From the museum of Rabindranath Tagore near Kolkata, his gold Nobel medal was stolen - the first Nobel Prize in Asia, reports AFP. Together with the medal, the thieves took away other gold awards, the poet's and philosopher's watches, as well as some other rare exhibits. The museum was closed last Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, opening the premises, employees discovered the loss.

The first Muslim Cossack hundred in Russia will appear in the Perm region, Mukhammedgali Khuzin, Mufti of the region, announced after the signing of an agreement on cooperation between the Perm Muftiate and the Kama Separate Cossack District. This is reported by Interfax. "We want to set an example of how one can serve the Fatherland without violating the spiritual traditions of one's ancestors," the mufti said.

Cruiser 'Peter the Great'. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru At one of the recent official meetings in the General Committee of the Navy, the issue of the technical condition of the fleet forces, in particular, ships with nuclear power plants (YAU) was discussed. In general, the situation was evaluated as unsatisfactory. Currently, in addition to the "Peter the Great" in the Navy, there are three more surface peasants with YAEU.

'Eco -Protection!'. At one of the most dangerous nuclear stations in Russia-the Beloyarsk NPP in the Sverdlovsk region-the completion of the 4th power unit on fast neutron (BN-800) is reanimate, the press release of the Eco-Protection! "Passed in the Brani.ru said. Ecologists think. that the completion of the 4th block carries economic losses, poses a threat to nuclear distribution and accidents with Plutonium emissions, from which over 4.5 million people can suffer.

The head of the Russian government apparatus, Dmitry Kozak, signed an order appointing Alexander Zharov as assistant (press secretary) to the prime minister of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Government Information. Prior to this appointment, Zharov worked as an assistant to the Minister of Health for public relations, deputy manager of affairs - press secretary of the Ministry of Health of Russia.

On Thursday, activists of the Kmara youth movement were severely beaten in the center of Batumi, writes PRIMA. According to one of the activists of the movement Teya Tutberidze, the attackers demanded that the members of "Kmara" refuse to participate in the movement and threatened otherwise to expel the recalcitrants from the territory of the Adzharian autonomy. Tutberidze also said that one of the activists of the movement was seriously injured.

An Armenian citizen was robbed in Krasnozavodsk (Moscow region). As RBC was told in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, an Armenian citizen applied to the police station the day before. She stated that at about 08.50 Moscow time on March 24, three unknown persons of Caucasian appearance stopped her 17-year-old son leaving the apartment. Threatening with a knife and a pistol, the criminals took him back to the apartment, stole 2 million 600 thousand rubles.

Last Tuesday, Moscow rescuers got a 13-year-old teenager who fell through the ice from the Kuzminsky pond, and an 89-year-old veteran, a fishing lover, from the Strogino region, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. 13-year-old Zhenya went across the pond to shorten the way home. He noticed that the ice was too thin, he wanted to turn back, but it was too late. Rescuers were called to the place of emergency by witnesses.

The car of the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Vladivostok hit a pedestrian on the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the traffic police of Primorsky Krai. "The accident happened in Primorye on the 733rd kilometer of the federal highway Vladivostok-Khabarovsk, the Consul General's car hit a woman," the source said. The woman, who has not yet been identified, died at the scene from her injuries.

A cache of militants containing 140 kg of explosives has been neutralized in a forest near Alleroi (eastern Chechnya), Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. According to the representative of the Regional Operational Headquarters Ilya Shabalkin, there were 11 powerful improvised explosive devices in the cache. "They were buckets filled with TNT and stuffed with metal fragments. All of them are equipped with electric detonators.

In Mari El, in a few hours, at the final stop of the bus route N 9 in the village of Semenovka (a suburb of Yoshkar-Ola), the windows of four PATP-1 buses were broken at once, REGNUM news agency . reports Among the "victims" - one "LiAZ" and three brand new "PAZ-Aurora". Bus drivers said that the glass on one of the turns shattered for no apparent reason. It was obvious that the trick was the work of local hooligans.

Sailor silence. Photo from the site rol.ru The Council of the Russian Law Chamber on Thursday will discuss cases of the seizure of documents from lawyers Yuri Schmidt and Yevgeny Baru, who, respectively, of the former head of the Yukos NK Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MELIATEP MEFA Platon Lebedev. This was reported to RBC by the president of the lawyer chamber of the capital, Henry Reznik.

The average cost of Hollywood films has exceeded $100 million, said Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It is reported by the Air Force. According to Valenti, at the end of 2003 this figure was $102.8 million, up 15% from the previous year. $63.8 million of them go to production, and $39 million to marketing. Matrix Reloaded cost its creator $127 million.

In the Smolensk region, a gang that robbed truck drivers in the form of police officers was liquidated, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Smolensk region, on Wednesday, at the 423rd kilometer of the Minsk-Moscow highway, four unidentified police officers in uniform stopped an Iveco car belonging to a private company. The criminals tied up the driver and stole a car with a load of children's diapers, with a total value of 883 thousand 500 rubles.

Victor Cherkesov. Photo from the site www.rosbalt.ru The head of the Service for the Control of the Trade of Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, the personnel Chekist Viktor Cherkesov in an interview with Izvestia said he had never worked in the fifth department of the KGB of the USSR and did not engage in the persecution of dissenters. “Sorry, your biography says ...”, the newspaper correspondent tried to object. "My genuine biography has never included the 5th management.