Law enforcement agencies of the Altai Territory detained a resident of Barnaul, suspected of committing four murders and a number of other serious crimes. On August 25, 2005, in the premises of the slaughterhouse of the Alliance STDS LLC, located in the village of Karpovo, Krasnoshchekovsky district, corpses of two men and one woman were discovered with gunshot wounds.

Cottages, belonging to Olga Sergeyeva, the wife of the former governor of the Saratov region Dmitry Ayatskov, were transferred to the state. The transfer of the property complex from Sergeyeva was held from September 1 to 6 with the participation of bailiffs, the Interfax reported on the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov Region.

The famous French actor Alain Delon, due to health reasons, canceled a tour of France with the play "Russian Hills". As Delon himself said on Tuesday in an interview with the AFP agency, a cardiologist observing the actor, who advised him to be careful with increased activity, insisted on the cancellation of the tour. At the same time, Delon specified that his cardiovascular problems “are not a serious nature” and that he “has no other health problems”.

The press service of the President of Ukraine does not have information about the resignation of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Interfax told the press secretary of the head of state Irina Gerashchenko on Wednesday evening. Previously, information about Tymoshenko’s prime minister, a resignation statement was extended by a number of media.

The oil pipeline, the cost of which is estimated at billions of dollars, will be laid from Siberia at first to China, and only then continued to the Pacific coast in Japan, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with foreign journalists. Japan and China for a long time rival about the route of the oil pipeline, which would pump one million barrels of Siberian oil per year to East Asia.

Russian diplomats have currently been able to establish the whereabouts of 112 Russian citizens who were in the zone that suffered from the passage of the hurricane Katrina in the south of the United States. Over the past day, the Russian Embassy in Washington did not receive new appeals about Russian citizens who could be in the natural disaster zone in the southeast of the United States, ITAR-TASS Russian Ambassador to the United States Yuri Ushakov said.

The global market for human trafficking is estimated annually at $ 7 billion, said Yuri Alekseev Colonel Yuri Alekseev, the acting deputy head of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. “In recent years, the crime of this type has been growing rapidly.

The 39-year-old computer, Jim Harrison from Kolorado, became the winner of the “ Simply Fird ) competition held on the Internet. The Judges Commission chose Harrison's story from more than 1000 stories aimed at the site over the past month. As a result, the winner received a prize: a cruise on the Caribbean. Harrison lost his job due to the fact that he ate two pieces of pizza remaining after the meeting at his company.

The chronicle of the latest political events indicates the confrontation between the existing regime and large capital. First, President Vladimir Putin hinted that he was not welcoming the participation of foreign capital in the domestic political activity of Russia. Russian business did not like this, and some of his representatives were concerned about the creation of a negative image of the head of state.

The progress spacecraft sank at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. "At approximately 18:13 Moscow time, the wreckage of the ship" Progress M -53 "with the remains of garbage and the ISS were flooded at a depth of 4 km in a specially designated area of ​​the Pacific - 5400 km east of New Zealand. There is no shipping in the area," the flight management center emphasized.

The expenses of the US government in connection with the hurricane Katrina may well reach $ 100 billion, many times higher than the costs of eliminating the consequences of any other natural disaster, as well as the amount of $ 21 billion allocated by New York after September 11, 2001.

In Russia, there should be regulated prices for drugs, the Minister of Health Mikhail Zurabov said on Wednesday, speaking to the State Duma deputies. The issues of buying expensive drugs began to care very much after the monetization of benefits. Zurabov recalled that drug prices are regulated by the state in many countries of Western Europe.

The State Duma will not listen to the intermediate report of the parliamentary commission to investigate the terrorist attack in Beslan. The date of announcement of the report on Beslan will be determined next week. At the first plenary meeting after the anniversary of the tragedy in North Ossetia, deputies of the State Duma said that they insisted on announcing the intermediate results of the work of the parliamentary commission to investigate the tragedy in Beslan.

The former head of the Russian Minatoma Evgeny Adamov on Wednesday was again in the spotlight. Swiss justice considers the issue of taking measures for him for a large interview, which he gave the day before on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station from the Berne prison. Now it turns out that Adamov was supposed to receive permission to communicate with reporters. Adamov himself believed that he did not need any permission for an interview.

On Wednesday, early morning Moscow time, Russian Maria Sharapova, for the first time in her career, reached the stage of the semi -finals of the opening championship of the United States. In a stressed duel that lasted 2.5 hours, the first racket of the competition prevailed over her compatriot Nadezhda Petrova (8) - 7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 4. After a quarter -final match, Sharapova said she was ready for a difficult battle, but at the same time lamented for the instability of her game.