Nurgaliyev says cleaning of police ranks to be increased.

MOSCOW, August 30 (Itar-Tass) - Investigators into the August 17
terrorist act in Nazran, Ingushetia, are studying a video tape in which
notoriously famous militant nicknamed Sayed Buryatsky speaks about an
explosive device, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said.
"We've received a video tape where the leader of illegal armed groups,
a certain Sayed Buryatsky, speaks about a self-made bomb and its
parameters and about where and how it may be used. He sits exactly inside
the car that exploded during the terrorist act," Nurgaliev said in an
interview with the Vesti news television channel.
At the same time, Nurgaliev said that so far it had been impossible to
identify who was in the car during the explosion because it was too
powerful. There's no serious evidence to prove that it was Sayed
Buryatsky. An additional expertise will give an answer to this question,"
Nurgaliyev went on to say.
On Friday, Arkady Yedelev, the Russian Deputy Interior Minister who
has been supervising the Ingush Interior Ministry after the explosion in
Nazran, said that information that Sayed Buryatsky had allegedly been in
the car stuffed with explosives was a propaganda trick on the part of the
militants.
"He (Buryatsky) spread this misinformation to distract attention of
law enforcers and save his life. It proves that militants are afraid of
us," Yedelev went on to say.
Twenty-five people were killed and more than 250 were wounded in the
terrorist act on August 17 when a car stuffed with explosives went off in
the yard of an interior department building in Nazran.
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told Vesti that regional
police chiefs had been given a month to correct all violations. The
cleaning of police ranks will continue. About 274 criminal cases against
police chiefs of various levels were opened in the first half of 2009,"
Nurgaliyev said.


.Religious services to begin at Fedorovsky Cathedral in 2010.

ST.PETERSBURG, August 30 (Itar-Tass) - The Fedorovsky Imperial
Cathedral in St. Petersburg will be open for religious services early in
2010, according to the Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, who is
the head of the board of trustees overseeing the church's restoration.
The entire restoration work is to be completed in 2013 when the 400th
anniversary of the Romanov House is going to be celebrated in Russia.
The domes of the Fedorovsky Imperial Cathedral were unveiled in a
ceremony on Saturday. Boris Gryzlov, Mitropolitan Vladimir of St.
Petersburg and Ladoga, the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko
and the Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin who were present at
the ceremony saw how the restoration was going on.
The lower church of the Fedorovsky Cathedral is to open for
parishioners first. It is decorated in the 13th-century Novgorod style and
is devoted to St. Prince Alexander Nevsky. The cathedral will be the only
church in St. Petersburg built in a style that had existed in the
pre-Mongol period in Russia. The upper church's interior will be decorated
in a different style.
Boris Gryzlov said that all restoration works were proceeding
according to plan.
The Fedorovsky Cathedral (or the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of
St. Theodore) is located in the centre of St. Petersburg near the Moscow
Railway Station. It was built in 1913 to mark the 300th anniversary of the
rise of the Romanov dynasty to the Russian throne. In 1932 the church was
converted to a milk plant and was rebuilt. Its domes were dismantled. For
several decades that followed industrial buildings were added to the main
church building. As a result, when the Russian Orthodox Church got it back
in 2005 the building was dilapidated to the last degree. A board of
trustees was set up in 2006 to restore the church, and the restoration
works began in 2007. The restoration will cost about one billion rubles.

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