The next case of an urgent relationship in the Russian army was revealed in one of the units in the Leningrad region, where a soldier from Yaroslavl was actually put into slavery, and then doused with acid. The corporal of Yaroslavl Maxim Gugaev was given the command of the unit to a backward general who built the cottage. Maxim lived for barbed wire, mocked him, beat, hunger, and in the end the drunken general doused the soldier with sulfuric acid.

One of the leaders of the Palestinian movement "Hamas" proposed to help reduce tension in a scandal caused by the publication of cartoons in the European press on the Prophet Muhammad .

Pope Benedict XVI honored the memory of the Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church Andrea Santore, who was killed in the Turkish city of Trabzon on February 5, 2006. As a result of a gunshot wound in the heart, a man died on the spot. According to one version of the police, the attack is related to protest against the publication of caricatures in Europe for the Prophet Muhammad who have passed around the world. On suspicion of murder, a 16-year-old young man was arrested, BBC reports.

Human rights activists are concerned about the growth of the number of skinheads and a high level of crime on racial grounds in Russia. "The movement of skinheads is growing, which has up to 50 thousand people and spreading from large regional centers to small cities and villages," the report of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau (MBPC) says.

The four -time triumph "Vuelts", the famous Spanish bike robert Eras is disqualified for 2 years for using the prohibited medicine of erythropoietin. According to Eurosport , the Spanish cycling Federation reported this to the 32-year-old athlete in a special letter. Roberto Erasa has a month to file an appeal. Recall that Eras was convicted of the use of blood doping during the penultimate stage at last year's binding top of Vuel.

In the Russian army, a new incident has occurred, related to miraculous relations. On February 7, in a military unit near the village of Novo-Aleksandrovka near Ufa (Bashkiria), a military service soldier from Dagestan Nusrulla Dautov, who served 6 months, was brutally beaten. According to eyewitnesses, representatives of the officers of the military unit who arranged “fights without rules” were beaten, reports REGNUM .

A 16-year-old resident of the Cherepovets district of the Vologda region, trying to kill his newborn child, was sentenced to 3 years in prison. As the prosecutor's office of the Vologda region established, the girl hid her pregnancy from others. She gave birth to a boy in the bathroom, wrapped it in a plastic bag and left on the floor in the room. Returning from school, the girl saw her brother’s house and threw a bag with a child from the balcony of the second floor, reports REGNUM .

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Spain . In Madrid, Putin and his wife met with the king of Spain Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. The Russian media on Thursday commented on this visit. The first day of Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Spain resembled a big tour of Madrid, writes “Independent Gazeta” . The president managed to visit three palaces, not counting the luxurious building of the City Hall of the Spanish capital.

The leading European countries this week will require Russia to take steps in the direction of the promised energy security, which it stated as a priority issue at the Big Eight summit, where it will act as a chairman, the British newspaper The Financial Times reports. (Half text on the website inopressa.ru .) According to the newspaper, Moscow will be offered incentives to encourage it to liberalize the gas industry for the safety of European supplies.

After the disaster of the Egyptian ferry of Salaam 98, which sailed under the flag of Panama, this Latin American country significantly tightened the requirements for security for its courts. As the head of the Panama Naval Administration, Ruben, Arosemen Valdes, said on Wednesday, now all vessels recognized by Panama of foreign companies, before raising her flag, must undergo a thorough inspection inspection.

Hong Kong Muslims will hold a protest against caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad published in several European newspapers. The demonstration, preparation for which has just begun, will be held at the end of next week next to the largest city mosque, according to the Hong Kong Congo Cong Conga China Morning Post on Thursday. The leaders of the Muslim community of the city have already filed a notice of demonstration to the Hong Kong administration.

In Kyiv, a protest of the Brotherhood organization against the actions of the French press took place near the building of the French Embassy in Ukraine. The reason for the protest was that the French newspaper Soir published a caricature of Jesus Christ, which hurts the religious feelings of Christians. The action was withstood in the style of "French" riots that occurred at the end of last year: four cars were burned.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ivanov, the other day should sign an order where a list of violations of military discipline will be specified, which should be immediately reported to the Ministry of Defense or the General Staff. This was announced on Thursday by the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov, RIA Novosti reports.

FBI director Robert Müller held negotiations in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The German agency DPA quotes his performance at a press conference that was held this afternoon. “Our negotiations were connected with the need ... to exchange information and share the available means,” Müller said, being in Cairo.

When Barney Brum began to make repairs in his cottage, he did not expect to see a couple of black eyes staring at him from a muddy can. However, the mysterious find on the attic’s attic for forced the 54-year-old screenwriter and put into bewilderment of ufologists who suggested that the American army could be involved, writes The Guardian (full text on the Inopressa website).