The Moscow City Court returned to the Prosecutor General’s Office to eliminate the shortcomings the case of four employees of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and an employee of the capital's police accused of illegally listening to telephone conversations and receiving a bribe, Interfax reports. To finalize the indictment, the prosecutor’s office will need two weeks. On Thursday in court, the court granted the defense of the defendants.

The hurricane "Dean" reduced the intensity and turned into a tropical storm after he left the water area of ​​the Mexican Gulf in the area of ​​Veracreus. Tropical storms are characterized by a lower wind speed, but they can be extremely dangerous due to heavy rains, which lead to river spills and landslides in the mountains, ITAR-TASS notes. Therefore, the Mexican authorities urge the population to continue to strictly fulfill all teams and orders of civil defense forces.

American singer Justin Timberlake will play in the new film "Guru Love" with actor Mike Mayers, Variety magazine reports. This will be the second joint work of Timberlake and Mayers, who recently voiced the heroes of the cartoon "Shrek". Mayers, who also acted as the co -producer of the film, will play a man who was thrown as a child near the monastery of the hermit in India. Guru raised and raised the boy, but then sent back to the United States.

The Moscow priest Alexy, who left the state of the Moscow Patriarchate, intends to open a church parish for representatives of sexual minorities. According to the Moscow Komsomolets , Father Alexy relatively long ago left the ROC and belongs to the international reform movement, the renewal church. “I am very impressed with by the philosophical statement:“ The church is not a system and not an institution, but an organism of the truth of love, ”says the priest.

The skateboard - a popular "unofficial" sport - can be assigned the status of Olympic at the 2012 Games in London. The organizers of the London Olympiad and the leaders of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to informed sources, are sure that the inclusion of this "street" sport in the program will make the World Sports holiday more attractive for teenagers, youth, ITAR-TASS reports.

The prosecutor's office of the Omsk and Astrakhan regions conducts a check of compliance with the rights of citizens in consumer lending. Corresponding messages are posted on the official Internet sites of these departments, Kommersant writes. The audit is carried out in the leading banks of the consumption market in each of the regions. In the Omsk region, according to the prosecutor’s office, this is a “Home Credit and Finance Bank”, Investsberbank, Rusfinancebank and Alfa-Bank.

The Unified State Exam (USE) does not provide the possibility of a qualitative assessment of students' knowledge. Such an opinion, as ITAR-TASS reported, was expressed by the head of the Department of Education of the capital Olga Larionova.

Two police officers were killed, eight were injured as a result of shelling of the police motorcade in the Buinak district of Dagestan. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said Mark Tolchinsky, head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan. "Unknown criminals fired at the OMON -1 motorcade, returning from the UNTsukul district to the place of permanent deployment. Five fighters after shelling are in serious condition.

US President George Bush, speaking to American veterans of the 20th century conflicts, compared the Iraqi campaign with the war in Vietnam, but turned this comparison in favor of his continuation of the occupation, experts say. As Interfax reports, Bush, in particular, said: "Three decades later, legislative debates are still being conducted on how we entered Vietnam and how we got out of there.

Google has opened a new service - Google Sky, which makes it possible to see a map of the starry sky. Google Sky contains photos of more than 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies, reports Reuters . You can see the starry sky on your computer using the latest version of the Google Earth program. The pictures are presented in high resolution. The Google Earth project has been operating since June 2005. Now the program is available in 13 languages, including Russian.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan is concerned about the growth of external loans of local banks and may limit borrowing to prevent the growth of the financial crisis. The crisis began simultaneously with the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan . On the last day of the election campaign, the Kazakhstani stock exchange (KASE) sold a record high volume of US dollars. The historical sales record - 863.125 million US dollars on December 28, 2006 - was easily beaten and amounted to $ 883.1 million.

A contracting soldier arbitrarily left the military unit in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region, RIA Novosti told on Thursday a source in law enforcement agencies. "In the village of Kamenka, a military personnel under the contract of one of the military units of the Russian Ministry of Defense was arbitrarily left for the protection of warehouses. He has a Kalashnikov assault rifle with 60 rounds," the source said. The search for a soldier is underway.

The mayor of Arkhangelsk Alexander Donskoy, who continues to be under investigation, wrote his first letter due to the grille, reports Echo of Moscow . In a message published by the New Gazeta , the mayor complains about the conditions of the detention and pressure from the investigation. He is threatened with a deterioration in the conditions of stay in the pre -trial detention center.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the ensign of the strategic missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces), who killed his colleague , voluntarily surrendered. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh. "He surrendered to the military patrol on Wednesday at about 22:30 local time (20:30 in Moscow) at the landfill near the village of Svobodnaya near the part that he left.

Scientific and public organizations of Yekaterinburg stated that they found the remains, presumably belonging to Tsarevich Alexy and Grand Duchess Maria - the children of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, shot together with the whole royal family in 1918. "During the search work carried out in July-August in 2007, the remains of two people with traces of numerous injuries were acquired.