The lawyers of Mikhail Trepashkin protested the verdict of the court, who found the former colonel of the FSB guilty of disclosing GOSTaina , one of the lawyers of Trepashkin Valery Glushenkov said. "We filed a cassation appeal to the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, in which we ask the higher authority to justify our client," the lawyer said. The date of the court hearings has not yet been scheduled, RIA Novosti reports.

The Civil Freedom Fund, founded by the entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, intends to conduct a new cycle of financing of human rights organizations for 2004 - 2005. As noted in the report of the Fund, about 100 independent organizations throughout Russia will receive additional grants at Newsru.com.

In Japan, the former member of the Aum Sinrikyo sect was sentenced to death, which was charged with organizing a gas attack in the Tokyo metro in 1995. The court examined the case of the 34-year-old Yokhisiro Inoue for about four years, but then he was not sentenced to death, since it was not proved that he betrayed the Nervous Gas of the Nervous gas of Zarin.

On the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascist Germany on Russian television, the 8-seral epic cinema “Leningrad”, dedicated to 900 blockade days, will be shown. “In 900 days, blockade died from hunger and cold 1.5 million people, and this can be called the Holocaust in relation to the inhabitants of the Northern capital,” said David Hamburg, producer of the film.

A group of Russian businessmen is ready to buy up the Israeli football club "Maccabi" from Tel Aviv. According to the Israeli media, negotiations were held last week between the current owner of the Tel Aviv football club McCabi Loni Hertsikovich and representatives of the Russian group of investors. In publications, it is not specifically called which group of Russian entrepreneurs are in question, notes the "Sports News Agency" .

The President of Yukos-Moscow, Stephen Tidi, said that he did not receive proposals to head Yukos. Recall that last week the Russian media reported that the chairman of the board of Yukos Semen Cukes will leave the company until the end of June . The most likely successor was called the president of Yukos-Moscow Stephen Tidi.

Donetsk "Shakhtar" won the Ukrainian Cup, having overcome the Dnepr from Dnepropetrovsk in the final with a score of 2: 0. This is the fifth Cup of miners in the 13-year history of the trophy rally. It is noteworthy that in three final fights they beat the Dnieper. The wards of Evgenia Kuchevsky, no matter how hard they tried, could not take revenge for cup defenses of 1995 and 1997.

The application of the Russian national team, which will take part in the world of the World Hockey Cup, include four hockey players from Russian clubs. Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, head coach of the three representatives of the Russian champion 2004 - Omsk Vanguard, goalkeeper Maxim Sokolov, defender Oleg Tverdovsky and striker Maxim Sushinsky, as well as the forward of the Moscow Dynamo Alexander Ovechkin.

On Saturday, the tenth beauty contest was held in the capital. The most beautiful girl in Moscow this year is Mary Matey (height 178, 92-64-90). The 18-year-old graduate of the linguistic gymnasium decided to award the Miss Moscow Crown, which, in addition to Joseph Kobzon, included Pavel Bure, "Beauty of Russia-2003" Svetlana Goreva and the director of the competition Tatyana Andreeva. In addition to the crown, Maria Matey got a diamond ring and 25 thousand dollars, writes Moscow Komsomolets .

Four people died in a car disaster that occurred on Monday in the area of ​​the village of Kazan Krasnodar Territory. According to the operational duty center in the crisis situations of the Main Directorate of the Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Krasnodar Territory, the Mercedes bus and the VAZ-2109 car collided at the intersection. After the blow, the Zhiguli flew out of the roadway and caught fire, reports Interfax.

A serious accident involving the passenger Gazelle occurred on Monday in the center of Yekaterinburg. At the intersection of Lenin and Bazhova streets, the minibus collided with a jeep. From the blow of the Gazelle, in which there were 8 passengers, turned over: 4 people were injured. The accident occurred in the very center of the city. Passenger Gazelle was driving along Lenin Street. At the intersection, a jeep crashed into it. The blow was so strong that the minibus turned upside down.

In Austria, a walking vessel with tourists sank - five people died, many were injured. On board the motor boat, following the popular tourist route, there were 33 people. On an underground lake in a grotto near the town of Kh -Tebrul, 20 km from Vienna, the ship rolled over, reports France Presse. According to the Austrian rescuers who arrived at the scene, many tourists were seriously injured. The police are investigating the causes of the accident.

The 2002 Football Champion Brazilian Rivallo will not sign a contract with the Scottish "Celtic". This was announced today by the Brazilian news agency "Estade" with reference to Rivallo himself. According to the best football player in the 1999 world according to FIFA, he was furious by the coach’s desire to not immediately conclude a contract, but first look at the player’s game, as if it was a young football player.

In Columbia, 17 tourists were captured hostage. The incident occurred on the border with Panama near the village of Choko, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the operational headquarters of the police, General Alberto Ruis, tourists were captured by the rebels of the army of the national liberation of Colombia. Most hostages are students and merchants.

In the town of Dei on Malorca, the Spanish police detained three people suspected of trading by children's pornography. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper El Pais. Two of the detainees are Russians 30 and 37 years old, the third is the British. In addition to trading in children's pornography, they offered through the Internet sexy services of minors.