Representatives of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition party in exile, said that Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Jamal Mustafa Sultan al-Tikriti, had surrendered to them. It is reported by Reuters. According to representatives of the INC, Jamal Mustafa Sultan first fled to Syria, but then, under pressure from the INC, returned to Iraq. Now it is in the hands of the former opposition, they promise to hand it over to the Americans in the near future.

Logo from the site www.tvs.tv On Monday evening, the next working meeting of shareholders of the sixth television channel CJSC will be held. According to Kommersant, the meeting will be attended by representatives of Video International and the chairman of the board of directors of the View television company Alexander Lyubimov. The parties will again try to agree on the creation of a management company that will try to display the channel for self -sufficiency.

The Russian Orthodox Church hopes for the help of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in resolving problems between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Vatican. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Church, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin.

Rosoboronexport will present original innovative projects at the international forum High Technologies of the 21st Century, which opens on Monday in the capital's Expocentre, RIA Novosti reports. Together with Russian developers and manufacturers of military, dual and civilian products, Rosoboronexport develops projects for a wide range of applications - from ecology, medicine and mechanical engineering to the fuel and energy complex, information technology and educational systems.

Photo from Newsru.com Last night, several hours spent on the street the tenants of the house number 2/6 on Bolshaya Bronnaya. According to RIA Novosti, this 16 -storey building found an object that looks like an explosive device - "two polyethylene packages", as an important witness said evasively. Witnesses say that a suspicious object was laid by a young man who then tried to set fire to the bicfords cord. He was interfered, the fire was extinguished and the police were called.

In the family of the youngest son of the President of North Ossetia, Alexander Dzasokhov, four daughters were born at once, Interfax reports. Dzasokhov, in an interview with Interfax, said that there were many different circumstances in his life, difficult and joyful, but none of them caused as many positive emotions as the birth of four granddaughters at the same time. He noted that his family made a worthy contribution to the government's call to overcome the demographic problem in Russia.

In Moscow, an armed robbery was committed at the Pyaterochka grocery supermarket located in house # 1, building 2 on Belovezhskaya Street. The Moscow police department told Interfax that at 10:00 pm on Sunday, two masked criminals armed with sawn-off shotguns broke into the store. Threatening with weapons, they stole 800 thousand rubles from the cash registers of the supermarket, after which they disappeared.

In the Iraqi cities of Kirkuk and Khanekin, locals have lynched 14 agents of the formerly ruling Ba'ath Party over the past three days. This was reported by IRNA with reference to representatives of the Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The agents were killed by relatives of the repressed. In order to prevent further attempts at lynching and attempts to avenge these executions, local security agencies are looking for and arresting the perpetrators of the massacres.

On the eve of the qualifying match of the European Championship with Georgia, the Russian national football team is experiencing problems in almost all lines. This was announced at a press conference in RIA Novosti on Monday by the mentor of the Russian team Valery Gazzaev. In his opinion, a particularly alarming situation has now developed in the defense line. The main goalkeeper of the national team Sergei Ovchinnikov is serving a five-match suspension in the national championship.

The election of the head of the EMO city of Norilsk, including Talnakh, Kayerkan and the village of Snezhnogorsk, was recognized as valid, reports Regnum.ru. Based on the results of processing the ballots, the City Electoral Commission announced that a second round of elections would take place. To win in the first round, one of the candidates needed to get 50% of the votes, however, none of those running for the post of Mayor of Norilsk managed to overcome this milestone.

On Monday early in the morning the winner in the last nomination of the National Internet Prize of 2003 was determined, reports Lenta.Ru. Audience Award "The Web Chooses You!" received the Library of Maxim Moshkov . Also on the air of the TV program "Apology" was announced the winner of the Grand Prix of the Russian Academy of the Internet - the site Vesti.Ru . Awards in the main nominations of the award were presented in the Moscow club "Ministry" on April 17th.

In Moscow, two people were detained who kidnapped a businessman for ransom, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. 45-year-old native of Chechnya Rustam Zubaraev and 23-year-old resident of the Magadan region Dmitry Pikula kidnapped businessman Rafail Yakubov in January last year and took him to a forest in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region.

In the Iraqi city of Faw, which is controlled by the British occupying forces, a powerful explosion rocked. According to Iranian radio, cited by RIA Novosti, the blast wave reached the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan. From the coast of the border river Arvand kenar, a large column of smoke was observed rising into the sky. According to the assumptions of local residents, British troops detonated one of the depth charges installed near the coast of the port of Fao.

The bodies of two Britons have been found and identified in Iraq near Al-Zubair, Reuters reports. The British Ministry of Defense does not rule out that Iraqis could have executed them. While it is believed that they died under unclear circumstances. These are sappers 36-year-old Simon Kallingworth and 24-year-old Luke Olsopp. They went missing on March 23 after an attack on a military convoy in which they traveled. Soon the Al Jazeera TV channel showed the bodies of two dead Britons.

Georgia demands the withdrawal of Russian military equipment from Batumi and Akhalkalaki and is ready to grant Russian servicemen the right to temporary residence on its territory. This was stated to Interfax-AVN on Monday by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Kakha Sikharulidze. He said that Georgia is trying to be flexible in negotiations on the withdrawal of Russian military bases, but Tbilisi insists that three years is enough to eliminate them.