On the night of Saturday to Sunday in the military unit No. 81535, in the Leningrad Region, the company commander brutally beaten two soldiers. One of the military personnel drunk commander Konstantin Kretov broke his nose, the newspaper My District reports with reference to the organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg". The soldier, to whom the officer broke his nose, also recorded a concussion. "The second has hematomas, the eyes were injured," the soldiers' mothers said.

In the village of Gurkhun, Tabasaransky district of Dagestan, an accident occurred on Sunday evening, as a result of which three girls died. According to Monday, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Imam Aliyev, the children died, having failed under the ice on Lake Chery-Togar.

The high-ranking representative of the Hamas terrorist organization said that ITAR-TASS reports about the ceasefire with Israel after the elections in this country on February 10. “Perhaps the truce will be announced after the elections in Israel, because there are questions requiring clarification. They relate to the opening of border crossings and materials that will be allowed to import into the gas sector,” the representative of Hamas emphasized, who wished to remain unnamed.

The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor’s office (UK) of the Russian Federation insists on the urgent consideration by Russian parliamentarians of amendments to legislation aimed at tightening punishment for crimes against minors. The SCP of the Russian Federation is puzzled by delaying the consideration of the relevant amendments, the report said on the website of the department.

In Russia, every eighth boarding house for people with disabilities and elderly does not meet the requirements of fire safety. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia Alexander Chupyan. "The Ministry of Emergency Situations is being carried out on the supervision of a boarding school for disabled and elderly.

One of the largest Japanese auto -costs Nissan plans to reduce 20 thousand jobs, which is about 8.5% of all its employees around the world, the company said on its official website . Contractedly the document, during the financial 2009, which will begin on April 1, the corporation intends to reduce the number of jobs from 235 thousand to 215 thousand.

The First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov said today that the current economic crisis could slow down, but not stop the movement towards the long -term goals of Russia's development. According to him, the goals of the 2020 program should not be lost and blurred.

The United Methodist Church in the small town of Elizabeth City in North Carolina held an event for local children, during which they could experience what it means to be homeless, the website Prian.ru reports. In accordance with the plan of the organizers of this action, the children spent one night on the street, hiding in refrigerator boxes and other traditional “dwellings” of the homeless. Were they forced to look for food in a trash can?

The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation began verification of the detection of boxes with official police documents near the garbage tank in the territory of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern District of Moscow. According to preliminary data, among the discovered - materials from several criminal cases, as well as registration police documents.

The Moscow police detained three young people who are suspected of killing a freshman at the University of Oil and Gasin's Gas. The authorities do not spread about the possible motives of the crime, but they say that it is not the only one and this is not a robbery. The two detained Muscovites are 18 years old, and their older accomplice turned 23 years old, writes Gazeta.kz with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Yerzhan Ashikbaev.

The decrease in dollar property prices in Moscow continues to set new records. Even despite the fact that over the past week currency courses were more or less stabilized, the dollar value of the housing of the analytical center IRN.ru fell 2.8% to the mark of 4833 points. In the leaders of the fall, like all last weeks, low -quality housing: apartments in panel houses and old five -story buildings.

Millions of China residents celebrate on Monday the traditional festival of lanterns, the end of the two -week festival of the offensive of spring. Every year on the 15th day after the New Year on the lunar calendar, when there is a full moon, in the parks and on the streets, beautiful lights are lit with twilight, in the light of which the Chinese eat Yuansyao - small rice balls with sweet filling - and admire the moon.

The question of the “right to death” for Italian, who has been in a coma for 17 years, quarreled the president of the country with the prime minister, split society and threatens, according to the opposition, to plunge Italy into a constitutional crisis. Eluan Enlaro, who is now 38 years old, got into a car accident back in 1992.

The Pakistanian, arrested on Monday by the Japanese police on suspicion of the murder of 23-year-old Russians Anastasia Korpacheva, admitted the commission of a crime. This was reported by sources in the investigating authorities. According to these data, during interrogations, the arrested Mohammad Alam assures that he had previously met with Korpacheva.

In Boston, the author of one of the most famous portraits of the new US President Barack Obama Shepard Fayry was arrested. The 38-year-old artist is accused of vandalism and the application of graffiti at objects in private and municipal property, the Gzt.ru newspaper reports. The artist became famous after the appearance of a picture called "Obama - Hope." This is a large portrait of Obama, made in three colors - in red, blue and white.