At the profile business magazine, the editor -in -chief has changed: instead of George Bovt, this position will be occupied by a popular journalist Mikhail Leontyev, most known as the host of the Television program "However". In an interview with Interfax on Tuesday, Leontiev confirmed the fact of appointment. “Yes, I was appointed editor -in -chief,” he said.

On the eve of the International Day of Protection of Children in Vladivostok, with the blessing of the Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primorsky Benjamin, the action "Candles of Memory" will be held, the purpose of which is to attract the attention of society to the problem of spreading in Russia the practice of artificial termination of pregnancy.

The minibus of the Root group during a tour of the tour got into a car accident in the Urals. According to the publication "Your Day" , as a result of the accident, two people were killed. As Interfax was told in the press service of the traffic police department of the Chelyabinsk region, the accident occurred at night last weekend at 99 km of the Yekaterinburg highway in the Kaslinsky district.

A resident of Chita, who found a cache with money and precious metals in the forest, can apply for a reward up to 20% of the found. The values ​​were hidden by bandits who robbed Sberbank on May 12. 18 million rubles and ingredients of precious metals found a local resident in a cache next to the highway. The prosecutor's office is now checking the money found.

In 2006, according to the results of inspections, 29 Russian universities lost licenses, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science Viktor Bolotov said to reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . The head of the service noted that in a year 480 universities and branches were subjected to selective verification, as a result of which 39 of them received instructions.

In the Jewish communities throughout Russia, celebrations dedicated to one of the three main holidays of Judaism - Shavuot , or the Day of Torah of Torah, will begin tonight. On the first day of the holiday at 11:00, in accordance with the tradition, reading the ten commandments will be held, and the next day at noon - reading the commemorative prayer of Izor. On the first night of the holiday, it is customary to wakeful, studying the Torah.

Anatoly Klimkin was sentenced to 6 years and 10 months in a general regime colony today in Ryazan, who in the evening of October 14, 2006 crashed on his VAZ-2105 car into a column of 190 cadets-prisoners of the Ryazan Military Airborne Command School. Cadets were building along the side of the road. As a result, six people died, 19 were injured. The court proven that he was drunk at the time of the accident. Moreover, he did not have a driver’s license.

In the southeast of Moscow, a murder of a young girl was committed. As Interfax was told in law enforcement agencies, the corpse of the victim with the 13th stab wounds was discovered in house number 28 on Pererva Street. As law enforcement agencies established, the girl was killed by her friend with whom they lived together. On the Internet, the young man discovered a site where a friend advertised her intimate services. As it turned out, she led the second secret life and worked on the call.

On Monday, the Stockholm Philharmonic was awarded the Prizes of the Royal Musical Academy of Sweden Polar Music Prize , which is called the "Nobel Prize in the field of music." In 2007, it was divided by the Americans - composer Steve Reich and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, AP reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated on the 70th anniversary of the legendary Soviet football player, vice president of the Union of Football Veterans, Honored Master of Sports and Journalist Viktor Monday. This was reported by the press service of the head of state. "An outstanding football player, a brilliant striker, you gave the fans a lot of samples of a rapid, truly beautiful game, - it is noted, in particular, in a congratulatory telegram.

In Tallinn, the Estonian police detained the Commissioner of the Youth Prochrevsky movement "Our" Andrei Kalugin, who put on a Soviet military uniform and portrayed a "lively monument" of a warrior-liberator. At noon on the Tynismmygi hill, where the monument to the Win-liberator warrior was previously stood, a young man dressed in military uniforms stood up, Interfax reports from the words of eyewitnesses.

The authorities of the capital plan to complete the equipment of the Moscow ring road (MKAD) by automatic anti -icing systems in 2009, Interfax was told in the city administration on Tuesday. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed an order approved The work program to equip the city with these systems. In particular, in 2007 they are planned to be installed on interchanges with the Mozhaisk highway and 19 km of MKAD.

The air in the metropolitan region is warmed up to 32 degrees, the Roshydrome reported. The temperature in Moscow in the afternoon will be from 29 to 31 degrees, in the suburbs - from 27 to 32 degrees. Perelicity is predicted, without precipitation. The wind is weak.

May inflation in Russia will exceed last year's May 0.1%, announced the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. On Tuesday in Moscow. In May 2006, inflation was 0.5%. A week ago, he had already warned that "Russia wasting the potential to reduce inflation obtained in the first quarter." The minister feared that at the current rate of waste of budget money, strengthening the ruble and the influx of speculative capital in Russia, two -digit inflation could begin.

In the Uzhursky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, an employee of the police used a hundredth weapons to stop the violator’s car, and when the bully attacked him, he killed him, opening the fire to defeat.