The Nevsky court of St. Petersburg sentenced the lovers who committed the brutal and cynical murder. The woman’s husband was their victim, and his young son witnessed the reprisal. The victim was alive with an electric saw. By a court decision, 32-year-old Vitaly Boykov will serve a ten-year sentence in a penal correctional colony. And his mistress, 31-year-old Evgenia Linger, was sentenced to six years in prison with a sentence in a general regime colony, reports Fontanka.ru .

In St. Petersburg, the Ford and Chevrolet cars are more often stolen, said Press conferences on Thursday deputy chief of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg Konstantin Mikhnyuk. Since the beginning of the year in the northern capital, an increase in the number of auto -contestants has been noted - by 14.5% to the level of the first half of 2010.

The remains of the Deputy Adolf Hitler for the National Socialist German Working Party of Rudolf Hess were cremated, and the ashes were dispelled over the lake, violating his will. The grave of the Nazis number three in the cemetery of the city of Vunzidel was opened after the descendants of Hess agreed to the exhumation, the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung writes.

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was a pastoral visit to Mordovia, awarded the day before a special patriarchal sign of ten many children from this republic and handed them small cash prizes.

Russia officially responded to Finland’s note about the ban on the sale of land to foreigners in the border zone. According to Ilta -Sanomat, there will be no changes in the position - the Finns cannot acquire land in the border zones of Russia in the foreseeable future.

The famous director Emir Kusturitsa said in an interview with Izvestia’s newspaper that he was finishing writing a novel about Dostoevsky, who himself is going to film in the near future. “I am one of the Europeans who love Russia. I will finish the novel about Dostoevsky, which is called“ My dear Fedor. ”After which I will shoot a film. And I will make it from you. I didn’t want to start projects related to Russia until I was sure of success.

The Presidential Council on Culture and Art experienced an update - instead of Nikita Mikhalkov, David Tukhmanov and other cultural figures, Vladimir Spivakov, Olga Sviblova and Karen Shakhnazarov came, Gazeta.ru reports. On July 21, the press service of the President of Russia said that Dmitry Medvedev approved the new composition of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of Russia.

Day after day, Bangkok is drowning: according to the most pessimistic expert estimates, part of the capital of Thailand can plunge under water in the 2030s, writes Le Monde . The combination of a number of natural factors - changes in the climate, increasing the sea level, erosion of the coast and settling of clay soils - coupled with the lack of policy that can prevent disaster, doom the city to death.

Nalchik’s police compiled and distributed a photobot of one of the attackers to the famous public figure Kabardino-Balkaria, the chairman of the Khase public movement Ibrahim Yaganov. The attack was committed the day before. It was established that four or five young people of “sports physique” were involved in the crime, the Kabardino-Balkaria Ministry of Internal Affairs website said. They beat Yaganov with reinforcement on the head and face.

President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on July 21 with trade union leaders. "The authority of trade union organizations and Russian trade unions as a whole does not decrease, but is growing," he said to the audience. The President noted the consolidation of the trade union movement: the emergence of new trade unions, their enlargement, RIA Novosti reports. "I believe that such measures as a whole should affect the protection of the interests of people of labor.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said that the heads of local administrations that did not prepare for July 1, investment programs of housing and communal services enterprises should be prosecuted on the grounds of official negligence, Finmarket reports.

The FSB of Russia detained several supporters of retired Colonel GRU Vladimir Kvachkov in Yekaterinburg, who is accused of trying to prepare an armed rebellion. "On July 19, in Yekaterinburg, the FSB officers conducted a series of searches at the places of work and residence of these persons. Weapons, ammunition, explosives, extremist literature were seized, " Interfax told the Russian FSB Center for the FSB. By a court decision, noted in the FSB, these persons were detained.

Supporters of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group decided to attract young recruits in their ranks with the help of an attractive animation language for them. The militants began shooting the cartoon about the adventures of Jihad warriors. However, experts believe that terrorists cannot achieve the desired result, BBC writes. According to the London Center for Combating QULLIAM extremism, separate shots from the cartoon are located on one of the jihadist sites.

The presidential election in 2012 will be held on March 4 in connection with the transfer of a weekend from Sunday, March 11, on Friday, March 9, RIA Novosti Member of the CEC of the Russian Federation Maya Grishina. “Yes, this is so,” said Grishina, answering the question of whether the elections of the President of the Russian Federation will take place on March 4 due to the postponement of the weekend.

The Paraguay team became the second finalist of the America Cup, having beaten the Venezuelan football players with a score of 5: 3 in a series of post -match foams. The main time and two additional taims of the game in the city of Mendos in the west of Argentina, despite the maximum intensity of passions, ended without scored heads.