A resident of the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny was blown up by his own explosive device. As employees of the Staropromyslovsky temporary department of internal affairs told RIA Novosti , this happened on Thursday, May 31, in the evening. The task force that arrived at the scene of the explosion found a crater with a diameter of 1 meter and the remains of a man.

From June 1, the Moscow provider Garant-Park-Telecom begins online registration of second-level domains in the .Ru domain (in test mode). Previously, only one organization was involved in registering domain names - the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks ( RosNIIROS ). On May 21, the authority to conclude registration agreements was transferred to a subsidiary of RosNIIROS - the organization RU-CENTER .

The criminal case against Olympic biathlon champion Alexander Tikhonov will most likely be separated into separate proceedings and temporarily suspended. announced this to RIA Novosti on Friday. The prosecutor overseeing the case, Yuri Kondratyev, Now there are two defendants in the case of preparing an assassination attempt on the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleyev - brothers Alexander and Viktor Tikhonov.

One of Berlusconi's associates has been arrested on corruption charges, Reuters reports. Politician Gianstefano Frigerio, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italiana party, was arrested weeks after becoming a member of the Italian Parliament. Frigerio was reportedly arrested in connection with a corruption case that has been going on for about ten years.

On June 1, Children's Day, Portugal passed a law requiring a man to go on five-day paid leave if his wife gives birth to a child. Previously, according to RIA Novosti , such a clause already existed in Portuguese legislation, but it was ignored almost everywhere. Now it has become a man's responsibility to take leave to care for a newborn. Anyone who does not want to go on vacation will be required to pay a fine.

Marat Safin, following Yevgeny Kafelnikov, reached the third round of the French Open Tennis Championship. To achieve this, the second racket of the tournament needed to beat Spaniard Alex Calatrava in five sets. Calatrava, who performed successfully on clay, offered Safin the most stubborn resistance. Marat managed to defeat the Spaniard only at the end of the decisive fifth set - 6:3, 3:6, 6:3, 6:7, 6:3. In the next round the Russian will play against the Frenchman Fabrice Santoro.

The Moscow Arbitration Court invalidated the transfer of 51 percent of the shares of the Moscovia television company from Unicombank to the Moscow Regional Fund for Social and Information Technologies. As RIA Novosti reports , the court made this decision on Friday, June 1. The court also invalidated the corresponding entry in the register of shareholders of the television company, thereby satisfying the claim of the Ministry of Press and Information of the Moscow Region.

A parliamentary commission studying the archives of Bulgaria's socialist past said that 78 people who ran for a seat in the country's parliament had collaborated with government secret services in the past, AP reports. Elections are due to take place in Bulgaria on June 17. The list of agents was compiled in accordance with a new law allowing access to the archives of the Bulgarian secret services from the socialist era.

The list of the new composition of the board of directors of OJSC Gazprom will remain unchanged, which will be proposed for voting at the general meeting of shareholders of the gas company on June 29, RIA Novosti reports . This was stated by the head of the Gazprom public relations department, Dmitry Dankin.

The Colorado Avalanche hockey players once again took the lead in the final series of the Stanley Cup. In the third match of the finals, they beat the New Jersey Devils away - 3:1. The home team opened the scoring in the match; Jason Arnott scored on the power play in the fourth minute. The guests were able to quickly come back, seven minutes later the goal was reached by an accurate shot from Martin Skoula, who distinguished himself for the first time in the current playoffs.

In Novosibirsk, the co-owner of one of the largest casinos in the city, Esmeraldo, was shot dead. According to RIA Novosti , 54-year-old Suleyman Suleymanov was killed on Friday around noon local time on the bridge over the Inya River in the Pervomaisky district. His Toyota car was fired upon by a passing red Zhiguli, which immediately fled. The killer fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The businessman died on the spot from his injuries.

The Government Commission on Protective Measures in Foreign Trade and Customs Tariff Policy decided to increase the export duty on oil from 22 to 30.5 euros per ton, RIA Novosti reports . The corresponding government decree will be signed early next week and will come into force a month after its official publication. The new rate will be valid for two months.

On Friday, the Moscow Arbitration Court returned to the municipal loans committee of the capital government a claim for debt collection on outstanding bills of Media-Most. According to RIA Novosti , the court refused to accept the statement of claim because it was incorrectly drawn up. After the inaccuracies in the document are corrected, it will be sent to court again. The claim for debt collection from the media holding was submitted to arbitration on May 28.

June 1 is the deadline for accepting applications for participation in the competition to develop a new website for the President of Russia. A jury of nine people - three from the presidential entourage and six representatives of the Internet public - will begin choosing the winner. Its determination will be carried out in two rounds: in the first it is supposed to select ten works, in the second to choose the only one of them.

On Friday morning, an explosion occurred near the police station of Sion Mills in Northern Ireland, AP reports. The police received several warnings about the impending explosion and managed to evacuate all the people who might have been hurt, but they failed to defuse the bomb. The attack is suspected to have been carried out by the Real IRA terrorist group.