A criminal case was transferred to the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg for consideration on the merits against a 23-year-old man suspected of raping eight girls. According to the press service of the city prosecutor's office, the investigation established that from January 2005 to December 2006, a man met girls at the age of 16-23, near the Metro station "Ozerki", "Bolshevikov Avenue" and "Kupchino".

In January-May 2007, 6% more children were born (per 1000 people) than for the same period of last year. In 2000-2006, the specific birth rate increased by an average of 3%. The Russian Newspaper evaluates these changes in the field of birth rate by demographic innovations of the government .

Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the complication of the situation in the world is largely explained by the position of the United States, which, in its expression, suffer from the "Winner". "So I want the Americans to be winners. And the fact that they are sick with this disease, the complex of the winner, this is the main reason that everything is confused and complicated in our world," Gorbachev said at a press conference on Friday.

In the capital, the police officer-driver of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern Administrative District of the capital found a package in which there were 250 thousand euros, and returned the money discovered to the owners.

In St. Petersburg, there is a rush at auctions for the sale of dilapidated buildings with plots of land. Small companies that are unable to buy large plots of land are fighting for the right to develop sites under buildings subject to demolition. Emergency facilities also have many advantages - they are already provided with engineering infrastructure and are located in prestigious areas of St. Petersburg.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has instructed a number of metropolitan departments to develop the amount and procedure for paying compensation to those car owners whose garages will be demolished during the construction of the fourth transport ring , the metropolitan administration reported on Friday. However, the situation is complicated by the fact that in Moscow, along with rising housing prices, garage space has also become an expensive pleasure.

In Orenburg, the victim of the robbers was a local entrepreneur who received a bank loan of 9.7 million rubles. As Interfax was informed in the city Internal Affairs Directorate, the day before, a resident of Orenburg, engaged in entrepreneurial activities, issued a loan for the purchase of agricultural machinery in one of the commercial banks of the city. Leaving the bank with money, the businessman got into his car and drove to the office.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov instructed a number of departments to develop the procedure for compensation for car owners whose garages will be demolished during the construction of the fourth transport ring. Meanwhile, in some areas, the price of a carman begins from 700 thousand rubles and sometimes exceeds the cost of a one -room apartment, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the city administration.

The day before, at a meeting of the Budget Committee, deputies of the Samara Regional Duma expressed their readiness to support the Wings of the Soviets football club, making a decision to transfer to the regional Ministry of Finance the proposals for lending to the club. In a difficult situation, the team was due to the financial claims of the management company Roman Abramovich Millhouse Capital, requiring it to repay a debt of $ 7.1 million.

Groups of radical young people today arranged riots in the area of ​​the so -called Red Mosque and tore off the authorities attempted to conduct a Friday prayer in it, RIA Novosti reports. The so-called red mosque (Lal Masjid) was reconstructed and repainted by the authorities into a new light-beige color after the building was seriously affected by recent military assault. The authorities appointed a new leader to the mosque and intended to open it for believers.

In Poland, the bus driver was dismissed due to the huge amount of SMS, which he managed to send from a corporate cell phone, AR reports. In total, Leshki sent 38 thousand messages, for which his employer was issued an account with 94 thousand zlotys (34 thousand US dollars). Voichik lives in the city of Slupsk in the northwest of the country. He explained his passion for SMS by the desire to win 100 thousand zlotys in the lottery (36 thousand dollars).

According to the Moscow prosecutor’s office for 6 months of 2007, in the capital, 77 police officers were brought to criminal and disciplinary liability for the service crimes. However, the head of the Department for the Supervision of the Procedural Activities of the Internal Affairs and Justice of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office Vasily Pustovalov, having published this information, emphasized that there was no “order” against the police.

From August 1, 2007, tariffs for a number of services of the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual" - a monopoly owner of cemeteries in the capital will more than double in Moscow. In total, since the beginning of the year, prices will increase by more than four times. The “ritual” explains the rise in price by the fact that they work at a loss, since the number of “social” funerals of the poor has increased, on which the city allocates not enough funds.

The Black Sea Dolphin-Afalin leads in the race for the right to become a symbol of the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi. The city administration, referring to the results of the survey, emphasized that the dolphin is the main contender for victory in the competition for the best option for the talisman of the Olympiad.

The World Council of the International Motorsport Federation (FIA) at a special meeting in Paris examined the details of the case on the leak and the possible use of confidential information in Formula 1 and issued its verdict. According to the results of the investigation, the fact of owning the McLaren team confidential documentation Ferrari was confirmed, but there was no evidence of its use in the design of the machine and obtaining an illegal advantage.