Despite the assurances of the authorities about the most serious security measures taken throughout the country on the day of the parliamentary elections, the first hours of voting were marked by a series of attacks, the largest part of which was aimed at the Baghdad areas, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the west of Moscow, a drunken man opened today shooting from a hunting rifle on passers -by from a balcony of a residential building. According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Capital Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred at about 12:00 Moscow time in d.38 on Gerasima Kurin St.. A police outfit arrived at the scene. The man who opened the shooting was detained and delivered to the police department.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai "was not the goal" of today's shelling. This was stated by the AL-JAZEEERA representative of the Taliban. According to him, they released several mines in the VIP group during a visit to her city of Marge in the south of Afghanistan, believing that this is a delegation of British Prime Minister Gordan Brown. “The Taliban thought they would have aiming in Brown, but it turned out that in the Afghan president,” the channel said.

Somali pirates on Sunday announced the release of Thai Union-3, captured in October 2009, on board more than 20 Russians, reports Reuters. According to the agency, the pirates received a ransom of $ 3 million for the ship. Thai Union-3 seiner-tunzelov belongs to the Thai group of Thai Union companies, supplying ice cream fish and seafood to the market. He was captured by Somali pirates on October 29 and has since been on one of the pirate bases off the coast of Somali.

The head coach of the England football team Fabio Capello said that he would announce the team to participate in the 2010 World Cup during a personal meeting with the players, reports The Mail On Sunday . The mentor plans to decide on the final list of players who will go to the tournament in South Africa, before the control game with Japan, scheduled for May 30. “The last week before leaving for the 2010 World Cup, we will train in Austria,” said the Italian specialist.

Two Golden Raspberries awarded for the worst work in the cinema, this year, Sandra Bullock, this year, went. The curiosity is that this actress has every chance to win the Oscar film a day in the category of “Best Female Role” (the film “Reverse Party”). No one in the cinema became the owner of Raspberries and a gold figurine in the same year, experts note. At the awards ceremony, which are called "anti -scapers", Bullock was noted twice.

The demolition of the construction on the site of the former summer cottage of the first State Duma of Sregea Muromtsev began on Sunday morning in the south of Moscow, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax . "Early in the morning, police officers, bailiffs, the prefecture of the South Sales Autonomous Okrug, as well as several units of construction equipment, arrived at the Tsaritsyno State Reserve," the agency’s interlocutor said.

About 50 people were detained on Sunday in Moscow, while trying to prevent the demolition of the construction on the site of the former cottage of the chairman of the First State Duma Sergey Muromtsev, one of the residents of the residential is in the building told Interfax . “A lot of people were taken, having beaten them at first. Only about 50 people, this is some kind of genocide,” Kirill Boldyrev told the agency one of the residents.

The authorities of China sentenced 198 people to participate in the riots in the Xinjiang-Uygursky district of the PRC to various measures, during which 197 people died and 1.7 thousand were injured, the head of the government of the region Nur Berki said on Sunday.

Three citizens of Peru were fighting in Moscow with a driver of a foreign car, as a result of which one foreigner was wounded from traumatic. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. They noted that the incident occurred last night in one of the restaurants in the north-west of the city. “Three drunk Peruvians, together with a 22 -year -old Muscovite, tried to catch a taxi, but no one stopped,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The greatest damage to the reputation of George Bush caused that in Iraq no weapons of mass destruction (OU) were not found, which was one of the main motives for invasion of this country. According to the Air Force , the main strategist of the ex-US President, Karl Rov, writes in memoirs, entitled "courage and consequences".

The President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov is convinced that the destruction of Said Buryatsky will accelerate the process of searching, detaining or eliminating the leader of the militants of Docov Umarov. "The destruction of Alexander Tikhomirov is an exceptionally good sign. Umarov, as you know, always raised it. The Buryatsky himself was considered an ideologist number one. The FSB officers of the Russian Federation conducted a very effective operation.

An ideal woman, according to most Russians, should be smart, beautiful, economic and caring, evidenced by the data of the All -Russian February survey. A good mother should be, first of all, a caring (67%) household (66%), smart (37%), be able to resist non -discharge (39%) and empathize (35%), VTsIO sociologists told Interfax . For the wife, it is necessary to be economic (61%), true and smart (47%each).

Former worldwater worldwater champion Tommy Morrison was detained by the Police of the city of Wheitch (Kansas), where he is now living, on suspicion of storage of marijuana. According to the police, they were called to the sports hall, near which, according to the caller, "some suspicious person" was mistaken. " Arriving at the place, the police outfit found Morrison, who was sitting in his car.

The 29-year-old striker of the London Tottenham and the England national team Peter Crouch admitted that he could become a tennis player, since in childhood he was seriously fond of this sport. “From an early age, I understood that I wanted to be an athlete. I liked playing tennis, but when the choice became between this sport and football, I preferred the second option all the same. Although, when I was 13 years old, I even played a little tennis for my county.