In Moscow, an employee of the special center "Cascade" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was robbed, a source in the police department of the capital told RIA Novosti. "The day before, the 42-year-old deputy head of the department of the Cascade center turned to the police and stated that an unknown person on Initiative Street stole a briefcase with money and documents from her Skoda-Fabia car," the agency's interlocutor said.

Image from the site dfl.org.za On Tuesday in Moscow, a report of the UN Development Program was published, which first comprehensively analyzes the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 28 countries of eastern and southeastern Europe, the Baltic and the CIS, BBC reports. It is in the countries of Eastern Europe that the fastest rates of the spread of HIV infection, experts say.

In Rome, on March 18, the shroud in which the body of Evita Peron was wrapped immediately after her death, as well as the library of her husband Juan Domingo Peron, will be sold at auction. According to AFP, the auction is organized by Christie's Italie. In total, it is planned to sell about 60 lots. All of them belong to the Foundation for Peace and Friendship of Peoples, created by the personal secretary of the dictator Perón, Mario Rotundo.

Marat Gelman. Photo from the site www.kv.com.ua The deputy general director of Channel One Marat Gelman, who for about a year and a half headed the analytical directorate of the channel, resigned, reports Kommersant . Gelman resigned of his own free will, believing that the “Channel One” and the current government as a whole did not need his “intellectual service”. According to Gelman himself, he wrote a departure statement on December 8, and it was signed at the end of last week.

The Portuguese government has vowed to improve the state of the country's prisons after the justice ministry released a report saying that Portuguese prisons are in the most deplorable state compared to prisons in other EU countries. The paper, released on Monday, lists overcrowding, poor sanitation and a lack of alternatives to imprisonment as major problems.

On Wednesday, the State Duma will reject the legislative initiative of the Ivanovo deputies to increase the presidential term from four to seven years, Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Duma and leader of the United Russia faction, promised Interfax. "The United Russia faction will not allow changes to the Constitution," he said.

No survivors or dead were found in the ruins of Transvaal Park last night, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. Rescuers managed to dismantle a significant part of the blockages of the water park bowl, a source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told the agency. In total, according to rescuers, there may be bodies of 4-6 people under the rubble.

The shortage of vacant space in Moscow and the super profits that the construction business brings, make the capital's developers and builders neglect elementary safety rules, Gazeta writes. For an amount of 5 to 15% of the cost of an object in Moscow, you can agree on almost any project. As a result, buildings are built where underground springs and small rivers flow, landslides and soil sinks into karst voids occur. So at any moment in Moscow such new buildings can collapse.

The recent sharp increase in the number of deaths of residents of the island of Java from dengue fever is caused by a mutation in this virus. According to RIA Novosti, such a conclusion of Indonesian experts is published on Tuesday by the newspaper Jakarta Post. According to the representative of the Ministry of Health, Umar Fahmi, 77 people died from a deadly disease in the past month in two provinces and two cities of the island alone.

In Berlin, neo-Nazis desecrated a monument to the victims of Nazi concentration camps, located in the city's Steglitz-Zehlendorf district on Wismarer Strasse, DPA reports. Several swastikas were painted on the monument. The police patrol that discovered this removed the swastikas from the surface of the memorial stone on their own using chemical means. An investigation into the incident has begun.

MMC Norilsk Nickel intends to combine all its "gold" assets in one company, which will be formed on the basis of CJSC Polyus. According to Vedomosti, the united company will be headed by the former president of Rosbank Evgeny Ivanov. Analysts value the combined company at $2-3 billion and expect its shares to appear on the stock exchanges. Ivanov now heads the board of directors of Rosbank, the main bank of Interros. Soon he will be appointed President of the "Pole".

In the Grozny region of Chechnya, an attack was made on the manager of the Rosselkhozbank branch, Shavazh Abdulmuslimov, who was transporting 5 million rubles. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday by law enforcement agencies in Chechnya. Last Monday, at about 10.30 Moscow time, on the road near the village of Raduzhnoye, Grozny region, six criminals fired automatic weapons at a Zhiguli in which Abdulmuslimov and a bank guard were located.

On Tuesday, the Moscow District Military Court will consider the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the former chief financier of the Russian Defense Ministry, Colonel-General Georgy Oleinik, to cancel the verdict. This was reported to RIA Novosti in court. "We are talking about the accusation of abuse of office, which concerns the sale of bonds of an internal foreign currency loan to Voenbank in 1998.

The joint operational headquarters of the FSB-MVD of Russia, headed by Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Zhdankov, interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, checked about 200 addresses, explosives were found at some of them, RIA Novosti was told at the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia. The medical examination officially identified 40 victims of the terrorist attack in the subway on February 6.

Sea. Image from the site nlsumerki.narod.ru The scenario of current exercises in the Northern Fleet provided only the conditional launch of ballistic missiles. This was stated by ITAR-TASS Communist Party of the Russian Navy Vladimir Kuroyedov.