Today, a meeting of the Zamoskvoretsky Court is to be held on the suit of the daughter of the Soviet actor Mikhail Zharov against the Ad Marginem publishing house and against Vladimir Sorokin, ITAR-TASS reports. Anna Zharova claims that, without her knowledge, the image of her father was used in the design of the book Blue Fat. After his death, the actor's daughter believes, she inherited the rights to everything connected with Mikhail Zharov, and now she demands financial compensation.

The spring session of the State Duma may be extended, Gennady Seleznev, speaker of the lower house of parliament, admits. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the plan, the spring session of the State Duma should end at the end of June. As Seleznev said, the session may be extended due to the need to consider government tax bills, the adoption of which is necessary to continue work on presidential bills to reform local government and federative relations.

On Monday, at about 6 pm, a private entrepreneur who lives in one of the houses on Zhulebinsky Boulevard turned to the metropolitan police. As Rosbalt was informed at the Moscow police department, he said that approximately at the house 82 on Leninsky Prospekt, two unidentified people distracted his attention with questions and, taking advantage of a moment of confusion, stole a briefcase from his Hyundai car, in which there were 1450 thousand rubles. A search is underway for the perpetrators.

In one of the shopping centers in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, a special center was opened for men who do not want to go shopping with their wives. Instead, husbands will be able to sit in peace and quiet, read or smoke a cigarette. The store's management opened the center after realizing that women cannot go shopping in peace, and joint shopping often provokes quarrels, reports Ananova.

About 300 carrier pigeons are transported from Afghanistan to Pakistan up to half a ton of heroin per year. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by SANA with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies of Pakistan. Drug traffickers buy carrier pigeons in Pakistani cities and bring them to their farms in the country's North-West Frontier Province.

The Presidium of the Unity faction considered the initiative of a group of deputies (Yuri Tsybakin, Viktor Pleskachevsky, Rem Khramov and Natalya Komarova) on military reform and approved the continuation of work in this direction. According to the parliamentary correspondent of Graney.Ru, the deputies propose to legalize paid semi-annual military training.

Belarusian law enforcement officers have opened a high-profile case of the theft of valuable rarities from the National Library of the country. As press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus Dmitry Parton told RIA Novosti, a considerable merit in solving this crime belongs to Russian detectives, since traces of the disappeared publications led to Moscow.

In the village of Trushniki, Chernushinsky district, Perm region, cows that lived on a local dairy farm died. During a thunderstorm, a power line was damaged, the wire fell on a summer area for keeping livestock. 44 cows died from an electric shock, the press service of Permenergo JSC told REGNUM.

The draft federal budget for 2004 and the main parameters of the economic forecast will be submitted to the Russian government before the beginning of June. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the DPI, noting that budget preparation issues were discussed on Tuesday at a meeting of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov with deputy prime ministers and key ministers.

The fire in the warehouse belonging to the Ochakovo brewery on Ryabinovaya Street in Moscow was localized at 13.25, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the UGPS of Moscow. The press service of the UGPS of Moscow Rosbalut reported that the warehouse was almost completely destroyed by fire. The burning area was about 1 thousand square meters, 22 fire brigades and a special helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations took part in extinguishing the fire.

In Germany, a tourist bus overturned on the highway between the cities of Plön and Preetz. According to AP, 69 passengers were traveling on the bus, most of them schoolchildren from Denmark. According to preliminary data, the driver lost control on a wet road. The bus fell into a roadside ditch up to 15 meters deep. The accident happened around 6:00 pm local time. The number of victims is not known, but it is reported that the wounded were taken to local hospitals.

On Tuesday, the exhibition "Alexander Danilovich Menshikov - the first governor and builder of St. Petersburg" opened in the Menshikov Palace of the State Hermitage. The exposition opened a week before a large-scale exhibition dedicated to Peter the Great opens in the main building of the Hermitage. As the head of the Menshikov Palace, Vladimir Meshcheryakov, told RIA Novosti, in total, about 100 exhibits were placed in the halls of the palace of the first St.

A thousand exhibits have disappeared from the Baghdad Historical Museum, and not 60-70 thousand, as previously thought. This was announced on Monday at a press conference in Lisbon by UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura.

Marat Safin withdrew from the French Open due to a left wrist injury. It is reported by Lenta.Ru with reference to the Tennis in Russia magazine. Marat was injured in January at the Australian Open. Due to the aggravation of pain in the hand, he was unable to perform at the Masters tournaments in Rome and Hamburg and at the Dusseldorf team tournament, but now he will have to miss the main start of the clay season - Roland Garros, in which he could really win claim.

Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham. Photo from the site www.novayagazeta.ru The presidential administration of Azerbaijan begins to prepare public opinion for a possible replacement for the name of Aliyev in the election ballot - Heydar on Ilham. Actually, there is nothing surprising in such a replacement.