The only surviving terrorist, who participated in the capture of the school in Beslan, Nur Pashi Kulaev threatens life imprisonment or death penalty. His criminal case was sent to the court. This was stated by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Nikolai Shepel at a press conference in Vladikavkaz on Friday. The indictment was approved, the case file was sent to the Supreme Court of North Ossetia for consideration on the merits, he noted.

Rescuers of the special units of the fire service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in St. Petersburg were caught from the Neva near the Kunstkamers of a brown bear. According to the press center of the fire service of St. Petersburg, the beast fell from the palace embankment and crossed the river. After the bear was removed from the water, it turned out that he had a master.

In the south of the capital, two criminals from machine guns shot a sixth year student of the Institute of Economic Policy and Law. According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, on the eve of at about 19:00, the service 02 received information that the shooting was heard on the Warsaw Highway in the house 86 in the Window and Doors store. The police officers who arrived at the place discovered the body of 25-year-old Ismail Vokyilov in the storehouse with a seven firearms.

In Smolensk, an explosive device worked in high school. As a result of the explosion, there are no victims. The bomb was fixed on the windowsill. The explosion thundered on Friday at 01:00 Moscow time at a school located at Aksenova Street, house 20, ITAR-TASS reports. "The police officers who arrived at the scene established that a home -made explosive device attached to the metal grate worked," the law enforcement agencies said. Two window glasses were knocked out by an explosive wave.

A serious scandal is flared up in the ranks of the Murmansk police. The traffic police inspectors, dissatisfied with the actions of their authorities, intend to declare a hunger strike. In a letter to the governor of the region, the local traffic police department disagreed with the methods of work of their chief Vyacheslav Boykov.

At least 17 people died, more than 40 were injured on Friday in a traffic accident in India. According to the traffic police of the city of Chandigarch, the incident occurred near Amritsar in the state of Penjab in the west of the country. The car transported by the passengers, which was followed by Amritsar to Dera Beas, ran into the oncoming truck heading to Amrititsar from Jalandhara. All victims were taken to the nearest hospitals.

Due to the deterioration of the health of the pope of Roman John Paul II, the cardinals from around the world gather in the Vatican. According to the Italian media, on Friday morning, shortly after the statement of the official representative of the holy throne about the very difficult condition of the pontiff, one of the most influential church hierarchs arrived in the Vatican - the Papal Vicar, the chairman of the episcopal conference of Italy, Cardinal Kamillo Ruini.

The new Pope will be elected on the Conclave (College of Cardinals) according to the rules described in the Apostolic Constitution "Universi Dominici Gregis" ("All the flock of the Lord"), which in February 1996 published seriously ill Pontiff John Pavel II , RIA Novosti reports. According to this document, the vicar of Christ should be elected at a collection of cardinals, each of which did not reach the age of 80 at the time of the death of the current pontiff.

The head of the Russian Catholics, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich, called on the flock of prayers for Pope John Paul II , who is now in critical condition. "Today, in such a time of pain and suffering, so difficult for the Holy Father, entrusting his fate of God's providence, I again appeal to you with a call to challenge my prayers, strengthened by good deeds and acts of mercy," the condusevich’s appeal to the Russian Catholics says, Interfax reports.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, intends to prohibit the converting of cargo Gazeli into passenger, said the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin to reporters during a trip to Nizhny Novgorod.

At the Urga military training ground, during the flight-tactical teachings of the helicopter squadron, a helicopter collided with a fuel supplyer. As a result of the accident, three crew members were injured on board, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Vyacheslav Sedov, said.

In Brazil, the San Paulo, detained two days ago, on suspicion of killing tourists from Germany and Spain, also admitted that he robbed and killed the citizen of Russia and Israel. Earlier, the police of the Brazilian city of Maranhao stated that the maniac should be considered responsible for the murder of at least two foreigners in the northeast of the country. Currently, the police have evidence of involvement in these killings of 38-year-old Jose Vicenta Matias.

The global oil market has entered in a long period of growth in oil prices, which will be accompanied by sharp jumps, up to $ 105 per barrel. The analysts of the American financial corporation Goldman Sachs made this forecast. The authors of the report, prepared by the Global Investment Research Corporation, compare this period with the situation that existed in the global oil market in the 70s of the last century.

The architect Nodar Kancheli, who designed the collapsed roof of the capital's “Transvaal Park”, was called to the Moscow prosecutor's office on Friday. During the interrogation, he was charged with causing death by negligence to two or more persons.

The foreign press comments on the meeting of the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov with leading Russian rock musicians. The fact of the meeting indicates the nervousness of the authorities: the Kremlin is afraid of the repetition of the revolution scenario in Russia in Russia, writes Die Welt (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).