EU representatives recognized the fact of the presence of a new virus in Europe of such a dangerous disease of animals as Blutanga (Blue Language - Bluetongue), the Rosselkhoznadzor says. “It is quite obvious that specific EU officials stood behind the concealment of this fact,” the supervisory department said.

A criminal case was instituted on the fact of a fatal accident with the participation of a car of a deputy of the Stavropol Regional Duma, the former prosecutor of the region Valery Kalugin, the Russian Investigative Committee reports on Saturday. The case was initiated on the fact of an accident, under Article 264, part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the rules of the road, which entailed by negligence of the death of a person).

The heating of the headquarters of the 29th Army of the Eastern Military District in Chita was completely restored, Interfax told on Saturday the head of the press service of this military district, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gordeev: in the 20-degree frost the military lived without heat for half a day. Heat supply was disconnected by the incidental energy debts of the TGK-14, which counted more than 11 million rubles .

In Orel, a fifth grader died in the physical education lesson, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Oryol Region opened a criminal case on the fact of death. The emergency occurred on Friday in the school basin of school No. 45. The 11-year-old student of the 5th grade found in the water, and he began to sink.

The Committee against torture of the UN criticized Russia for "many terrible trends" in the law enforcement system. They indicated that the authorities could not conduct a fairly serious investigation of the common cases of torture in relation to prisoners, as well as repressions and intimidation of activists acting for observing human rights and journalists, the agency of AR reports.

Ascarbius Kardanov was elected the new mufti of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory on Saturday at the Muslim congress, the Caucasian Knot reports. Today in Maykop there is a reporting-election congress of Muslims Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory. Its participants were 177 delegates from two regions. During the congress for the candidacy of Ascarbius Kardanov, the mufti of the spiritual administration of Muslims Maykop, 125 delegates voted.

Advisers of the President of Egypt Muhammad Mursi are resigned one after another in protest against the constitutional declaration announced by him, which significantly increases his powers . As it became known today, the publicist Sakin Fuad decided to leave her post. The day before, in protest against the latest presidential decrees, the assistant Mursi on democratic transformations Christian figure Samirus resigned.

In protest against the decisions of the President of Egypt, Muhammad Mursi, judges over the country declare strikes. In Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, judges of different levels refuse to go to work. As the Supreme Court said today, "the decrees of the head of state are unprecedented by their attacks on the freedom of the court and its decisions," ITAR-TASS reports.

The Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik complained in a 27-page letter that the prison warders include him to suicide and give little sweets, reports Ar. Breivik called the Norwegian prison in which he contains a “mini Abu Graib”. Abu Graib is a prison located 32 km west of the capital of Iraq Baghdad. During the war in Iraq, American soldiers tortured the Iraqi prisoners in Abu Graib, recalls Interfax .

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper presented on Friday his compatriot and pop artist Justin Bieber, minted in the commemoration of the "diamond anniversary" of Elizabeth II-the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne, ITAR-TASS reports. Elizabeth II, according to the Canadian Constitution, is also the head of state in the country of maple leaf.

The editor of the Radical Policy newspaper Boris Stomakhin was detained and detained, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Saturday. In 2006, a disabled person Stomakhin had already received five years for his activities on the website of the Chechen separatists "Caucasus Center": then the court considered that he contributed to the inciting war in Chechnya, releasing 30 copies of a harmful brochure.

In addition to organizational decisions in the framework of the Second Assembly, the Coordinating Council of the opposition was also adopted by one software: the campaign to promote the opposition representatives into the precinct election commissions (PEC), which in the next few months will be formed for five years. The KS also set the date of the next mass action in Moscow - the procession was called "Marsh of Freedom" and will be held on December 15.

The amounts of high income of officials, not confirmed by the declaration, by the court decision will be removed into state revenue, and according to a simplified procedure. So the law will work on the declaration of income of civil servants and members of their families, the deputy Vladimir Vasiliev said on the air of the program “Vesti on Saturday ” of the TV channel.

As a result of the explosion of the bomb in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in the northeast of Pakistan, seven people were killed today, 17 were injured. According to the local police, the explosive device was laid down on the path of the religious procession of Muslim shiiites. Four of the dead are children, notes ITAR -TASS. Law enforcement officers fear that new explosions may follow.

A new high -profile criminal case of theft in the control of the Russian Ministry of Defense will be instituted in the near future, anonymous sources in law enforcement agencies told Interfax . "Currently, military prosecutors are completing the collection of the necessary materials that will be sent to the investigating authorities to initiate a criminal case under the article" Fraud on an especially large scale, "the source said.