The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the sentence of the Nizhnevartovsk city court in relation to a previously convicted storage, convicted of 48 episodes of fraud, thefts and robberies related to the abduction of cell phones. According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Khanty-Mansi AO, so many crimes were committed by the criminal for the period from late December 2004 to the end of June 2005, reports REGNUM .

Russian and foreign politicians behave differently at meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper decided to find out from the experts, which mean the poses and gestures of those who communicate with Putin at official meetings. To analyze the behavior of politicians, the publication invited the psychologist Daria Ikonnikov and the director of plastic Igor Afonchikov. The list of Putin’s interlocutors is opened by the head of the RAO UES Anatoly Chubais.

In Japan, preparations began for the elections of the new leader of the ruling party of Japan, who will then be headed by the government. On Friday, the official registration of candidates for the post of chairman of the ruling liberal-democratic party, which will automatically become the next prime minister of the country, the successor to Junyitiro Koizumi, took place.

The family of the tragically deceased Australian "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin abandoned state funeral. Showman's father, Robert Irwin, read out a statement for the media from the Australia Zoo Zoo family. “He was an ordinary guy and wants to be remembered about an ordinary guy,” Robert Irwin said, adding that he and his deceased son were aware of the risk with which Steve's work was associated.

In August, the Romir Monitoring research holding conducted a survey on the topic of the consumer habits of Russians. As a result of the survey, it turned out that over half of the survey participants (55%) make the purchases of products almost daily. Every fifth interviewed (21%) makes purchases 2-3 times a week. And the practice of overstating food for a week is common only among the tenth (10%) residents of Russia. But every tenth Russian (10%) admitted that he does not go for products at all.

In Kondopoga near the city hall of the city, about 300-350 people gathered on Friday for an unauthorized rally. The audience demanded that the authorities prevent the return of immigrants from the North Caucasus, who were taken out in connection with the riots on September 2. Representatives of the administration who went to the protesters tried to calm people, but the dialogue did not work out.

The Egyptian court of state security sentenced three people involved in the terrorist attacks in the resorts of the Sinai Peninsula in the last two years. Yunis Gureir, the Anglaiu and Muhammad Hussein, illegal possession of weapons, the production of explosives and a conspiracy to kill the Egyptians and foreign citizens, reports to ITAR-TASS. The verdict says that they are members of the underground extremist group Tavhid and Jihad.

The case of Georgian oppositionists, detained two days ago in 40 cities and areas of Georgia and accused of organizing a coup, reached court. Oppositionists have no hopes for an objective consideration of the case. Moreover, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has distributed new operational data on the upcoming state coup, which detained oppositionists were allegedly going to commit.

The British newspaper The Independent reports that the Russian state company Rosneft will be privatized 100% within one year (the full text of the article on the website inopressa.ru ). On terms of anonymity, this was reported by a senior Kremlin official. According to him, although this was not included in the initial intentions, now this is the most preferred option for Rosneft. Now in private hands there are about 15% of the shares of the state oil company.

The scandalously known attributes of the Madonna show arrive on Friday to Moscow. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by the PR manager of the Russian round singer Anton Atrashkin. He clarified that we are talking about a huge disco-chara, as well as a cross from the diamonds and crystals of Swarovski, from which the singer goes to the audience. The cost of this part of the scenery is estimated at $ 11 million.

In the Chita region, 11 miners died in a burning mine . This was announced by the head of the press center of the prosecutor's office of the region Anatoly Uskov. “The bodies of the dead have not yet been lifted to the surface,” he said. In total, at the beginning of the fire, which broke out on Thursday at 08:15 Moscow time, there were 64 workers in the mine. Previously, 31 miner independently got out of the mine. 33 people remained in the mine, ITAR-TASS reports.

Dogs belonging to the models of Claudia Schiffer and her husband, film producer Matthew Von, terrorize the whole village, say residents. The police were forced to talk with Schiffer and Matthew Vol, after the complaints received in the parish council that their German Shepard and the Irish wolfhound attacked other dogs and scare the villagers who walk along the public pedestrian path at the Elizabethan era belonging to spouses.

A referendum to change the constitution is no longer possible before parliamentary and presidential elections. This was stated at a press conference by the head of the CEC of the Russian Federation Alexander Veshnyakov, reports ITAR-TASS.

The original Russian invention was the reason for signing an agreement on cooperation between the Austrian Center for Virtual Reality and Studies in the Field of Virtualization (VRVIS) and the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM). In the framework of the annual Eurographix -2006 conference, the Russian side introduced a virtual sphere - the device allows you to walk on cyberspace, as in life, and not with the help of a computer keyboard or joystick, RIA Novosti reports.

The academic year for schoolchildren of the first and eight classes in Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur will not begin on September 11, as previously planned , but is transferred for another week. "We will transfer classes to September 18," the governor of the region Viktor Ishaev told reporters.