In Tomsk, it became known about the next emergency related to arbitrariness in relation to children. One of the educators of the orphanage N4 beat the 15-year-old teenager Viktor Zhidkov, a pupil of this shelter. As a result of the beatings, he received a fracture of the sternum and a concussion.

In 2005, American assistance to Belarus in 2005 amounted to $ 11.5 million and was aimed mainly to support for democratization, Interfax reports. "This amount includes $ 6.5 million in the form of regular allocations for Belarus, most of which are somehow on supporting the democratic process, and an additional 5 million dollars allocated in accordance with the Law on Democracy," said US Secretary of State Daniel Frid at Washington.

In 2005, as a result of more than 3.3 thousand accidents, 5986 people died on China coal mines. According to the Office of the State Committee of the PRC for Development and Reforms on Thursday, more than 2.5 thousand accidents associated with human victims, occurred in small mines, usually in private use. As a result of these accidents, about 4.5 thousand miners died.

In the process of adopting the law on state regulation of gambling business, the state-legal administration of the Presidential Administration unexpectedly intervened. The Kremlin decided that the law should be removed from consideration. Allegedly, the law “protects the interests of large owners of gambling”, and is not focused on establishing real state guarantees from negative social consequences associated with the involvement of socially unprotected strata of society into gambling.

The Venice International Film Festival will be held this year from August 30 to September 9. This was officially announced the day before in Berlin, the director of the film festival Marco Müller and the president of the Venetian Biennale David Croff, RIA Novosti reports. "The excellent results that showed the films selected for Venice -2005 became a reward for us for attentive and thoughtful work with organizational structures and with the press.

In Greece, seven police officers from the anti -drug service were detained for the storage of hash, the state television reported. According to the TV channel, the entire personnel of the department for combating drugs from the northern Greek city of Kilkis turned out to be behind bars.

In the Central Chinese province of Hunan, a 20-year-old girl died of "bird flu". This was reported on Friday Chinese media, citing the Ministry of Health of the PRC, ITAR-TASS reports. She became the eighth victim of a deadly virus in China. The peasant woman was engaged in the cultivation of poultry. Symptoms of pneumonia appeared in her on January 27, and on February 4, the girl died. The tests showed the presence of a pathogenic virus H5N1 in her blood.

On Friday, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced the case of blood feud. The defendant of Asbest, 20-year-old Ravil Rakhmatullin, was sentenced to 15 years in prison with a sentence in a maximum security colony, his accomplice, 18-year-old Polstova, received 9 years in prison in a colony of general regime. As the New Region was told in the press service of the regional court, at the age of 12, Polina was raped by Father.

Anatoly Chubais, the head of the Russian electricity monopoly, RAO UES, in an interview with The Financial Times called on the president of the country Vladimir Putin to support the liberalization of the energy sector in need of money, including the sale of generating companies to foreign investors. Chubais emphasized that the reform of the Russian electric power sector is of key importance for overcoming the already looting energy crisis.

The first secretary of the human rights of the Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine James Heller visited the day before the head of the Odessa-Simferopol diocese of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) of Bronislav Bernatsky. The interlocutors discussed the issues of compliance with the rights of Romo-Catholics in the south of Ukraine.

Despite all the efforts, the zootechnics of the German zoo in the city of Bremerhafen failed to defeat a group of homosexual penguins into heterosexual couples. In 2005, for this purpose, they were even discharged from Sweden, but to no avail: three gay-tandem refuse to fertilize them. According to the director of the zoo, the main catch is that the Scandinavian penguins, having been one on one with relatives, turned out to be too shy and therefore extremely uninitiated.

In St. Petersburg, laureates of the art prize named after Alexander Volodin are named. It bears the name of the classic of domestic drama, which would be 87 years old today. The celebrations were held in the Palace of Culture and Technology named after Ivan Gas. Among the laureates are two poets and musician of different generations: Moscow Bard Julius Kim and Petersburger, leader of the DDT group Yuri Shevchuk.

Dmitry Tursunov brought the first point of the Russian national team in the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup Rice against the Netherlands team, which started in Amsterdam. On Friday, he won a starting meeting with the leader of the hosts - Raymon Sluter - with a score of 6: 7 (2: 7), 6: 4, 7: 6 (7: 5), 7: 6 (7: 5). In the second fight of Friday, the leader of our national team Nikolai Davydenko forced Melli Van Gemerdeno to capitulate - 7: 6 (8: 6), 7: 5, 6: 4.

Despite the fact that the direction of the wind in the capital changed from the north-eastern to the southeast, this did not bring significant warming to Moscow. On Saturday night in Moscow, the weather will last.

In the USA, a disabled woman tall 91 cm and a weight of 16.7 kg gave birth to a healthy child The 38-year-old Eloza Vasquez suffers from imperfect osteogenesis of the third type, a disease in which the bones become soft and fragile, reports Ar. In its tiny, deformed body, there is not enough space for the development of the fetus, so Vasquez already had two miscarriages.