The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested five people from the North Caucasus, including two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, who are suspected of extorting 100 million rubles from a Moscow businessman. This was reported on the website of the head of the Metropolitan Police. Members of the criminal group were detained on the morning of 17 August.

The Russian Ministry of Health spoke out against female circumcision, which, as the Legal Initiative Foundation found out, is practiced in some regions of Dagestan, Interfax reports . The official representative of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai said that in 2008 the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on the need for the complete elimination of this practice, and in 2012 the UN General Assembly adopted a similar resolution.

The teacher of the Sevastopol School of Foreign Languages ​​Yuri Ilchenko, arrested for the public non -recognition of Crimea part of Russia, fled from the peninsula to Ukraine Photo: Crimea. Realities A press conference of Yuri Ilchenko, a school teacher, who managed to escape from arrest in the Crimea and secretly cross the border with Ukraine was held in Kyiv.

UPD. As clarifies , Povetkin has not yet been disqualified, but may be removed from the competition if he violates the WADA protocol in the coming year. R-Sport journalist Vasily Konov The athlete's promoter Andrey Ryabinsky also said that the information about Povetkin's suspension was not true. Earlier, the media, citing the decision of the World Boxing Council (WBC) , reported that Povetkin was suspended from competition indefinitely.

Interpol canceled the arrest warrant for the former co-owner of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin. It is reported by RBC with reference to the decision of the international police. As the newspaper notes, the businessman is no longer included in the so-called "Red Circular" of Interpol, which is actually equivalent to an international arrest warrant.

Report from the line for vegetable oil in the capital of Venezuela Photo: Reuters There is oil in this country. Not even like that - oil. Because it is the spiritual and material screening of the whole Venezuelan life, with which this is what. Coca-Cola is forced to stop production-there is not enough sugar. McDonald's closed - no flour for buns. Five hundred women dressed in white T -shirts broke through the border cordon to buy toilet paper in neighboring Colombia.

The Central Election Commission canceled the decision of the election commission of St. Petersburg, which refused to register for elections to the legislative assembly of the Parnassus party, reports . Interfax The Central Election Commission satisfied the complaint of Parnassus and issued a general remark to the members of the St. Petersburg electoral committee. “The resolution proposes to cancel the decision of the Electoral Commission of St.

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych asked for a confrontation with the current head of the country Petro Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. This was announced by the lawyer of the ex-president Vitaliy Serdyuk, reports "Ukrainian Truth".

Photo: Tatyana Vasilchuk / especially for Novaya Gazeta Moscow "Spartak" announced the appointment of Italian Massimo Carrera to the post of head coach of the team. The official statement was made during a specially convened press conference of the club. A contract with an Italian is concluded for two years. “I am very glad that the club put it on me. I am proud that I am the coach of Spartak. We have one goal: win.

Another attack was made on traffic police officers of the Moscow region, the Moskva agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, the attack took place in the Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region. “At about 14:00 in the Mozhaisk district, traffic police officers stopped a car in which there were three natives of Tajikistan.

A passenger ferry caught fire off the coast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea. This was reported by the US Coast Guard, reports TASS. “The Coast Guard responded to a distress call from a passenger ferry about 1 mile (about 1.8 km) from San Juan. It is reported about 512 passengers on board," the ministry said. Rescuers have already begun to evacuate passengers from the ship. There are no data on casualties yet.

Ismail Berdiyev, head of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, spoke out in support of the practice of female circumcision to "reduce sexuality." this He stated to the Interfax news agency. According to the mufti, Islam does not prescribe the circumcision of women, but this measure is practiced in some settlements of Dagestan. “It is necessary to circumcise all women so that there is no debauchery on Earth, so that sexuality decreases,” Berdiev said.

In the Moscow region, unidentified people attacked the post of the road guard service, reports . Interfax The incident occurred in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region. According to preliminary data, the attackers - immigrants from Central Asia - entered into a shootout with traffic police officers. According to the Investigative Committee, two attackers were killed. Two police officers were injured, one of them was hospitalized in serious condition.

During a special operation in a residential building in St. Petersburg, the alleged militants were killed. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the FSB. It is reported that there were no casualties among law enforcement officers and civilians. “When they tried to provide armed resistance, the criminals were destroyed by return fire,” the department said. How many people were killed during the special operation is not reported. The special operation in St.

A special forces soldier was allegedly injured during a special operation in a house on Leninsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, reports . TASS According to eyewitnesses, at about 12:20 Moscow time, a wounded commando left the house. The correspondent of Fontanka, who is at the scene, also reports that the ambulance team took away a man in a mask, in the form of special forces. According to the publication, was killed .