On the night of April 24, in the city of Kirovgrad, Sverdlovsk Region, the owner of the apartment in the house on March 8 Street, a citizen of Zel, discovered the corpse of an unfamiliar man in her kitchen. This is reported by "New Region". According to the Department of Internal Affairs of Kirovgrad, three stab wounds were found on the man's corpse. In addition, the TV was missing from the apartment.

Photo from the site www.blarusphoto.com In Russia, 17 thousand rural settlements were discovered, in which, according to official figures, the population is listed, although no one lives de facto. According to Interfax, such data were obtained during the All -Russian census held in October 2002. This was stated to reporters by the chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on statistics, Vladimir Sokolin following a meeting of the Russian government.

In the Magadan region, they find out where the proceeds from the sale of 40 tons of confiscated red caviar went. According to RIA "Novosti", this issue was discussed at a working meeting in the regional police department, which was held by Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov. According to the press service representative, "referring to the issue of biological resources, the minister noted that in 2002, 40 tons of red caviar were seized in the region.

Interrogation of witnesses in the case of Colonel Yury Budanov, accused of murdering a Chechen girl Elza Kungayeva, continued at the North Caucasus District Military Court on Thursday. According to Interfax, Budanov's subordinate, the commander of the reconnaissance company of the 160th tank regiment, senior lieutenant Roman Bagreev, answered the questions of the judges.

Amnesty should not infringe on the rights of victims. According to PRIMA , this is the meaning of the decision made on April 24 by the Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia following the consideration of the complaint of the victim of an inept doctor. As a result of an unsuccessful operation, Larisa Zaporozhets had a disfigured face.

The scientific program of the flight of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) starting on April 26 has undergone changes towards an increase in the Russian part. Alexander Kaleri, the understudy of the commander of the new ISS crew, told ITAR-TASS about this today. According to him, some experiments of the American part of the scientific program will not be carried out, since it is impossible to deliver equipment that was previously delivered on shuttles to the station.

Eduard Limonov, sentenced to 4 years in prison for illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, may be released on April 25. Sergei Belyak, the defendant's lawyer, told Novy Region news agency that Limonov is not going to appeal against the verdict of the Saratov court. He hopes for parole, which "implies the merits of the writer and his middle age." The decision on early release in the coming days may be taken by the Saratov court.

A court in South Africa found Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Mandela guilty of fraud and grand larceny. It is reported by the radio station "Freedom". The ex-wife of the President of South Africa, who in the era of the struggle against apartheid was called the "mother of the people", now leads the Women's League of the African National Congress. The court found her guilty of fraudulently obtaining bank loans in excess of $130,000.

Suspicions of SARS in a resident of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, who visited China, were not confirmed. As the chief sanitary doctor of the Sakhalin region Yevgeny Papirenko told Interfax on Thursday, after examining a woman hospitalized with symptoms of a dangerous disease, she was diagnosed with tracheobronchitis. The woman turned to doctors for help after she returned from a shopping tour to China more than two weeks ago.

The Russian commission, which conducted an examination of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the Vatican, came to the conclusion that this is not the original icon of the 16th century, but its copy of the 18th century. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to sources close to the commission. The agency reports that it was decided not to disclose the conclusions of Russian art critics until the beginning of May. This was requested by the Catholic side.

Last night, by decision of the investigator of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, the vice-governor of the Saratov region, Dmitry Ayatskov's nephew, Yuri Moiseev, was detained and placed in a temporary detention facility. He is suspected of beating a certain Vitaly Gladyshev.

Bulgaria's Ministry of Health has reported the first suspected case of the SARS virus in the country. It is reported by RIA Novosti. A resident of Sofia, who spent several months in Toronto, fell ill. He was hospitalized with symptoms of SARS. Doctors are now waiting for test results. The head of the Ministry of Health of Bulgaria said that most likely, the result will be positive.

Tiger Shanghai from the Italian circus, touring in Madrid, attacked a worker who was feeding him and tore off his right arm above the elbow. about it writes El Mundo . The predator also seriously injured the other hand of the employee. The victim is Julius M., a 28-year-old Ukrainian immigrant. He was urgently operated on at the La Paz clinic in Madrid. Doctors assess the victim's condition as extremely serious.

More than 100,000 residents of Vladivostok were left without electricity due to a power line accident. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the press service of JSC "Dalenergo", at about 11.00 local time in the Soviet district of the city, a car with a lift cut off an electric wire. As a result of the accident, most of the Sovietsky district, which also includes suburban settlements and stations, hospitals, rest homes, sanatoriums, was left without electricity.

Newlyweds from Germany filed for divorce on the fourth day after the wedding, according to Reuters. The basis for the divorce was the "infidelity of the newlywed", who ran away from her husband with her lover. The court decided to divorce them immediately, although usually a divorce is given to spouses who have not lived together for at least a year. So smart Germans got married on Saturday, and divorced on Tuesday. The wife was 19 years old. Husband - 25.