In the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg on Tuesday, a construction crane fell on a nine-story residential building. According to Interfax, the crane operator died. The press center of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region told the agency that a construction crane fell on house # 3, located on Kotelnikov Alley. Now they are going to raise it. To do this, a 6-ton crane with a large boom will be delivered to the scene.

The Moscow Traffic Police Department and the Moscow Department of Transport and Communications appeal to Muscovites with a request, if possible, to refrain from traveling to cemeteries on holidays in private cars and use the services of public passenger transport.

The RTS Exchange tried to fulfill the requirement of the Federal Securities Commission and separated the accounting of address and non-address transactions. However, as writes Vedomosti , now the FCSM insists that all transactions on the classical market be called unaddressed. At the same time, the commission promises not to deprive the exchange of a license.

US Central Command acknowledged that a USMC AH-1 Cobra fire support helicopter crashed near Tikrit on Monday. According to AFP, the helicopter crashed near the city of Samarra during a military operation. Two pilots managed to escape. They received minor injuries. The command emphasizes that the helicopter was not shot down.

Abdollah Ali Zigami, a correspondent for the Iranian Al-Alam TV channel, who was arrested by the Americans in the Iraqi city of Al-Kut, has been released. According to RIA "Novosti", this was announced on Monday in Tehran by the head of "Al-Alam" Hassan Beheshtipur. According to him, "the US military held the journalist for 5 hours.

Petersburg rescuers removed 8 fishermen from a drifting ice floe on Monday. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the press center of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg, an ice floe about 30 cm thick, on which the fishermen were, was torn off from the fast ice in the area of ​​the northern forts of Kronstadt. The fishermen called the rescuers themselves. A hovercraft came out to help the fishermen.

On April 15, Slovak President Rudolf Schuster signed a ratified treaty on his country's accession to NATO. Thus, RIA Novosti reports, Slovakia has become the first of the seven NATO candidate countries to complete the ratification process. The ratification of the agreement on Slovakia's accession to NATO took place on April 10, when the parliament supported entry into the Alliance by a majority of votes. According to opinion polls, joining NATO is supported by 43.5% of Slovak citizens.

All employees of the musical "Nord-Ost" on Tuesday at 12.00 were handed notices of dismissal. This was announced by the director of the musical Georgy Vasiliev at a press conference in Moscow, specifying that the vast majority of them will come into force on May 10, on the day of the last, 410th performance of Nord-Ost. The producers will try to help their employees in further employment, said Vasiliev, in particular, in the musical "The Twelve Chairs" that is being created.

The state prosecutor demanded that employees of the State Customs Committee, accused of abuse of office, be sentenced to 4 years in prison with serving in a general regime colony. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The head of the customs inspection of the State Customs Committee Alexander Volkov and the first deputy head of the Department of Customs Investigations and Inquiries of the State Customs Committee Marat Fayzulin are involved in the case.

On Monday, schoolchildren in northern Iraq went to school for the first time since the start of the war, Reuters reported, citing UNICEF. On March 20, hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish families fled their homes, causing schools to stop functioning. According to UNICEF, there are about 4,000 primary school students and hundreds of secondary school students in the region.

Due to the emergency shutdown of the power system at 11.07 Moscow time, virtually all of Georgia was left without electricity, ITAR-TASS reports. Television stations have been shut down. The subway does not work in the capital of Georgia, tens of thousands of passengers get out of the stations on foot. Emergency lighting at the stations is provided by diesel generators. The cause of the emergency power outage has not yet been reported.

Unknown people plundered the Ukrainian embassy in Baghdad, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced on Tuesday at a briefing in Kyiv by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Markiyan Lubkivsky. According to him, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is currently assessing the amount of damage caused.

Analyst and musician George Ziman, who systematically studies statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America to find a link between online piracy and falling music sales, announced the results of another study.

The lawyer of the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov, Sergei Belyak, is pleased with the verdict that the Saratov Regional Court handed down to his client. Answering questions from RIA Novosti after the verdict was announced, Belyak said that he was satisfied with the court verdict, since the court ruled out the main charges brought against his client, in particular, the charge of preparing for terrorism.

In Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, a suspect attempted suicide during an investigative experiment. The man escaped from the hands of the policemen, climbed onto a lamppost and grabbed the wires. After making sure that the line was de-energized, the defendant threw himself on the ground, according to IMA-Press. The man was hospitalized with a fractured spine.