In the Odessa region, a concentration camp of the Second World War was discovered, whose prisoners were at least 5 thousand people, Roman Schwarzman, chairman of the Odessa Association of former ghetto prisoners and Nazi concentration camps, told RIA Novosti . "In 2006, during the gasification of the village of Gvozdovka -2 (Odessa region), a large number of human remains were discovered. They wanted to hide the find and laid the pipe.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of the Eight summit in Germany intends to raise a question about the extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. The British authorities, as you know, suspect a meadow of poisoning in London of the ex-officer of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko. “We will have to talk about this,” Blair said in an interview with the Air Force on the eve of the Eight summit on Wednesday.

The largest hurricane "Gona" in history, raging in the Persian Gulf, paralyzed oil exports. In the victim more than other countries, ten thousand people were evacuated, as well as a large port of Sohar, from which oil is exported. Now the storm has paralyzed the shipping in the Ormuzsky Strait, where the artery of the transportation of oil from the Persian Gulf is taking place. In this regard, experts predict a further increase in oil prices.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday extended until September 15 the term of detention Alexander Pichushkin, accused of a series of murders in Bitsevsky Park in Moscow. Thus, the court granted the request of the prosecutor's office to extend the term of detention of the accused. Pichushkin is suspected of committing murders under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The investigation charged him with 49 episodes.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and more than fifty other Belarusian politicians and civil servants were declared by Persons Non Grat in Lithuania and they are prohibited from entering this country. “The Lithuanian government on Wednesday approved a list of persons whose entry is prohibited into the territory of Lithuania,” the secretary (deputy minister) of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Davidas Matulionis, told reporters following the results of the government meeting.

Alexander Pochinok became a member of the Federation Council from the Krasnodar Territory. On Wednesday, at a plenary meeting, senators confirmed his senatorial powers , RIA Novosti reports. In the Council of the Federation of the Pochinok, Farhad Akhmedov, who on Wednesday, was appointed senator from the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The repair was delegated to the upper house of the parliament by the governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) interrogated more than 100 people as part of the investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the seizure of the building of the General Prosecutor's Office and the excess of power and official powers by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "More than 100 persons were interrogated as witnesses, including 15 people who were injured," Interfax reports the words of the press service of the SBU Maria Ostapenko.

Queen Elizabeth II may regret the day when she informed Princess Kent that she stops the maintenance of her apartments in the Kensington Palace. The princess seems to plan to receive the missing funds, "intercepting" work from one of her relatives.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves, speaking in Prague at the Conference "Democracy and Security", questioned the need for Russia's participation in the G8 forum. It is reported by the portal DELFI.EE . "Why should the state, which threatens its neighbors, threatens Europe with nuclear missiles, consist in the unification of democratic industrial states, in the" big eight "?" - Ilves asked a question in his report.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading the bill "On the restriction of smoking tobacco", which tightens the requirements for tobacco products and brings Russian legislation in line with international standards. Now information about the dangers of smoking will be written with "arshin" letters, and nicotine in the cigarettes themselves will be less.

The Italian ENEL won the auction for the sale of 25.03% of the shares of OGK -5 - one of the best assets allocated during the restructuring from RAO UES. According to Interfax, at the initial price of 24.7 billion rubles, Italians offered 39.2 billion rubles ($ 1.5 billion), and the main competitor - Rusal, surrendered at this mark. Also in the auction, Novatek and the German E.on. Novatek practically did not participate in the auction, taking only one step.

The preliminary data of the examinations on the fact of detecting the corpse of the missing in Orenburg a week ago four -year -old Julia Ryabtseva became known. The girl’s body was discovered next to the embankment of the Ural River. According to experts, the girl was killed. About this "Interfax" on Wednesday was reported in the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of the city.

A group of American congressmen, led by the co -chair of the Commission on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives by Tom Lantos, addressed the President of Russia with a call to prevent the deprivation of the lawyer status of Karinna Moskalenko, the defender of the former head of the NK Yukol Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other famous people. “We strongly recommend that you strictly turn to the Prosecutor General with a request to withdraw a request about the deprivation of Mrs.

The Lexus car was stolen on Tuesday night at the associate professor of the journalism department of the Moscow State University of Humanitarian University named after Sholokhov. According to Interfax, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital on Wednesday, "the victim told the police that the car was abducted from his house in Protopopovsky Lane." Approximate material damage amounted to more than 2 million rubles. Operational-search measures are held.

Russian Igor Andreev was not able to break through to Nikolai Davydenko to the semifinals of the French open championship in the tennis, which takes place these days in Paris. On Wednesday, on the central court of Philip Shatriey Andreev, in three sets, lost to Serb Novak Djokovic, who was sown at the tournament under the sixth number, with a score of 6: 3, 6: 3, 6: 3. In a full-time confrontation, Djokovic has been leading Andreev already 2-0.