The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko, who did not believe that the government would nevertheless begin to pay promoted to military personnel, had to shave his beard in order to restrain the officer’s word. Today he appeared before journalists in a new guise, reports ITAR-TASS. The government raised the salary of military personnel on April 1, one and a half times, but only now payments for new salaries began.

The "large three" Russian mobile operators received a 3G license on Thursday - a third -generation cellular connection. Documents at the ceremony were personally presented by the head of the mininforms of the Russian Federation Leonid Reiman.

The Olympic Committee of Austria was fined a million dollars in connection with a doping scandal at the Winter Olympic Games in 2006 in Turin. This was announced on Thursday by representatives of the International Olympic Committee. According to them, the Executive Committee of the IOC unanimously decided on a fine. According to information common by sports officials, the Austrian Committee will be deprived of grants and subsidies from the IOC for an indefinite period for the indicated amount.

The deputy minister of finance Tatyana Golikova calculated the revenues to the federal budget after Yukos’s bankruptcy: “Now the amount is a little over 400 billion rubles, but it’s too early to talk about what it will be really, there is still no such estimate, it may be more at about 450 billion rubles,” she said on Thursday. On Friday, the bill on the procedure for enrolling Yukos debt will be considered by the Federation Council.

In the coming days, documents will be signed on the transfer of HC “Wings of Soviets” to new owners. Initially, the signing was scheduled for Wednesday, but the former owner of the club of the famous philanthropist Ralifa Safin was not in Moscow on this day - he went to Greece to the final of the Champions Football League. So far, the club is not talking about who will take the posts of the president, general director and general manager.

The Investigative Department of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on Thursday charged two detainees on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act directed against the governor of the northern capital of Valentina Matvienko. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Federal Security Service, the charge was charged under Part 1 of Article 30 (preparation for a serious crime), part 2 of Art. 222 (illegal acquisition, storage or wearing weapons, ammunition, explosives) and Art.

Car fuel manufacturers raised gas prices, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said on Thursday. Compared to April 2006, growth was 8.1%. In April 2007, gasoline costs from manufacturers in 15 constituent entities of the Federation (from 0.8% in the Saratov region to 32.8% in the Krasnoyarsk Territory). At the level of March, prices in three entities were preserved, and in Bashkiria gasoline fell 1.6%.

Carlo Ancelotti described the victory of Milan over Liverpool in the Champions League final as the greatest in his long career. The success of Rossoneri was brought by the striker Filippo Indzagi, who scored twice and helped the team get the seventh champion Cup in its history.

On the night of May 24, the Israeli military conducted a number of arrests in Shkham (Samaria). The high -ranking leaders of Hamas were detained, including the Minister of the Government of the Palestinian Autonomy, deputies of the Legislative Assembly and the head of municipalities. It is reported by Newsru Israel . The military arrested the Minister of Education Nasser Ash Shaer, three deputies of the Palestinian Parliament, the mayor of Shkham and his deputy.

The murder of a citizen of the Russian Federation Dmitry Ganin during April riots in Tallinn could be filmed on a video film, writes Eesti Ekspress weekly on Thursday. According to the publication, now the Estonian police are looking for an American who was filming events on April 26-28 in Estonia and who may have the personnel of the murder of Dmitry Ganin . "Presumably, the American was filmed with a knife. Now she is not in Estonia, she is looking for the police," the article says.

The chairman of the board of directors of the company Yukos, the former head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Viktor Gerashchenko, does not exclude that he will run for president as a single opposition candidate . “There is a certain research work with me and here, I think, there is no secret that the first contact was made (leader of the OGF) Harry Kasparov.

The terrorists prepared the attack "on the New York Exchange and other sensitive objects, as well as to the US military academies." This was stated by US President George Bush, Interfax reports. Speaking in the state of Connecticut before the audience of the Academy of Coast guard, the head of the White House referred to the declassified documents of the American intelligence services.

The mayor of the Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow, Mikhail Bulgakov, accused of receiving a bribe , was sent to the Serbian Forensic Psychiatry Institute for forensic drug and psychiatric examination, his lawyers said on Wednesday. At the same time, according to them, Bulgakov had to be taken to court on Wednesday.

The priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, abroad (ROCZ), Andrew Filips calls to initiate the creation of a special inter -government adviser - the World Council of Orthodoxy, whose headquarters should be located in Moscow or in the new Jerusalem, Interfax reports. “At the 20th century, individual representatives of some local churches are still covered, like a hangover, fading outbreaks of ecumenism of the last century.

The Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia clarified on Thursday what the general director of CJSC TsNIIMASH-Export CJSC Igor Reshetin is accused of CJSC. He is accused of illegal export of secret missile and space military technologies and damage to the state in the amount of 110 million rubles.