A police cordon on Times Square. Frame BBC News New York police neutralized an explosive device found in a car on Times Square, Reuters reports with reference to the head of the city police department Ray Kelly. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that a home-made bomb discovered in the parked Nissan Pathfinder was made very ineptly. It consisted of three containers with propane, two cans of gasoline, fireworks, wires and two hours.

Photographs of terrorists who exploded the hippodrome in Nalchik. Frame of the TV channel "Russia 1" The Office of the FSB for Kabardino-Balkaria was distributed by the photobots of two people, possibly involved in the explosion at the hippodrome in Nalchik. This was announced on the air "Russia 24" by the head of the department Vladimir Serdyuk. "At present, there are already two photobots of persons involved in the crime," said the head of the Federal Security Service of the Republic of FSS.

Traffic police. Photo Borko/Grani.ru In St. Petersburg, a drunk driver wounded a policeman, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the local Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The incident occurred on Sunday morning, after the man driving a car was stopped by traffic police officers. As Fontanka.ru clarifies, the man was stopped at the house number 77 on Zanevsky Prospekt.

Georgias Papandreu. Photo Independent.co.uk In exchange for credit, the EU and the IMF Greece will carry out reforms that will affect the interests of civil servants and will require “large sacrifices” from citizens. According to ITAR-TASS, with such a statement at a government meeting, the country's Prime Minister Georgios Papandreu made.

Fight. Frame NTV A mass fight with the participation of more than two dozen young people occurred on the night of Sunday in the Vishnevka settlement of the Palassovsky district of the Volgograd region, Interfax reports. "In the village of Vishnevka, young people provoked a conflict with law enforcement officers, starting a fight with them in one of the stores. As a result, two security forces received light bodily harm," the local police department said.

Andrey Konchalovsky. Frame tv.akado.ru The Union of Cinematographers of Russia is non -viable and does not play a role in creating national cinema. This statement on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow was made by director Andrei Konchalovsky. According to him, the split that occurred in the Union is an alarming sign. “I have not agreed for what is happening in the Union for a long time.

Chechnya. Frame of Channel One In Chechnya, two militants were killed in the area of ​​the village of Makhket, Interfax reports citing the President of the Republic of Ramzan Kadyrov. "As I had just reported by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the republic, Ruslan Alkhanov, the identities of both destroyed militants have been established. This is the so -called emir of the village of Makhketa Abubakar Dzhabrailov and a native of the same village of Rasul Umarov," Kadyrov said.

Flashmob of the Society of Blue Migles. Photo by ITAR-TASS Ten participants in the pedestrian flash mob, which was conducted by the Blue Vederes Society, were detained in the center of Moscow near the Zoo on Sunday, reports Echo of Moscow. OMON employees, without introducing themselves and without presenting documents, cordoned off the participants in the procession and pushed into buses. They explained that the action was not authorized.

Yulia Tymoshenko. Photo by ar The leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Yulia Tymoshenko, does not plan to leave the country in connection with the statements of the authorities about the possibility of criminal proceedings against it, Ukrainian Pravda reports. “If someone thinks that Mr.

Airline Airlines S7. Photo aviablog.ru The A-320 airline Siberia (S7) made a forced landing at the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo, Interfax reports with reference to the senior assistant of the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor Oksana Gorbunov. The incident occurred on Sunday, at 5.30 local time. The A-320 aircraft, which followed the Moscow-Krasnoyarsk flight, made a forced landing in Novosibirsk in connection with the refusal of one of the navigation devices.

Moscow, May 1, 2010. The procession of the left forces, the meeting of anarchists and the "Day of Wrath". Shooting by Dmitry Zykov for Grani-TV.

Alexander Skobov In St. Petersburg, the authorities prevented the Pervomais procession of the column of liberal-democratic organizations, demanding to remove posters and stretch marks with the slogan of the resignation of Governor Matvienko as not corresponded to the declared topic of the event ( Video faces-TV ).

The border of South Ossetia. Frame '' Vesti '' The authorities of South Ossetia liberated three citizens of Georgia detained in October 2009, and amusing Interfax with reference to the statement of the Commissioner for Human Rights of South Ossetia David Sanakoev. All three captives were transferred to Georgian representatives on Sunday on the border near the village of Ergneti. According to Sanakoev, Levan Biganov, Jamlet Jamrishvili and Gennady Ciceluri were released.

Speech at a rally of the democratic opposition. Moscow, Bolotnaya Square, May 1, 2010. Rally on Bolotnaya and other May Day actions: photos

Moscow, All-Russian Exhibition Center, May 1, 2010. Photographed by Veniamin Dmitroshkin.