Ambulance. Photo from Newsru.com An explosion occurred at the Israeli military plant in the vicinity of Haifa. According to Gaarets, two people were injured in medium severity, two more were easily injured. According to The Jerusalem Post, five or six people were injured in the explosion. The explosion thundered at the defense plant in Kiryat-Bulik. Police and firefighters were sent to the scene. According to preliminary data, we are talking about an accident, not a terrorist attack.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison. Photo by ar The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, when considering a complaint of the ex-head of the Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, refused to call Yuri Kalinin and the head of the Sailor Silence of Figret Tagiev as witnesses to the director of the Federal Penitentiary of Russia. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the petition of lawyer Yuri Schmidt.

Arkady Evstafiev. Photo from the site www.radiorus.ru The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against the former general director of Mosenergo OJSC Arkady Evstafyev, as well as the chief accountant of Mosenergo Tatyana Dronova. It is reported by Prime-Tass.

Bird flu. Photo by ar Studies confirmed the death of poultry in Kislovodsk and the Izobilnensky district of the Stavropol Territory from bird flu. This was announced by Interfax on Monday, the chief veterinary inspector of the region Viktor Parakhin. He noted that according to the laboratory research of the Vladimir virological laboratory, the cause of the case of the bird was the infection of the H5N1 virus. “There is no talk of the mass case of the bird,” said the chief veterinarian.

Pavel Popovsky. Frame of Channel One The Tver court of Moscow reduced from 52 million to 150 thousand rubles to compensation twice justified in the case of the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov, the former intelligence chief of the Airborne Forces Pavel Popovsky. This was reported on Monday RIA Novosti in court. Thus, the court partially satisfied his lawsuit.

Mosenergo The investigating authorities opened a criminal case against two leaders of Mosenergo OJSC. This was announced on Monday by Interfax a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital.

Soldiers. Photo from the site www.nakanune.ru/ The Novosibirsk Garrison Military Court found two military servicemen to be guilty of bringing his colleague, ordinary Mikhail Vedenev to the suicide. According to RIA Novosti, Evgeny Adegov and Vitaly Nikitin were sentenced, respectively, to three and four years in prison.

Omurbek Tekebaev. Photo from the site www.gzt.ru The speaker of the Kyrgyzstan parliament Omurbek Tekebaev wrote a resignation statement. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, he himself reported on Monday, speaking to the parliamentarians. The parliament accepted the resignation. The election of a new speaker is scheduled for Tuesday. Last week, the parliament by a majority vote rejected the statement of Tekebaev's resignation.

Image from the site http://cry.ru In the regional court of Kamchatka, the verdict was announced to two residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, who killed and ate a person in October 2004. It is reported on Monday Interfax. The senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Anastasia Sachenko said that both were found guilty of murder and sentenced to 20 and 13 years in prison. “The previously convicted citizen received a longer term,” Sachenko explained.

According to modern data, the bubonic plague ("Black Death") then dragged about a third of the entire population of Europe. Illustration from the BBC News website The European medieval “small ice age” (that is, the widespread drop in average temperatures), which lasted about three centuries in a row, was probably provoked by a monstrous epidemic of the plague that erupted in the XIV century.

Special operation in Riyadh. Frame of the Al-Arabia TV channel The special services of Saudi Arabia early on Monday killed five militants in a shootout, which lasted several hours in the capital of the country of Er-Riyada. It is reported on Monday of the Air Force. According to the Alia-Arabia channel, another militant managed to take alive. The militants were blocked on one of the villas in the rich suburb of the city. For some time, a shootout and explosions of grenades were heard.

Georgian visa. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Russian peacekeepers, deployed in the zones of Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts, should receive Georgian visas within ten days. According to Georgia Online, this is stated in a letter to the head of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia Alexander Sukhitashvili in the name of the commander of the peacekeeping contingent in Abkhazia. Georgia began the issuance of visas to Russian military on February 22.

Manushekhr Motaki. Photo AFP Tehran is not going to terminate nuclear research, despite the achievement of an agreement with Russia. According to Reuters, this was stated by Foreign Minister Iran Manushehr Motaki during a visit to Japan. According to the Foreign Minister of Japan Taro ASO, Mottaki said during the negotiations that Iran conducts nuclear research at the laboratory level and does not intend to stop them.

Pills. Photo from the site www.mmbrana.ru On the territory of Sheremetyevo-2 airport, a stable smuggling channel from Thailand to Russia containing a potent substance to diazepam is suppressed. According to RIA Novosti, reported on Monday at the Center for Public Relations of the Federal Service of Russia for Control over drug trafficking (FSKN). The operation was carried out by the FKSN employees together with the FSB and customs officers.

Fire. Photo from the site www.newsru.com In Moscow, seven people were killed as a result of a fire in everyday life. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday in the fire service of the capital. "The fire occurred in the territory of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise" GeoCenter-Moscow "in Dukhovsky Lane, the house 25-A, in a two-level metal household. The total fire area was 300 square meters. 35 households intended for living workers were destroyed," the source said.