The Lakers created a magnificent combek, and won the series of the semifinals of the Western conference at San Antonio Speres with a score of 4: 2, playing 0: 2 in the course of 0: 2. Thus, the NBA will have a new champion. In the second match of the day, "Indiana", having won with Miami, led 3: 2 in the series.

In Moscow, the grave of Vladimir Vysotsky was desecrated, sources in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow were told to the Interfax correspondent. On May 15, at 18:00, the deputy head of the improvement of the Vagankovsky cemetery contacted the police. He reported that the grave of Vysotsky was desecrated by unknown. The police officers who arrived at the scene found that the attacker had thrown a can of white paint into the tombstone.

After a meeting with US Secretary of State Paulle in Aman, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Ahmed Ahmed Kurai made an appeal to the Palestinian people. He called on the Palestinians not to respond to the rally of Israeli military, so as not to give Israel reasons for new military operations. Kurai emphasized that he would seek from the United States to promote the implementation of the "roadmap" plan.

The mentor of the London "Chelsea" Claudio Ranieri said goodbye to the players and fans immediately after the final match of the championship of England for his team. Recall that now in England, rumors are actively circulating that Ranieri will resign at the end of the season. “I want to say goodbye to Chelsea players, since it is possible that I will not have another opportunity to do this.

All last night, the siege of the headquarters of the Italian military contingent in the Iraqi city of Nasiria in the south of the country continued. According to the Ministry of Defense of Italy, the rebels were fired with using automatic and howitzer fire. The injured among carbines and four Italian journalists who spent the night at the headquarters, as well as from the military personnel of other countries of the coalition, were not recorded.

In Moscow on Monday night, traffic along the Gagarinsky tunnel will be limited. "In connection with the preventive work on testing the fire protection system, the Gagarinsky tunnel on the inside of the third transport ring will be closed for movement," RIA Novosti was told in the traffic police. A congress from Leninsky Prospekt will also be closed when driving from the region to the third transport ring in the direction of Komsomolsky Prospekt.

The total number of militants, liquidated from May 1 during a special operation near the village of Allerina, reached 14 people. On Sunday, Interfax, Arthur Akhmadov, chief of staff of the Presidential Security Service of the President, reported on Sunday. He emphasized that the night before, near the village of Gansol-Chu, two corpses in camouflage form were found in the Nozha-Yurt district. According to preliminary data, they are the inhabitants of Dagestan.

More than two hundred masterpieces of the great Russian master Karl Faberge were delivered today to the Moscow Kremlin, ITAR-TASS reports. In the Patriarchal Palace of the Kremlin, on Tuesday, an exhibition of creations of the famous jeweler, acquired by Russian entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg at the Sotheby`s auction, opens. Now employees of the Kremlin Museum and the Communications of the times founded by the Vekselberg of the Exposition installation of the exposition.

Switzerland citizens at a nationwide referendum that took place today rejected pension reform, which provides, in particular, an increase from 64 to 65 years of retirement age for women. Against this project, supported by the parliament, in which the right and centrist parties dominate, more than two -thirds of the referendum participants voted. The proposal to increase the retirement age for the Swiss was motivated by the lack of funds at the pension cash desks.

The American authorities intend to transfer Saddam Hussein to a military base in Jordan, approves the Kuwaitskaya newspaper al-Anba, referring to the Jordanian military sources. According to the newspaper, an agreement on this with the Jordanian authorities was reached on May 12 in Amman, during the trip of the Commander of the Central Command of the United States for the countries of the Middle East and Afghanistan, General John Abizaid.

Al-Jazeera showed on Sunday a video with Russians stolen in Iraq. According to the channel, hostages are healthy. It is reported that the video was sent to the editors of the Al-Jazeera with a militarized Iraqi group "Geesh At-Taif al-Mansur" ("Army of the Victorious Community").

On Sunday, at midnight, the term of ultimatum has expired to the residents of Adjara, who own illegal weapons. Ultimatum to members of illegal armed groups demanding to hand over weapons President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili presented about a week ago. In return, the president guaranteed them inviolability, RIA Novosti reports. “Over the past week, we have seized an impressive amount of weapons. Today, at midnight, the ultimatum has expired.

Israeli combat helicopters inflicted two missile strikes on the city of gas early in the morning on Sunday. In one of the buildings that were shelling, the headquarters of the political wing of the FATH organization was located, in the second - the editors of the newspaper Ar -Risala, sponsored by the Hamas. According to Palestinian sources, at the time of the shelling the buildings were empty, but several passers -by, including two children, were injured.

The Moscow Torpedo remained the sole leader following the results of the 11th round of the Russian Football Premier League. The only team that could catch up with the Luzhnikov - “Zenith” - lost to the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” in their field - 1: 2. In the second match, Dynamo won the Tor -Meet - 1: 0. Thus, according to the results of eleven rounds of the Russian championship, Torpedo comes first, ahead of the closest pursuers from CSKA and Lokomotiv by two points.

The sister of the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dzran Ginjich Gordan Gordan Dzhindzhich-Filipovich was subjected to attack the day before the attack in the village of Beloshevakov. ITAR-TASS, citing local media, reports that two armed people threatened her with death and made her some kind of injection as a “warning”. Other details of the incident are still unknown. Gordana Dzhindzhich-Filipovich is currently in Belgrade in the Toxicology Department of the Military Medical Academy.