Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov rejected the draft cost estimate for the restoration of the Manezh, considering the proposed calculations too high.

The Moscow militia will create a subdivision of sentry militiamen, whose main task will be to fight against skinheads, the Versiya newspaper reports. The training of guards to fight the Nazis began immediately after a Tajik girl was killed in St. Petersburg. The anti-skin unit will recruit both men and women. The management of the division does not intend to advertise its work. So far, the Moscow authorities are only talking about an increase in the number of policemen on the street.

By decree of the President of Karachay-Cherkessia, Mustafa Batdyev, the government of the republic was dismissed. As RIA Novosti was informed in the press service of the head of the republic, the current prime minister Ruslan Kazanokov was instructed to temporarily act as prime minister until a new cabinet is formed.

On Monday, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow postponed the hearing of the claim of Nikolay Lyubimov, the watchman of the Theater Center on Dubrovka, to April 28. This was reported to RIA Novosti by lawyer Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the plaintiff. The claim for compensation for material damage is addressed to the Department of Finance of Moscow.

Martian canyon. Photo by ESA from the BBC News website New evidence of the possible existence of life on Mars were obtained by scientists of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Two independent groups of scientists found traces of methane in the Martian atmosphere. Methane (CH4) - that is, the usual waste of the life of organisms living on Earth - may turn out to be a by -product of life and alien microbes living under the surface of the Red Planet.

On Friday, a two-day United Nations summit ended, where it was decided that developing countries should be given more opportunities to influence the development of the Internet, CNET News.com reports. However, no specific agreement has been reached on this matter. During the summit, the participants simply stated their proposals requiring consideration, and these proposals were studied in the five working groups of the summit.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Petr Sidorenkov, one of the victims of the terrorist act in the theater center on Dubrovka, RIA Novosti reports. On Monday, the court ordered the Department of Finance of the Moscow government to pay Sidorenkov a one-time compensation in the amount of 67,698 rubles. In addition, by a court decision, Sidorenkov was assigned a monthly pension of 3,923 rubles.

Operational services of Moscow will hold scheduled exercises in the Moscow metro on Tuesday night to eliminate the fire, RIA reports. "The exercises will be held at 02.00 at the Kievskaya station with the participation of metro workers, firefighters, ambulance doctors and the police," said Yevgeny Chernyshev, head of the fire extinguishing service of the State Fire Service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in Moscow.

A Spanish police patrol stopped a Volkswagen minibus loaded with explosives and fined the Arab driver for a minor traffic violation. According to BBC News, citing El Pais, this happened in the province of Leon a few days before the Madrid attacks. The Spanish publication suggests that at that moment the terrorists were in the car. According to the investigation, they were traveling to Madrid from the north of Spain.

On Monday morning, a tragic incident occurred in the Finnish city of Kitee. According to the Finnish state television and radio company YLE, a 43-year-old father shot his 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son with a rifle, Rosbalt reports. The murder took place in the apartment where the man's ex-wife lives with their two children. At the time of the murder, the mother of the children was on the street.

An Il-76 cargo plane made an emergency landing in Bratsk on Monday morning. The plane was flying from China to Moscow with an intermediate stop in this city, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax. During takeoff from the airport of Bratsk, the landing gear was not removed from the aircraft. The crew decided to return to the airport and make an emergency landing. The plane circled over the city for 2.5 hours, producing fuel. All emergency services were sent to the airport. The landing went well.

The US dollar exchange rate against the single European currency continued its gradual growth on Monday, PRIME-TASS reports. The dollar is supported by expectations that the instability of economic growth in the eurozone will force the European Central Bank to lower interest rates, which will reduce the attractiveness of European assets compared to American ones.

Former administration terrorism expert Richard Clarke will receive more than $1 million for his book Against All Enemies. will continue as they are now." In the first week after the book's release, more than 140,000 copies have already been sold. Representatives of Simon & Schuster declined to give details of the deal they signed with Clark, but it became known that Clark's fee could increase even more if his book is included in the New York Times bestseller list.

Tartaria map. Photo from www.univer.omsk.su The process of changing the constitution, from which experts and politicians have been warned for so long, has already been launched. Last week, the Law on the formation of a new subject of the Federation by uniting the Perm region and the Komi-Permyatsky JSC, previously adopted by the Duma, was approved by the Federation Council and signed by the President.

The State Assembly of the Republic of Altai El Kurultai did not give consent to holding a referendum on unification with the Altai Territory. This was reported to Interfax on Monday at the State Assembly of the Territory, Gazeta.Ru reports. Some time ago, an initiative group was created in the Altai Republic to organize a referendum on the issue of unification with the Altai Territory.