The bold robbery of a jewelry salon, perfect in the center of London, is investigated by the British police. The prey criminals who seized the hostage during the raid were jewelry worth more than $ 60 million. The crime was carefully planned, investigators believe. A gang of robbers consisted of at least five people, although only two attackers took part in the robbery, the newspaper The Times writes.

In the Kaliningrad region, two former police officers who brutally beat the detainee were sentenced. The law enforcement officers crippled their victim, breaking the victim of the ribs. The court of Chernyakhovsk examined the criminal case against former police officers in the Chernyakhovsky city district Andrei Khakalo and Nikolai Babenko, reports Klops.ru with reference to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Sochi on Wednesday opened a meeting "On measures to reduce alcohol consumption in Russia." As the head of state said, despite the previously taken measures to reduce alcohol consumption in the country, alcoholism in Russia has become a national disaster, Interfax reports.

The famous opera singer Anna Netrebko refused to participate in the production of the Opera Travate in the Metro-Opera in New York. This was confirmed by the representative of the Metro-Opera Peter Clark, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, "a new, modernized version of the well-known opera of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi on the New York stage will be put by director Willy Dexer." The director created a similar performance specifically for the opera festival in Salzburg, held in 2005.

The Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina went to the third round of the Tournament in Cincinnati. Safina was close to defeat, in the second set, the Russian woman was inferior with a score of 4: 5, and her rival experienced Italian Robert Vinci filed for the match. Nevertheless, Safina showed her character and won a strong -willed victory. In the third circle, she will meet with Chinese Shuai Pan or Spaniard Martinez Sanchez.

Roszdravnadzor allowed to test domestic vaccines from pork flu in public. In particular, the tests of a living intranasal monoccation that will be produced in Irkutsk are approved, and the inactivated subsidiary of the Monovaccines, which they intend to release in Ufa, RIA Novosti reports. An accelerated registration procedure will be valid for pandemic flu vaccines, they note in Roszdravnadzor.

Analysts of investment companies interviewed by Interfax agency are afraid that the aggressive debt policy of the Russian Federation can reduce the availability of borrowed funds for companies in foreign markets and oust them from the domestic one. In addition, they believe that an increase in social expenditures in the budget should be temporary, writes the business Internet gas stroke.ru .

The first case of pork flu is registered in Smolensk. The woman returning from Thailand was hospitalized in the infectious department, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the regional administration. Now the situation on influenza and acute respiratory infections in the regional center is non -epidemic, officials are soothing, in all age groups the incidence does not exceed threshold.

The smallest residential new buildings and the smallest size of rooms in Europe can be found in the UK, writes Prian.ru with reference to The Daily Mail According to a study conducted by the Commission on Architecture and Environmental Development (CABE) of Great Britain, 44% of respondents do not have enough space for playing young children during cooking. Almost half is not enough space for furniture.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday will announce on Wednesday a sentence on a high -profile case of corruption in the Federal Fund for Compulsory Medical Insurance (MHIF). According to the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Anna Usacheva, during the discussion of the consequences of the jury, the judge issued a decision on the suspension of criminal proceedings against accountant Galina Bykova until her recovery and continued the hearing in relation to other defendants.

The Iranian authorities freed the employee of the French Embassy in Tehran Nazak Afshar, who has double French-Iranian citizenship. This was announced by the Champs Elysees. Nazak Afshar is an employee of the culture department of the French Embassy in Tehran, ITAR-TASS reports. She was detained by Iran’s special services during the massive manifestations of the opposition that arose in the country after the presidential election.

The Arkhangelsk Blogger student was sentenced by the court by 150 hours of correctional labor for inciting national hatred and enmity on the Internet. As reported on Wednesday on the website of the regional prosecutor’s office , such a decision was made by the Primorsky District Court, agreeing with the position of state prosecution. The case against 22-year-old Pavel Yasyukevich, a student of the Primorsky State University named after Lomonosov, was instituted in May under Part 1 of Art.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic united two criminal cases initiated by the abduction and murder of employees of the non -governmental organization "Save the generation" Zarema Sadulaeva and Ali Dzhabrailov.

Billionaire Vladimir Potanin managed to get almost $ 31 million from billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov from billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Prokhorov had to pay this money to the ex-partner for the Moscow mansion at the metro station "Prospekt Mira", Kommersant writes. On Tuesday, the Moscow Arbitration Court granted the lawsuit of Interros Estin CJSC Potanin against the control of CJSC CJSC CJSC to recover 986 million rubles (about $ 31 million at the current rate).

Chinese police officers conducted an unprecedented -scale raid against slave traders and abductors of people. As a result, they managed to free over three thousand people from captivity. During the operation to combat illegal trafficking in people, which lasted four months, the Chinese police released more than three thousand previously stolen women and children, reports the Associated Press with reference to the local agency Xinhua. Details of liberation are not yet disclosed.