In the village of Limenda, six kilometers from the town of Kotlas in the Arkhangelsk region, four residential buildings burned down, RIA Novosti reports. The fire occurred on Thursday evening in outbuildings on Coal Street. The fire soon spread to nearby houses. As a result, four wooden eight-apartment residential buildings were completely burned down, and two more of the same houses were damaged. One woman was injured in the fire: she jumped out of a second-story window and broke her leg.

Felix Kulov. Photo from the site www.pr.kg The First Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Felix Kulov, admitted that the political union with his competitor Kurmanbek Bakiev in the country's upcoming presidential election agreed to conclude on the advice of Moscow Political Technologists, RIA Novosti said. As the Deputy Prime Minister noted, he invited a "small group of Moscow political strategists" to help in organizing elections. The union between Bakiev and Kulov was concluded on May 12.

Fees. In the Yelets of the Lipetsk region, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the death of a student at military training. According to Echo of Moscow, the case was instituted under the article “negligence, which entailed by negligence of the death of a person” - this article provides for up to 5 years in prison. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday during the delivery of sports standards for running.

About 300 armed people were spotted on the Ossetian-Ingush border on Friday, Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to law enforcement agencies of North Ossetia. The militants were spotted near the Ingush village of Ali-Yurt, about 15 km from the Ossetian capital. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia reported that the staff of the ministry is on duty, patrols have been strengthened. Meanwhile, the information coming from the region is contradictory.

Vladimir Putin and Greman Gref. Photos of the press service of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin set the task for the government the task of maintaining inflation in 2005 within 10%. He said this on Friday at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Economic Development by German Gref, RBC reports. “The government has set a certain task, and we must strive to fulfill it,” the president said, noting that he would not return to this issue anymore.

The Pechersky District Court of Kiev ordered the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to publicly apologize to the veteran Vasily Yaroshenko, whom he insulted, and pay him almost $10,000 in compensation, RBC reports. In October 2004, during a rally in the city of Korosten, Zhytomyr region, Yanukovych, being prime minister, insulted 80-year-old Ukrainian language teacher Vasily Yaroshenko using obscene language in response to his question.

About 400 police officers are near the Meshchansky Court, where the announcement of the verdict in the case of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Krainov is to continue on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. On the fifth day, a cordon was put up on Kalanchevskaya Street. There are still metal railings along the courthouse and on the opposite side of the street. It is impossible to get to the courthouse without passing through the metal detector.

Sophia Loren at a press conference in Moscow. Frame NTV The famous Italian actress Sophia Loren on Friday almost became the culprit of an accident on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow. According to ITAR-TASS, the driver of the Zhiguli, seeing it, sharply braked and jumped out of the car on the roadway, violating the rules of the road. Builders reconstructing the building of the former "Cinema of the Repeated Film" and also saw the actress, abandoned repair work.

At the capital's Vnukovo airport, a Dagestan native, a native of Khasavyurt, who was on the federal wanted list for participation in illegal armed formations, was detained.

State Duma. The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the electoral legislation of Russia, RBC reports.

The North Caucasus District Court will deliver a verdict in the "Ulman case" on May 25, RIA Novosti reports. The court appointed this date on Friday as part of a meeting at which the consequences of the jury, who found Ulman and his subordinates not guilty on Thursday, were discussed. The state prosecution asked that the civil claims of the victims filed in the course of the process be left without consideration.

The prosecutor's office of the Tomsk region opened a criminal case against Nikolay Logachev, former general director of OAO Tomskneft VNK (a subsidiary of Yukos), reports Newsru.com citing Interfax. Logachev is accused of exceeding the oil production norms at 11 fields in the Kargasogsky, Paratelsky and Aleksandrovsky districts of the Tomsk region, violating licensing conditions and receiving illegal income in the amount of 207 million 601 thousand rubles.

Screenshot of the site Politzeki.ru On Friday to the border.ru, together with the press center of lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky, they represent a new project in the house of journalists - Politzeki.ru .

Former US President George W. Bush will arrive in Russia early next week. Bush will be in Moscow for three days on commercial projects. It is reported by Rosbalt with reference to Interfax. According to the press service of the Gorbachev Foundation, during his stay in Moscow, the ex-US President will take part in the events to which he was invited by former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Before the start of the trial, lawyers for Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky discussed with their clients the victory of CSKA footballers in the UEFA Cup, RIA Novosti reports. "Today the main topic is the victory of our football team in the UEFA Cup. They want to make this day the day of Russian football," said Genrikh Padva, who represents Khodorkovsky's interests. There are significantly more lawyers in the courtroom on Friday than the day before.