In the Republic of Komi on Wednesday evening, the Mi-8 helicopter disappeared. At 15:00 Moscow time, a helicopter belonging to Gazpromavia did not communicate after he delivered a group of workers from Ukhta to the environmental control point and at 14:40 he took off with five crew members and a passenger - an employee of the National Park. An hour after the control time in search of the Mi-8, a helicopter with eight rescuers on board was sent.

In Malaysia, the leaders of mafia groups for the production of pirate video discs ordered professional killers to kill two lead dog dogs, which two days ago brought detectives to a batch of counterfeit products at a price of almost 3 million US dollars. Information about the order for the murder was received through the informants, and the authorities transferred the dogs to a classified place, strengthening their protection, the News Straits Times reports on Thursday.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory sent a criminal case to the court related to a medical error, as a result of which the two -month Sophia Kulivtsa lost her hand.

A criminal case has been instituted in Krasnoyarsk on the abduction of a minor. This was reported today in the prosecutor's office of the region. Earlier, investigators did not exclude that the girl went to spend the night to her friend or got lost. Five -year -old Polina Malkova, a resident of the Kirov district of the city, disappeared on March 19. On the same day, her mother filed a statement to the Kirov RUVD.

The Chita World Court has terminated the case against the last of the four participants in the unauthorized picket in support of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky Orthodox priest Sergei Taratukhtin. According to the Interfax agency Marina Savvateeva, the case was terminated for the lack of evidence of his guilt.

The State Court of Estonia did not satisfy on Thursday the appeal of the accused of crimes against the humanity of 88-year-old Vasily Beskov. Thus, the State Court upheld the order of the Department of Citizenship and Migration, obliging Beskov to leave the country.

The Kurdov’s dream of their own state “sooner or later will become a reality,” says Masud Barzani, head of the Kurdish Autonomy in Northern Iraq and the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (DPP). According to him, the Kurds, the number of which is 40 million people, have the legal right to seek self-determination, ITAR-TASS reports.

Private Brian Howard recognized his involvement in the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl, as well as the murder of her parents and sister, a group of five US troops in Iraq, Interfax reports. The crime was committed in 2006. Two military personnel - the main accused of this crime, which is considered one of the most high -profile for the four -year war in Iraq, have already been sentenced to life imprisonment and to 100 years in prison.

In Iraq, on charges of murder of American troops, two assistant to the Shiite leader of the Muktada al-Sadra were arrested, Reuters reports. As stated in a statement by the American command in Iraq, the coalition forces in the last few days arrested in the cities of Basra and El-Hill the brothers Kuwain and Life Khazali, as well as some other members of the Khazali network. This organization is directly involved in the abduction and murder of five US troops in the city of Karbella in January.

Almost one and a half thousand smuggled wheels for the Su-27 fighters were found at the Baltic Customs. Attackers were going to send these details to one of the Asian countries, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the North-Western operational customs. Employees of the Department for Combating Particularly Dangerous Types of Smuggling and Employees of the FSB for the Leningrad Military District detained containers who are exporting to one of their Asian countries.

The Moscow football club Spartak declared its legionnaire from Moldova Sergey Kovalchuk as a citizen of the Russian Federation. “Spartak midfielder” Sergey Kovalchuk, abandoning Moldavian citizenship, received a Russian passport, ” the press service of the red-white ones said in a statement.“ This gave him the right to receive a license of the corresponding category in the Premier League. From now on, Kovalchuk is not listed in the list of legionnaires.

The bandits attacked in the north of Tanzania to tourists from the United States, two people were seriously injured. It is reported by ITAR-TASS, referring to the representative of the Tanzani police. The local guide of tourists was also taken to the hospital, its condition is evaluated as critical. The incident occurred in the National Park of Tarangira near the city of Arusha in the north of the country. Two armed criminals attacked two tourists and a guide.

The famous American boxer manager Don King, who once worked with the legendary Muhammad Ali, took part in the general audience of the Pope Benedict XVI on St. Petra March 21. According to the Blagovers-Info, citing Cathnews , at the end of the audience, King presented Papa Green with a gold belt, who usually awarded boxers, as well as a letter written by hand, in which Pontica asked President George Boucher and other people, including all patients and elderly in the world.

From March 22 to June 10, the exhibition “Black Square. Malevich’s celebration” dedicated to the work of this outstanding Russian artist-futurist opened in Hamburg. In the center of the exposition is the famous "Black Square" of Casimir Malevich. The well-known canvas was provided for the exhibition by the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, ITAR-TASS reports.

Employees of the Office of their own security department of the GUVD of the traffic police of the Sverdlovsk region went on a business trip when two traffic police inspectors stopped them on the Irbit road. The security service was in civilian clothes, so the inspectors did not understand that they were in front of them. According to Yekaterinburg On-line , the driver did not violate the rules, but the inspectors charged him with violation of the traffic rules and invited him to the office.