On April 10, a resident of the Tyulkubas district of the South Kazakhstan region, Kenesbek Seydimbetov, went on a bicycle trip from the ancient city of Turkestan to the holy places of Islam in Saudi Arabia. This news was reported by the Blagovest-info agency with reference to the KODA agency. The final point of his route is Mecca, where Kenesbek should arrive in 73 days. Kenesbek Seydimbetov dedicates his bike ride to the 10th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s independence.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has returned to prison after a two-day hospital stay due to a heart attack, AFP reports. Miroslav Vasic, a lawyer handling Milosevic's case, said the former Yugoslav president was transferred at noon Friday from the hospital to Belgrade's central prison, where he was jailed on April 1. Doctors, having examined Milosevic, stated that his state of health did not raise any concerns. The 59-year-old ex-president's blood pressure only increased slightly.

During negotiations between Russia and the London Club of Creditors, an agreement was reached on the final settlement of the commercial debt of the former USSR, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reports, citing Interfax. According to Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Kolotukhin, this was the last major category of Soviet debt that still remained unresolved.

Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Konstantin Pulikovsky has a negative attitude towards the intention of the acting governor of Primorye Valentin Dubinin to run in the gubernatorial elections. According to him, he “had a manly conversation” with Valentin Dubinin, after which the acting. The governor gave his word not to run and to devote all his energy and time to leading the region out of the socio-economic crisis.

As the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate reported on Friday, two cadets of the Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy were detained for committing a robbery. On April 12, a 27-year-old Muscovite contacted the police. He stated that the day before on Koshkin Street two unknown men stopped him and, threatening him with a pistol, took away two and a half thousand dollars.

Alexander Zdanovich, head of the FSB press service, said that Adam Deniev, the deputy head of the Chechen administration, “was really killed, and Aslan Maskhadov was behind his death.” “We already know that Maskhadov gave the order to kill Deniyev under pressure from Khattab.

Today, a resident of Ingushetia, detained in the North Caucasus on suspicion of complicity in the murder of a policeman, will be delivered to Moscow. As NTV reported with reference to Interfax, we are talking about the last of the three participants in the murder of a police officer, committed in Moscow more than five years ago.

A military helicopter carrying 11 people crashed in the northern Philippines on Friday morning. The death toll is still unknown. According to the first statements by the authorities, the helicopter crashed in the mountains during rain, and perhaps bad weather was the cause of the disaster, reports Reuters. Of the 11 people on the helicopter, four were part of the crew, and seven worked as security guards for Gloria Arroyo, the president of the Philippines.

The United States is demanding from China the return of its reconnaissance aircraft, which collided in the air with a Chinese Air Force fighter and was forced to make an emergency landing on the territory of this country. As a US State Department spokesman said, next week this topic will become the main topic at negotiations in Beijing. "We're going to demand the return of our plane, it's worth $80 million," Richard Armitage said.

Georgian Finance Minister Zurab Nogadeili got into a fight with Eduard Shevardnadze's assistant on economic issues Temur Basilia, NTV reports citing Interfax.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Biysk, Altai Territory, completed the investigation and sent a criminal case to court against 22-year-old Alexei Pomoikin, who organized the “night of sacrifices,” RIA Novosti reports. According to the investigator, during one of the interrogations Pomoikin, accused of murder, attempted murder and rape, said: “I heard a voice that told me: kill seven people this night, and you will be rewarded by me!” And it was the voice of the Prince of Darkness ".

Crimeans call this territory in the Dzhankoy district the “stalker zone.” No trees grow here and it's hard to breathe. You can only walk here in protective suits and for no more than four hours. These are terminals of a chemical base, where 120 tons of banned pesticides have been stored for several decades. Members of the emergency rescue battalion of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have begun work on the reburial of old poisons and classify it as an operation of increased complexity.

The number of registered small enterprises in Russia over the past year decreased by 1.3% and as of January 1, 2001 amounted to 879.3 thousand. Such data is contained in the materials for the parliamentary hearings “Ways to promote the development of entrepreneurship and attracting investments in the Russian Federation,” which takes place on Friday, April 13, in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In Moscow, an attempt was made to steal a car driven by the wife of Deputy Prime Minister of the capital government Joseph Ordzhonikidze. On April 10, in the area of ​​house No. 22 on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, two intruders broke into the Mercedes-500, in which Ketevan Ordzhonikidze was, through an unlocked door. Threatening the woman with violence, the bandits moved her to the back seat.

Brand new European euro coins were found in sweets vending machines in the southern German town of Bad Cannstadt near Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg). Meanwhile, the euro will officially go into circulation only in January next year. During the investigation that began, experts immediately noticed that the euro minting company was located in Stuttgart.