The Court of Appeal Zanzibar (Tanzania, East Africa) sentenced two Russian citizens to the death penalty. According to the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Foreign Ministry, this verdict was sentenced on April 23, 2002 in relation to Russian citizens Ivan Chirov and Dmitry Kosyakov. They are accused of killing on December 15, 1997 in Zanzibar another Russian - Alexei Sotnikov.

The Constitutional Court of Moldova decided that the acts of civil status issued in the republic should not contain entries in Russian, Interfax reports.

In the village of Bulanash of the Sverdlovsk region, a police officer shot his colleague from the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, on Friday night, deputy chief of the city Internal Affairs Directorate of Artyomovsky Alexei Botvinsky for unexplained reasons shot the head of the Bulanash police department of Marat Mukhameddyanov.

In Moscow, an attempt to illegally sell a large batch of diamonds is prevented in Moscow, Interfax reports. On the eve of the day in Bolshoi Afanasyevsky Lane, while trying to sell 418 diamonds weighing 9.38 carats for 248 thousand rubles, a resident of the capital Viktor Denisov, born in 1952, was detained. Later, the General Director of the company Hidaigo Limited, Vladimir Kuberlinov, who came to Moscow from Kalmykia, was detained on Lusinovskaya Street.

Two helicopters with identifying signs of the air forces Romania made a flight over the Russian military warehouses in Transnistria on Friday, Interfax reports. As reported in the command of the air defense of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, helicopters flew over warehouses in sausages, where ammunition of the former 14th Russian army is stored. Their number exceeds 40 thousand tons. The helicopter heights did not exceed 100-120 meters.

Unknown attackers defiled a panel with a portrait of academician Andrei Sakharov, Interfax reports. As the director of the museum and the public center named after Sakharov Yuri Samodurov, the incident occurred on the night of May 30. Unknown persons painted with obscene expressions and anti -Semitic statements the panel, which is located on the wall of the museum exhibition hall. The panel was made by the famous artist Dmitry Vrubel and is an author's copy of the painting of the Berlin Wall.

During the amnesty of the Russian State Duma in relation to women and minors from the places of conclusion of the Novosibirsk region, 808 convicted and under investigation were liberated. This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Penitentiary of the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the Novosibirsk Region. Within the framework of the amnesty, a thousand contained in correctional colonies reduced the deadlines for serving a sentence.

Israel sent a new diplomat Danny Ayalon, adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on foreign policy issues on Friday on Friday in the United States. This important post was empty within a month after David Hebrew left it, a Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Perez could not come to a consensus on the issue of appointment. The appointment of Ayalon, according to sources in the government of the country, became a compromise for them. When exactly Danny Aiyalon will begin to fulfill his duties yet.

Members of the primary organization of the Communist Party of the Communist Party at the Nizhny Novgorod regional committee of the Communist Party at a general meeting on Friday unanimously excluded Governor Gennady Khodyrev from the Rights of the Communist Party.

Supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) tried to disrupt the service in the Poltava St. Nicholas Church, who turned from the jurisdiction of the UOC-KP to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate , RIA Novosti reports.

The presidential administration begins the reform of state power in the country. According to the newspaper "Gazeta" on Friday, by analogy with federal districts in the regions, municipal districts will create. Their chapters will be appointed and will receive most of the powers belonging to the mayors. Most likely, there will be governors who, in return, will lose the right to write laws at their discretion. To carry out the reform, the Kremlin is going to change 135 laws.

The US calls its diplomatic workers to leave India The US State Department urged to urgently leave India to employees of the American embassy in Delhi, reports Reuters. Earlier, due to the threat of terrorist attacks against Americans, the quantitative composition of the diplomatic mission in Pakistan was also reduced to the minimum necessary level.

A large robbery occurred today in Tokyo. On the first day of the World Cup, when the local police served in intensified mode, two criminals broke into a jewelry store in one of the capital's districts and took money and jewelry worth 123 million yen, which is about a million dollars. As the police found out, the raid was taken shortly after the closure, when the store owner put the room in order, ITAR-TASS reports. The robbers tied it on hand and feet, and blindfolded.

At the Cultural Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the farewell ceremony with the deputy head of the Pacific Regional Administration of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation Major General Vitaliy Gamov was held today. He died on May 28 from the burns received as a result of the attempt on him and his family.

Penilers for stinglet passages in electric trains will increase. On the electric trains of the Moscow Railway, from June 1, the hares caught by the controllers will pay not 10, but 25 rubles. In addition, you will have to pay for the cost of the ticket. “And these are just flowers,” adds the head of the press service of the Ministry of Economic Council Vasily Bulantsev, - the berries will begin from July 1, when fines will grow to 300 rubles.