On Monday, it became known that the Prosecutor General of Russia opened a criminal case as part of the scandal around the summer house of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. The reason was the statement of the deputy of the State Duma, journalist Alexander Khinshtein. The case was opened under Article 165 of Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing property damage in an especially large amount by deception or abuse of trust).

The Papal Council for Migrants and Traveling proposed to adopt a law that, on the one hand, would punish the clients of prostitutes, and on the other hand, protect women from this "modern form of slavery", Interfax reports with reference to "Associated Press". "The client must not only be condemned, the law must act in this issue," the commander, adopted the day before at a meeting of the Council.

The Democrats in the US Congress demanded on Monday from President George Bush to resign his chief adviser Karl Rowle. As the leader of the democratic faction in the Senate Garry Reed, two years ago, the White House promised to dismiss anyone who was involved in a scandal with a leakage of information that the wife of the American diplomat Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plaim, is an operational reconnaissance officer. And now it is time to fulfill this promise, reports ITAR-TASS.

One of the shareholders of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin will perform on July 13 in Washington in front of the members of the US Government Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, RIA Novosti reports. A meeting of the commission on the topic “The Yukos case” and its consequences for politics and business in Russia will be chaired by the head of the commission - Republican Senator Sam Braunbek.

Senator Hillary Clinton compared US President George Bush with an idiot from comics. Probably, the purpose of such an attack was to recall that Hillary Clinton was a democratic party in the opposition Bush, writes The Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). His policy in Iraq, Bush resembles a freckled eared boy, the hero of comics from the satirical magazine MAD, said Hillary Clinton at a press conference.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (Theor) calls on the authorities to pay attention to the growing activity of skinheads. The press service of Feor extended the sentence in connection with the verdict of the Moscow Regional Court against Denis Yermoshin and Anton Kuznetsov , guilty of the deaths of two citizens of Uzbekistan, RIA Novosti reports. "The adequacy of the verdict of the Moscow Regional Court in relation to two skinheads who burned two people alive is not in doubt.

The Pope Benedict XVI arrived in a chalet in the Italian Alps, which was built for his predecessor John Paul II . The 78-year-old pontiff will spend 17 days in the Alpine Valley under the canopy of Montblan Mountain. The police took extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of the Pope. In a local village with a population of 600 people, 200 Italian carbines and agents in civilian clothes were stationed, BBC reports. It is expected that most of the time dad will devote to reading.

Evgeny Petrov, the Russian bike lifter of the Lampre team, is prohibited from reaching the 10th stage of the famous Bethany Tour de France, Eurosport reports. According to the results of a doping test, made on Tuesday morning, an increased level of red blood cells was recorded in his blood, which suggests an athlete of the forbidden drug - erythropoitin (EPO). The 27-year-old Petrov was chosen from the number of 96 participants in the race randomly.

On the asphalt near the reception of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, spilled mercury was discovered in Kiev Street in Kyiv. According to the News-Ukraine agency on Tuesday in the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration, the man passing by the reception, found suspicious balls of silver near the building and reported this to the police.

Residents of Volokolamsk, Lotoshinsky and Shakhovsky districts of the Moscow Region spent several hours without light today due to damage to the power line.

In the center of Moscow, there was a murder of a native of Azerbaijan, who owned a network of metropolitan restaurants. As Interfax was told in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, at about 02:30, 32-year-old native of Baku Zaur Akhmedov was shot at the landing of his house at the address: Malaya Georgian, house 3. Three shooting sleeves and a Makarov pistol with a silencer were removed from the scene.

The Moscow metro prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the use of violence against representatives of the authorities) against two natives of Dagestan, detained in the metro for the attack on two policemen. The incident occurred on July 9 at about 23:50 at the Kashirskaya metro station, the head of the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office Sergey Marchenko said on Tuesday Interfax.

The British police conducts interrogations of a 14-year-old boy suspected of raping three schoolgirls in the park. All victims of a young sexy maniac under 10 years old. Crimes were committed in a park in Solford. Above the fourth girl, at the age of 10, according to the investigation, the offender abused on Sunday evening. Police representatives said that girls, two at the age of 8 years and one at the age of 7, were attacked, playing in the deserted area of ​​the park.

The President of the Barcelona football club Joan Laprata arranged at the Prat airport the Catalan capital shocked dozens of people scandal, with a furious demonstratively undressing to panties. According to RIA Novosti, with reference to the ABC newspaper, the lamps that flew to Madrid could not withstand the nerves after he went through the metal detector twice, and he continued to ring. Although he took out all the contents from his pockets, the calls did not stop.

Paris will not nominate its candidate for the 2016 Olympic Games. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced on Tuesday by the mayor of the French capital Bertrand Delainoe in an interview with the Radio station "Europe alone". "Paris will not nominate its candidacy in 2016, and if I can help South American or African candidates, I will do it," said the Parisian mayor.