There are 47 ethnic criminal groups on the territory of the Moscow Region. This was announced on Friday to reporters by the Deputy Head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, Alexander Kirsanov.

The Financial Times newspaper called on Friday the “man of the year” of the founder of the Search system Google 32-year-old Sergey Brin. He was awarded this title with Larry Page - his partner in the invention of the most popular search engine on the Internet.

The American scientific journal Science has declared evolution with the main scientific breakthrough of 2005. The editors of the magazine write that various studies were published this year, in particular, the existence of only 4% of the differences in human DNA and chimpanzees, which are based on the outstanding work of Charles Darwin "The Origin of Views" and on the principle of natural selection, Reuters reported.

The proposal of the Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari to conclude agreements between the state and religious organizations, as was done with the Georgian Orthodox Church , caused a sharp protest in parliament, including from representatives of the parliamentary majority, Interfax-religion reports. In the annual report of the Ombudsman in the parliament, with which S.

Two prison security officers were temporarily suspended from his posts after escaping from the prison of the Miami-Dad of the American state of Florida of a serial rapist, CNN reports. The duties of one of the detached guards were observing the camera of the 34-year-old native of Honduras Reynaldo Rapalo.

Public television may appear in Russia in two years. The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Economic Development have already agreed on the concept of the relevant bill. It is planned to create public broadcasting by transforming existing state channels, Vedomosti write. In Russia, the idea of ​​creating public television has been discussed since the beginning of the 1990s.

The main coaches of the capital's clubs of CSKA and Dynamo Valery Gazzaev and Yuri Semin, as well as another 26 Russian coaches on Friday, received the Pro category licenses, which makes it possible to train clubs of any category in any countries, as well as national teams. This became known after the announcement of the results of the exams of domestic football specialists, which they passed over the past two days at the Russian State University of Physical Culture (RSUFK).

Japan was in an emergency due to powerful snowfalls that lasted a week in the country. Because of the elements, all the main highways were blocked, two nuclear reactors were turned off, the Toyota Motors corporation stopped all their factories, the metro stopped in some places, about 1.3 million families were left without light. In the next day, snowfalls will last.

Winter gradually enhances frosts in the Moscow region. According to Roshydrome, on Friday in the capital, the thermometer column will drop to minus 6-8, in the region-up to 5-10 degrees of frost. Little snow and ice are expected. Forecasters note that slurry underfoot in the region will no longer be. The northwest wind will reach 3-8 m/s. At night, the air temperature will be 8-10 below zero in the metropolis, minus 7-12-in the suburbs. Ice will remain.

An exhibition "Soviet poster. 1920-30s" was opened in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art . The exposition and its accompanying films in the halls are represented by a recently closed cinema museum. The exposition for the first time includes more than 80 cinema Afish of the 1910s and 1930s, representing the general public with a unique, almost forgotten phenomenon of an advertising font composition, the museum’s website is noted.

The Italian police neutralized on Thursday in Milan a criminal organization that exploited transsexuals brought from the countries of South America. According to law enforcement agencies, transsexuals were recruited to reporters, and then illegally transported through Spain, France and Switzerland to Milan, where they forced to work in nightclubs. Four members of the criminal organization arrested. However, according to the police, the Gang leaders are in one of the countries of South America.

In Krasnoyarsk, the owner of the Nevada Slot machine network Igor is killed. The murder occurred on December 22 at the entrance of the house along Karl Marx Street, where Igor lived. As the investigation established, at first the residents of the house heard two cotton, and then at the entrance on the second floor a businessman’s body was found in a pool of blood. As it became known to REGNUM , the house where the murder occurred is equipped with video surveillance cameras.

In Norilsk, there was an attack on the school cashier, as a result, 1 million 190 thousand rubles were stolen, intended for the salary of teachers. According to the Siberian News Agency , the incident occurred in the suburbs of Norilsk, in the village of Oganer. The cashier of the Ogerenskaya school N41 received money for the salary of teachers in the management of the education of Norilsk. Having put the money in the bag, the woman by bus reached Norilsk to the place of work.

The American court ordered Wal-Mart Stores to pay a fine of 172 million for illegally deprived of a lunch break. The court recognized the largest American supermarket network in violation of the law of 2001, which obliges to provide at least a half -hour break for lunch for those employees whose shift is at least 6 hours, reports AR. Compensations will be paid 116 thousand former and current Wal-Mart employees. True, only 57 million of the total amount will go to this.

The commission of the Russian Bar Chamber on Friday refused to deprive the status of a lawyer of one of the defenders of the ex -head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Albert Mkrtychev. The chamber considered that Mkrtychev did not violate the laws and code of ethics of lawyers. Earlier, another lawyer Khodorkovsky Karina Moskalenko said that Mkrticheva in the lawyer chamber had a second idea of ​​the deprivation of his lawyer status.