The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has officially sent a new request to Spain in the case of Vladimir Gusinsky, in which the owner of the Media-Most holding is accused of money laundering. The request was sent to Spain through the international police, Interpol. Officially, the article under which Vladimir Gusinsky is charged is called “laundering of illegally obtained funds on a large scale,” and, according to Russian laws, the punishment for it is from 7 to 10 years in prison.

The animated film "Socks of the Big City", shot by Russian director Andrei Ushakov, received the main prize at the international festival of animated and short films held in Dresden. The second prize went to the cartoon “Father and Daughter” directed by Michael Dadok de Wit, and the Croatian film “Film with a Girl” took third. The international jury also noted another Russian cartoon by Oksana Cherkasova, “Your Pushkin,” participating in the competition. The film received a special mention.

Perhaps the Munich group of Leo Kirch will acquire a stake in NTV. As the chairman of the supervisory board of Gazprom-Media, Alexander Kazakov, said in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, published on Inopressa.Ru, the management of both companies intends to meet “in the near future.” Media tycoon Leo Kirch and the head of Gazprom-Media Alfred Koch are going, according to Kazakov, to discuss Kirch’s possible participation in a private television channel.

American interests could be harmed if the prison conditions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in the United States for masterminding the World Trade Center bombing in New York in February 1993, are not improved. This warning was made at a press conference held the day before in Cairo by lawyer Muntaser al-Zayat, who represents the interests of Egyptian Islamists, ITAR-TASS reports.

The fire in the Udarnik cinema, which began on Tuesday around 15:00 Moscow time, was finally extinguished in the evening, according to news agencies. Investigators are now working at the scene of the fire, and, according to their first versions, one of the most famous cinemas in Moscow caught fire due to a “violation of safety rules during repair work.” There is no word on how badly the cinema, built in 1931, was damaged.

Two more people with suspected foot-and-mouth disease have been hospitalized in the UK. This was announced today by representatives of the government medical laboratory, ITAR-TASS reports. This happened 24 hours after the first case of foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a person who had previously participated in the slaughter of livestock in the British county of Cumbria.

Former Minister of Health and Welfare Junichiro Koizumi today became the chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. In the elections held today in Tokyo, he received a majority of votes from LDP parliamentarians and representatives of its local organizations. On Thursday, Koizumi will be elected as Japan's new prime minister in parliament, where the Liberal Democrats and their allies have a majority. Thus, Koizumi will become the country's 11th prime minister in the last 13 years.

AFK Sistema intends to invest up to $600 million in the development of Russian microelectronics in the long term, First Vice President of AFK Sistema Levan Vasadze said at a meeting with representatives of foreign companies. According to him, in particular, the company plans to modernize the microelectronics plant, investing $50 million at the first stage.

Ten prisoners escaped over the past 24 hours from the temporary detention center of the Otradnensky city department of internal affairs of the Samara region, Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax. According to the information department of the regional police department, by Monday evening, six of those who escaped were detained. The search for the four remaining fugitives is currently ongoing.

For the first time in history, a Czech specialist can lead a Russian club. The head coach of Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv” Pyotr Vorobyov, under whose leadership this season the club made a fantastic finishing spurt and fought for medals in the Russian championship, will most likely leave his post again. So far there has been no official information, but in Yaroslavl itself this resignation is considered a done deal.

As ITAR-TASS reports, British scientists are going to create a free public library on the Internet, which will house scientific documents and research data. Scientists have already signed an open letter to launch a campaign for the creation of a library, and in it, among other things, they say that all scientific journals should make their materials free six months after publication.

Israeli tanks fired at the airport building in Gaza City on Monday evening. As a result of the shelling, an anonymous Palestinian source said, the flight control room was damaged. On the same day, shootouts took place between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the autonomous territories. There were no casualties. An army convoy escorting Jewish settlers to Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip came under fire. In response, the Israelis opened fire on the attackers.

An Australian intelligence analyst and prostitute has been charged with trying to sell classified documents to a foreign embassy, ​​Reuters reports. It is not reported which country's embassy the intelligence officer tried to contact. The accused's name is Simon Lappas. According to Reuters, this 26-year-old young man had difficult relationships with colleagues. For example, he really didn’t like that they gave him the nicknames “Fat” and “Greek”.

Dmitry Dibrov, one of the most famous NTV presenters, according to information published on his website dibrov.ntv.ru , will not work with the team of Evgeny Kiselev, who left NTV. The letter, which is posted on the website and signed by him, states that Dibrov is leaving to work for ORT in the “special directorate of night broadcasting.” NTV.ru provides the full text of this letter. “Dear friends!

On April 10, the Russian Federal Security Service seized 56 kilograms of Afghan-made heroin in Samara. As the FSB Public Relations Center reported on Tuesday, the “controlled delivery” operation was carried out jointly with the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. As a result of the operation, the activities of a criminal group that had been distributing heroin for a long time in a number of regions of Russia were stopped.