Employees of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region on the eve of an operation to free two children in Yekaterinburg, whose abductors demanded 1 million rudders from their mother. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, five attackers in one of the apartments on the street of the Red Commanders kept a 17-year-old girl and her brother, born in 2003.

Two children were killed as a result of the melting flow gathering in the north of Tajikistan. As ITAR-TASS reported today in the Republican Ministry of Emergencies, boys of three and five years old were the victims of the village. Live rains ongoing in the north of Tajikistan caused a flood in the settlements of the Kanibadam and Penjikent districts. Dozens of kilometers of communication lines, local power lines are disabled.

In the village of Middle Buglysh, Krasnoufimsky district of the Sverdlovsk region, an employee of the pre -trial detention center threw a grenade at his friend. As a result, a resident of the Tyumen region received an explosion. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, during a quarrel, one of its participants, born in 1983, threw a grenade of F-1 into his opponent, a resident of the Tyumen region.

The White House employee Philip Kuni, who has no scientific education, edited official warnings regarding climate change, deleting paragraphs that seemed to him speculative. Yesterday, new evidence of the White House’s reluctance appeared to recognize the presence of a connection between a greenhouse effect and global warming.

The State Duma decided to request information about the salary of the head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais and other industry leaders.

One of the three criminals who escaped a maximum security colony was detained in the suburbs of Partizansk of the Primorsky Territory. According to the GOVD, hiding in the attic of an abandoned bath in the village of Kalinovka, Dmitry Trubetskoy, during the detention of resistance, did not show. Five criminal investigators participated in the operation to detain the escaped criminal.

Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz and the Minister of Internal Affairs Palestine Nasyr Yusef agreed to coordinate the security steps to leave Israel from the Gaza sector. According to the official representative of the Palestinian Ministry of Internal Affairs Taufik Abu Hus, the ministers during the meeting the night before in Tel Aviv agreed to interact at the level of ministries and security planning, on Thursday RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Arabic electronic media.

In the Canadian city of Hamilton (Ontario Province), adolescents created a online safe sex club. The rules of this club were extremely simple: everything happened behind closed doors and none of the parents had to know what their children in their bedrooms are doing. As the investigation established, for at least the last two years, a group of Hamilton adolescents was engaged in unusual activities, in no way connected with study.

The Standard & Poor's International rating agency has published a report on the transparency of the Russian civilian (information about the owners, on the rights of shareholders, on management mechanisms, etc.). The agency gives a whole list of violations in the work of state firms. The main claim: the use of the personal influence of officials to solve non -profit purposes. So the essence of the case of Yukos is streamlined.

Russians Anna Chakvetadze and Maria Sharapova went on Thursday to the quarterfinals of the EDGBASTON International Women's Tennis tournament in English Birmingham with a prize pool of 200 thousand dollars. In the match of the third circle of Sharapov, the first racket of the tournament, in three sets won over Samantha Stosur from Australia with a score of 6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1. A little earlier, the victory celebrated Chakvetadze, who outplayed Shinobu Asagoe from Japan with a score of 6: 4, 6: 4.

Former insurance tycoon 80-year-old Maurice Greenberg, under which AIG became the largest insurance company in the world, resigned from the post of member of the board of directors of the company. Earlier in March, he already abandoned the posts of the head of the board of directors and the executive director. The fault of everything is a scandal around the financial statements of the company.

Russia against an international investigation of events in the Uzbek city of Andijan . This was stated on Thursday by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov. "We are against international investigations. We have irrefutable data on the presence of a foreign trace in these events," the minister told reporters upon arrival in Brussels, where he will take part in a meeting of the Russia -NATO Council.

Defender Samuel Kuffur, as a free agent, moved to Roma from Bavaria, reports Reuters with reference to the press service of the Italian club. The 28-year-old Ganets agreed to sign a three-year contract in the amount of two million euros per season. “I won almost everything in Germany, now I need a new motivation,” Kuffur quotes La Gazzetta Dello Sport. “I chose Roma, because the President of the Franco Sensi club tried to get me to his team for some time.

A group of American senators from both parties called on the administration of George Bush to revise the relations of the United States with Uzbekistan in the light of events on May 13 in this country, which resulted in numerous sacrifices.

The protection of the deputy head of the legal department of Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina appealed to the Moscow City Court extension of the detention of their client. The Basmanny Court extended the period of detention to illegally and unreasonably, since there is no reason to use this preventive measure, according to Thursday RIA Novosti with reference to Olga Kozyrev, the lawyer of the accused.