The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Novgorod Regional Court defended the complaint of the journalist of the Russian Caravan newspaper Galina Yartseva, accused of slander against the governor of the region Sergey Mitin and President Ilya Klebanov, Interfax reports.

It is necessary to "take a pause in any unilateral body movements on the issue of European security," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He explained in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station that we are talking about the deployment of the System about the USA in Europe and the NATO Extension.

More than a thousand firefighters fight fire in the area of ​​the city of Santa Barbara in California. The flame the day before destroyed more than 100 expensive villas in the area. According to state fire services, at least 13 people were injured, ITAR-TASS reports. The orders of urgent evacuation were received by thousands of residents of the suburbs of Santa Barbara Montesito and a number of districts of the city itself. An elderly woman died during the evacuation.

At the Congress of the ATP, a hot discussion unfolded about whether to dissolve the party for the sake of the new Prochrevsky project or not. One of the founding fathers of the Union of Right Forces Boris Nemtsov is ready to take responsibility for financing the party if it is preserved. Today, at the Congress of the ATP, he stated that he was recalling his February statement on the suspension of membership in the Soyuz.

Four people were shot dead on Friday in the American states of California and Missouri, AP reported with reference to police representatives. In the northern part of California, the dismissed worker burst into the premises of his former office and shot three people. The incident occurred in the city of Santa Clara, located to the west of San Jose. The firing 47-year-old Jin Wu fired a crime in a sports car, said police lieutenant Mike Sellers. In one of the hospitals next to the city of St.

The former mayor of the city, the rector of Togliatti State University, Sergei Zhilkin, was killed in Togliatti. About this corr. ITARS-TASS reported today in the Togliatti Internal Affairs Directorate. Two unknown today at 08:20 Moscow time on the territory of the Sulaksya sanatorium in the Avtozavodsky district of the city attacked Zhilkin. The attackers inflicted four shocks to him by sharpening in the region of the heart and 6 strokes in the abdomen, after which they disappeared.

The Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin is not enough Moldavian wine, whose deliveries were interrupted to the Russian market. Of the 34 enterprises that are granted the right to supply wine -making products, only 25 used this right, Putin said at a meeting with Moldova President Vladimir Voronin. “So now the ball is on the side of Moldova,” Putin remarked, as ITAR -TASS noted, “with a smile”.

The President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov signed a decree on the appointment of two deputy prime minister of the republic and the head of the government apparatus. According to the document, Askhab Gaygov and Ruslan Tsichoev were appointed deputy chairman of the new government of Ingushetia, the Interfax agency was reported on Saturday in the press service of the President of Ingushetia.

Sri-Lanka’s government troops took full control of the entire west coast of the island state, having broken the separatists from the strategically important city of Punerin in the north-west of the country, the press service of the Lankosky Ground Forces reports.

The Rybakov trade union in the Japanese city of Nemuro on the northern Island of Hokkaido began to show the Russian island, which is part of the Habomai ridge, for money today. The first Japanese schooner, as part of this project, with representatives of the local administration, was held today along the distinction line of territorial waters, and, without entering the Russian zone, returned to the port, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Japanese media.

The Turin sports newspaper Tuttosport , known throughout Italy with its scandalous and often frankly “yellow” line of behavior, published a note in today's issue, in which it unequivocally hints that the Kazan Rubin won the Russian championship under very dubious circumstances. The author of the article, under the initials of MF (notes Sportbox.ru ), casts doubt on the legitimacy of the victory of Kazan on the basis of a certain article published in one of the Moscow publications.

“Civil Power” (GS), participating in the project of creating a new right-hand party, at an extraordinary congress decided on a samoshrome, told RIA Novosti the head of the press service of the GS Alexander Agamov. The new democratic party with the name “right -handed” is expected to appear in Russia on Sunday on the basis of “civilian power”, the Democratic Party of Russia and the ATP, whose liquidation congresses are also held on Saturday. "Civilian Force" was created in March 2007.

There are practically no gangs left in the Chechen Republic, there are small groups that do not pose a serious threat to society. This was announced today by President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov after the completion of a special operation to identify illegal armed groups, which he personally managed. During many hours of operational events, there were no traces of militants. As Kadyrov noted, this is a good sign, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Saturday, border guards of Abkhazia did not give a group of saboteurs from Georgia to get into the border Galo region of the country, the head of the district department of the internal affairs of Lawrence Espi told reporters, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, at about 13:00 during patrolling, the Abkhaz border guards in the village of Saberio found an armed group of six people. "There was a shootout.

The Brazilian striker of CSKA Wagner Love, who, in the last round of the Russian championship , scored four goals on the gate of the Moscow FC , commenting on the rumors that they were interested in the Madrid Real Madrid, which the Spanish press reported on Friday, noted that it was not possible to perform in the "creamy". “At the moment, the only proposal that came to CSKA about my transfer was from Everton.“ Real ”did not get in touch with me, but it would be excellent to perform this club.