About 400 military registration and enlistment offices will be reduced in all regions of Russia from 2006 to 2007 during the reorganization of the structures of military commissariats, a source in the Russian military department told Interfax. "The optimization of the military commissariats of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, together with the General Staff of the Armed Forces, is held in two stages.

Two external rings - one red color, the other blue - were found in the planet Uranus. It is known that the inner rings of uranium have a neutral color, while the external rings detected demonstrates color contrasts, which, according to scientists, are caused by the features of the reflection of light by particles, the size of which varies from one ring to another.

In St. Petersburg, a servant soldier was detained, deserting two months ago from a military unit in the Omsk region. The 19-year-old military service soldier, drafted from St. Petersburg, arbitrarily left the location of the unit in the Omsk region. A criminal case was instituted on the fact of desertion, and he was put on the wanted list. Last Thursday, he was detained in St.

An increase in fines for violation of traffic rules and generally tightening the responsibility of drivers for behavior on the roads is now only a matter of time. On Thursday, at the parliamentary hearings in the State Duma, a bill was approved, amending Chapter 12 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. A document prepared by deputies of United Russia with the submission of the traffic police is already recommended for the first reading.

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) offered the former absolute champion in the first welterweight champion to Konstantin Tszyu a duel for the vacant IBF title in this weight with the fifth rating of this organization by Laumor NDU. This title became vacant after Ricky Hatton moved from last June last June to the next weight category, reports Allboxing .

The Mariinsky Theater will present in the capital of Wales Cardiff his famous production of the Nibelung Ring Cycle Richard Wagner. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of Wales Millenium Center, on the stage of which the performance will be presented. The Nibelung Ring will go on the Cardiff stage within four in a row - from November 30 to December 3 this year. The artistic director of Mariinka Valery Gergiev will be conducted by the orchestra.

In Moscow on Friday evening, unknown people shot the Mercedes car. The two people who were in it were killed, the third was injured and hospitalized. Black Mercedes car was fired by unknown in the courtyard of house number 12 on Leningradsky Prospekt at about 19:45 Friday. Police officers have already identified two killed persons. According to Interfax, sources in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, one of the dead is Ikmet Mukhtarov, born in 1956.

The State Duma instructed the relevant committee to find out in law enforcement agencies why the chief rabbi of Russia, US citizen Berl Lazar received Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. Today, a member of the Rodina faction Boris Vinogradov made an appropriate initiative, Interfax reports. At the same time, the chamber rejected another initiative with which a member of the LDPR faction Alexei Ostrovsky made.

The picture of the famous British artist William Turner (1775-1851) was sold on Thursday at the Sotheby's auction in New York for $ 35.8 million. This was a record for auction sales of paintings by masters from the UK. The owners of the painting "View of Judekka and the Church of Madonna Della Salyut and San Jordgio", written in 1841, for many years have been various museums and private collectors, ITAR-TASS reports. At the auction, the picture was exhibited by the Assisian St.

In Melbourne there is a court in the case of a father who is accused of killing his three sons. The boys died after the man threw his car into the dam. The incident occurred in September 2005. In December, 36 -year -old Robert Farkuharson was charged with killing children - 10, 7 and 2 years old. The judge appointed the following hearing on August 14 - on this day, as expected, 35 witnesses will perform. Farkuharson appeared the day before in court, accompanied by his sister.

The famous director Stephen Spielberg could not resist the popularity of numerous reality shows on television and decided to take part in one of them. The holder of several Academy Awards, the creator of the famous films “Schindler List” and “Save Private Ryan”, will become the producer of the reality show, which will be a contract with the DreamWorks film studio, which is owned by Spielberg, reports Ar. The program will be shown next season on the Fox TV channel.

The driver of a car on Friday in the central part of Paris crashed into a group of youth who protested against the law on the first hiring agreement. According to the police, as a result of the incident that occurred on Saint-Germain Boulevard, nine people were injured. After the police stopped the offender, the car was turned over by angry students. The driver also received easy injuries, reports Interfax. The police believe that the driver hit a group of students intentionally.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, by his order, dismissed Vladimir Malin, chairman of the Russian federal property (RFFI). This was reported on Friday in the press service of the Russian government. Malin was removed from the post of head of the Russian Federation back in 2004 after the establishment of a criminal case on him on charges of excess of official powers and commercial bribery.

Russian scientist Andrei Zamyatnin, detained in Sweden on February 15 on suspicion of espionage, was released from prison on Friday. “The most difficult thing in prison is an excerpt, I just had to wait, but I waited,” Zamyatyatnin said, leaving the door of the insulator. Now the Russian biologist is in the Russian Embassy in Stockholm.

The number of victims of the terrorist attack committed on Friday in the Shiite mosque in Baghdad increased to 80 people, more than 160 were injured. Such the latest data was given by the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera with reference to the Iraq Ministry of Health. Currently, the police have data that three suicide bombers were carried out at once. Two of them entered the Muslim shrine, the third has driven an explosive device at the entrance, ITAR-TASS reports.