The Pechersky District Court of Kiev sentenced the former head of the external surveillance department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Alexei Pukach , finding him guilty of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze . Pukach previously admitted that he personally killed Gongadze - this follows from the general’s testimony, voiced during the announcement of the sentence Pukachu in court on January 29.

The cartographic unit of the Internet giant Google, Google Maps, announced a significant achievement in the fight against white spots - for the first time, a detailed, as far as possible, the North Korean map, one of the most closed countries in the world. Most of the territory of the socialist state, however, is still painted over the notorious white color. But the detailing of the North Korean capital and a number of strategic objects reached an unprecedented level.

The financial pyramid of Sergey Mavrodi "MMM" took up real estate in Kyiv. She builds and sells Townhouse 10 km from the district road. Apartments with an area of ​​130 square meters. meters are sold with mysterious discounts for project participants. According to Newsru.ua , the announcement of the start of real estate sales near Kiev appeared on the website of Sergei Mavrodi a few days ago: "MMM-town near Kiev! A special discount of 15-20% for housing for MMM-2012 participants.

In Iran, where public executions and painful physical punishments are extremely common, decided to improve the "work" of the executioners. Now, at least, some of them will stop chopping the limbs sentenced to cold weapons in the old fashioned way, and will use a special device for these purposes. In the city of Shiraz in the south of the country, the other day, right during the next execution, a car was represented for cutting the fingers of the convicts.

In the resort city of Fort Lleoddale, the state of Florida in the United States had an accident, a musician and song performer in the genre of hip-hop Rick Ross. The artist and his companion crashed on a prestigious Rolls-Royce car into the wall of a residential building. Most likely, Ross Ross was very lucky, since the armed people pursuing his armed people turned out to be bad arrows and disappeared immediately after the accident.

In the Athenian hospital at the age of 92, the last surviving member of the Greek military junta, despotically ruining the country in 1967-1974, Colonel Nikolaos Derelis, died. The last "Black Colonel" was translated with a diagnosis of a stroke in December 2012 to a hospital from the main capital's prison Coridallos, where he was the most famous prisoner for 38 years, ITAR-TASS reports.

The popularity of an erotic bestseller "50 shades of gray" takes a terrifying scale: in Sweden, a man tortured a lover who agreed with him sadomasochistic sex. The 28-year-old German entered intensive care, with a gag in her mouth and traces from 123 beats with a wooden pointer. The woman met her 31-year-old friend when she was trained in the Swedish city of Umo, notes The Local .

A new criminal case was instituted against Ekaterina Smetanova - the former head of the Center for Legal Support "Expert", which is considered the main defendant of the case of fraud with the property of Oboronservis. Having completely admitted her guilt , she went on a deal with the investigation and gave valuable evidence, which, among other things, allowed the ex-minister of defense Anatoly Serdyukov for the interrogation .

In Moscow, the most cash films of 2012 are named. The XVI solemn ceremony of presenting a professional prize in the Film Business "Blockbuster" took place at the Renaissance Hotel. The main criterion for the selection of laureates is the commercial success of films released in 2012 in the Russian film distribution. So, the “Cathedral of the Cartoon” of the glacial period-4.

The Central Military District shared his plans for conscripts who prefer the alternative service: some of them will go to work for deer. “The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation distributes them to the enterprises. As a rule, low-paying specialties are offered for alternative civil service, for example, in hospitals. However, there are exceptions. For example, reindeer herders were needed last year.

The ex-champion of the world in the combat sambo Rasul Mirzaev , convicted of the unintentional murder of student Ivan Agafonov, hopes to meet with the relatives of the deceased in order to once again try to apologize to them. As for other plans for the future, he does not think about something global - he communicates with his family, lives in accordance with new worldviews revised in a pre -trial detention center, and trains to return to big sport.

In the Moscow region, a preliminary investigation of a criminal case was completed against two law enforcement officers. They were convicted of the tortures of the detainees and the factory of the investigation materials. With the help of torture, the police forced several visitors to stipulate themselves and "confess" in the murder that was not at all.

Three -year -old Briton Shervin Sharabi from the city of Barnshli in the county of South Yorkshire replenished the list of the international "Society of geniuses" Mensa, uniting the most intelligent people in the world, becoming one of its youngest members, Sky News reports. This boy showed the result of 136 points, passing the test for the level of intelligence (IQ), despite the fact that the average indicator for an adult is 100 points and 130 for especially gifted people.

The collapse of the hinged pedestrian crossing through the M7 federal highway in Chuvashia, according to preliminary data, could occur due to the dump truck that went under the transition with the body raised and hit the construction under construction, RIA Novosti reports. The hinged pedestrian crossing through the federal highway M7 fell upon the village of Moskakasy of the Morgausky district of Chuvashia. The report about the incident was received on Monday, at 20.20 Moscow time.

Ukrainian border guards discovered the true Linograder Pablo Picasso, which a Ukrainian citizen wanted to carry on his car from Poland, bypassing customs control, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press center of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). Border guards detained the Ukrainian on January 27. He declared four paintings, and one canvas and the linogram to declare “forgot”.