In the Smolensk region, police detained two people suspected of abduction of a lawyer. The criminals were previously a lawyer, but he could not save them from the prison. Two detainees are already giving confession, and their accomplices are looking for, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation.

Six and a half years after the tragedy, numerous theories about the nature of terrorist attacks are still circulating. Among the unsolved issues: the Pentagon wall is pierced with a rocket, empty aircraft controlled from the remote control, terrorist attacks ordered by Washington or Mossad. The next conference on this topic will be held today in Geneva, writes Le Temps . Experts have a chance to cling to a series of contradictions of the American investigation.

Acabion introduced the public a small four -wheeled apparatus called Acabion GTBO, which looks like a capsule. This "miracle" can be safely called one of the most powerful and fast cars of the future. Technically, it is a motorcycle with a completely closed body and a pair of additional wheels.

Eight passers-by, including children, were injured in a shootout at a bus stop in the south of Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. Three children, aged 10 to 12 years, and one woman is in critical condition, representatives of medical services said. The attacker, after he shot the clip towards the stop, ran away in an unknown direction. The police blocked the entire district and is active in the search for the shooter, ITAR-TASS reports. This is the second shootout in Los Angeles in a week.

The prime minister Viktor Zubkov did not like the project for the development of insurance activities in Russia for 2008-2012 so that he demanded his “serious processing”. "The structure of the strategy, its content is descriptive, which does not allow to determine the essence of problematic issues and ways to resolve them," Zubkov said on February 28 during the government meeting.

Toyota Auto -Concerts specialists conduct final road tests on Scandinavia's routes of their future Avensis 2010 model year. And in 2009, within the framework of the car dealership in Geneva, the debut of the serial version of the third generation of this sedan is expected. The novelty will be available with a hybrid power plant under the hood, and both gasoline and diesel engines will be combined with an electric motor.

The Russian artist of Armenian descent Valery Bojyan intends to challenge the authorship of Sergei Parajanov’s collage, “The Secret Supper”, which was recently sold at the MacDouugall London auction, the Russian Armenians “Yerroramas” said. Parajanov’s work “Secret Supper” was sold from a hammer for more than 178 thousand dollars at the London auction of Russian art Macdougall.

In Tbilisi on Thursday, the funeral of the opposition Georgian politician and billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili will be held. The businessman’s family statement says that Patarkatsishvili will be buried in the courtyard of the Arkady building, the former Tbilisi Palace of Marriage, which the businessman acquired several years ago.

American scientists intend to fire the south pole of the moon with two space-bolvanists with sensors. This will be done to determine if there is a particle of water ice in this area of ​​the lunar surface. The experiment, called "Lunar Kreiter and Observed Sensing Satelite" (Lrocess), is scheduled for February 2009. It was then that the satellites will fall to the south pole of the moon.

Krasnoyarsk collectors of rare animals and insects Vladimir and Kristina Efremenko, sentenced by the Madagascar court to imprisonment for poaching in the territory of one of the national parks of the island, are exempted from imprisonment. Recall that the other day Vladimir Efremenko was hospitalized with a diagnosis of dysentery.

Humanity will suffer direct and indirect losses from the war in Iraq in the amount of $ 6 trillion, says the Nobel laureate in the field of economics, the main economist of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz. This, for example, is comparable to the magnitude of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of all countries of the world or half of the annual US GDP. The Guardian London newspaper published excerpts from his new book, written together with the professor of Harvard University Linda Bilms.

On February 23, in the Leningrad Region, at about 8 pm at 70 km of St. Petersburg - Sortavala in the village of Petrovskoye, a serious accident occurred with the participation of two police cars and one "civilian" car. According to "47news" , the traffic police inspector of the traffic police of the police department in the Priozersky district, the 36-year-old warrant officer drove the VAZ-21144 service car, being intoxicated.

In the United States, a 33-year-old disabled woman was convicted of two years in prison for harassment to Santa Claus . The American was arrested last December. She was charged with sexual harassment and violation of public order, RIA Novosti reports. An elderly man working as Santa Claus at the Danbury Fair in Danbury made accusations against Sandrama Lami.

In Russia, a new generation of monster children is growing, in which, as in a crooked mirror, it reflects an increasingly fragmented, obsessed with money and a corrupt society. The criminals and those who are already serving a sentence in prisons are becoming younger. Dear mobile phone, good shoes or - especially in girls - just attracting the attention of peers, appearance - sufficient reasons for envious youth to make theft.

Today, the Statats-Secretary, Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Shatalov informed reporters following the meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation that the tariffs for compulsory insurance of auto-citizenship (OSAGO) will not increase this year. According to him, insurance payments allow insurance companies to carry out this business quite hacking. It is reported by ITAR-TASS .