UN headquarters in New York. Photo from the site www.dw-world.de The Russian diplomat shot down a policeman in New York. According to AR, representatives of the local police reported this. They said that the incident occurred on Saturday evening on Manhattan. 28-year-old Ilya Morozov, who was working in the Russian representative office at the UN, driving through the street closed for repair, went to the sidewalk and shot down an employee of the American road police who tried to stop him.

Frame NTV On suspicion of the murder of a 17-year-old student of Moscow University of Management of Vagan Abramianz at the Pushkinskaya metro station, a student of one of the Moscow schools was detained, RIA Novosti reports. "In the case of the murder of the Armenian, which occurred last Saturday, a student of one of the Moscow schools born in 1989 was detained," said the representative of the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office. According to him, the suspect gave a confession.

Russian peacekeepers in the area of ​​the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Frame 1 television channel The Georgian police detained two Russians on the administrative border with Abkhazia. According to RIA Novosti, on Monday they will be charged with illegally crossing the state border.

Condom. Photo from the site sxnews.ru The Catholic Church is going to partially cancel the ban on contraception. “Soon the Vatican will publish a document on the use of condoms by sick people, starting with AIDS,” said the Italian La Repubblica, Cardinal Ksavier Lozano Barragan, the Air Force reports. The Pope Benedict XVI, according to the cardinal, asked the Vatican Council for Health to study the issue of condoms.

The collapse of the roof of the bassman market. Frame NTV The Technical Commission at the Moscow City Hall, who has dealt with the causes of the collapse of the Basmann market, must publish its conclusions on Monday. According to Kommersant, the commission, led by the deputy head of the construction complex of Moscow, Alexander Kosovan, finished her work last Friday, but Yuri Luzhkov should still be approved by her conclusions.

Mikhail Fradkov. Photo from the site www.gzt.ru The President’s control department is preparing a report based on the results of the implementation of last year’s message to Putin to the Federal Assembly. According to “Independent Gazeta” on Monday, the report contains criticism addressed to the government of Mikhail Fradkov.

An-2. From the site www.agp.ru Under Stavropol, the An-2 plane crashed, which performed an unscheduled flight. According to RBC, four people were killed as a result of a plane crash, one woman was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Budennovsk hospital. The individuals of the dead are established. According to a source in the Grovd of the Budennovsky district of Stavropol, the pilot took passengers on board for an air walk.

Cosmologists have discovered evidence that one of the fundamental natural constants - the ratio of the masses of the proton and the MP/ME electron - may have changed a little over the past 12 billion years. Accordingly, the constancy of other "constant" is also in question. If the opening is confirmed, then physicists will be forced to radically revise many universally recognized theories.

Nalchik: Special Forces on the streets of the city. Frame NTV On Monday, joint command and staff exercises (SKHU) began in the Southern Federal District, RIA Novosti reported. The exercises will be held under the command of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev. In addition to the internal troops, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergencies, the FSB and other departments will be involved in them.

Earthquake in Koryakia. The village of Tilichiki. Frame '' Vesti '' For evacuated in connection with the earthquake of the inhabitants of Koryakia in the Kamchatka region, a temporary town will be created. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the first deputy Kamchatka governor Alexander Chistyakov. According to him, for the best catering, transport, medical care, it is necessary to centrally place evacuated at one large and comfortable base.

Police. Photo from the site RBC In the Moscow region, the experimental road points of the police began to function. On Monday, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Chekalin opened two such points, RIA Novosti reports. They are created as an experiment and are located on the 27th kilometer of the Belarus highway and on the 19th kilometer of the Rossiya highway. "The Moscow region became the first subject where such work is organized," Chekalin noted.

LDPR office. Photo from the archive Newsru.com The action of the Democratic Party of Russia, which took place on Monday near the LDPR office, ended with a brawl. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." Representatives of the DPR demanded that the leader of the liberal-democrats of Vladimir Zhirinovsky apologies for the Ksenofobsky, in their opinion, were statements that were made in early April in the television program "Times".

Mikhail Osokin. Photo from the site russkayagazeta.com TV presenter Mikhail Osokin leaves NTV. As it became known to Ekho Moscow, he will become the host of the evening news on the International Russian -speaking satellite channel RTVI. The head of the Moscow RTVI Bureau Andrei Norkin told Ekhu that if personnel issues are resolved in the near future, then on Monday, May 1, Osokin will begin to work on the RTVI channel live.

Fight. In Nizhny Novgorod, two students from Syria were injured during the fight, the region was reported to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on Monday. According to the source, about two in the morning last Friday at the Lex night club, unknown young people beat two Syria citizens-a 22-year-old student of the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University and a 17-year-old student of the Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Science. One of the foreigners received a concussion.

The performance of Mahmud Ahmadijad on the problem of nuclear production. Frame EURONEWS Moscow is categorically against Iran to have technical knowledge for the production of nuclear weapons, ITAR-TASS Tass source in the Kremlin. "Moscow is categorically against the spread of weapons of mass destruction," he said. “Another thing is how to tactfully achieve this goal, Russia has discrepancies with the United States on this issue,” the source emphasized.