The details of the fraud of 700 million rubles became known, within the framework of which the former general director of OJSC “Voentelecom” Nikolai Kamodin was detained . According to investigators, in 2011, under the guise of new equipment, the Ministry of Defense actually set the Ministry of Defense. On Tuesday, at the place of work and residence, customs and his alleged accomplices took place 15 searches.

The fifth congress of world leaders and traditional religions will be held in Astana on September 17-18, 2014. This was announced during the XII meeting of the secretariat, which opened on Wednesday in the capital of Kazakhstan. According to the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Deputy Head of the Congress Secretariat, Rapil Zhosybaev, the upcoming forum is proposed to devote to the topic "Religion and Sustainable Development", the Interfax-religion portal reports.

The diplomats received the corresponding order from the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. “It’s true, we are boycotting Rukhani’s performance,” said the official representative of the diplomatic mission, as ITAR -TASS reports. "The Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the Israeli delegation to be done in the same way as last year, and not to be present (in the General Assembly Hall) during the speech of the Iranian president," the prime minister said in Twitter .

The China has been sentenced to a death sentence to a man who made a brutal murder of a little girl in front of her mother. The crime was committed in a street quarrel that arose at a public transport stop. The execution expects a 39-year-old Beijing named Han Lei. His cynical act was shocked by Chinese society. Previously, Lei was serving a life sentence, but was released, writes The South China Morning Post .

The Governor's Orchestra of St. Petersburg (the former orchestra of Leningrad television and radio) can be dissolved in January next year, said the chief conductor of the orchestra Stanislav Gorkovenko at a press conference in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. According to Gorkovenko, during the intermiss at the concert on Saturday, he was met by the First Deputy Chairman of the Petersburg Culture Committee Boris Illarion, who said that they were waiting for a serious conversation.

The Moscow authorities have decided to seize several plots with real estate located on them in the south-east of the capital for the construction of the Kosino metro station on the Kozhukhovskaya metro line.

American investors invest funds in Russian real estate more often and more than other foreigners, the international consulting company in the field of real estate CBRE according to the results of their research of the commercial real estate market said. So, in the first half of 2013, investors from North America became the most active buyers in the European trade real estate sector.

A significant part of the housing, which was flooded as a result of large -scale floods in the Far East, will be recognized as unsuitable for further Accommodation, said Deputy Prime Minister, plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, who is located in Khabarovsk, where he visited points of temporary accommodation of citizens injured from floods.

The Communist Party of the Communist Party in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg proposed creating a commission that would consider the allocation of land plots in the city for the construction of religious structures, the Interfax-religion portal reports. Konstantin Smirnov, a member of the Communist Party faction, said on Wednesday at a meeting of the city parliament that the creation of the commission is due to so many centers of tension available in the city.

In the suburbs of New York, the unknown tripled shooting from a pistol in the territory of a large shopping center. According to police, the man shot two people and managed to hide from law enforcement officers, CNN News reports. One person was killed in place, the other was wounded and sent to the hospital. The incident occurred in Long Island at about 10 am local time.

In Bolivia, a bus and a minibus fell as a result of the melting flow from a cliff. 13 people were killed, 27 were injured. The tragedy occurred 100 km from the city of La Pas, where the government is sitting. According to the police, the vehicles were washed away from the road to a steep ravine with a mud stream, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the local authorities. The victims with injuries of varying severity were delivered to the nearest hospitals.

The employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor stopped the attempt to import two tons of ice cream of a poaching sea scallop under the guise of sea cabbage, the department’s website . A large batch of this illegal cargo, ready to be sent to the capital, was found at the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Half of the cargo was already sent to Moscow by this moment, but it was able to intercept it in one of the capital's airports, the press release says.

The judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan Mukhtar Shapiev died as a result of an attack committed on him on Wednesday evening in Makhachkala, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The attack occurred at about 20:30 on Gaidara Street, the injured judge and his son were hospitalized and died in the hospital. “According to preliminary data, the unknown fired at the judge’s car. Mukhtar Shapiev was seriously wounded, his son was also wounded.

Petersburg “Zenit” on Wednesday in Samara won a convincing victory over the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” with a score of 4: 1 in the match of the tenth round of the Russian Football Championship and retained a leading position in the standings. To the goal of Reminal Gora (23 '), Zenit answered with doubles of Hulk (48', 61 ') and Oleg Shatov (51', 79 '), the press service of the Premier League reports.

Samsung decided to keep up with its competitor Apple and announced the release of the Galaxy S4 smartphone with a real gold building. The model was developed for the Middle Eastern region, where such things are popular. For example, the Golden iPhone with precious stones was already represented by customers from the United Arab Emirates. The smartphone is available in two design options: with a corps of brown and pink shades.