Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev completed an examination at the Military Medical Academy in Turkey and returned to Baku. Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev completed an examination at the Gulkhan Military Medical Academy in Turkey and today returned to Baku. From May 4, he was an examination there. Now the treatment has been completed and, according to the press service of the President of Azerbaijan, he feels normally and will work according to the usual schedule, reports Reuters.

The organization of oil exporting countries invited Russia, along with representatives of six other independent global oil producers, to take part in the conference of the organization, which will be held in the capital of Katar Docha on June 11 to discuss the need to further reduce production quotas. According to Interfax with reference to Bloomberg, OPEC also sent invitations to Angola, Norway, Syria, Egypt, Mexico, Oman.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress adopted a package of bills providing for tax reduction over the next 10 years for a total amount of $ 550 billion. According to the administration of George Bush, laws will contribute to the creation of new jobs and accelerating the growth rate of the economy. Now, for their adoption, it is necessary to convince the Senate of this. The lower house of the Congress took the package 222 votes with 203 votes against.

The pilot of the Formula-1 team "Williams BMW" Colombian Juan-Pablo Montaui took away the driver’s license for speeding in France. This was reported on Monday by the French police. According to RIA Novosti, on the segment between the settlements of Le Mui and Frezhu Montoya, a speed of 204 km/h developed on his BMW car. The policeman on a motorcycle, who had difficulty caught up with the racer, confiscated the rights of Montaui.

On May 6, 2003, Continental Management extended another statement about its rights to control packages of shares of the KCBC and BLPK. The basis for this statement was the decision of the appeal of the arbitration court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region to cancel the decision of the same court of February 7, 2003 on invalidation of transactions, as a result of which Sibal and the structures controlled by the owners of the shares of these enterprises.

The leadership of The New York Times admitted that the numerous and often sensational reports of one of its correspondents are plagiarism.

Ten people died during a fire in a three -level underground garage under construction, located on the territory of the Scarlet Sails residential complex. The bodies of people, apparently, were found at the scene during the audit of all levels of a three-story garage. Another person is hospitalized. Three firefighters were provided on the spot. 54 workers are evacuated.

The head of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Latvia, Archbishop Yanis Vanags, called on the inhabitants of Latvia not to watch the new program "Forbidden Games", which is being prepared for showing in Real Show format. The archbishop announced this at the conference "Church, School and Family" held the day before in Riga, the Blagovers-Info reports.

In the rally of left -wing and patriotic forces that took place on Victory Day, on the Lubyanskaya Square of Moscow under the auspices of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Labor Russia movement, the Union of Officers of Russia, the CPSU (b) and other left -handed organizations, the group of Orthodox believers took part over which the red banner with the image of the face of Jesus Christ was flooded.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, German Gref, will go to work from vacation, most likely on May 19, the state secretary, deputy minister Alexander Maslov told reporters on Monday. The deputy minister said that Gref is currently in Moscow.

The criminal case against the Spartak football club has good judicial prospects, Interfax was told in the central apparatus of the Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP). Recall that the prosecutor’s office at the end of March, on the basis of the materials provided by the FSNP, agreed to institute criminal proceedings on the fact of non-return “Spartak” from behind the currency of $ 7 million and non-payment of taxes from it.

An explosion occurred in the center of Moscow on the Old Arbat. According to Interfax, sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at about 20:00, a signal of the explosion on the Old Arbat was received on the remote control in the city of "02". The police officers who arrived at the scene found that the explosion had occurred in the house number 36 on Arbat Street. This is a two -story building of the old building with wooden ceilings.

In the seaside city, Nakhodka, the police arrested the criminal who abducted and killed the 7-year-old son of a local entrepreneur. According to the local Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred a week ago. Then the unknown kidnapper demanded a ransom of liberation from the relatives of the stolen son of a local businessman. On the afternoon of May 3, the offender approached the boy, whom he knew well, and offered to ride a car.

The first case of atypical pneumonia in Russia was noted 3 months ago. As it turned out, in the winter in St. Petersburg, doctors encountered strange symptoms of a 5-year-old boy. And they were very similar, as it turned out later, to atypical pneumonia. Only three months after the start of the epidemic did the doctors decided to once again examine the analyzes of the child. As a result, Koronavirus was allocated at the institute of influenza. As notes, NTV channel, now the boy is feeling good.

Since the beginning of the second intifada (September 29, 2000) to May 11, 2003, 768 Israelis and 5362 were killed. Such statistics on Monday were published by the press service of the Israeli army. In total, during the period of the "intifada al-axa", 17366 terrorist attacks were committed, the Seventh Channel reports. According to the press service of the IDF, among those killed on the territory of Israel as a result of the attacks of 532 civilians and 236 troops.