Moscow artists, writers and architects turn to the President of the Russian Federation and the mayor of Moscow with an open letter, in which they protested against the destruction of architectural monuments of the capital. The organizers of the action offer everyone who shares their views, put their name under the letter on the website of the project "Moscow, which is not." “Over the past decade, the historical appearance of the capital of Russia has been irreparable damage,” the letter said.

In the capital of Katar, Doha on Thursday, as expected, the trial in the case of two Russians accused of attempted the former leader of Chechen separatists Zelimkhan Yandarbiev continued. According to Ilya Levitov, a representative of the lawyer Bureau Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners, who provides legal assistance to compatriots, at the previous meeting on Monday, the court granted the defense of the defense of Russians to attract two out of three witnesses for interrogation.

India Prime Minister Atal Bikhari Vajpai recognized the defeat of the ruling party "Bharatiya Dzhanat" (BDP) in the early parliamentary elections and will resign on Friday. As the Minister of Defense George Fernandez told reporters, the Prime Minister at 16 hours Moscow will present to President of India Abdulu Kalam a request for his resignation. Vajpai made the decision on this before the end of the vote count.

The used foreign cars are rapidly losing ground in the Russian market. According to PriceWaterhousecoopers, their import into Russia in the first months of 2004 decreased by more than doubled compared to the beginning of last year - from 85 thousand to 41 thousand. According to PWC, the volume of this market in January - March 2004 amounted to $ 400 million. In total, during this period, 328 thousand cars for $ 328 thousand were sold in Russia.

The beloved Caucasian shepherd of the former head of Adjaria Aslan Abashidze named Basmach, accompanied by a dog handler on Thursday, was sent by plane to Moscow to the owner, reported by Georgian Radio "Imady". Since May 6, when Abashidze left Adjara, Basmach, yearning for the owner, he had eaten anything and could die in a few days. Basmach, who was brought to Batumi from Moscow as a gift to Abashidze, is a two -time world champion among Caucasian shepherds.

The Spanish gendarmerie detained three Russians on Thursday, which are suspected of creating an international criminal group who managed to remove more than 500 thousand euros from bank accounts through the Internet. According to the Cadena Ser radio station, two Estonians and one citizen of the Dominican Republic also included the main Russians, in which the main Russians were the main group. The stolen money, according to the gendarmerie, was transferred to Russia.

One of the lawyers of the former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, French Jacques Verges, said he was filing against the UK for "war crimes committed in Iraq", the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Interfax reports.

The day before, the return final match of the Italian Cup in football was held late in the evening, in which Juventus received the Roman Lazio on his native Alpi Alpi. The rivals tied 2: 2, but according to the results of two meetings, the Romans went to the victory. Thus, the Lazio for the fourth time in its history became the owner of the Cup of the country.

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Litvin closed the morning meeting of the Ukrainian Parliament due to the "impossibility of its holding" due to the flared disputes around the issue of the possibility of withdrawing a Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent from Iraq. The Communist faction demanded that the issue of withdrawing Ukrainian peacekeepers from Iraq to vote in secret mode.

For the first time, the Forbes magazine will first publish the Russian "golden hundred" businessmen - a list of owners of the largest states in the country. However, as it turned out, the heroes of the list are not at all happy: they believe that being public billionaires is now unfriendly and even at times dangerous.

In the Primorsky Territory they are looking for an armed deserter who left the military unit. According to Duta.ru , the soldier deserted from the military unit located near Ussuri, near the Primorsky village of Sibirtsevo. According to the headquarters of the 5th Army, the employee of one of the motorized rifle regiments of the 5th Army of the Far Eastern Military District Private Alexei Susanin deserted. He left his post, taking with him a Kalashnikov assault rifle with 60 rounds.

One of the most influential bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail Agafangel calls for Patriarch Alexy II and Metropolitan Lavra to overcome the division between the foreign church and the Church in the Fatherland, Interfax reports.

In Mexico, for the first time in the world, a successful surgical operation was performed to separate the Siamese twins, which fused in the chest and abdominal cavity, with the separation of the liver. This was stated at the press conference held here by the director of the State Clinical Center La Pasa, where the operation was carried out, Dr. Haime Saldivar.

The prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region charged the kidnapper of two girls who have been held in hostages for more than three years. This was reported by the representative of the Office of Information and Public Relations of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

In the area of ​​Elbrus, a group of tourists from Ulyanovsk consisting of seven people disappeared. The information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies reported that a group of tourists from Ulyanovsk left on April 29 without registration from the village of Khurzuk (Karachay-Cherkessia) on passes and glaciers in the village of Terskol (Kabardino-Balkaria). “The last time they were seen in the parking lot on the Elbrus on May 6.