English experts conducted a study of sexual behavior of people, the results of which refuted existing stereotypes. The results were published on Wednesday by the British medical journal The Lancet. Within its framework, Professor Kay Wellings and her colleagues analyzed data from 59 countries, reports Ar. Specialists have processed information from various studies devoted to sexual behavior published over the past ten years. They also used the data provided by the governments of the countries.

Russian entrepreneur Viktor Boot denied his involvement in the supply of weapons to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I have nothing to do with any supplies to the Congo,” Bout said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station on Wednesday. He also said that the White House is trying to explain his failed foreign policy to resolve conflicts in Central Africa, charging him, in particular.

The US intelligence services carried out “work on mistakes” that arose during the war with Iraq, when after the troops the country it turned out that there was no prohibited weapon, and created a computer system like the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia, the pages of which will be entered by the data collected by intelligence analysts, The Los Angeles Times (the full text on website inopressa.ru ).

In Ukraine, the prosecutor's office of the Darnitsky district of Kyiv opened a criminal case on the murder of a citizen Nigeria, Mairy, who was committed on October 25 in the area of ​​the Poznyaki metro station. Human rights organizations have already stated that this murder may be the first in Ukraine committed on the basis of racism, the Ukrainian newspaper Kommersant writes. The citizen of Nigeria, Hoolem Mievo, was killed on the evening of October 25 near the Poznyaki metro station.

In Italy, three people were killed as a result of mafia showdowns. According to law enforcement agencies, two were shot in the small town of Torre Del Greco, another in Sant Antimo. In Naples and his suburbs, the next surge of crime was recorded these days. The war between the mafia clans turned beyond the spheres of influence. So, over the past three days, members of various mafid clans have committed eight murders and wounded several people.

The leader of the rebels in the Kodor Gorge Emzar Quitsini took responsibility for the shelling of the car of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Vano Merabishvili in the upper part of the Kodor gorge on October 25. Earlier, the Georgian side stated that the shelling of the motorcade near the village of Azhara was led from the territory of the Tkvarchel district of Abkhazia.

The “Act of canonical communication”, restoring the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCS) and the Moscow Patriarchate , the application to it, as well as other documents developed by the oncoming commissions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the ROCA and approved by their hierarchy, were published today on the official websites of the ROCZ and the Moscow Patriarchate , RIA Novosti reports.

As part of the opening of the exhibition "Orthodox Rus' - to the Day of National Unity" in Moscow today will be a charity event "Book for compatriots of Lebanon." "The sets of spiritual, artistic, historical and educational literature for the libraries of Orthodox parishes and Russian foreign countries in Lebanon will be transferred to representatives of the Embassy of Lebanon and the Antioch Patriarch," said Archpriest Siloviev, chairman of the Publishing Council of the Moscow Patriarchate of

In Moscow, a merchant was detained who was trying to sell diamonds worth more than 75 thousand dollars. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the diamond merchant was detained the day before in one of the restaurants in the center of the capital. The operatives were monitoring the precious stones merchant.

Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria in the first half of 2007 can be squeezed. In the CIS, they will have rivals - a peacekeeping contingent of "Organization for democracy and economic development - guam." This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko. According to experts, a rearrangement of forces may occur in the conflict zones on the territory of the former USSR, writes Independent Gazeta .

The deputies of the Moscow City Duma did not support the amendments to the housing legislation of Moscow, prohibiting the demolition of houses that do not threaten the collapse. The authors of the rejected bill are sure that large construction companies are intentionally obtained by emergency houses in order to evict residents and free the site for development. And the authorities did not support the initiative, as they lose their benefits.

In Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydka, arrives on Wednesday, which inspects the historical and culture of the city. “The Shvydky’s working trip is associated with the protection of the Sochi cultural and historical heritage. In the resort city, he will meet with representatives of the region’s administration responsible for this area of ​​work,” Interfax told the Department of Culture of the Krasnodar Territory.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the project of the UN Security Council on Iran did not comply with previously reached agreements proposed by Eurotroshka. “The Eurotroki project goes far beyond the scope of the agreements,” Lavrov said on Wednesday to journalists in Moscow.

The head coach of the Moscow Spartak Vladimir Fedotov explained the loss in the Champions League match (0: 1) against the Italian Inter by the fact that the players, due to traffic jams in the capital, had to get to the stadium by the metro, unlike the athletes of Inter, who managed to get without incident. For more than two hours, the Spartak bus stood in Pagan on a garden ring - during which time he managed to drive only 100 meters.

In January-February 2007, the issuance of qualification certificates for car drivers with special signals will begin, said the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev. "Drivers of cars with special signals must take the appropriate qualification commission," Nurgaliev said on Wednesday in Rostov-on-Don at a coordination meeting on road security issues. “We have centers where we prepare specialists who are used directly in extreme situations.