The mass escape from custody of dangerous criminals alarmed all the capital's law enforcement agencies last weekend. Five prisoners sentenced to long prison terms on Saturday, while moving from one prison to another, were able to safely get out of a special vehicle for prisoners, the so-called paddy wagon. It happened on the street in broad daylight, apparently, in front of many passers-by.

A week after his unexpected appointment, the new Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, Boris Gryzlov, made his debut on the international stage. The meeting took place last Friday in Stockholm, where the EU “law enforcement” troika invited Russian colleagues for the first time to discuss the fight against organized crime.

The Central Bank and MAP accuse each other of misunderstanding the Constitution Today, the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank of Russia will issue an unprecedentedly harsh statement to the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.

They demand local self-government from Yuri Luzhkov The struggle for power in the capital before the Moscow City Duma elections is gaining momentum. On Friday, City Duma deputies discussed the draft of the new Moscow charter presented by the mayor's office.

A real Indian could become the new president of the country Yesterday in Peru elections were held for the president, two vice-presidents and 120 deputies of the unicameral congress. By the time the issue was signed, the voting results were not yet known, however, judging by the latest opinion poll, of the eight presidential candidates, Alejandro Toledo had the most realistic chance of winning - he was supported by 41.5%, followed by Lourdes Flores - 24, 3% and Alan Garcia - 23.5%.

The Herzen Museum celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary The Herzen House-Museum on Sivtsev Vrazhek (a branch of the State Literary Museum) was opened in 1976. The mansion was in disrepair - it was inhabited by the remaining Arbat inhabitants. It could well have been demolished in the late Soviet era (too small for an embassy, ​​otherwise why is it needed?) and privatized in the current era, but it happened differently.

Significant errors were found in the documents on fish auctions Already today, according to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, representatives of the Accounts Chamber will begin checking the results of six auctions for the sale of quotas for catching aquatic biological resources that have taken place since the beginning of the year.

A whole group of employees of the Kubanrybvod biological resources protection department was detained on Saturday for poaching by border guards of the Timashevsk commandant's office of the North Caucasus regional department of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia. While patrolling the coastal zone, they discovered several vessels engaged in illegal fishing - a large boat and five motor boats.

A daring robbery of a currency exchange office took place on Saturday evening in the south-west of Moscow. At 19.40, a man attacked a cashier at an exchange office on Litovsky Boulevard, stunning her with a blow to the head from a bottle. Then the robber took 2.5 thousand dollars from the cash register and disappeared in a silver Mercedes standing at the entrance. Employees of the Furniture House store, located next to the currency exchange office, witnessed the crime.

CSKA is close to its own anti-record Throughout the off-season, the football community was agitated by rumors about the purchase and sale of the football team CSKA. And just before the start of the championship, it became known about large financial investments from the new owners of the army team. But it seems that the fans of the “red-blues” hoped in vain for the revival of the former glory of their club.

The Duma will again discuss the import of foreign nuclear waste into Russia The debate over the import of spent nuclear fuel into Russia from abroad, which has been quiet, seems to be threatening to resume with renewed vigor. Parliamentary hearings “On the state and state system of regulation of nuclear and radiation safety in the Russian Federation” are scheduled for today.

A food crisis may occur in the Sverdlovsk region in the fall The agriculture of the Sverdlovsk region is completely destroyed. This was stated last week in an open letter to Governor Eduard Rossel by Dmitry Ostanin, Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy of the Regional Duma. He is confident that this fall the Middle Urals will not be able to provide themselves with food, as was previously the case.

Attempts to save Most Bank failed Most Bank, which was rehabilitated by Vneshtorgbank (VTB) last year, seems to have virtually no chance left to avoid liquidation.

USSR - GDR: forty years of fraternal confrontation If the Poles in the Warsaw bloc played the role of dissidents, the Czechs - compromisers, and the Hungarians and Bulgarians - compote producers, then the Germans were our eternal rivals - in sports, in megalomania and in socialism. They surpassed Russia in the perfection of the system of preschool institutions, which to this day is considered the most advanced in a unipolar world that has turned towards humane socialism.

An agent of the Turkish National Intelligence Service was exposed by the FSB department for the Stavropol Territory. He turned out to be Khakym Mutlugan, an employee of one of the Turkish companies conducting construction in the Stavropol region. Some time ago, counterintelligence officers found out that Mutlugan was attempting to collect information about military units stationed in the Stavropol region, their numbers and movements.