The number of people gathered for a rally in Tokyo was impressive - 1.5 thousand people, including leading politicians, came to demand from Russia to immediately return the "northern territories" of Japan, writes the Japanese newspaper Asahi . Far in the north, on the other island on the same day, a rally of the exact opposite orientation took place. In the Sakhalin region, the rally participants protested against the "territorial ambitions" of Japan.

The Moscow prosecutor's office charged two police officers in the case of death during the interrogation of the former submariner Alexander Puman .

Sir Elton John said that he was looking forward to the adoption of the British law to change his status of the idle man and legitimize relations with a long -term partner. The 57-year-old singer said that he wanted to go through this ceremony in order to guarantee David Fernish to receive a share of his multimillion-dollar state. In an interview, Elton John noted that homosexual in love should have the same legal rights as heterosexuals who are married, reports The Sun.

The President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov declared a gas war to Russia. The newspaper "News Time" claims that Turkmenneftegaz has not supplied Gazprom gas since the beginning of the year, demanding an increase in price. This is a direct violation of the agreement on the 25-year cooperation of Russia and Turkmenistan in the gas sector, which was signed in April 2003 by Vladimir Putin and Saparmurat Niyazov. In Gazprom, they refuse to comment on this situation.

The Zenit football club from St. Petersburg won the international tournament of the four teams Gvadalpin Cup, which was held in the Spanish Marbella. In the decisive match, the St. Petersburg forced the Donetsk Shakhtar with a score of 4: 3. The winners were distinguished by Vladimir Bystrov and the Czech forward Lukash Gartig, on whose account a hat-trick. The last 15 minutes of the Zenit meeting was played in the minority, Vladislav Radimov was deleted for conversations.

The sensational victory of the Wales team in Rugby in the fundamental match against the British almost cost the life of a Welsh fan, Daily Mirror reports. 26-year-old Jeff Huga, who watched this historical match in the company of his friends in one of the clubs of South Wales, recklessly promised that if the British are defeated, he would “cut off eggs”. The bet was high, but he almost did not risk it, because the Wales team last defeated the British in Cardiff when Huga was only 14 years old.

Funds from the sale of the main oil producing asset of the company Yukos - "Yuganskneftegaz" - entered the consolidated budget and are already distributed at its levels. This was stated by Mikhail Fradkov, speaking in the Duma and answering the question of deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov.

The well-known American PR company Rock Creek Creative, based in the suburbs of Washington, first confirmed that it assisted Ukraine in the “development of information strategy, brand and politics for the website of the Orange Revolution.

The famous athlete Zimbabwe turned out to be a man, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the France-Presse agency. The 17-year-old Sithol was detained last week under an article on the illegal assignment of an individual in connection with a complaint filed by his friend to the police. The girl herself claims that she learned about the true field of her friend from other people's words. A medical examination confirmed the belonging of Samukeliso to the male sex.

The Israeli army will liberate several large checkpoints on the western bank of the Jordan River. The representative of the Israeli military command confirmed to the local radio that this measure is carried out as part of the transfer of five cities on the western shore under the control of the Palestinian security forces.

The Catholic diocese of the American city of Poria warned its believers against a Samosanian priest. Catholics call not to visit the masses that a person called Fr. in the central and western parts of Illinois. Ryan Saintenn Scott. Dioces notifies believers that Scott is not a clergy of the Catholic Church , and therefore the weddings, baptism and funeral service that he committed do not have canonical power.

In St. Petersburg they will liquidate a fire in a residential building. In the course of extinguishing the fire on the marching ladder, 17 people were evacuated, no one was injured, the Main Directorate of the Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region said. According to the Office, a message about a fire on the 4th floor of a 5-storey residential building on 26 Strezova Street, in the Petrograd district of the city, received about 5:00 Moscow time.

Today, Catholics enter the great post. In Catholic temples, worships will be performed with the rank of laying ash on the heads of believers. This day is called the ash. "In the Roman Catholic Church, according to the centuries -old tradition, the great post begins with the so -called ash environment. Ashes is a symbol of the repentance and mortality of human life," the priest Igor Kovalevsky, General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops of Russia , said in an interview with RIA Novosti .

The US Air Force annoyed several videos that showed how the Predator unmanned plane fired on Iraqi militants Hellfire missiles to help the ground American troops destroy the fire points of the rebels. The US Air Force distributed 10 video clips on Tuesday at the request of several American television channels. In black and white videos made in the second half of 2004, Iraqi militants who install bombs on the roads and firing American positions are captured, according to the military.

The Moscow police conduct a special operation to identify and detain cars illegally painted for police. As ITAR-TASS reported in the Department of State Protection of Property of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, recently cars painted for police cars and illegally equipped with special signals have appeared in the Russian capital. The owners of such vehicles illegally use the advantages of official transport of the internal affairs bodies.