A large fire occurred on the night of Thursday in the Grodno Church of St. Francis of Xaveria (Farn Church), Interfax was told in the Emergency Situations of Belarus. According to the interlocutor of the agency, as a result of the incident in the temple of the fire, the altar was damaged, the floor on an area of ​​20 square meters. meters and temple utensils.

A previously convicted man born in 1965 was detained in Vladivostok, who is suspected of attacking two schoolchildren with a knife. As the city’s duty unit reported, a knife was removed from a man during a search. The first incident occurred on Nadibaidze Street - the unknown hit the teenager’s chest with a knife. The boy was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Children's City Clinical Hospital. A similar incident occurred in the Pervomaisky district of the city.

The mayor of Sofia Boyko Borisov sent a letter to the chief mufti of Bulgaria Mustafa Alish Haji, with an urgent requirement to observe the decree of no 1 of the capital's community council "On public order and city property protection in Sofia." The letter was caused by complaints received by the city administration about violation of the normal situation and peace of citizens in the central part of Sofia, where the Bashi Bashi mosque is located, reports.ru reports with reference to the BG

In the closed city of the Lesnaya Sverdlovsk region, the Electrochemical plant at the beginning of July a fire occurred in early July. The incident at the factory, located only 250 kilometers from Yekaterinburg, was eliminated, but its witnesses were hospitalized, and non -disclosure subscription was taken from the liquidators. The emergency in Lesnoy reports, in particular, the Russian "Greenpeace" .

The growth of the consumer price index for July-September 2006 will be about 0%. Such a forecast was given by the First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev at today's press conference. If the forecast is justified, then Russia will be able not to exceed the regulations of inflation by 8.5%established by the government.

The Tver court of Moscow authorized an arrest for a period of two months of NBP activists Elena Borovskaya and Alexei Makarov, who were detained on Tuesday at the Other Russia Opposition Forum . According to Alexander Averin, a press secretary of the NBP on Thursday, the corresponding decision of the Tver District Court of Moscow issued on Thursday, and the National Bolsheviks were taken into custody right in the courtroom.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad again stated that his country would not abandon his rights, despite the decision of the “six” (Russia, France, China, the USA, Great Britain and Germany) to return the Iranian dossier to the UN Security Council. “Our answer to the proposals of“ six ” is clear: Iran will observe international laws and norms, but will not abandon its right to master nuclear technologies,” Iranian television quotes his words.

The main collector of donations from private individuals and companies to the cash desk of the ruling British Labor Party and a personal friend of Prime Minister Tony Blair - Lord Livi was arrested on Wednesday by the police in his house in the north of London. He was taken to the police department, where his interrogation began. Lord Livi is suspected of participating in illegal transactions for the sale of places in the House of Lords of the British Parliament to rich businessmen.

Russia is not a democratic state of a European model, and it is unclear whether it will become such, the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa warned in St. Petersburg on the eve of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. However, in his opinion, Vladimir Putin wants Russia to be a state with an established democracy.

World brewing industry and numerous beer lovers in the UK celebrate an important date today - 438 years since the creation of bottle beer. On July 13, 1568, the rector of the London Cathedral of St. Pavel, Alexander Novell, discovered that beer was well stored in a bottle, clogged with a cork. Alexander Novell was not only a theologian, but also a passionate fisherman and a beer lover.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in terms of clarifying the procedure for nominating candidates for elected positions in state authorities," the press service of the head of state said on Thursday. It is assumed that in case of a shift in the party card, the deputy will be deprived of his mandate.

The 19-year-old conscript from Kazan Radik Khabirov, delivered home in a state of coma and with a weight of 28 kg from the military unit, where he served, was placed in the intensive care of the Kazan hospital of war veterans. As the father of the soldier Saidgarai Khabirov told Interfax on Thursday, his son is still in a coma, and doctors do not give any guarantees that he will not remain disabled.

At the Moscow Station of St. Petersburg, on Thursday, the next participants in the social forum, which would have to be held in the Northern capital during the G8 summit, was again detained on Thursday. At about 10 in the morning, six young people were removed from the Moscow-Petersburg train. This was explained by the need to verify the documents. Four of them are activists of a public organization entitled "Institute" Collective Action.

Gazprom and the German Corporation E.on signed an agreement on the exchange of assets in gas production, trade and sales of natural gas, and electric power industry. The German company, the partner of Gazprom for the construction of the North European gas pipeline (SEG) receives 25% minus one promotion of the South Russian gas field, which will become a resource base for the segon. In exchange for this, Gazprom will get shares in the Hungarian assets E.on plus compensation.

Sociologists conducted a study in the United States on the subject of what situations in which Americans consider to lie most unacceptable for themselves. The results were curious: the one who lies the state is most worthy of condemnation. At the same time, 39% of Americans claim that they never lie. 52% admitted that they rarely lie, 8% - periodically, and 1% constantly. Most often (in 51% of cases), the victims of lies are members of the belonging of a liar and his friends.