Early in the morning of May 2, a fire broke out in a three-story dormitory in the southeast of Moscow at 3rd Kozhukhovsky Lane, 2/12. 20 fire crews arrived to extinguish the fire. 30 people, including four children, were evacuated from the burning building. As a result of the tragedy, one person died, another 5 were hospitalized with burns of varying degrees. The causes of the fire are being clarified, RIA Novosti reports.

12 1 min. ... Trading with caution The Russian stock market cannot yet get out of the corridor into which it was driven after the presentation of tax claims against TNK-BP. Fluctuations in the RTS index remain in a narrow range - 670-690 points. Trading volume on the MICEX, after a surge in early April, fell again to March levels - 10-11 billion rubles. in a day. The average daily trading volume in the classic RTS market section also decreased (below the $20 million mark).

282 3 min. ... Conditional release The President's messages to the Federal Assembly have always caused misunderstandings. Either it doubles GDP by 2010, or it doesn’t seem to double. In his last message, Vladimir Putin promised an amnesty of capital. Again, with a caveat: subject to payment of a 13 percent tax and transfer of money to Russia. President Vladimir Putin's messages to the Federal Assembly have always been controversial and unexpected even for the authors of the text.

Igor Berezutsky, European champion (swimming) Oleg Veretennikov, the first Russian footballer to score more than 100 goals while playing for a major league team (Rotor)

3K 11 min. ... May has come, and "power", as always, offers its economic forecast for a month. Experts will answer such questions: what will happen in May with a dollar exchange rate to the ruble, how much consumer prices will increase, how worldwide oil prices will behave, which will happen with the euro exchange rate to the dollar. But for starters, we will evaluate the main economic event of April.

875 15 minutes. ... Royalty in the bushes In Russia, only 10% of enterprises are developing innovations and introducing inventions. The Russian inventor today is, in most cases, a disenfranchised marginal figure, a kulibin, doing something that no one implements anyway. Either the state can help him by sharing a stabilization fund and creating conditions for investment, or private venture capital, or large Western companies buying domestic brains in bulk.

728 10 min. ... From six to ace Ann Demeulemeester is not just a classic of Belgian fashion. She is also a very lively person. I mean, an active character in the fashion business. This became clear in the waiting room of the Yaroslavl station during the presentation of her fall-winter 2005/06 collection at the ninth Albomoda parade, which is traditionally organized by the Face Fashion brand.

1k 9 min. ... Photo: AP Having examined the Egyptian pyramids, Vladimir Putin reconciled the Arabs with the fact that he became the first Soviet and Russian leader to visit Israel on an official visit We came up here The first visit to Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin began by visiting Egypt. So that the Arabs are not offended. President Vladimir Putin received invitations to visit Israel on an official visit several times. But each time I put off the trip until better times.

110 7 min. ... 70 years ago The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) establish that the NKPS and the heads of roads allowed the development of passenger traffic disproportionately to the detriment of freight traffic, that is, to the detriment of the national economic interests of the country. On the most important freight routes, passenger trains occupy 40-50% of capacity...

1k 11 min. ... Photo: Valery Melnikov The President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov told Olga Allenova why the Ingush refugees should return to North Ossetia. "In many villages of Ingush, they do not allow" at all " - On April 7, the president of North Ossetia, Alexander Dzasokhov, did not sign an agreement on the return of refugees to a suburban district. After that, you actually had to pacify the activists of the Akhi-Yurt movement, who were going to hold a long-term rally.

Takeoff and landing interior Photo: SERGEY MIKHEEV, Kommersant The VIP cabins of Russian aircraft, even without artificial tricks, are particularly spacious The fifth international specialized exhibition Aircraft Interiors Expo 2005 was held in Hamburg, bringing together more than 400 participants from all over the world. Russia was represented by only one exhibitor - the Quand company, which has been professionally engaged in equipping VIP aircraft cabins since 2000.

117 4 min. ... Review Hieroglyphs of success Imai M. Kaizen: the key to the success of Japanese companies. - M.: Alpina Business Books, 2005. - 274 p.

775 10 min. ... "Vlast" continues a series of interviews with those who shaped Soviet foreign policy during the years of perestroika.* This time, correspondent Marina Kalashnikova met with a person who was involved in this from the outside - Lord Michael Heseltine, British Minister of Defense in 1983-1985. “In those years there was an assumption that communism was inevitable.” — How was Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision to move from confrontation to partnership with the West explained in London?

871 7 min. ... Photo: ITAR-TASS The memory of the last war in Volgograd at every step. And this is not only Mamaev Kurgan, the statue "Motherland" and the house of Pavlov. Sadist poems on the topic "Girl in the field found a grenade" - this is just about Volgograd. Upon arrival in the city, I wanted to get a closer to this day, accidents associated with the finding of mines, shells, and air bombs.

On May 2, the international organization Journalists Without Borders ( RSF ) published a so-called list of “free media predators,” which included people and organizations that RSF considers “responsible for attacks on press freedom.” According to RSF, these are the people or organizations responsible for "the killings of journalists, their imprisonment, attacks or threats against them" in 2004.