The police of the city of New York put on the wanted list of a friend of the 20-year-old daughter of a university professor, whose body was discovered wrapped in a sheet in the bedroom of the apartment of a multi-storey residential complex belonging to this university, reports AP. The neighbors in the apartment announced an unpleasant odor emanating due to the closed door of the bedroom.

In the case of an explosion in the Cherkizovsky market of Moscow, in addition to this crime, eight explosions and one murder appear, the Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin told Interfax. “All the explosions except Cherkizovsky were without serious consequences. And the murder is the same thing about the murder of the 17 -year -old Vigen Abrahamantz , committed in the subway at the Pushkinskaya station,” the metropolitan prosecutor told reporters on Wednesday.

Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika arrived on Wednesday in Iran, where he will hold negotiations with the leadership of the Islamic Republic, whose focus will have security issues in Iraq, said the representative of the Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Dabbach, Interfax reports.

The consortium of investors on Wednesday may sign an agreement on the acquisition of 25%+1 shares of OJSC Pole Gold, the largest producer of precious metal in Russia, Interfax said. A 25.5% of the Gold Polar shares through the offshore system are controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin, the rest of the shares apply on exchanges.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes on Wednesday, August 8, on a three-day trip to the Arctic regions of the country, in one of which it is planned to create a deep-sea seaport in the Arctic. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Kanadian Press news agency. For the 18 months of being as Prime Minister, Harper has been making a trip to the Canadian Arctic for the third time. This indicates that the region’s problems were “given an unconditional priority,” agencies say.

Capital architects are discussing the reconstruction project of two famous streets of the capital - the old and new Arbat. The new Arbat is supposed to be returned to the view of the Kalininsky Avenue of the mid-60s of the last century, and the old Arbat "grew up" to the turn of the 19th-XX centuries. The redevelopment cost can cost about $ 600 million, however, the city does not intend to invest from the budget on this venture. Now the Moscow authorities are actively looking for investors.

Since the time of the IPO, VTB shares several times lowering below the placement price - 13.6 kopecks. The minimum value - 13.38 kopecks were recorded on August 1. However, on August 7, the quotes fell even lower. At the MICEX, they fell into 1.5% to 13.34 kopecks, and during the trading, they reduced to 13.31 kopecks. VTB receipts on LSE decreased by 0.76% to $ 10.42. The Maisk placement of VTB has become the largest and most folk of all Russian IPOs.

Actor Mikhail Porechenkov debuted as a director-director. His first picture called "Day D" is a kind of remake of the American action movie "Commando". The film, the name of which is deciphered as the "Paratrooper Day", was shot in community with director Ekaterina Pobedinskaya, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Movie Pro film company.

The new fifth-generation air defense system based on the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system is capable of reflecting blows from the cosmos, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force (Air Force) of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Alexander Zelin, RIA Novosti reports. The complex is 2.5 times in combat characteristics surpasses its predecessor S-300.

In all Orthodox churches in Moscow, Panichids will be committed today by victims of the Stalinist repressions. It was on this day 70 years ago at the Butovo training ground that the mass executions of political prisoners began. Thousands of people were killed, including clergymen. The day before, a large worship cross was established near the church of the new martyrs and confessors of Russian in Butovo.

As a result of the disaster of the Polish bus in the north of France, four Poles died. This was announced in the news release of the Polish TV channel TWN-24, ITAR-TASS reports. 25 out of 47 passengers of the bus were injured. The incident occurred near the city of Dunkirk. The bus turned over at the entrance to the parking lot. Some of the victims were delivered to Belgium hospitals. This is the second serious incident with Polish buses in France lately.

In the Dzerzhinsky district of Novosibirsk, a 30-meter pillar of water breaking out of the ground knocked out glass in 40 apartments of a nine-story building. This happened due to the breakthrough of the heating main pipe, which could not withstand the increase in pressure during the tests of the heating system after the repair. Glasses were broken in the windows from the first to the ninth floor, part of the apartments, especially on the lower floors, are flooded.

A strong thunderstorm with the wind collapsed on Wednesday morning on New York. More than 200 cars are broken in the city of fallen trees. As a result, one person died, reports Interfax. According to the mayor of the city of Michael Bloomberg, a woman died: another car crashed into her car, stuck in a tunnel filled with water. Five more people were injured, reports CNN . A strong thunderstorm fell in the region of seven in the morning local time.

The Moscow City Court, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, once again extended for three months - until December 2 - the term of maintenance of the former executive vice president of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan, accused of laundering and legalizing funds. The preliminary investigation in the Aleksanyan case was completed by the Prosecutor General in January 2007 and the defense of the vice president of the company began familiarization with the case file.

Oleg Deripaska is trying to become a full -fledged participant in the main Moscow construction site - the Moscow -City business center - he is negotiating with Mikhail Prokhorov on the purchase of 47% of the shares of City OJSC, 38% of which he bought from the Guta group in June.