Fighters of the special detachment of quick response (SOBR) of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd region were neutralized today about noon of the armed mentally ill. For more than twelve hours, he kept in tension the village of Deer in the Dubovsky district of the region. According to ITAR-TASS, 37-year-old Arne Potapenko, who staged a brawl on Sunday on Sunday, threatened his parents and neighbors with a gun and a grenade.

On Monday, the Board of Directors of Gazprom should be held, at which it is planned to announce the candidacy of the applicant for the audit of financial activities of the largest Russian company in 2002. In the tender, the auditor won PriceWateruss Coopers, whose services Gazprom has been using for more than one year. However, small shareholders are not satisfied with a similar choice, since they consider the PWC reports compiled for the sake of the former leadership of the monopolist.

The British royal family does not intend to disclose the will of the queen-mother and pay a inheritance tax that could amount to 20 million pounds (about 30 million US dollars). According to Independent , the Bukengem Palace is going to get away from the inheritance tax, despite the agreement concluded with the tax inspectorate back in 1993. The few Republicans and supporters of reforms are angry with the fact that the royal family is leaving the tax.

80 years ago - May 6, 1922 - at a meeting of the leadership of the State Political Administration of the RSFSR, it was decided to create in the structure of the GPU a special unit for combating foreign espionage √ counterintelligence department (Croces) of the GPU and its location, Interfax reports. The first leaders Krots were Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky and Arthur Artuzov.

On Monday morning, the Israeli army units again entered the Palestinian city of Tulkarm on the western bank of the Jordan River, RIA Novosti reports. The tanks surrounded the refugee camp located in the city, which the Israeli military left less than a day ago. The Israelis stated that the next coming of the military in Tulkarm is associated with the need to carry out an operation to detain Palestinians involved in terrorist activities.

For comic shooting, the court sentenced a resident of the American state of Pennsylvania to 15 years in prison, Ananova.com reports. According to the materials of the criminal case, the 44-year-old hairdresser Jeffrey Barber in his own house began to fade from the 22nd caliber rifle. Then he smeared himself with tomato sauce and lay down on the floor, pretending to be dead. He arranged all this, according to the accused, to put his wife.

At one of the Israeli plants, a gas-cones robot line was introduced. This machine not only does all the work without even minimal human intervention, but also has its own idea of ​​when it is better to do it. According to NTV-INTERNATIONAL , it is enough for a person to take the robot into the yard, turn on and then you can simply forget about its existence. The robot will cut the grass, gently bypassing any obstacles, until the lawn looks like a cadet of the Suvorov School.

President Vladimir Putin demanded that the government in the very near future present a plan for the main directions of the country's development for the next 4-5 years. At a meeting with government members on Monday in the Kremlin, Putin recalled that the need to revise the main areas of development of the country was mentioned a month ago. “So far I have not seen new numbers,” the president admitted.

The United States intends to withdraw from the agreement on the creation of the International Criminal Court. According to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States today will officially announce this, reports Radio "Freedom" . The document adopted in 1998 provides for the formation of an international judicial authority that would have sentences on the facts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

"I will no longer work in two teams - that's for sure." The head coach of the Moscow Spartak and the Russian national football team Oleg Romantsev, after the World Cup, is not going to combine these posts. "If the national team at the World Cup is successful, and I hope so, I will be offered to stay in it, then I will have to make a choice. I won’t work in two teams - this is for sure," Romantsev said to a press conference held on Monday in Moscow.

On Monday, the Palestinian and Israeli delegations reached a fundamental agreement on the removal of the siege of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem, RIA Novosti reports. According to Governor Bethlehem Muhammad al-Medani, an agreement, which indicates the details of the agreement between the two parties is now being finalized.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia made new amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code to the State Duma. Lawyers proposed to mitigate the punishment under Article 158 and exclude recidivists from among especially dangerous criminals, the newspaper reports.

About 80% of Russian citizens intended to celebrate Easter this year, ITAR-TASS reports. This is evidenced by the statistical survey, which was held by the independent research center Romir on the eve of the main Christian holiday. According to the survey, traditional Easter culinary products √ cakes, painted eggs and cottage cheese Easter were going to prepare 78.5% of Russians for the holiday.

Negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians on the termination of the blockade of the Christmas Church in Bethlehem came to a dead end. This was announced by the representative of the Franciscan Order Father David Dzhiger. Recall that the siege of the Church of the Nativity of Christ began on April 2. At that time there were about 200 people there. During the siege, several dozen people left the church.

In Vladivostok, a man was detained, for 10 years in the pocket "for self -defense" a combat grenade, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press center of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory, the 42-year-old resident of Vladivostok was detained by the police on one of the lively streets of the city. The detainee in the preparation of the protocol stated that he found a grenade in 1992 near the Stroitel stadium.