Candidate for mayor of the city of Puebla de Ijar in the Spanish province of Teruel, 29-year-old Patricia Maurel Conte, was killed with a hunting rifle by her 34-year-old husband, José Javier Salvador Calvo. According to RIA Novosti, soon after the murder of his wife, the husband turned himself in to the local gendarmerie department. According to one version, the reason for the murder was jealousy.

By order of the governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev, the first child born on May 27, 2003 (or rather his family) will receive an apartment from the city free of charge. According to "Rosbalt", the same gift awaits the 27th and 300th child who will be born during the anniversary day. Journalists expressed concern that 300 babies a day in St. Petersburg are not born. However, Anatoly Kagan, chairman of the Health Committee of the Administration of St.

In Moscow, a mummified corpse of a 26-year-old woman with signs of strangulation was found in a sewer well on Academician Yangel Street. This was reported by the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs As experts managed to find out, death occurred about a year ago. The identity of the deceased has also been established.

The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation sent a supervisory appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The staffing of the Federal Service for Combating Economic and Tax Crimes under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has been determined, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the President of Russia. Vladimir Putin signed the relevant decree on May 21 this year. According to the document, the number of employees of the Federal Service is established from July 1, 2003. in the amount of 30 thousand 300 units, and from January 1, 2004.

Valentin Moiseev, convicted on charges of spying for South Korea and released on December 31, 2002 after the expiration of his sentence, filed a complaint against the actions head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region "Strogino" Yuri Anashkin. Moiseev accuses Anashkin of violating his constitutional rights by refusing unconditional registration at the place of residence.

Russia plans to open a military liaison mission at NATO headquarters and is ready to cooperate with the alliance in the peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan. According to Interfax-AVN, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who arrived in Brussels on a one-day working visit on Friday to meet with NATO Secretary General George Robertson, told reporters about this.

An unknown criminal threatening to detonate several powerful explosive devices in Prague has nothing to do with a "food terrorist". This was announced on Friday in an interview with RIA Novosti by Blanka Kosinova, press secretary of the police presidium. The criminal threatens with terrorist attacks in Prague if he does not receive a ransom of 50 million crowns from the authorities within two days.

On May 22, 20-year-old hockey player of the Russian national team Igor Grigorenko underwent a tracheostomy - an opening of the throat and the introduction of a special breathing tube. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the website of the club "Lada", after the operation the patient's condition began to gradually improve. Thanks to the operation, which lasted only 15 minutes, it was possible to clear the airways and significantly reduce the swelling that had formed before.

Russia and the United States have outlined ways of interaction to resolve the situation around North Korea. This was reported to Interfax by a Russian military man accompanying Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov during his visit to Washington. "There is an agreement in principle between Russia and the United States on possible ways to resolve the situation around North Korea," he said.

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, unknown criminals set fire to a Toyota car belonging to Deputy Military Prosecutor Yevgeny Frolov. As RIA Novosti was told on Friday by the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry, the incident took place on May 22 in a parking lot near the building of the military prosecutor's office of the bodies and troops of the Federal Border Service of Russia in the Sakhalin Region.

Employees of the military registration and enlistment offices of the Novgorod region liked to work with priests. As a correspondent of RIA Novosti was told on Friday in the military commissariat of the Novgorod region, the first experience of the participation of the clergy of the Novgorod diocese in the work of draft commissions was assessed by the staff of the military registration and enlistment offices as very successful.

The children of the village of Ust-Izhma in the Izhma district of Komi were left without a school. As Komiinform was informed in the Department of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the evening of May 21, the school building was completely burned down. Nobody was hurt in the fire. According to the preliminary version, the fire was caused by ball lightning entering the building during a thunderstorm.

At the request of the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, a blood sample of 25-year-old resident of Blagoveshchensk Denis Soinikov was re-sent to Moscow for analysis. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Soynikov has been in the hospital for almost three weeks with suspected SARS. The clinical picture of the disease gives reason to physicians to believe that the patient has atypical pneumonia, but this diagnosis needs to be confirmed by the results of laboratory tests in five parameters.

The leadership of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) intends to create a holding in which the world oil cartel itself will be included as an integral part. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Friday by a high-ranking source in the OPEC General Secretariat in Austria.