A prominent Russian military leader, the former head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation (GUMVS) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Anatoly Mazurkevich suddenly died on July 12 at the 63rd year of his life, the Ministry of Defense was reported on Wednesday and the Department of the Ministry of Defense.

In the Moscow City Hospital No. 36, 23-year-old Alina Tsakoeva died, which suffered as a result of the explosion of a gas cylinder at the wedding ceremony in Vladikavkaz on June 25. Thus, the number of victims of the tragedy increased to seven people, RBC was informed in the permanent representative office of North Ossetia in Moscow. The condition of the 23-year-old victim was evaluated as extremely serious: the girl was connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs.

A BMW X5 jeep, belonging to the deputy head of the Federal Tax Service for Moscow, was stolen in the west of the capital on Tuesday morning. The material damage amounted to about three million rubles, city law enforcement agencies reported on Wednesday. As Interfax reports, the deputy head of the Federal Tax Service for the city of Moscow contacted the duty station and said that an unknown person had stolen his BMW X5 car from house No. 25 on Ramenki Street.

The Russian swearing word of three letters escaped to the leaders on the mention of Twitter, as soon as the microblogging service began to support the hashtags in Russian. One of Twitter users created a topic, entitled it with a well -known obscene word, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. As a result, the topic attracted great attention, and the hashtag with a provocative word began to reprint and comment.

In the center of Malgobek, in Ingushetia, unknown from a grenade launcher fired at a patrol car with employees of the local police department. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to a source in local law enforcement agencies. “The shelling occurred at about 23:30 Moscow time, when the police patrolled the city center,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. According to him, "as a result of a projectile entering the UAZ car, two police officers were injured.

According to statistics, every tenth home pet in the UK has acquired an account on any social network or on the microblogging service, notes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph , which has published a list of the most funny, in its opinion, video unions about animals. Most often used Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, the owner of every second British cat or dog shares her photographs with others via the Internet. Many also have their own video channels on YouTube.

The wedding of the hockey player of St. Petersburg SKA Maxim Afinogenov and tennis player Elena Dementieva will be held next Saturday, reports The Tennis Times . The time and place of marriage is not disclosed. Elena Dementieva, Honored Master of Sports of Russia in October 2011, will turn 30 years old.

Toyota on Wednesday announced prices and the beginning of orders for the new generation of Toyota Yaris cars in the UK. The cost of the car, depending on the configuration, varies from 11 thousand 170 pounds (about 17.7 thousand dollars), up to 15 thousand 385 thousand. The first cars will be delivered to customers in September, reports CARSCOOP . Toyota Yaris 2012 model year is available in three- and five-door bodies.

Experts have begun redevelopment of the territories of the united metropolitan region, which now includes Moscow and the Moscow region. In addition to the administrative district, other specialized territories will appear in New Moscow.

More than 300 priests of the Catholic Church in Austria (the total number of priests in the country is 4,200 people) committed themselves to take part in the initiative of the Aufruf Zum Ungehorsam ("call for innocence"), nominated in June of this year.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Balashov, the Saratov region, protested the order of the district authorities on the 30 percent reduction in the staff of the local drama theater, which caused the hunger strike of artists .

A service check of the Astrakhan ATSD revealed a lot of violations during the scandalously known operation of the traffic police "Polish Driver" with a 14-year-old schoolboy, whom the traffic cops were painted red and put on the road to observe the reaction of the drivers. Two high -ranking policemen suffered the punishment, Life News reports. As established, during the action, road users were misled.

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 there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, fell by 12.85 kopecks and amounted to 28.2557 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" grew by 8.30 kopecks - to 39.5907 rubles.

A resident of Great Britain won a record jackpot in the amount of 185 million euros ($ 244 million) in the European lottery of Euromillions. The lucky one guessed a combination of the main five and two additional digits, it is also called Lucky Stars. The happy numbers were 17, 19, 38, 42, 45, as well as 9 and 10, BBC reports. The organizers of the lottery officially confirmed a giant winning, but the identity of the owner of a happy ticket remains unknown.

The Russian police revealed an unprecedented crime committed a year ago. Then a group of armed false employees of special services beat merchants during the transaction and stole a diamond box from the capital's office. The damage amounted to millions of dollars. As it turned out, the robbery was organized by the American economist and the offspring of Soviet emigrants, Gennady Klotsman, associated with Russian -speaking mafia structures.