On the border of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Samara region, police officers suffered serious losses who tried to detain the attacker. The armed criminal desperately resisted, and then blew up the grenade, undermining himself with the guards of order. A bandit himself died from the explosion, as well as one of the police officers, Vesti.Ru TV channel reports.

The bodies of all nine miners who died due to the explosion at the Minutinskaya mine in Nizhny Tagil were found. All of them are raised to the surface. At the moment, seven are identified, the remains of two more are not yet possible to identify.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow demanded from the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov to prove that one of the leaders of the right -hand Party Boris Nadezhdin caused him moral damage, Interfax reports. Luzhkov requires Nadezhdin and a party of 500 thousand rubles for moral damage. "Today, the second preliminary court session was held, which on February 5 has already appointed the main meeting.

The Symantec announced by the annual spam states that the average share of garbage messages in global postal traffic was 87.4%. The worst of all things were at the end of May, when 95 out of every 100 sent letters contained spam announcements. The least undesirable correspondence was at the beginning of the year - only 73.8%. Symantec notes that the most letters sent by e -mail have a size of 2 to 5 kb: the share of such messages is approximately 71%.

The Chinese authorities are preparing to strengthen control over foreign Internet sites, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the All-Chinese Internet Association. This is done, according to the source, in order to "prevent the penetration of pornographic and other information of this kind into China." "Some criminal elements within the country, in order to avoid responsibility, transfer the mechanisms for managing their sites abroad.

Lieutenant General of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Alexander Bulbov, accused of illegal listening to telephone conversations and other crimes, plans to return to the service only for the next summer. Bulbov himself announced this on Thursday RIA Novosti . Earlier, the head of the FSKN Viktor Ivanov informed reporters that Bulbov was at the disposal of the FSKN .

The legends of the German hard rock Scorpions will present in Moscow a new album Sting in the Tail ("SIT in the tail"). The group will show its new “Say” on the stage of the Megasport Palace on the Khodynsky field as part of a world tour in support of the record, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the organizers of the concert. "After the release of the last conceptual album" Humanity: Hour I ", we decided that it was time to return to the origins.

The economic crisis in the Russian Federation has not yet ended, "the biggest troubles are waiting for Russia in 2010." This opinion on the air of the Echo of Moskvy was expressed by the head of the neocon consulting company Mikhail Khazin, commenting on the statements of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev .

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the process of exchange rate formation of the dollar the next day took place, decreased by 57.15 kopecks and amounted to 29.9292 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

This week, Africa Israel Levaeva with the holders of the company's bonds ended. Part of the debt will be repaid with money, including at the expense of the businessman’s own funds, Africa Israel shares will also be aimed at restructuring the debt. The balance of the debt bonds agreed to restructure until 2025, writes RBC Daily .

The Ministry of Health of Scotland is investigating the causes of the outbreak of anthrax among local drug addicts using heroin. It is reported by BBC . The second drug addict has already died from this disease. In total, four cases of anthrax of anthrax are confirmed: of which there are three in men and one in a woman. Doctors called on everyone who uses heroin in Scotland to undergo a medical examination. They suspect that a batch of drugs, infected with spores of anthrax, entered.

The court and the execution of Nicholas Chausko were not a fair process, but "a political murder in the midst of the revolution." This was told by one of the participants in the shooting team Dorin-Marian Chirlan, who dealt with the Romanian dictator and his wife Elena. Subsequently, Chirlan said goodbye to a military career and became a lawyer, but the memories of the Nativity of 1989, when the dictator was killed, still haunt him.

The priest Alexander Filippov, who was killed last Tuesday on the threshold of his apartment in Podolsk, will be buried today at the ancient rural church, the abbot of which he was. This was announced the day before by ITAR-TASS in the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. At eight o’clock in the morning, a memorial service in the Ascension Church in the village of Satino-Russian Podolsky district was headed by Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal .

Elena Baturina is trying to return 187 million rubles, paid in 2006 following the auction for the deposit in the Samara region, through the court. The company suits the subsoil use of the Samara region (Samarandra), trying to terminate the license agreement to develop the Shigonsky cement deposit, Kommersant writes.

On Wednesday evening in Moscow, an unknown criminal attacked a graduate student at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and forcibly took away her expensive foreign car. As a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies reported to RIA Novosti , a man of Caucasian appearance attacked a graduate student born in 1981 at about 19:30 on Sadovaya-Karetnaya Street. Using threatening words, the man took possession of her Range Rover car and fled.