In Yerevan, ten thousand demonstrators gathered near the parliament building. The rally was organized by the Justice and National Unity opposition factions, which are seeking amendments and additions to the Law on Referendum, allowing a referendum on the issue of confidence in President Robert Kocharyan. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The presidential administration has reinforced police units and buses with soldiers. The procession is taking place without any incidents so far.

Russian doctors have given the go-ahead to the future space tourist, American millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen, to start theoretical training, a source in the structures involved in the implementation of space programs told Interfax on Monday. According to him, following the results of a medical examination, Olsen received permission to start theoretical training at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK Star City).

Russian President Vladimir Putin opposes legislative restrictions on demonstrations, rallies and processions. He stated this at a meeting with government members on Monday, RIA Novosti reports. “Well, who needs it today, in the conditions of our reality, to restrict the rights, freedom of citizens to demonstrate and march? There should be no unhealthy restrictions associated with this,” the president said.

The political parties of the ruling coalition in Armenia on Monday decided to suspend the work of the parliament, Rosbalt reports. As stated in the statement of the Republican Party of Armenia, Dashnaktsutyun and Orinats Yerkir parties, in order to avoid artificial aggravation of the internal political situation, the deputies of these factions considered it inappropriate to participate in the working three-day meeting of the National Assembly on April 12-14.

In the Moscow region, police officers found three horses stolen from an equestrian club. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the Moscow region police department. "The day before, in the Sergiev Posad district, at a police checkpoint, traffic police officers stopped a Volvo truck driven by a resident of North Ossetia for inspection," the agency's interlocutor said. According to him, during the inspection of a car moving towards Kostroma, three horses were found in the van.

The largest fur seal hunt in half a century begins in Canada on Monday, the BBC reports. Hunting for young seals on the east coast of Canada ended 25 years ago as a result of international criticism. However, in recent years, it has been gradually reviving. This year, the Canadian government has allowed more than 300,000 fur seals to be killed.

Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Baramidze accused the leader of the Adjarian autonomy Aslan Abashidze of not fulfilling the agreements reached with the President of Georgia, Novosti-Georgia reports. "The process of disbanding the armed formations in Adjara has not yet begun. This means that the head of Adjara, Aslan Abashidze, is not fulfilling the agreements reached with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili," the minister told reporters on Monday.

In the Gudermes region of Chechnya, a policeman died as a result of careless handling of weapons, RIA Novosti was told at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the incident occurred the day before near the village of Dzhalka.

YUKOS realized its intention to consolidate Sibneft's figures in its reporting. In the balance sheet for the fourth quarter, the company reflected the value of 92% of Sibneft's shares. According to Vedomosti, last Friday Yukos reported a 4.5-fold increase in the value of its net assets in the fourth quarter, from 61.3 billion rubles to 274.9 billion rubles. The report notes that this happened due to the reflection of the cost of Sibneft shares on the balance sheet.

Photo 'New Gazeta'. 72 militants, calculated on an amnesty surrendered to federal forces in the village of Komsomolskoye, were actually destroyed without trial and investigation. Previously, they were considered missing. According to New Gazeta, this fact was the property of publicity thanks to the video made by one of the officers of the Ministry of Justice. It was he who handed over to the “new newspaper” in the beginning of 2000.

The dollar rose against the ruble on Monday in the single trading session and the interbank market after the Central Bank raised its dollar purchase quotes to 28.5250 rubles from the level of 28.4850 rubles set at the end of January, Reuters reports, citing dealers. According to them, at today's ETS with settlements "tomorrow" the Central Bank placed an order for the purchase of $200 million at the new rate, but it hardly had to make actual purchases.

A missing passenger train is being searched in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. As a representative of the civil defense and emergency situations of the city of Labytnangi told RIA Novosti, train number 953 of Vorkuta-Labytnangi did not arrive at the railway station on schedule, there is no connection with it.

Three people died and 14 were injured of varying severity as a result of a collision between a UAZ-469 car and a Mercedes-Benz minibus on Saturday in the Chernivtsi region. As Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax, the press service of the traffic police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported that the accident occurred at about 9.30 am on the 487th kilometer of the Domanovo-Kovel-Chernivtsi-Mamalyha highway, in the village of Novy Kisiliv, Kitsmansky district.

The Vladivostok trawler "Nesterov" was escorted to the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, detained for poaching of biological resources in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk off the coast of Kamchatka. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the press service of the North-Eastern Regional Border Guard Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Andrei Orlov.

In Kamchatka, a spear of the 17th century, missing from the Elizov Museum of Political Geography, was found. This was reported to journalists on Monday by the Elizovsky police department. According to police, the spear was found in the snow. The children buried him there. It was thanks to the little girl who told her father about the "toy" that the valuable exhibit was found. The girl's father reported everything to the police.