The State Duma on Friday granted the right to a number of categories of legal entities to purchase weapons by adopting in the third reading the relevant amendments to the current law "On Weapons". This is reported by Interfax. In particular, the right to acquire weapons is granted to legal entities engaged in research, development, testing, as well as the manufacture and decoration of weapons.

From the crater of the Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka, ash is ejected to a height of up to 3.8 thousand meters, RIA Novosti was told in the Kamchatka Experimental and Methodological Seismological Party. According to experts, emissions accompany long-term surface earthquakes with a magnitude of about 2 points.

In St. Petersburg, nine people were hospitalized as a result of a collision on the Moscow highway between a fixed-route taxi and a trailer, Fontanka.Ru reports. The accident happened around 11:00 am. All victims were hospitalized in a state of moderate severity. According to preliminary information, the driver of the trailer, who drove into the oncoming lane, is the culprit of the accident.

At about eight o'clock in the evening on Thursday, firefighters managed to localize the fire that arose in the first half of the day in a four-story residential building in the Karelian regional center of Kem. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, according to the Information Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, out of 24 apartments, 17 houses were completely burned out. There were no victims or injured.

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has been named as the next alleged victim of al-Qaeda terrorists. According to AP, this was stated by the head of Polish intelligence Zbigniew Semyatkowski, and the basis for such a statement was the announcement of the terrorists themselves on one of the Arabic-language sites. Last year on the same site there was a message about the preparation of terrorist attacks in Spain.

Three relatives of the dead Nord-Ost hostages filed a cassation complaint with the Moscow City Court on Friday against the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Court, which refused to recognize the actions of the Moscow prosecutor's office as illegal, Ekho Moskvy reports.

In northern Iraq, 50 km from Kirkuk, three people died when they tried to plant an explosive device, Reuters reports. According to representatives of local authorities, the identity of the suspected terrorists has not been established. The explosion occurred in the town of Riyadh near the city hall at about 11.00 am.

On Thursday, an explosion occurred in Gudermes, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from the Chechen Interior Ministry. Two soldiers were killed, two more soldiers and two local residents were injured. An unidentified explosive device went off on Tereshkova Street. An operational-investigative group is working on the spot, which establishes the type of explosive device and the details of the incident.

Vladimir Putin has appointed heads of four departments of the President of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports. Dmitry Zhuykov has been appointed head of the Russian Presidential Department for Ensuring the Constitutional Rights of Citizens. Vladimir Osipov - Head of the Russian Presidential Administration for Personnel Issues and State Awards. Mikhail Mironov - Head of the Russian Presidential Department for Work with Citizens' Appeals.

At the station "Syzran-1" in the area of ​​​​the crossing "Tyazhmash" due to the undocking of the rails, three tanks with a flammable liquid descended from them. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the Information Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. As a result of the accident, about 5 tons of the hazardous substance "butyl tert-butyl ether" spilled out of the tanks. No one was hurt in the fall of the tanks.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Friday adopted in the second reading the bill "On the State Civil Service of the Russian Federation" introduced by the President of the Russian Federation. With the necessary 226 votes, the document was supported by 354 deputies, 7 voted against, 2 abstained, RIA Novosti reports.

Adolf Shaevich. Photo from the site compromat.ru The chief rabbi of Russia Adolf Shaevich invited the Russian Society of Consciousness of Krishna to build a temple structure not in Moscow, but on the Chukotka or on the Yamal Peninsula. The reason for the statement of the rabbi was the recent presentation of the new project of the Krishna Temple 38.5 m high, that is, the size of a 16-story house. "We have not so much adherents of this organization to build such giant temples.

A special commission, created by order of the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, recognized the cracked house on Dvinskaya Street as suitable for living. This is reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the Channel Five of St. Petersburg television. According to the channel, members of the commission, headed by its chairman, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Oleg Virolainen, have already gone to reassure and please the temporarily evicted residents of the house.

The prosecutor's office of the Arkhangelsk region combined into one proceeding criminal cases on an explosion in a residential building and on the fact of gas leaks in two other houses in Arkhangelsk. According to RIA "Novosti", this information is contained in a press release from the administration of the Arkhangelsk region.

Doctors at the Gudermes hospital amputated Maskhadov's left leg above the knee and are now fighting to save him, Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the security service for the Chechen president, said. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to Interfax. According to him, Shaa Turlayev was taken to the hospital on March 31 in serious condition. It turns out that negotiations with Turlaev on surrender have been going on since the end of February through intermediaries.