The law enforcement agencies of the Amur Region detained the deputy of the city Duma Shimanovsk on suspicion of rape and murder of girls 7 and 9 years old , whose bodies were discovered on May 24 in the suburban forest, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the SCP in the Amur Region Alexei Libinsky. A person who is suspected of atrocities is considered very influential in Shimanovsk.

The head of the Bank of Russia Sergey Ignatiev warned the bankers that, attracting funds from citizens at a high percentage, they take over too high risks. At the banking forum in St. Petersburg, he stated that he intends to punish banks for high deposits. “Maybe now we will do it, because the problem of betting is serious,” said the head of the Central Bank.

The first case of the disease of the new influenza virus is registered in Venezuela. The young Venezuech at the age of 21, infected with the A/H1N1 virus, arrived at the Panama Airport on the plane, said the Minister of Health of Venezuela Hesus Mantia. The minister indicated that the country's sanitary authorities contacted all the passengers who followed this flight from the Central American country.

Dean Kamen, developer of the popular Segway scooters and owner of the research company Deka, presented his new development - a robotic prosthetic arm that can almost completely take on the functions of a real limb, CyberSecurity.ru reports. Kamen said that the development of prosthetics was sponsored by the US Army and they are intended primarily for soldiers who have lost limbs in hot spots.

The transportation of passengers by Russian airlines in January -April 2009 decreased by 23% compared to the same period of 2008 - to 2.82 million people, the deputy head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Oleg Klim at a meeting of the board of the department said. From January to April 2008, 3.653 million passengers were transported by Russian airlines.

Almost 250 people died in the central regions of Sudan as a result of clashes between the nomadic tribes of Mosseeria and Rizeigat. To suppress fierce skirmishes, the authorities sent the police to the South Cordofan province, but local residents began to kill and law enforcement officers, says ITAR-TASS.

The organization of the collective security agreement (CSTO) rapidly embodies the order of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who ordered the “increase the military component” and deepen the “coalition military construction”. Soon in Central Asia a powerful group of troops may appear, as a result of which the CSTO will turn into a certain analogue of the TATO. Recall that the CSTO includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The best footballer of Russia and the leader of CSKA Yuri Zhirkov signed a four -year contract with the London Chelsea. The transfer of the year in Europe, according to Life.ru , occurred thanks to the friendly relations of the bosses of the army club and the English grand. The oligarch Roman Abramovich whistled $ 30 million so that his team finally could win the Champions League. “The other day, Zhirkov signed a contract with the British,” said one of the partners of the football player.

The coach of the temporarily non -operating world -weight champion according to WBA, Ruslan Chagaev, before a fight with Russian Nikolai Valuev, recalled the victory of his ward over the Russian giant in April 2007, told what Ruslan was doing instead of open training on Tuesday, and promised to surprise the public with homemade blanks on Saturday. “Two years ago, Valuev seemed invincible,” Timm said in an interview with Boxing.de .

The 38-year-old pastor from the Argentine city of Rodeo del Medio believes that he was born again. Maurisio brought Kondori, who was serving in the evangelical church of the provincial town, located about a thousand kilometers west of Buenos Aires, tried to convince the thieves that penetrated him not to go against God and not commit a crime. One of the crooks, standing very close to the pastor, at a distance of about two meters, aimed his gun in the chest of Kondori and pressed the trigger.

The deputy Secretary of State Steinberg will visit Japan, South Korea, China and Russia to discuss the situation that developed after the second nuclear test in the DPRK. Together with Steinberg, a representative delegation will arrive, including senior representatives of the Ministry of Defense and Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the American Armed Forces, General James Cartlight, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the CIS countries and southeastern Europe, the unemployment rate in 2009 will grow by 35%. Such a forecast was published by the International Labor Organization (ILO). This year, the total number of people with no work will be 210-239 million people. In 2008, there were 190 million unemployed in the world, according to the ILO report, which is quoted on Friday, the UN news service, Interfax reports. The document notes that the situation in the labor market continues to deteriorate rapidly.

The mayor of the Khanty-Mansi city of Megion Alexander Kuzmin is accused of fraud. As the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug said on Friday, a criminal case was instituted against it on theft of funds from the local budget (part 3 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In Bashkiria, a criminal case has been instituted against the director of Medical Laser Center LLC Maveltzyan Akhmedyanov, who was accused of involving a Malyar dentist from Armenia.

The St. Petersburg court refused to pay 200 thousand rubles to the city dweller, who remained dissatisfied with last year's concert by Kylie Minogue in the northern capital. On Thursday, the lawsuit of Stanislav Pazaratskas rejected the Kirov District Court, but the man intends to file a cassation appeal. The failure befell the plaintiff for the third time, RIA Novosti notes. The Kyliex2008 show, which held in St.