Anzor Maskhadov, the son of the murdered president of the so -called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov, left the capital of Azerbaijan Baku, where he lived since 1999, and left for Germany. There, Anzor Maskhadov asked the German government to provide him with political asylum. About this to the Azerbaijani edition of Day.az became known from sources in the Chechen diaspora.

The Moscow Regional Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted amendments to the law on licensing the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, which limited alcohol trade at night. The Minister of the Consumer Market and Services of the Moscow Region Vyacheslav Fomichev told reporters that alcohol trade is prohibited from 23:00 to 8:00, Interfax reports. "At the same time, we make an exception for some stores that will trade alcohol in the city settlements around the clock.

In China, a woman was charged with an unintentional murder. The investigation found that his wife killed her husband with a sword after he refused to cook her lunch. As the newspaper Shanghai Daily, 25-year-old Tan Xiaovan, who was engaged in fencing, said on Tuesday, often under the threat of a sword forced her husband to fulfill her demands. They were married for three years. On March 3, the husband of Tan, Lee Weidong, refused to cook dinner, as he was late for work.

In the third round of the group tournament at the World Cup in Group D, on Wednesday in Gelsenkirkhen there were prefabricated Portuguese and Mexico. According to the results of the meeting, the wards of Luis Felipe Skolary reserved the first line of the standings, and their visas - the second.

Three Afghan policemen were killed when the soldiers of the coalition forces mistakenly fired at their car. The coalition troops on Tuesday fired at the vehicle without identification marks at the checkpoint in the eastern province of Kunar, said the representative of the coalition forces Colonel Tom Collins. The car, not slowing down, headed towards the checkpoint. "The soldiers considered that the car was dangerous, and were forced to open fire on it," Tom Collins said.

The draft budget-2007 will be discussed in the State Duma, most likely in three readings, and not in four, as in previous years. This was announced on Wednesday to journalists by the deputy head of the faction of the parliamentary majority of United Russia Valery Ryazansky. He noted that such a decision was made by the Special Commission for the preparation of the draft basic financial law of the country, headed by the Vice-Spiker of the State Duma Vladimir Pekhtin.

The first English film film was accidentally discovered in the attic of the house of the 79-year-old pensioner Frank Williams in the town of Ridich in Western England. The film is called the "arrest of the pickpocket" and it was shot in April 1895 by the famous director Bert Akres. This is the first picture in the world with a criminal plot. The film lasts only 50 seconds. For decades, the picture was considered lost forever.

The organization of the Islamic Conference (OIK) urged to resume negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program without preliminary conditions.

In the Lviv region, a 28-year-old unemployed man raped an 81-year-old pensioner. This was reported to the "New Region" in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The incident occurred in the village of Kovovetovsky district of the Lviv region. The unemployed, threatening physical reprisal, raped the fellow villager. According to law enforcement agencies, the rapist was detained, at the moment it is in the investigative insulator.

The President of the Russian Guild Rieltor Elena Dranchenko at a press conference said that rapidly rising housing prices in Moscow can “blow up” the real estate market. “Already today, according to various analytical data, the average cost of 1 sq. M. In Moscow is 3000-3200 dollars. And if you do not take any measures, by the end of the year it will be 4000,” she predicts.

North Korea expresses the willingness to discuss with the United States issues related to the alleged testing of a new Taepodong-2 high-range ballistic missile, and demonstrative preparation for which was going on last week. The Permanent Representative of the DPRK at the UN Khan Song Rel did not exclude the possibility of delaying the launch of the rocket in exchange for negotiations with countries that express concern to the test, Interfax reports.

A large traffic accident occurred in Thailand. As a result of the car accident in the province of Permchinburi, six schoolchildren were killed, another 19 were injured, according to the National Information Agency of TNE. The minibus transported by students at the bend collided with a heavy truck, the representative of the local police said, RIA Novosti reports. Police, rescuers and doctors arrived at the scene.

Sixteen former employees of Aktash Mining and Metallurgical Enterprise (AGMP OJSC) in the Altai Republic announced a hunger strike on Wednesday, demanding repayment of debts for salaries for 2001-2003. The total salary arrears of almost 50 former employees of the AGMP is more than 2 million rubles, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic Robert Paller told Interfax.

The Miami Hit club for the first time became the champion of the National Basketball Association. In the sixth final match, Miami defeated Dallas Maveritsa away with a score of 95:92 and won the 4-2 series. Once again, the best in the “hit” was the defender Duin Wade, who sketched 36 points into the opponent’s basket. Shakil O'Neill was not very effective (9 points), but he made 12 rebounds, which became the best indicator in the guests.

On Wednesday, the Moscow City Court recognized the arrest of the Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, previously justified in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov , and now the accused in a new criminal case of apartments.