The winner of the New Wave 2006 contest was the American Angeli Laros. The closing ceremony was held in Jurmala on Monday evening. Laros scored 317 points in the total salt, overtaking her main rivals by Italian Gianny Fiorellino and Georgian Sofiko. As a prize, Laros received 50 thousand dollars, Foreellino - 30 thousand, and Sofiko - 20 thousand dollars. In addition, a special prize from Alla Pugacheva - 50 thousand dollars, received the Russian group Jukebox, which took 5th place.

A large traffic accident with the participation of four cars occurred in Moscow on Tuesday night. As a result of the accident, ten people were injured. This was reported on Tuesday in the capital's law enforcement agencies. "The incident occurred at 1:15 Moscow time near the house of 55 on the Kashirsky highway. Three cars and a Gazelle minibus collided with passengers," said law enforcement officer. After the collision, the "minibus" turned upside down.

On September 1, the implementation of the state program "On measures to assist the voluntary relocation of compatriots living abroad in the Russian Federation will begin. The heads of 12 regions, where, according to the plan of officials, compatriots from the CIS will soon pour, should report at a government meeting on preparation for the reception of "immigrants".

Police officers on Tuesday detained 12 participants in an unauthorized anti -core picket in Tomsk. At 13:00 local time (10:00 in Moscow), about two dozen people simultaneously deployed on the sidewalk opposite the regional administration building two five -meter banners "Stop the import of nuclear waste" and "Russia will grow with tails." The picket participants chanted anti -core slogans and distributed leaflets to passers -by, Interfax reports.

The Minister of Justice of Italy Clemente Mastell devoted the bill on the amnesty of the memory of Pope John Paul II proposed by him. The law that allows a thousand prisoners to leave prisons (for a period of up to three years) was adopted by the Senate of Italy on July 29, Blagovet-info reports with reference to CNS . The deceased dad repeatedly called for mercy to prisoners. In particular, in the anniversary 2000, he proposed to declare an amnesty and reduce the terms of detention in prison.

The Prosecutor General of Moldova received from Russian colleagues an official confirmation that Moldova citizen Igor Velchev is suspected of killing the Russian journalist Ilya Zimin , with a proposal to continue the investigation of the case. As Interfax was told in the press service of the prosecutor's office, in accordance with the CIS Convention of 1993, criminal prosecution on the fact of the crime is being investigated in the country of residence of the suspect.

In New Zealand, the number of cataphal car cars has grown sharply. The fact is that when registering your personal car as a "non -profit hearse", in New Zealand you can get a significant discount when paying a road tax, Ananova reports. The general passion for catafals in New Zealand began with the fact that a resident of the city of Kraistcherch called the local radio station and talked about how she managed to save on road tax. Instead of paying 60 pounds, she pays only 19 pounds.

In Abkhazia, the first volunteers from the North Caucasian republics of Russia appeared on the eve. Volunteers' commanders said that thousands of people from Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia would come behind them to protect the interests of Russia. After the operation in the Kodor Gorge and the announcement of the return of the Government of Abkhazia in the expulsion of the authorities of the unrecognized republic and Georgia, they are preparing for war.

The Golovinsky court of Moscow postponed until August 3 the consideration of a complaint of the ex-head of the NK Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the actions of the head of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow Vladimir Davydov. SUD made such a decision due to the fact that the documents submitted to the court were incomplete copies. By the next meeting, the court ordered the parties to submit the original documents or properly executed copies, Interfax reports.

The company "Russian Railways" ordered to dismantle turnstiles at the exit from the plates of railway stations. The Moscow Court of the Meshchansky District decided to satisfy the lawsuit of the organization of consumer protection "public control" . The court admitted that turnstiles "to the exit" infringe on the rights of citizens, and the sale of tickets "to the exit" imposes paid services.

Criminal case against The mother of the civilian wife of the ex -mayor of Volgograd Yevgeny Ishchenko - Elena VTT - will be considered in the court of the Voroshilovsky district in a special order. This was reported to the Interfax agency on Tuesday by the deputy prosecutor of the region Mikhail Muzraev. According to him, the accused appealed to the special order of consideration. The hearing is scheduled for August 8. TTT is charged with Part 4 of Art.

Russia will pay compensation to Kazakhstan for damage from the fall of the Dnipro launch vehicle after determining its size and will work on the elimination of the negative consequences of the accident.

The Moscow entrepreneur who traded counterfeit discs was convicted in the Yaroslavl region. He was sentenced to a year and six months in prison with a sentence in a penal colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles.

The song, perpetuating the head of the head of the captain of the French national team Zinedine Zidan in the final game of the 2006 World Cup, occupies a leading place in French hit parades.

On Tuesday, at the first meeting of the Youth Government of Dublers, a project for the reconstruction of the 80th quarter of the Nizhny Novgorod district, which is located in the Southeast District of Moscow, developed by students and graduate students of the Moscow State Building University, was submitted for consideration. The mayor of the city Yuri Luzhkov sent a project for revision. Students offer to reconstruct a quarter consisting of five -story residential buildings.