The “sentimental” journey of Benedict XVI to Poland is accompanied by hot debates about the role of Catholicism in secular society yesterday Pope Benedict XVI began a three -day tour along Poland. The press has already called him sentimental, as the journey is dedicated to the memory of the previous pontiff John Paul II.

The football scandal in Italy will be investigated by the specialist in corruption by the former Prosecutor General Milan, who in the 1990s sent the defendants to the bench on charges of corruption of 3200 Italian politicians and businessmen, invited to investigate the scandal that struck Italian football. The 76-year-old Franco Borrelli has been retired for four years, but now he will have to forget about the rest for a while.

The killer received 14 years of strict regime by 14 years in prison in Novosibirsk, the 26-year-old former army sniper Alexander Katalitsky, found guilty of the custom murder of the vice-mayor of Igor Belyakov. The 38-year-old official was shot dead on the morning of August 7, 2001. This happened on one of the tracks near Novosibirsk, when the vice mayor on the Volga’s official Volga rode with his country cottage to work in the mayor's office.

The bronze clone of Iron Felix moved from Lubyanka to his homeland today in Minsk on the territory of the Military Academy of Belarus, the solemn opening of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky will be held. The ceremony is dedicated to the day of the border guard. Representatives of the border troops and became the initiators of the installation of the monument.

Another way to convince the conscripts was found not to be afraid of the service, the Ministry of Defense, together with the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, is going to give each soldier the opportunity to receive a diploma of secondary vocational education. As it became known to the "Gazeta", already on September 1 of this year, military personnel from army garrisons will be able to finish vocational schools on the basis of the training center under military districts.

The rating of the environmental problems of the capital, the capital's department of nature management and environmental protection summed up the results of the work of its “hot line” in April. In total, during this time, 360 calls of Muscovites with complaints of certain problems of the city’s ecology were received on the line phones. Based on these data, the newspaper provides its rating of the environmental problems of the capital.

A road incident can turn into an international scandal in Moscow a large diplomatic scandal-the trade attache of the Belgian embassy, 53-year-old Andreas de River, grossly violating the rules of the road, beaten the traffic police inspector who stopped it. The incident occurred on the night of Thursday on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. Two inspectors - foreman Gribinichenko and foreman Tsvetkov - patrolled the street on the service VAZ -2105.

Ukrainian deputies did not resolve the issue of power yesterday opened the first meeting of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation. The government and his head Yuri Yanurov resigned their powers. But what political forces will control the highest legislative body of Ukraine, which means that they will form a new cabinet of ministers is not clear.

Future generations of Russia are offered a registration with the Central Bank, a stabilization fund, created in 2004 for the only purpose of suppressing inflation, can change orientation. The idea of its division into the sterilization part and the Future generation fund today can be material by the order of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. True, the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin spoke about something else yesterday: in a week almost 2 trillion.

The main adviser to the US President for domestic politics was a conservative journalist, American President George Bush, announced a new appointment in the White House administration. 47-year-old Karl Zinsmeister, who has served as chief editor of the American magazine The American Enterprise, has been appointed to the post of chief adviser to the president in domestic politics and lectured at the American Entrepreneurship Institute.

An exhibition of St. Petersburg artist Leo Lapin in Moscow opened a new gallery. However, the exposition, like the gallery itself, can be called a continuation of the previous curatorial project Ildar Galeev. Last year, Galeev broke up with the Art Divazh, where he implemented a series of exhibitions dedicated to the Leningrad artists of the pre-war period. The new Galeev Gallery begins, practically, with the continuation of this series.

17:07 // 05/25/2006 Major workers and feldsher-midwife points (FAP) from July 1 will begin to receive additional cash payments for the salary as part of the National Project "Health". This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. The monthly amount of ambulance doctors will be 5 thousand rubles, paramedics - 3.5 thousand rubles, nurses - 2.5 thousand rubles.

The fight against fraud in the industry is consolidated by scandals with unscrupulous travel agencies and numerous complaints of poor service forced large participants in this market to independently take up improving the image of the industry. The Bankko Information Service, the founder of the tourist brands of the year (TBG), announced the creation of the Association of Independent Travel Agencies of the TBG branded product.

10:35 // 05/25/2006 The Hollywood star Bruce Willis expressed his readiness to help Russia in solving a demographic problem. "Forward!" - the actor exclaimed with a smile when, at a press conference in the central office of Interfax, he was asked how he, the father of the three daughters, refers to the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin in the message to the Federal Assembly set the task to deal with a demographic problem.

At the first meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the fifth convocation on Thursday, the Cabinet of Ministers Yuri Yehanurov will put up powers. After the meeting, President Viktor Yushchenko will discuss the nuances of the coalition agreement with the leaders of BUT, the Social Party and the Our Ukraine Bloc. This was announced the day before, Yehanurov himself.