In St. Petersburg, an unknown citizen of Uzbekistan and a brown student were stabbed unknown in one evening. The investigation in the case of the murder of a native of Buryatia is engaged in the department for the investigation of especially important crimes, according to Fontanka.ru, citing the investigation department of the city prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg. According to preliminary data, the murder was committed on national grounds.

Russia will protect Russian fishing vessels in the Spitsbergen area. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the head of the State Medical Science, Andrei extreme. "Already on March 31, we will capture and send two fish -guards to the Western Spitsbergen area, which will carry out year -round patrolling in the Spitsbergen area," he said.

In the spring of this year, Mercedes-Benz will present a GL 500 car for the Russian market with a package of updated design equipment installed on it. It will be installed in series and include the grille of the radiator, the front bumper and altered double exhaust pipes. At the same time, the price of an updated car will not change and will still be 3,596,400 rubles. Prior to this, the Mercedes-Benz GL 500 in such a design was sold only in North America.

A three-day commandant hour was introduced in Baghdad on Thursday, ITAR-TASS reports. As the representative of the Iraqi security forces, the brigade General Kasem al-Musaui, the ban on the movement of transport and people will act in the capital until Sunday. The commandant hour is announced from 23:00 p.m. to 5:00 in the morning of Baghdad. According to him, such measures were taken by the authorities after armed clashes between the Shiite militants and the Iraqi security forces and the army.

Four Congolens and one Russian were arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the plunder of the aircraft. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of local authorities of the Mave Enzoroni. Five arrested found at the airport of the city of ARU in the east of the country, when they unscrewed and tried to carry spare parts from the An-12 transport aircraft. The plane was seized after a serious accident, and he had long been at a forced parking at the airport.

The Nissan Supercover Limit Supercar GT-R, artificially set by engineers, caused a lot of protests among those who want to get something more from this powerful car. The speed limiter of 180 km/h is set on the model in accordance with the requirements of Japanese legislation - the speed of any car sold in Japan and intended for traveling on public roads should be limited to electronics at a mark of 180 km/h.

In the USA, unmanned aerial vehicles are first put into service. The police of the city of Miami run in a novelty. In the near future, the latest unmanned aerial vehicles will be at the disposal of the American state of Florida, with the help of which law enforcement agencies expect to fight crime even more effectively, the British newspaper The Telegraph writes. The low -size Honeywell aircraft was created specifically for police officers.

The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Viktor Zubkov, instructed the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources to Yuri Trutnev to deal with the rental of 490 hectares of forests in the Near Moscow at a suspiciously low price. The prime minister made such a demand for the Minister today, opening the government meeting. "It became known about conducting auctions for renting forest sites for recreational use in the west of Moscow of more than 400 hectares," Zubkov said.

As of December 31, 2007, the retailer's net debt amounted to $271 million, the company reports. 36.6 CEO Jerry Kalmis explained the increase in debt burden by the rapid development of the network: since 2005, the number of pharmacies has increased from 445 to 1224, Vedomosti writes. Yesterday, at a meeting with investment bank analysts, Kalmis said that in order to reduce the load, the company plans to sell the European Medical Center (EMC), acquired a year and a half ago.

The military regime of Myanmar is ready to resign and transfer power in the country to the civil government in 2010. This was announced on Thursday by the chairman of the Military State Council of Peace and Development (GSMR), which performs the functions of the government, senior General Tan Swed.

In the capital, an apartment of an official of the Moscow government was robbed. The prey households were values ​​in the amount of over 3 million rubles. The crime was committed in the north of Moscow last Tuesday, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. To penetrate the apartment, thieves chose the time when the housewives were not at home. As explained in the police, the victim turned to the duty unit on the same day in the evening.

The Governor of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich, bought more than $ 160 million the largest “boo” on Earth - or rather, a tunnel -extension complex. Recall that the deal became known the day before . A new purchase made by the owner of Chelsea immediately gave rise to assumptions that it may be used to build the longest tunnel in the world that will connect Russia with America under the bottom of the Bering Strait, writes The Daily Mail .

The Austrian billionaire Martin Claff paid his ex -wife in a divorce of 200 million euros, "breaking the record" of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. "The Viennese entrepreneur, whose condition is estimated at 1.6 billion euros, allowed himself the most expensive divorce in the world without unnecessary noise," the Heite newspaper said on Thursday.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov instructed the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources to Yuri Trutnev to understand the situation with the transfer of land plots in the west of the Moscow Region, Interfax reports today. “There are many questions, I ask Yuri Trutnev to figure it out,” V. Zubkov said on Thursday during the meeting of the government.

The Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) intends to conduct a more stringent check of citizens' income this year. To this, it is pushed by the actual failure last year of the tax amnesty. The tax authorities will pay special attention to additional sources of income.