The Moscow Arbitration Court the day before made a decision to recover 793 thousand dollars and about 10 million rubles from the NTV television company, RIA Novosti reports. The funds were recovered at the request of the state unitary enterprise "Space Communications", which provides the television company with a satellite communications channel.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov said today that his country “will never enter into any alliances.” As ITAR-TASS reports, he made this statement at a meeting with journalists during a break in the plenary session of the republican parliament that opened today. “I, first of all, mean any military-political alliances,” Karimov emphasized. He emphasized that the main strategic partner for his country is Russia.

Air accident in the UK: a plane flying from Mallorca to Liverpool was significantly damaged at the arrival airfield. During landing, the landing gear failed and the plane crashed onto the runway. None of the 50 people on board were seriously injured.

The American company Lucent Technologies will supply high-speed access equipment for a broadband network for JSC Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) worth more than $5 million. This was reported in a company press release. The equipment supplied by Lucent Technologies is intended for the development of a unified citywide broadband data transmission network within the framework of the Tochka Ru project .

According to the online publication Today.Lenta.Ru , the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced the members of the so-called Afonya gang. This small but daring group, led by the well-known criminal authority in Nizhny Tagil, Sergei Afanasyev, nicknamed Afonya, was most active in the Urals in the mid-90s. The group is responsible for dozens of robberies, murders and kidnappings. As noted in the verdict, the criminals, when committing attacks, used conspiracy methods and changed their appearance.

According to information disseminated by the Interfax news agency, at noon on May 12, 2001, a protest march of Orthodox Christians will begin on Pushkin Square in Moscow, reports the DECR MP Communications Service.

The leaders of the largest parties in Macedonia signed an agreement to form a government of national unity. Its composition will be officially approved on May 17 by the Macedonian Parliament.

In the coming days, JSC Kamchatskenergo will be forced to begin massive power outages on the peninsula due to lack of fuel, RIA Novosti reports. For more than a week now, the Berezovo tanker has been docked in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky roadstead with 15 thousand tons of fuel oil on board.

The Russian-Finnish agreement on the principles of mutual relations will be extended. As reported by RIA Novosti, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomijoya said this today in Helsinki at the end of negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The agreement on the principles of relations was concluded in 1992, its term of office ends in October 2002. According to Tuomijoi, the parties have already decided to extend it for the next 5 years.

The Macedonian government today extended the ultimatum to Albanian militants until 20:00 local time. Before this date, the separatists were asked to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities. According to the EFE agency, for the first time in the last 8 days, Macedonian government forces today are not conducting military operations to eliminate Albanian militants in the area of ​​​​the city of Kumanovo.

Brazil wants to host the 2014 World Cup, the country's Minister of Sports and Tourism, Carlos Melles, said today. He also noted that the government intends to do everything possible to ensure that FIFA gives preference to this particular candidate. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Football Confederation is concerned about the situation around the national team. President Ricardo Tixierra called on the players to be at the disposal of the head coach at least a week before the World Cup qualifying games.

This coming Monday, May 14, at a meeting of the government commission to investigate the causes of the death of the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea, the timing of the start of the operation to raise the nuclear-powered submarine will be finally determined. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov told reporters about this today. According to Klebanov, who heads the government commission for raising the Kursk, all financial and technical characteristics of the project are already ready.

A New York court today essentially unblocked the payment of compensation to victims of Nazism from German government funds. As NTV reports, theoretically, some victims could begin to sue Germany again. For a whole year, more than a million people in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, waited for the decision of just one person - judge from New York Sherely Krim.

The construction of the Russian Formula 1 auto racing circuit will cost $100 million. These data were published today in London, ITAR-TASS reports. Negotiations are currently taking place in Moscow regarding this project between the head of Formula 1, Bernard Ecclestone, and the president of the British company TVR, Tom Walkinshaw. They arrived in the Russian capital at the invitation of the Moscow authorities and the vice-president of the Russian Automobile Association Grigory Antyufeev.

In Norilsk, an armed criminal was shot dead during arrest. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Friday by the press service of the GUBOP Committee of the Federal Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. A young man suspected of attempted murder pointed a gun at an operative during his arrest. The police officers were forced to use their service weapons, opening fire to kill. A 26-year-old man with a previous conviction and no work was killed on the spot.