.