The number of road accidents in the Penza region over the first half of the year has grown by almost 13%, the number of murders in the region by 27%, the Minister of the Interior Rashid Nurgaliev said on Saturday. The minister arrived in Penza, where he holds a meeting with the personnel of the Penza police, Interfax reports.

In German Erfurt, a ceremony of weighing the main participants in the boxing was held. Applicants for the WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev and Alexander Povetkin showed the same weight - 105.0 kg. Recall that the title of WBA champion was freed after the Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko defeated the British David Hay, gathered all his belts in professional boxing, and was declared a superchampion.

Former NBA player Javaris Critenton will appear before the trial on charges of murder. On August 19, 22-year-old Julian Jones was shot in Atlanta, and the basketball player became the main suspect in this case, AP reports. The local police press officer Carlos Kampos said that the warranter was issued for the arrest of the basketball player, but the player was not in imprisonment. Most likely, Critenton is currently in Los Angeles.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assured the elected president of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab that the republic can continue to count on comprehensive support of Russia, RIA Novosti reports. “I am sure that under your leadership, Abkhazia will continue the progressive movement along the path of improving the institutions of power and civil society, ensure stable socio-economic development, strengthen positions in the international arena.

The federal judge Shira Sheindlin, who was conducting the consideration of the case of the case of Russian entrepreneur Viktor Buta in New York, withdrew her own decision, which was forbidden to use the protocol of the first interrogation of Buta received in Thailand immediately after his arrest. As it became known to RIA Novosti from the text of the judge, the decision was revoked without explanation.

The Belarusian authorities decided not to continue the criminal prosecution of the former candidate for the post of head of state Grigory Kostusev, the Belarusian Internet media reported. Kostusev was previously accused of organizing riots on December 19 - on the Presidential Election Day. Currently, Kostusev is at home, in Shklov.

A soldier who was military service in a motorized rifle brigade deployed in Volgograd committed suicide. “On Friday, at about 18:00, being on duty in the company and issuing a weapon standing in the guard, a military serviceman locked the weapon’s storage room and shot himself,” the Interfax agency was told on Saturday in law enforcement agencies of the Southern Military District.

The third attack of a shark on a person occurred today near the village of Slavyanka of the Khasan district of Primorye. This time, a 26-year-old local resident suffered, who received shallow injuries of the forearm and body, ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Primorsky Territory. "The ban on swimming was restored to the entire coast of the Khasansky district.

Soil and water samples taken near the proposed place of falling the Progress Space truck in the Choysky district of Altai Altai did not show the existence of a toxic and dangerous substance of heptil here, RIA Novosti said on Saturday, a representative of the Rospotrebnadzor of the Altai Republic. The Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Space Truck Progress M-12M started on August 24 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The most likely version of the murder of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov remains revenge for the death of the Chechen girl Elsa Kungaeva, a law enforcement source told Interfax . "The operational work, who allowed Magomed Suleimanov, detained on suspicion of killing Budanov, largely confirms this version," the source noted. At the same time, according to him, other possible versions of the murder are considered.

The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of Russia Vitaly Mutko commented on the provision of Russian citizenship to the three-time Olympic champion in short track Korean AN Hyun Su. “There are winter sports in which we have no traditions, no coaching base, no material and technical support,” said Mutko on the air of the Russia-2 channel . “This is the same short track, Kerling, Freestyle, and Yumlin jumping among women.

Alexander Ankvab won the election of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, gaining 54.86% of votes, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Abkhazia Batal Tabagua said on Saturday. Thus, he won already in the first round of elections and became the third president of the Republic of Abkhazia, Interfax reports. According to Tabagua, the rivals were significantly behind the ankvab.

The latest missile submarine cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky successfully completed the second test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile. For the first time, the launch of the "maces" was carried out at the maximum range from the White Sea to the Pacific Ocean area. This was announced today by the official representative of the press service and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The bodies of 53 people were found in a burned commodity warehouse on the southern outskirts of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. As the British TV channel Sky News said today, these people were supposedly executed earlier this week. According to eyewitnesses, in this area during the battles between the troops of the Libyan leader of Muammar Gaddafi and the rebels, 150 people were killed on August 23 and 24. The murdered, for the most part, civilians.

The ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been in the pre-trial detention center for three weeks, again refused a medical examination, reports on the Interfax Saturday the press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine.