On the territory of the North Caucasus there are 105 small gang groups, the total number of which is 780 people, said the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Southern Federal District, deputy commander of the united grouping of troops in the North Caucasus, Major General Oleg Khotin. Thus, according to these data, an average of 7 people account for one group.

About 100 loaded vehicles with herbs and apples drove through the Verkhny Lars (the Russian-Georgian border in North Ossetia) to Russia, which accumulated on the border within 9 days. The situation at the customs post was allowed, in fact violating the law. All cars were passed across the border in the form of an exception in agreement with the Russian Rosselkhoznadzor and the leadership of North Ossetia, the Caucasian Knot reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approves of pluralism in parliament, but believes that different branches of the authorities should combine a sense of responsibility to the country in order to solve the "super -task" - an increase in the standard of living of citizens.

Silvio Berlusconi refuses to recognize the victory of Romano Prodi in the parliamentary elections that took place in Italy on April 9-10, RIA Novosti reports. Despite the fact that the country's Supreme Court of Appeal officially confirmed on Wednesday the correct voting results , the prime minister demanded that Berlusconi said that "the battle is not over yet." He refused to congratulate Romano Prodi on the victory and again insists on additional checks.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko appealed to companies selling alcohol from Georgia and Moldova in Russia, with a proposal to stop the purchase and sale of these products to consumers.

In the central market of Petrozavodsk in one of the pavilions on Thursday there was a major clash between groups of Caucasians and young people of Slavic appearance. As a result of the fight, in which knives were used, one person died. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in Karelia law enforcement agencies, the fight occurred between four and five hours in the evening.

State Duma deputies Gennady Gudkov and Alexander Khinshtein (the United Russia faction) introduced a legislative amendment, according to which a judicial consideration of criminal cases against terrorists should take place outside the subject of the Federation in which they committed a crime.

The Open Russia Foundation decided to completely stop its activities, Interfax reports.

The possibility of the purchase of almost all of the gas exported by Turkmenia in the European direction, over the next three years, was discussed on Monday at negotiations between the Ministry of Neftegas Industry and Mineral Resources of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the Russian Gazprom OJSC. According to the State Information Service, Turkmenodovlethabarlars (TDH), we are talking about purchasing for three years for 50 billion cubic meters.

In Singapore, the court sentenced to 32 years in prison and 24 stick strikes by a businessman who admitted to repeated rape of five of his 33 daughters. The 45-year-old Muslim businessman has another 33 sons and 10 wives, his name is not called in the interests of the victims. According to the investigation, the husband convinced his wives to agree to this by distorting the sections of the Qur'an, and they thought that his rights to children were applying to sex with them.

Iran, the fourth largest in the world and the second largest OPEC manufacturer, plans to launch an oil exchange in the country within two months, Bloomberg reports with reference to the Iran Daily newspaper. The head of the Iranian Government Commission on Energy said that at the first stage, derivative financial instruments will be traded on the exchange - oil futures, options, swaps, etc. The next stage, the essence of which he did not specify, will be launched next spring.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office received evidence of the involvement of al-Qaeda emissaries in the terrorist attack against the President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov in April 2004, Interfax reports.

At school No. 35 of Krasnodar, 27 children were poisoned by unknown gas, Interfax reports. Currently, 22 students are hospitalized in the city infectious diseases hospital. At the scene, the operational team of experts of the Ministry of Emergencies is working. As reported in the emergency room of the ambulance hospital, where 18 students of school No. 35 were delivered, schoolchildren suffered from poisoning.

In the fourth section of the Moscow-City MMDC, the construction of the water park and the adjacent hotel and office complex are resumed, the chairman of the board of directors of Fleiner City CJSC Pavel Fuchs, one of the shareholders of Tekhinvest told Interfax. He recalled that the water park on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment at Moscow City began to be built in 2000, but in 2003, due to problems with financing, construction was frozen.

Import supplies of certain types of crop products from Turkey to Russia may stop in the very near future. Such a conclusion can be drawn from a speech to the head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of Sergei Dankvert.