The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia advocates extending the term of office of the president and State Duma deputies to 5 years. This was stated by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, speaking at the XII Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party.

A serious shortage was discovered at a warehouse at an Israeli military base on Friday. According to RIA Novosti, more than 40 mortar shells, ten anti-tank shells and 1 thousand rounds of ammunition were missing. According to Israeli radio, the base was most likely robbed by a group of Palestinians who carried away the stolen ammunition on donkeys along trails that bypass Israeli-controlled roads.

Thirteen people were injured in an explosion in central Madrid two days before elections in the Basque Country, a province of Spain. According to a RIA Novosti correspondent, the explosion occurred at exactly midnight on Serrano Street, the most fashionable street in the Spanish capital. A car packed with explosives, parked near a bank building, exploded. One of the 13 wounded is in serious condition, but his life is not in danger.

The Times newspaper reports that a lizard man lives in the United States. Eric Sprague decided to turn into a reptile 10 years ago under the influence of comics about Spider-Man. 10 years of hard work on his own body led to the fact that the 28-year-old university graduate student almost completely lost his human appearance. His skin is covered with tattoos in the form of scales, his teeth are sharpened, and on his forehead there are bumps made of implanted balls.

Schumacher, like many others, had a half-hour pause before the start, so he immediately got into the traffic. However, he entered the second round, where he immediately showed the best result. And despite the fact that the German did not finish at the last attempt and flew off the track, avoiding contact with one of the Arrows, he won first position at the start.

The teams started the season differently. Spartak, of course, is worse than usual, but this did not prevent him from gaining a foothold in the group of leaders. Dynamo is having a bad season. The difference in points - Spartak's is 11 more - speaks of a difference, if not in class, then in aspirations. Dynamo is primarily concerned with getting out of the crisis as quickly as possible. In the 7th minute, after a corner kick, several shots were fired at the Spartak goal.

The Cannes International Film Festival continues. Today, for the first time in the last 30 years, a cartoon will be presented in the competition program. According to Echo of Moscow, since the early 70s, not a single animated film has been among the applicants for the Palme d'Or. Today's contestant is a product of Spielberg's Dream Works studio called "Shrek" directed by Vicky Janson and Andrew Adamson.

Today it became known that, according to official statistics, more than 2 thousand houses were flooded in Bashkiria. This means that 12 thousand people could be left without a roof over their heads at any moment, NTV reports. The unprecedentedly high rise of meltwater in rivers is caused by too rapid melting of snow. In the area of ​​the city of Birsk, the rise of the Belaya River exceeds 8.5 m. The suburbs of Ufa are flooded.

In the coming days, China intends to conduct underground tests of nuclear weapons, The Washington Times newspaper reports today. American spy satellites have recorded the active movement of equipment in the area of ​​the Chinese Lop Nur nuclear test site. “According to the military,” the newspaper notes, “it is possible that a low-yield nuclear warhead will be tested at this test site by the end of May.

The wife of the British Prime Minister, Cherry Blair, will not be able to fully take part in her husband's election campaign. Cherry herself explains her decision by being busy at work. She is a lawyer and will be preparing to appear in court in the coming weeks. It is noted that Cherry Blair’s act has no precedent in the modern political history of Great Britain. Meanwhile, now on the islands of Foggy Albion is the finest hour, or rather, the week, for journalists.

On Saturday morning, the Macedonian army resumed its offensive against Albanian terrorists in the area of ​​the villages of Slupcane and Vaesinci, a Defense Ministry spokesman said in Skopje. As RIA Novosti reports, government troops are using artillery and tanks to fire at militant positions. Fighting resumed after time expired for the defense ministry and police to clear civilians from the mostly Albanian-populated area. 1,700 people, mostly Macedonians and Serbs, fled the area the day before.

Borodin's lawyer Eleonora Sergeeva, in an interview with an NTV correspondent, officially confirmed that on May 16 she and her client will travel from Moscow to Geneva to participate in the interrogation, which is scheduled for the next day. Meanwhile, Pavel Borodin himself demonstrated during all official events in Minsk that he was now concerned about completely different problems.

The spring conscription into the Russian army in the Novosibirsk region is going through serious difficulties, NTV reports. There is a catastrophic lack of healthy and educated young people to staff the so-called regime troops (and these are border units, airborne forces, special forces, missile forces). Many of those who came to the draft boards this spring were declared unfit for military service due to health reasons.

As NTV reported the day before, a population of many thousands of harp seal pups in the White Sea was on the verge of extinction. In order to save the animals and bring them from the White Sea to the Barents Sea, a motor ship of the Murmansk Shipping Company set off to the area of ​​their rookery the day before. However, today it became known that the operation was cancelled. Traditionally, every winter, adult seals set up rookeries in the White Sea, where small pups are born.

The judge of the special tax court in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, Rustam Ali Malik, issued an arrest warrant for the country's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who is accused of concealing income and evading taxes, RIA Novosti reports. Benazir Bhutto, who has been in self-imposed exile in England for several years, and her husband, businessman Asif Ali Zardari, were convicted of accepting multimillion-dollar bribes under the former government of Nawaz Sharif.