The prosecutor's office of the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under Article 105 part 1 on the fact of the murder of a Libyan student, the Interfax was reported on Thursday in the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg. The investigation of the case was entrusted to the Office for the investigation of especially important cases of the city prosecutor's office.

On the Georgian military base in Vasani on Thursday night, loading on the echelon of military equipment began: tanks, armored personnel carriers and rockets "Grad", reports ITERFAX. The beginning of the shipment of this technique, which is sent to the city of Gori, was shown on Thursday morning by the Rustavi-2 television company.

Microsoft and RSA Security have stopped beta testing of a system that may free Windows users from the need to come up with and keep in their heads dozens of passwords from different web resources, databases and programs. Speech, as ZDNET UK writes, is about the SECURID system, one of the most popular in the corporate world of two -factor authentication of users.

In St. Petersburg, in one of the apartments of the house number 83, an explosion thundered on Stachek Prospekt, RIA Novosti was told in the North-Western regional center of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. According to preliminary data, there are no victims. According to the information department of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, as a result of the explosion, a woman who lived in this apartment received slight injuries. She refused hospitalization.

OPEC increases the quotas for production and export supplies of oil by 2 million barrels per day - up to 25.5 barrels, the general secretary of the OPEC, Minister of Energy and Proding Indonesia Purnomo Yusgiantoro told RIA Novosti. The decision to increase quotas was made at an extraordinary 131st OPEC conference in Beirut. According to Yusgiantoro, these quotas will be valid until August 1. From August 1, they will still be increased by 0.5 barrels per day.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma fired the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Alexander Zatynayko and the commander -in -Chief of the Ground Forces of Peter Shulyak. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state on Thursday. Kuchma also reprimanded the Minister of Defense Yevgeny Marchuk.

The Swiss Supreme Court refused to unlock bank accounts, partially owned by the ex-head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other shareholders of this disgraced company. It is reported by Prime-Tass with reference to Dow Jones. Details of the decision are not reported.

Last week, Dalai Lama again failed to get to Russia: the Foreign Ministry refused to give him a visa. And today, at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation, President Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that Russian Buddhists are preparing an appeal to the Constitutional Court, they will complain about the actions of the Russian Foreign Ministry. At the same time, Ilyumzhinov referred to the norm of the Constitution about the freedom of religion.

On the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), three trucks are burning, including a fuel truck, RIA Novosti reports. One person has suffered at the moment. The fire occurred at 72 kilometers of the Moscow Ring Road. Light cars are on the inside of the road. 10 fire bills arrived at the scene, one airy carrier car and four ambulances, a source said.

The German company Seereal Technologies has launched a three -dimensional display on the market with the highest in the world resolution: 1600 x 1200 pixels. At the same time, special glasses or any other external devices are not required to view the volumetric image. The model is called C-NT. This is a flat liquid crystal panel with a diagonal of 20 inches.

Armen Beniaminov, “Red Znamenoist”, raised the Red Flag over the State Duma on November 7 last year, was convicted of this to the Tver District Court of Moscow by a year conditionally. Thus, RIA Novosti notes, the court fully satisfied the prosecution. A. Beniaminov was accused of "abuse of the state flag of Russia." According to the lawyers of the “Znamenosets”, even the court’s decision was not affected by the fact that A.

Yesterday, the employees of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained Alexander Tugushev - the former deputy chairman of the state reservation (GKR), which now holds the post of head of the GKR liquidation commission. He is suspected of receiving 3.7 million dollars from one of the Far Eastern companies in exchange for a promise to allocate significant quotas for bioresary production.

President Vladimir Putin appointed the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs on Wednesday. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service. In addition, the president signed a decree on the appointment of Andrei Chernenko as the director of the Federal Migration Service.

Vladimir Putin is convinced that if Belgrade bombing were prevented, the crisis in Iraq would be of a completely different character. This was reported by RIA "Novosti". "I am deeply convinced that if the international community would have enough courage and strength to prevent Belgrade’s bombing, we would not have such a difficult situation in the Iraqi crisis. He would be of a completely different character," the Russian president said.

The Federal Financial Monitoring Service (FSFM) does not have a “black list” of banks to be closed. This statement by the head of the FSFM Viktor Zubkov is quoted today by Gazeta.ru . According to V. Zubkov, his service has claims to a number of banks, and they "are under control not only by the FSFM, but also with the Central Bank." “But this does not mean that they should be deprived of a license,” said the head of the FSFM.