Law enforcement officers detained 8 people in several regions of Russia at once. Members of a conspiracy gang are suspected of trafficking in people and sexual exploitation. Employees of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against members of an organized criminal group (organized crime group), which included both residents of Moscow and several other Russian regions.

About 55% of mortgage debtors are hidden from their creditors, the general director of OJSC “The Restructuring Housing Loans” agency Andrei Yazykov told reporters on Tuesday. According to him, at the moment in the Russian Federation there are about 60 thousand problematic loans in the field of mortgage lending totaling about 90 billion rubles.

In the 2nd quarter, the fall of the Russian economy reached the “bottom”, and in the 2nd half of the year, economic activity will be slightly revived due to the restoration of world demand and the global financial system, as well as an increase in oil prices, the World Bank’s report published today, excerpts from which the Finmarket leads.

Sberbank does not exclude the trials with General Motors after the Opel transaction was canceled, said the president - Bank Chairman German Gref to reporters in St. Petersburg. "Today we have consultations with GM, because we have entered into legal relations from which we now need to get out. We hope that we can do this outside of judicial procedures, but if necessary, we are ready to defend our position in the courts," he said.

The worst for Russia is behind, the strategists of the Troika Dialogue Kingsmill Bond and Andrey Kuznetsov confidently say in the report "Russia: after the storm". If disasters do not happen like a dollar collapse (if China begins to reduce the volume of dollars in reserves) or US war with Iran, then interest rates in the West will remain low, and developing markets heated by an influx of capital will continue to grow.

Macedonia’s police arrested a young man who is suspected of serial murders of old women. According to preliminary information, the criminal was a fan of the work of Fedor Dostoevsky, and therefore consciously copied the image of the "ideological killer" Rodion Raskolnikov. All murders incriminated to 28-year-old Viktor Karamarkov were committed from March to October 2009, the Izvestia newspaper with reference to Agence France-Presse writes.

There were reports on the Web that the worm was first started in the iPhone. The malicious code is created by a hacker under the IKEX nickname. Penetrating in the "Jailbrained" iPhone on the SSH protocol, he replaces the wallpaper set by the user, in the photo of the pop star of the 1980s of Rick Estley, who, for example, is known for the performance of the Never Gonna Give You Up hit. After infection, the worm is looking for other iPhone on a mobile network.

To go to Nikita Tikhonov and Evgeny Hasis, accused of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, an independent investigation helped, and the criminals themselves were tracked through their active communication on social networks on the Internet, the Russian reporter network journal reports. According to him, there are another 56 right -wing radicals involved in other killings on the wanted list.

The paratroopers of the Canadian Air Force saved a 17-year-old teenager with a drifting ice floe, which he shared for almost a day with two white bears, reports AFP. The young man, along with his senior comrade on Sunday, hunted in the area of ​​the settlement of Coral Harbor (territory of Nunavut), but lagged behind his companion and ended up on a drifting ice floe.

The SCP of the Russian Federation accuses the former leadership of the Moscow Regional Investment Trust Company of the embezzlement of more than 3 billion rubles from the budget of the Moscow Region. The money was allocated to repay fictitious debts on housing and communal services, and then went to the accounts of dummmer firms and offshore.

A citizen of Great Britain was against the trial on charges of sexual abuse of a girl. The criminal seduced the visitor to the entertainment institution, being dressed in the costume of the noble hero Zorro. The criminal case, instituted against the 55-year-old homeless Mario Daggan, is listened to in the Royal Court of Swanxi (Wales). The victim of the insidious rapist who arranged a real masquerade was an 18-year-old girl, writes The Belfast Telegraph .

Residents of the Moscow Region who owed the state will now be persecuted in car services. The local department of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) reported that since October, he was looking for cars of debtors through Moscow -district auto centers and workshops for the repair and maintenance of cars, Vedomosti write. As stated in the FSSP message, companies are obliged to inform the bailiffs information about the whereabouts of the property.

Weapons from abroad are actively entering Georgia, and its military potential is now much higher than a year ago, Nikolai Makarov, head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said on Tuesday. "The supply of weapons to Georgia is in full swing. The potential (military) of Georgia today is much higher than in August last year," Makarov said, answering questions from journalists.

In the Moscow region, a young police sergeant was detained, who is suspected of trying to rob Sberbank. The law enforcement officer decided to help the sick mother buy medicine. Now the gross robber was deprived of freedom and retroactively fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Currently, 23-year-old sergeant Renat Ulyanov from the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Balashikha was detained and placed in an insulator, reports Lifenews.ru .

The number of citizens registered in employment centers steadily decreased earlier, has grown last week, the Ministry of Health and Social Development states. Moreover, since October last year, according to official statistics, 759.5 thousand people have already lost. According to the ministry, the number of Russians registered in the employment service bodies, as of November 4, amounted to 2.14 million people.