According to the Dagestan Interior Ministry, the white SAAB-9000 that exploded on Friday in Makhachkala exploded and burned down due to faulty electrical wiring and a leak of liquefied gas. According to "Gazeta.ru", the driver of the car, which had St. Petersburg numbers, was an employee of the Department of the Rostorginspektsiya for the Republic of Dagestan. Earlier it was reported that the numbers were government. The explosion occurred in the trunk when the car was moving down the street.

In the near future, the "Regulations on the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation" will be sent to the Russian government. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Railways, a conciliation meeting was held in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss the draft resolution.

Participants in the ongoing six-party talks in Beijing to resolve the North Korean crisis agreed that their goal is to turn the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear-free zone.

On Friday at the Klyazma reservoir near Moscow the international festival of contemporary art in the open air "ArtKlyazma-2003" will start, which will last 10 days. The forum will feature works by contemporary artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Siberia, and the Far East. There are also foreign participants - from Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the USA and other countries. This festival in the Bay of Joy is the second in a row.

In India, the day after the collapse of a bridge in the state of Gujarat, a similar tragedy occurred in Tamil Nadu on the Uppanar River. According to Interfax, as a result, 32 people were injured, 5 of them were hospitalized. The incident happened near the village of Sindarathoppu. Several bearing pillars of the bridge could not withstand the load, and it collapsed.

On Friday evening, a serviceman of the federal forces was wounded in the center of Grozny, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to representatives of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs, this happened on Mayakovsky Street, not far from the building of the Press House. The ROVD reported that the operational-investigative team is considering two versions. According to the first of them, the military was blown up on a stretch.

Yak-130. Photo from the site Airbase.uka.ru First a little story. In the early 90s, there was an idea to create a plane on which the pilot skills of future "drivers" of fighters and attack aircraft could be developed. To drive the “drying” and “MiGs” for the sake of the cadets was invoice, and the L-39 became morally old, while the currency for the purchase of new cars from the Czechs was tight. The OKB came down to them. Yakovlev. The first flight of the prototype took place in 1995.

Georgia claims that a Russian plane violated its airspace. "Visually, the Georgian border guards recorded an illegal intrusion of the Su-25 aircraft from the territory of Russia," Corneliy Saliya, head of the general staff of the Department of State Border Protection of Georgia, told RIA Novosti. According to him, the incident occurred on Friday at about 10 am Tbilisi time on the northern section of the Russian-Georgian state border.

(JAP) anonymizer The administration of the Java Anonymous Proxy is allowed to interrupt the monitoring of user IP addresses until a court verdict is issued on appeal in connection with the decision of the German court obliging the service to implement this option without fail.

Grani.ru collage BP agreed to include Slavneft shares in a merger transaction with the Russian Tyumen oil company, which will result in an oil and gas holding TNK-BP Limited, Reuters reports citing a British company. The new holding is created through the unification of oil and gas assets of TNCs - the third largest Russian oil company in terms of reserves and the volume of production - and the British BP in the Russian Federation.

"Salher". Photo from the site text.uuu.ru/antik/news/2003/05/12/ The kidnappers of the jewelry composition of the work of Benvenutto Cellini "Salher" require five million euros for the return of the masterpiece. RIA Novosti was reported on Friday at the Austria Ministry of Internal Affairs. As the evidence that Salher is with them, the attackers sent small pieces of gold, which they scraped out of the base of the gold salt lip, noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In Vladivostok, a Fabric store was blown up at night. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the city administration. According to the press service, the attackers smashed the window of the store, threw several cans of fuel into it, and then an unidentified explosive device. As a result of the explosion and fire, the store was completely destroyed. According to preliminary data, the damage is more than 1 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

UK government spokesman Alistair Campbell has resigned, Sky News reports. It is not yet reported when he will resign and who will be his successor. However, Campbell's resignation was confirmed by government representatives. According to CNN, Campbell issued a statement in which he claims that as early as April 7, 2003, he and Blair decided that Campbell would step down from his post this summer.

A power outage paralyzed London's transport system on Thursday, CNN reports. According to the mayor of the British capital, Ken Livingston, about 250 thousand passengers are stuck in the subway. The accident occurred at rush hour, around 18.15 local time. According to metro workers, the power outage "has seriously affected the operation of the entire underground network." The main stations of the London Underground were also de-energized: Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo.

An attempt was made on the head of the local administration in the Grozny district of Chechnya. The officer received a gunshot wound. As RIA Novosti was informed by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, on Thursday at about 2.30 pm Moscow time in the village of Prigorodnoye, Grozny District, several unknown criminals fired machine guns at the head of the local administration, Dalilov, and a local resident who was next to him.