In Ukraine, the counting of votes filed in the parliamentary elections continues, the results of which can be considered as an assessment of the activities of President Leonid Kuchma. 33 parties fought for the places in parliament, of which only six have managed to overcome a 4 percent barrier. Counted 92.05% of ballots: Viktor Yushchenko and Communists are leading the reformist alliance.

The entire Russian tennis team must pass a doping convert. This unexpected decision was announced on Monday by the organizers of the Davis Cup, an unofficial tennis championship. Recall that on April 7, in the Olympic Sports Palace, our team, consisting of Marat Safin, Evgenia Kafelnikov, Andrei Stolyarov and Mikhail South, will receive rivals from Sweden. It is not customary to take a doping test in the Association of Professional tennis players (APR) before or after the competition.

Exactly half of the Muscovites working can afford to play their bosses on April 1 - on the day of laughter, known in some countries as a day of fools, sociologists of the group of companies Monitoring.ru reported. It is afraid to play his superiors by 41% of Muscovites, and 9% found it difficult to speak out about this, Interfax reports. It is noteworthy that the higher the level of education of the respondents, the greater the percentage of respondents who can play their boss.

The kidnapper of the son of a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, director of the Chatura-Mel furniture plant Valentina Zverev, blew himself up with police officers in the center of the city of Shatura near Moscow. According to Interfax , on March 29, in the morning, 52-year-old Yuri Travkin, threatening a gun, got into the car to Pavel Zverev. He forced Zverev to go beyond the borders of Moscow. There he took his mobile phone from him, called his father and began to demand a ransom.

The French jazz composer Jacques Lucier sued the famous rap artist Eminem, accusing him of theft of the melody for the Kill You song, AP reports. According to the Frenchman, she is identical to the Pulsion instrumental composition he wrote. Lucier requires Eminem and his recording company compensation for $ 10 million as compensation. He also wants the court to introduce the ban on Kill You from the Album The Marshall Mathers on Radio and Television.

A daring attack on a collector car was made on Monday morning in the Japanese city of Tiba near Tokyo. The robbers took about 90 million yen (almost 700 thousand dollars). According to the police, as a result of the raid, one guard was seriously wounded, two more were injured, ITAR-TASS reports. The bandits attacked a car with money late at night next to a large shopping center. By this time, the collection machine had managed to accept the daily revenue of several stores.

The concert of the Casta group, held in the Lavrov recreation center in Yekaterinburg, almost ended in a bloody battle. According to the "New Region" , on March 30, before the start of the performance of the musicians, about 60 skinheads gathered near the Palace of Culture. According to eyewitnesses, young people were armed with chains, sticks and were aggressive. They stopped rappers going to the concert and beat them. In response to the actions of skinheads, rappers were grouped.

In Europe, they create a single hydrometeorological center. This was announced at the international symposium on global warming and environmental monitoring problems.

In Yekaterinburg, as a result of a complex of operational-search measures, a 61-year-old local resident was detained, who found a large batch of drug, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the Main Directorate for the Combating of Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the pensioner seized 4 kg 818 g of heroin. According to the operatives, the detainee was either a wholesale seller of a potion or a drug courier.

From Monday, when entering Slovakia, foreigners will need to present medical insurance by the border police and have the amount of $ 50 for each day in the country, RIA Novosti reports. These amendments to the law on the stay of foreigners in the territory of Slovakia were adopted by the National Council - the parliament of the republic. Poland negatively reacted to these innovations and demanded explanations from the Slovak authorities.

The new scandal is ripening around the bankrupt energy company Enron. While 21 thousand Enron workers only expect compensation for pension money invested in the company’s shares and are forced to earn extra money in the Playboy journal , some American officials already receive compensation. Earlier , the company, the company, announced the losses, announced the intentions of the Losses. However, this was not limited to this.

In the UK there are farewell ceremonies with the queen-mother, who died on March 30 at the age of 101 . At noon in Greenwich across the country, a salute of guns sounded. The guns also shot at foreign English military bases. 41 shots were fired with an interval of a minute. The last time such a ceremony was held 52 years ago on the occasion of the death of the wife of the deceased King George VI.

The Government of Yugoslavia on Monday agreed to complete cooperation with the international tribunal in the former Yugoslavia (MTBU). This was at the end of the emergency meeting of the government by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia Goran Schilanovich, reports Reuters. "We made a unanimous decision that, as members of the UN, are obliged to fully cooperate with MTBU," Svilanovich said. On Monday morning , the term of the ultimatum, nominated by the United States , has expired.

The American unmanned reconnaissance aircraft crashed in the south of the Philippines, where American military personnel are conducting a counter-terrorism operation against the local extremist group Abu Sayaf. According to the representative of the Southern Military Command of the Philippines, the exact reasons for the collapse of the aircraft are still unknown. According to one version, he could be shot down by the Au-Sayaf militants, ITAR-TASS reports.

The murder of journalist Valery Batuev is revealed. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the data of the Preobrazhensky prosecutor's office of the eastern district of the capital, the murder was committed on the basis of personal relations, from selfish motives. In the course of the investigation, one of the detainees on suspicion of committing this crime, 19 -year -old resident of Belarus Sergei Zdovtsev confessed. He confessed to his deed.