.3 Sochi cafe shooting suspects detained.

SOCHI, July 31 (Itar-Tass) - Sochi police investigating the shooting
at the Kurazh cafe, established the identities of and detained three
Ingushetia natives, who beat up local residents and taken an active part
in disrupting public order.
All the detainees are young men under 25 years of age. One of them is
Junior Lieutenant of an Ingushetia road police department, an official at
the department of the Investigations Committee under the Prosecutor
General's Office (SKP) for the Krasnodar territory told Itar-Tass on
Friday.
It has been ascertained that on July 28, at least 10 visitors from
Ingushetia were in the Kurazh cafe in Sochi's Lazarevsky district, where
they were disrupting public order (dancing on table tops, and firing shots
in the air). Then the Ingush natives began to beat a local resident under
a minor pretext. When cafe personnel and other guests - in all five people
- stood up to defend the victim, the Ingush natives began to fire at their
feet with non-lethal and service pistols, and beat up two local residents.
The brawlers stopped their violent behavior only after police arrived.
Criminal proceedings were opened over "hooliganism." An investigation
is underway.
The investigators establishment the identity of the man who had fired
shots in the air during the tabletop dancing. The SKP said the
investigators would "ascertain in the course of the probe the extent of
the unlawfulness of his actions."


.Moscow warns against unilateral moves in Israel-Palestine dialogue.

MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) - Russian warns against unilateral moves
in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, such as further settling, Russian
foreign ministry officials said on Friday after a ministerial meeting in
Cairo of the Arab League committee for promoting the Arab peace initiative.
"The participants in the meeting reiterated the Arab states'
commitment to the course towards transferring the Middle East peace
processes to an active phase. They stated their support in principle for
direct Palestinian-Israeli talks, leaving the decision on the date of
their launching to head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud
Abbas.
Russia's position regarding the soonest beginning of direct and
substantial Palestinian-Israeli dialogue "is well known, and we're not
changing it. This dialogue should resume on the acknowledged international
legal basis for the search for mutually acceptable solutions of all the
disputed issues, on the way towards establishing and independent
Palestinian state which would co-exist in peace and security with Israel,"
the Russian diplomat underlined.
At the same time, Moscow attaches "exceptional importance to the fact
that the positive headway in Palestinian-/Israeli affairs be not clouded
by unilateral actions, in particular the continuing settling, including in
eastern Jerusalem, which are foreshadowing the final accords."
Russia "will continue to consistently contribute to the promotion of
the peace process in the Middle East and lending it a stable and
comprehensive nature, in bilateral contacts with the parties involved, the
partners in the region and beyond, as well as within the framework of the
"quartet," the diplomat said.


.Businessman detained on suspicion of attack on official.

MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) - Police detained a businessman who is
suspected of the attempted murder of a Supreme Court official, spokesman
for the Moscow department of the Investigations Committee under the
Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) Sergei Marchenko told Itar-Tass on
Friday.
Marchenko identified the detainee as Yevgeny Sibilev, 30, a car
dealership director.
On July 22, an unidentified person fired a shotgun at Valery Kuzmich,
head of the administration of the Judicial Department for the Moscow
region under the Supreme Court. Kuzmich was in the driver's seat of a BMW.
The official was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The
criminal escaped in a Honda without license plates.


.Russian showman detained in drug contraband case.

MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) - Drug control police detained showman
Igor Logachev in a case over the contraband of a large batch of heroin,
director of the federal drug control service (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov told
reporters on Friday.
"Logachyov arranged performances of showbiz figures from the United
States, Australia and Europe. He also made arrangements for the leisure
activities of VIP persons.
Ivanov also said drug police in Bashkortostan had detained 40 members
of the Camorra criminal group which engaged in supplies and sales of
heroine.
"The group's proceeds made up some 0.5 million dollars a month," the
FSKN director said, "It comprised over 200 activists."
The Bashkortostan drug ring, as its Italian predecessor, was kept
secret and had strict hierarchy. The leader, called "director general,"
handled supplies of large batches of heroine to Russia. His deputies, five
"directors," were in charge of medium-size supplies up to five kilograms.
The next chain of command - foremen - supplied batches of up to one
kilogram.
Camorra which means "fight, quarrel" in Italian is Neapolitan
organized crime, along the lines of the Sicilian mafia. It emerged in the
18th century. It is a ramified organization with the hierarchy, laws and
jargon of its own.
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