Following Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov arrived in Iraq. The head of Bulgaria arrived in Karbala, where he visited the Kilo camp, where a battalion of the Bulgarian army is stationed. Currently, there are 485 Bulgarian military personnel in Iraq, who are subordinate to the command of the Polish contingent. The Bulgarian contingent has already lost 6 people since the beginning of its stay in Iraq, ITAR-TASS reports.

316 11 min. ... The great and different Yuri Lyubimov, Tselikovskaya and Vysotsky, Taganka skitists and party overseers in the memoirs of actor and director Veniamin SMEKHOV for the 40th anniversary of Taganka STOP TALKING, START REHEARSING! In 1964, when the Taganka Theater was born, it seemed to us that we were the only ones - both in art and in honor and conscience. We are disliked by temporary workers and loved by the people, LIKE NO ONE BEFORE US.

Former Georgian Interior Minister Temur Khachishvili was detained in Tbilisi. The reason for the arrest was information that the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs illegally kept weapons at home. A machine gun, a Baikal pistol and a grenade were seized from Temur Khachishvili’s apartment, Gazeta.Ru reports.

On April 25, after more than 81% of the ballots had been processed, opposition party candidate Heinz Fischer won 52.3% of the vote. His opponent, Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, was supported by 47.7% of voters. Representatives of the Social Democratic Party have not held the highest government position in the republic for 18 years, recalls Reuters .

17 2 minutes. ... Ogonyok correspondent in the Falkland Islands 22 YEARS AFTER THE WAR Our ship “Professor Molchanov” docked at Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. In 1982 there was a brutal war here. The islands are now British territory. In England, they even mint special coins (pounds sterling) with images of local animals. Barbed wire and signs “Caution, mines!” remind us of the past war. Yes, English soldiers serving here. Only about three thousand people live in the town.

The head of the American administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said that the rebel Shiites are turning schools and mosques into warehouses for weapons and explosives.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with members of the Security Council. What exactly Putin talked about with members of the Security Council has not yet been reported.

12 1 min. ... The rooks fly away - the evidence remains. The case of rooks and other tricks of nature were taken up by hooligans-itinerants from Yekaterinburg Pyotr Malkov and Gleb Androsov (project “Louvranier”)

269 6 min. ... In Doha, the capital of Qatar, people live by football and sneaker exhibitions. It seems that the explosion of Yandarbiev and the trial of the Russians have already been forgotten QATAR WITH RUSSIAN COMPLICATION There is a big holiday in the city of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a state of 600,000 people in the Persian Gulf. The International Exhibition of Sports Goods opened here, timed to coincide with the Asian Games in Qatar in 2006.

Michael Schumacher won the San Marino Grand Prix, once again confirming his reputation as a great driver. Briton Jenson Button took second place, Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya took bronze, AP reports.

1K 8 min. ... The author of the scripts for the films “Mimino” and “Don’t Cry!”, a great puppeteer, a wonderful artist designed a restaurant in Moscow and fell in love with a cafe in Paris REZO GABRIADZE: I DID BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU. Rezo Gabriadze went to America, where he plans to stage the play “Forbidden Christmas.” Negotiations are underway for superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov to star in the title role. And Gabriadze himself is in the role of the author of the play, director and artist.

121 6 min. ... Will there still be anything free on the Internet? WHO IS AGAINST US? RU? OR COPYLEFT Maxim Moshkov’s library has existed on the Russian Web for ten years. There are more than fifty sections in it - modern Russian prose, classical foreign poetry, detective stories, literary criticism, humor, and then everywhere. During the entire existence of the library, the programmer Moshkov did not earn a penny from it. This is his fundamental position.

1K 5 minutes. ... And then real madness flashed in Menshikov’s eyes. His first duel with Mikhalkov was in Burnt by the Sun. The second, in the film “State Councilor”, he must win. We'll see what happens in the winter I OVERRATED YOU, FANDORIN! Is it okay if I stand here? - asked Pozharsky. “Please, please,” answered Yankovsky. - Hm. I underestimated you, Fandorin... No! I overestimated you, Fandorin... So, you will report that State Councilor Pozharsky is the head of the BG?

507 2 minutes. ... This year, veterans of the Great Patriotic War will no longer be able to take part in the Victory Parade. There are fewer and fewer of them. But the memory does not disappear. Moreover, the question of what and how we remember about the war becomes more acute every year. Our magazine has a special position in this conversation. Ogonyok was published throughout the war years. His issues, covers, photo reports and articles also “fought” and were read at the front.

179 3 min. ... NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL The famous ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, together with his friend and one of the best underwater cameramen Frederic Dumas, shot the film “In a World of Silence”, which went around the whole world and was the first full-length popular science film to break all box office records. But few people know that at the last moment Cousteau still did not dare to show what was on the film taken at shallow depths off the coast of Madagascar.