The prosecutor’s office of the city of Vologda took control of the case of the theft of a regular bus. The man was in a hurry to a wedding to his lover who married another man, Interfax reports. As the prosecutor’s press service reported on Thursday, the day before, at the Babushkin Library stop, a young man entered the bus of route No. 47, who sent an object similar to a pistol to the driver and demanded to take him to another district of the city.

People's Artist of the USSR Lev Durov, a few days ago hospitalized in the Botkin hospital , was transferred to the city hospital No. 4 the day before, where he was undergoing an operation to implant a pacemaker, RIA Novosti reports. The Director of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Konstantin Chernyshev said: “To improve the artist’s condition, the doctors decided to put Lev Durov a pacemaker. The operation was successful.

The prosecutor's office of the Sakmarsky district of the Orenburg region aroused administrative production in relation to the local theological school of Muslims working without a license. This is reported today by the Blagovers-Info with reference to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

In the sky over Abkhazia on Thursday, Abkhazian Air Defense Air Defense was shot down by another unmanned aircraft of Georgia, said Anatoly Zaitsev, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Unrecognized Republic. According to him, the Georgian drone was shot down in the region of 17:05 Moscow time after he crossed the border of Abkhazia and was in the airspace in the republic.

The Catholicos of all Armenians Garein II , who was on a visit to the Vatican at the invitation of the head of the Roman Catholic Church of Pope Benedict XVI , called on all countries of the world to recognize the 1915 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Blagovers-Info News of News-Armenia . Armenian genocide is considered the first XX century genocide, organized and systematically carried out by the Mlado -Turkish government.

23 people died on Thursday in Somalia in heavy battles between Ethiopian troops and Islamist militants. According to ITAR-TASS, clashes in the area of ​​the village of Garsani 300 km north of the Somali capital of Mogadisho. The Islamists said they were deploying an attack on Ethiopian troops to take revenge on the destruction of Khashi Ajero, the head of the local branch of Al -Qaeda, as a result of the bombing of the US Air Force last week.

The gas explosion destroyed two two-story houses in the north-west of London. As a result of the incident, three people received burns and severe injuries. One of them, according to the Sky News satellite television channel, died. There can still be people under the rubble. Employees of fire brigades, who in the UK perform the functions of rescue services, are currently actively searching for them. The incident occurred in the metropolitan district of Harrow, on Stanley-Road Street.

On Wednesday, the Krasnodar court sentenced a 16-year-old college student at the Krasnodar branch of the Russian State Trade and Economic University Regina Khlebnikova. The court found the girl guilty of beating an African student and applying multiple stab wounds to the Armenian. All crimes were committed based on racial hatred, writes Kommersant . The court found that on the evening of December 25, 2007, Regina Khlebnikova and her friend drank beer and went for a walk around the city.

Gazprom went to third place in capitalization in the world, overtaking General Electric and China Mobile. After the chairman of the board of directors of the company Dmitry Medvedev took office, the Bloomberg agency said, the company's shares went up by 4.2%. Thus, the market value of Gazprom increased to 8.12 trillion rubles ($ 340 billion). The capitalization of China Mobile is $ 337.2 billion, General Electric - 325 billion.

The leadership of the American concern General Motors made an unusual decision - all their male developers were ordered to change into women's clothing. Thus, they tried to understand how a woman was feeling behind the wheel of their cars. Men made overhead nails, shoes in high -heeled shoes, and imitated a female dress for garbage bags. Such an experiment, according to Vesti , was carried out one day during the planning of a new SUV.

The Directorate of the World Hockey Championship, which these days are held in Canadian cities of Quebec and Galifax, made a decision on disciplinary sanctions against the defender of the Sweden national team Niclas Wallin, who injured the attacking Swiss team Roman Vika.

In Moscow, the members of the gang of pimps were charged, who forced and mockery forced girls and young men to prostitution. The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation completed an investigation into a criminal case against Russians and citizens of Ukraine who turned women into prostitutes for the metropolitan sex industry, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the SCP of the Russian Federation.

According to a survey conducted by sociologists of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ), many Russians are faithful to the slogan of the 50s of the last century "Russian with the Chinese - brothers forever!". Now the Russians again consider China the most friendly country. And to the most hostile countries in relation to Russia, its citizens ranked the United States, Georgia and Ukraine.

The official residence of President Dmitry Medvedev will be located in Gorki-9, where the first president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin previously lived. Later, the first president moved to Barvikh, and the residence of Gorki-9 was not used, the Moscow Komsomolets notes. The residence has both residential and working zones, all communication lines have already been drawn, there is a helicopter site.

The Governor of the Saratov Region Pavel Ipatov intends to introduce a bill to the regional Duma, according to which war veterans living in the region will be completely exempted from paying for housing and communal services, RIA Novosti reports. "The first document signed by Dmitry Medvedev as the President of the Russian Federation was a decree on the provision of housing to veterans.