A young man suspected of a series of murders of pensioners has been arrested in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region, he is only 20 years old, he is a native of the Sverdlovsk Region. He has been searched since December 2002. The investigation has already proved four crimes committed by the detainee.

UNICEF welcomes the initiative to create a "green corridor" for the evacuation of affected children from Iraq. This was stated at a press conference in RIA Novosti on Monday by UNICEF Representative in Russia Rosemary McCreary at a press conference dedicated to World Health Day.

Paul McCartney had to cancel one of his two Sheffield shows after he caught a cold and lost his voice, reports AP. After the concert on Saturday, McCartney woke up "without a voice", and all the singer's attempts to recover did not lead to anything. Spectators who bought tickets for April 6 will have to wait. The next concert of the tour will go ahead as scheduled, and McCartney will return to Sheffield as soon as he has the opportunity.

The new Iraqi currency, also called the dinar, has already been printed on an American order, ITAR-TASS reports citing Arab sources in Moscow. New dinars differ in that they do not have a portrait of Saddam Hussein. According to the agency, there are currently two types of dinars in circulation in Iraq. First, the official ones that the Treasury printed after the Gulf War. They depict Saddam.

Croatian police have arrested Ivica Rajic, whom the Hague Tribunal accuses of committing war crimes. This was announced on Sunday by the Ministry of the Interior of Croatia. Rajic is accused of murdering several dozen civilians in the Muslim village of Stupni Dol in 1993. During the arrest, 45-year-old Rajic offered no resistance. After his arrest, he was transferred to the pre-trial detention cell of the Zagreb court.

The body of the second crew member of the crashed military helicopter Ka-27 PS of the Pacific Fleet was found in Ussuriysky Bay. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday by the press service of the Pacific Fleet. According to the press service, the divers recovered from a depth of 70 meters, from the bottom of the bay, the body of the flight engineer Captain Alexei Krasnoshchekov. Thus, out of 4 people who were on board the helicopter, the bodies of two people were found.

An Iraqi citizen, 26-year-old Sali Khalaf, who was denied entry into the country by Czech border guards, had a miscarriage, RIA Novosti reports. On April 3, Sali Khalaf arrived in Prague from Turkey with a valid Czech visa. A woman was carrying a sick two-year-old son from Baghdad, whom Iraqi doctors could not help. Czech border guards at Prague's Ruzyne International Airport denied Sali Khalaf entry and sent her to Turkey on the same plane.

In Chechnya, one separatist was killed as a result of a night skirmish. As RIA "Novosti" was informed on Monday in the regional department of internal affairs of Argun, on the eve of the Gudermes street, a group of separatists fired at employees of the police department. The policemen returned fire. As a result of the skirmish, one militant was killed. The identity of the victim has been established. It turned out to be 28-year-old local resident Aslan Soltaev.

In the first half of the week, inclement weather with precipitation and gusty winds will continue in the capital, the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region reported on Monday. According to forecasters, on Monday afternoon in Moscow may fall from 3 to 5 mm of rain. Wet snow is also expected on Tuesday night and afternoon, with up to 5 mm more precipitation.

The Moscow City Court has scheduled April 15 to consider the complaint of the Ministry of Justice against the refusal of the Chertanovsky Intermunicipal Court of the capital to change the punishment for former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. The Chertanovskaya interdistrict prosecutor's office also appealed to the court of second instance with a protest. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday by Mikhail Marov, Litvinenko's lawyer.

On April 6 at 19.30 at 14 Petrovsky Boulevard, an unknown person approached a VAZ 2107 car standing at a traffic light and fired several shots at the passenger from an unidentified firearm. With severe head wounds, the victim was taken to the Institute. Sklifosovsky. It is established that this is a 36-year-old resident of Tyumen. The driver of the car is a 47-year-old Muscovite accountant by profession. Motives for the crime are established.

Jessica Lynch, an American soldier who was released from Iraqi captivity, met with her family on Sunday at a hospital in Germany. This, according to Reuters, was reported by the US authorities. "She had a beautiful smile on her face when she saw her family," a spokesman for the hospital said. Jessica was visited by her father, Greg, and mother, Dee, along with her brother, sister, and cousin.

In Canada, "Chinese pneumonia" claimed the life of another person. This is the eighth Canadian victim of the mysterious illness. The cause of death of another Canadian is also questionable. Five out of eight were over 70 years old. All of the dead had direct contact with other sick people before they were isolated. The total number of cases in Canada rose to 163. Canada is the third country in the world in terms of SARS cases.

Vladimir Putin had a brief meeting with US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Alexei Gromov, press secretary of the Russian president, told RIA Novosti that Rice conveyed to the head of the Russian state a message from the US president expressing a desire to further develop Russian-American relations.

The former chief financier of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel-General Georgy Oleinik, may be charged with abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in a criminal case initiated by the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office following an audit by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation of the legality of spending budget funds by officials of the Ministry of Defense, Oleinik's lawyer Mikhail said. Marov.