An agreement was signed between the State Academic Great Theater and the Shell oil company for 2004-2007, according to which the company becomes the official sponsor of the Bolshoi Theater. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference by the General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Anatoly Ixanov. "We are very pleased that a company such as Shell decided on long -term cooperation with a large theater," he said.

In the UK, a document was published on one of the most high-profile scandals of the 1970s. Then the gallery, which exposed the drawings of John Lennon, depicts how the legendary Beatle has oral sex with Yoko it escaped judicial persecution for obscenity, since otherwise the sanctions would affect other collections, including the queen collection.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, five military personnel of one of the units of the mobile detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, stationed in the area of ​​the administrative border of Ingushetia and Chechnya near the village of Datty, were injured during March 23, training fire of a mortar platoon. One of the shells exploded right on the territory of this military unit. As a result, five soldiers received fragmentation wounds of varying severity.

Recently it became known that about 9 thousand pigs live in the German capital. They lead a free lifestyle without a specific place of residence. The City Council Berlin plans to specially hire pig hunters. Officials of the municipality warn the townspeople that feeding wild pigs is now forbidden under the threat of administrative punishment - the number of animals is growing rapidly. Last year alone, about 3 thousand pigs were killed in the capital, Ananova reports.

The famous football player David Beckham, who is now playing for Real Madrid, congratulated one of the suspects of terrible terrorist attacks in Madrid. According to the latest data, 190 people died in blown up trains. According to Sky News , Beckham left an autograph on a postcard that belonged to the 31-year-old (then he was 30) Moroccan Mohammed Gasali a few weeks before the attacks.

Lithuanian President Rolandas Paxas invited Russian citizen Yuri Borisov to the presidential administration to the position of public adviser. According to Presidential President Yurat Overlingen, Borisov will advise Paxas "on the analysis of social processes and forecasts" on Wednesday. Borisov previously had Lithuanian citizenship, but lost it by the decision of the Constitutional Court (CS) of Lithuania.

Parents of the seven snowboarders from Moscow who died on February 10 to the Elbrus , turned to the General of Russia, Vladimir Ustinov, with a request to investigate the circumstances of the death of young people. On March 20, 40 days have turned 40 days since the death of seven guys who died in Terskol 02/10/2004.

Two Cathars citizens detained in February by the Russian authorities are liberated and are already in their homeland. This was announced on Wednesday morning by the head of the Moscow Bureau of the Qatari satellite television channel Al-Jazeera Akram Khazam. "I cannot reveal my sources, but the fact that my compatriots are released and are already in Qatar is absolutely accurate information," Akram Khazam said.

The Russian Orthodox Church believes that the future Krishna temple should not change the architectural and spiritual appearance of the Russian capital. “In architectural plan, this building must correspond to the appearance of Moscow, for which Hindu cult structures are absolutely unconventional,” the official representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, Priest Mikhail Dudko, told the Interfax agency.

One and a half million Russians can be evicted from their apartments in the middle of the next month. From April 11, an article by the Law "On the Basics of the Federal Housing Policy" comes into force, according to which unscrupulous tenants will have to leave their homes. The word "unscrupulous" means those who owed payment for an apartment or for utilities for at least six months. However, this is not the only selection criterion.

The effective game of Russian Andrei Kirilenko in the next match of the regular championship of the National Basketball Association brought Utah Jazz to the victory over Washington with a score of 85:77. The Jazzmen not only extended their victorious series to three matches, but also took another step to the playoffs, squeezing Denver from the coveted cup eight.

The new book of the Pope John Paul II will be published by Mondadori Publishing House (Marina Berlusconi, the eldest daughter of the current Prime Minister of Italy - approx. Ed. ). In addition, the publishing house has acquired international rights to a book. This will be officially announced today simultaneously with the presentation of the book in which John Paul II tells of those years when he was the archbishop of Krakow.

The US military authorities justified the soldier, who shot down in August last year in the suburbs of Baghdad, the Reuters agency Mazen Dan . According to the statement, the widespread army of the United States, a soldier whose name is not called, took the television camera for a grenade launcher and opened fire to defeat, because he was afraid to fall under fire.

A 10-year-old resident of Krafton (Pennsylvania) admitted that he shot a postal worker in the Pittsburgh area. Thus, the child laid an end to the 9-month investigation that the police conducted in the territory of three states. The postal inspector Andrew Richards said that the boy, who was 9 years old at the time of the crime on June 23 last year, said that he shot wood from his window, and possibly hit the man.

Unprecedented theft occurred on the railway in Kazakhstan. From the composition, which stood on the 15th path of the Aktogai station, 96 wheels and 23 cargo platforms disappeared. Employees of the National Company of Kazakhstan Temir Zhola CJSC say that for the first time in their activities they were faced with such impudent theft. Investigating this crime, transport police went to an organized group, whose members were the arrows of the WRR.