In the Republic of Mordovia, the scandalously soft sentence was revised by the court against the killer of an employee of a local newspaper. Initially, the defendant was sentenced only to 120 hours of correctional labor. The secondary decision of the court was made in the case of a 19-year-old student of a pedagogical institute Oleg Mochalin, nicknamed Boxer.

Capital police are searching for criminals who cleaned the apartment of the chief inspector of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) of Russia. The prey of thieves became values ​​for a total of 700 thousand rubles more. The victim of unknown housekeepers was the chief state tax inspector of the inspection of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies.

Ratings in Russia for a week from 18 to 24 May The ratings of television series, walking on domestic TV, were somewhat sank at the sightseeing week. Either the approach of summer television hibernation affects, when the audience generally watches the TV even less, or there are no series on the air, truly interesting mass audience. One way or another, not a single series was able to step over even a seven percent line.

An entrepreneurial American discovered the "anti -crisis" cafe with topless offices, it was profitable, but still burned - in the literal sense of the word. A fire flashing on Wednesday morning, the building was destroyed almost to the ground. The incident occurred in the small town of Vassalborough in the state of Men. The cafe was open only in February, but quickly became popular. The owner even intended to expand his business.

The picture of the French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir, stolen in 1984 in Rome, seized Venetian carabinets on Wednesday from a private collector from the Northern Italian city of Treviso, RIA Novosti reports. The police representative said that a resident of the city of Treviso, located north of Venice, doubted the origin of the picture after reconciliation with a list of stolen masterpieces. "We conducted an examination with the help of Interpol, as well as the French and British police.

Thanks to public support, the magazine "The Art of Cinema" will not be left without premises . According to Interfax , this was stated by the editor -in -chief of the magazine Daniil Dondura. “While we continue to be in the former room on the street of Usievich in the building, which was built specifically for the magazine, and the issue with our further location has not been finally resolved,” Dondurey said.

The lower house of the parliament adopted on June 3 in the first reading a government package of bills, replacing the UST with insurance premiums and changing the principles of calculating pensions. The package of bills on the reform of the UST is unique in that at the stage of preparation it was not supported by either the Ministry of Finance or the Ministry of Economy, considering that the reform during the crisis is inappropriate, recalls Kommersant .

The Russian government opened a portal on the Internet, where any citizen can try to enter the public service. The site www.rezerv.gov.ru is still being launched in test mode, but there you can already register and leave the resume, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. It is alleged that such a system will overcome corruption when assigning to "bread" positions. "Federal portal of managerial personnel" was developed by the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

In the southeast of Moscow, a fight occurred between the natives of Uzbekistan, there are wounded. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the management of information and public relations of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate. “During the fight, three people were injured, one foreigner had stab wounds, two more suffered from traumatic weapons,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. According to him, the victims were taken to city hospitals.

At an open auction on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense decided on the general contractors for the two largest housing construction projects for the military - near Balashikha and Podolsk. They were the Moscow region group "Morton" and "Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5" (MSM-5).

In the next 18 months, European companies will reduce dividends at the fastest pace since 1999 amid the world recession and liquidity deficit, Bloomberg reports. This conclusion was based on the analysis of the futures market. The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 Index Dividend Futures, which allows investors to evaluate future payments of companies, shows a possible reduction in 28% in 2009 compared to 2008. In 2010, the decrease will be 32%.

The cost of housing in the UK unexpectedly increased in May by 2.6% compared to the previous month, the data of the mortgage company Halifax indicate. This is the first increase in prices for four months, writes Finmarket The average price of the house increased to 158.565 thousand pounds (260 thousand dollars), analysts expected a decrease by 1%. The cost of housing decreased in May by 13.7% in annual calculus.

In September of this year, a TMA-16 Union ship at the International Space Station as an unprofessional astronaut will go to Canada Gi Lalibert. This was announced today by the head of the piloted programs of Roscosmos Alexei Krasnov. Lalibert is the founder and head of the legendary Canadian Cirque du Soleil . By the way, for the first time in 25 years of the existence of this circus empire, one of its performances - Varekai - will be shown in Moscow.

The scientists of Harvard University, based on a 72-year study, formulated what happiness is, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Amnewyork newspaper. People who have received a strong family and good social ties consider themselves happy. The feeling of happiness adds a healthy lifestyle, including a minimum set of physical exercises, as well as the absence of bad habits: smoking and alcohol abuse.

The striker of Zenit and the Russian national team Pavel Pogrebnyak was on the list of Nevsky Prospekt financial pyramids. According to unofficial data, the damage caused to the football player could amount to about $ 1.5 million.