In Lipetsk, a student of the 11th grade of school 1 of the city of Lipetsk jumped out of the window of the fifth floor of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Soviet District, reports news agency REGNUM . A 17-year-old boy was invited to talk to an operative worker. He sat in the investigator's office and waited for his grandmother to come to testify in her presence. According to the policeman, the young man suddenly jumped up from his chair and jumped out the window.

The Vladivostok garrison military court found guilty the officers of the Pacific Fleet, who accidentally burned the base minesweeper, Gazeta.ru reports. Captain 3rd rank Vladimir Kutsan and captain-lieutenant Vasily Khalin allowed to build a makeshift electric sauna on the ship. The emergency sauna was used from August 1, 2002, and on October 11, 2003 it caught fire at night. The ship was disabled. The state suffered damage for 2478 thousand rubles.

All the central streets of Grozny will be illuminated at night during April. This was announced to journalists on Monday by the chairman of the government of the Chechen Republic, Sergei Abramov, reports with reference to Interfax Gazeta.Ru. He stressed that this issue was discussed on Monday at a meeting of the Chechen government. According to Abramov, street lighting is necessary, first of all, so that law enforcement agencies patrol the city at night.

Bank of America management announced its intention to cut 12,500 jobs within two years. According to the BBC, the reduction is due to the upcoming merger of Bank of America with the financial corporation FleetBoston. It is planned to reduce up to 7 percent of the combined staff of the two companies. Bank of America's first staff cuts are expected to begin within the next month.

"Russia continues to make every possible effort to return our citizens to their homeland," said Mikhail Troyansky, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. According to RIA Novosti, the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the statement of the Qatari Foreign Ministry about the ongoing trial of Russians in Doha.

OPEC. From the Air Force website The OPEC will try to fulfill its decision to reduce quotas for a million barrels per day, however, in case of high prices, it will allow an additional flow of oil on the market, Reuters reports with reference to the statement of the president of the Oil Industrial Industrial Industrial Indonesia Purnomo Yusgiantoro. On March 31, OPEC decided to reduce oil production to 23.5 million barrels per day, excluding supplies from Iraq.

Yasir Arafat. Photo by ar The Palestinian leader Jasir Arafat intends to include representatives of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the leadership of the Palestinian autonomy of the representatives of the terrorist groups. It is reported by Ha'aretz with reference to the Al-Ayyam Palestinian newspaper.

The investigation believes that suspected terrorists arrested last week in the UK were preparing a bomb that they were going to fill with a highly toxic substance, reports ABCNEWS. Sources of the TV company claim that we are talking about osmium tetroxide, which is relatively easy to obtain. It is a colorless or pale yellow gas with an unpleasant odor. It affects soft tissues and mucous membranes, and can blind and even kill a person.

In the village of Mrakove, Kugarchinsky district of Bashkiria, a chicken laid an egg 9 centimeters long and weighing 200 grams, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda . This miracle egg is two centimeters larger and 40 grams heavier than the record of the Belarusian chicken from the Krasnoarmeyskaya poultry farm in the village of Mir, Grodno region. She, in turn, broke the record of the Cuban, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records with an egg weighing 146 grams.

The Ministry of Education and Science may soon receive educational institutions of all other departments for use, as well as a training fleet, agricultural land, hospitals and stadiums, reports Kommersant . The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development insist on the transfer of all Russian universities "to one hand". The ministries themselves are in no hurry to part with universities and the budgetary funds allocated for their maintenance.

Nonna Mordyukova left the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine without the permission of doctors, Interfax reports. The actress was hospitalized over the weekend with a diagnosis of femoral artery thrombosis, her condition was assessed as moderate. According to the ambulance specialists, the actress needed surgical treatment. However, on Monday, Mordyukova refused the help of doctors.

The trial of two employees of the Russian special services detained in Qatar on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, has not yet begun. This was announced by the interfax by the official representative of the lawyer Bureau Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners "Ilya Levitov. Bureau employees are now in Qatar, where they are building a strategy for protecting the accused.

The vote on the impeachment of Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas will take place on Tuesday, April 6. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, this statement was made by the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic Vytautas Greičius. On Monday, the session of the Seimas lasted longer than planned, but the lawyers representing the president did not have time to finish their speeches.

In the suburbs on Tuesday night, an attempt to seize the administration building of the Stupino metallurgical plant was prevented. As Interfax was told by a source in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Stupino, around 3:00 a.m., about 200 people armed with bats and stakes entered the territory of the metallurgical plant through the northern railway gate and tried to seize the administration building.

Heroin. Photo from the site www.uweb.ucsb.edu In the Spanish city of Alikant, a robber was detained, who captured hostages in the premises of one of the banks and demanded one gram of heroin, reports Reuters. The 25-year-old criminal had a grenade and a revolver. On Monday afternoon, he burst into the Banco Popular building to rob and captured 8 people. As a result of negotiations with the police, he released six of them. Even the father of the criminal participated in the negotiations.