US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday held negotiations on the Texas ranch of the American president near Krofor. Bush and Sharon discussed the situation in the Middle East, the issues of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement and the problems of bilateral relations between the United States and Israel.

The former football player of the Russian national team and the Moscow Spartak Valery Karpin, who is now playing for the Spanish football club Real Sudadad from San Sebastian, became one of the most successful and wealthy businessmen in the largest city in Galisia Vigo, where he played for the local Celta Local Club for five seasons.

In Rostov-on-Don, entrepreneur Vitaly Shvalev detained a suspect in a brutal murder of a 10-year-old girl .

The decision made in the past on the payment by Russia as the successor of the USSR Soviet debts for all CIS countries is "erroneous", Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a press conference in Hanover. However, he added that this decision will not be reviewed. “Unfortunately, we cannot and will not revise this decision. We always fulfill signed agreements,” Interfax quotes the president.

The Meshchansky court completed on Monday the trial in the combined criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Andrei Krainov and appointed the sentence on April 27. Note that the verdict of the court will be made at a time when the Russian president will be on a visit to Israel . The head of Menatep Platon Lebedev on Monday refused to speak with the last word in the philistine court of Moscow. Then the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky made the last word.

The Russian Economic Forum opens on Monday in the British capital. This meeting, entirely dedicated to the Russian economy, Russian politics and Russian businessmen, is held for the eighth time. It takes place with the participation of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Great Britain, the Confederation of British Industry, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

A snow storm collapsed in the United States - for the second decade of April, the phenomenon is extremely unusual. The life of Colorado is completely paralyzed. Large roads are littered with snow, Denver Airport stopped working. According to weather forecasters, about 25 centimeters of snow had already fallen in the Denver area, in the vicinity of the capital of the state, the thickness of the snow cover can reach 75 centimeters. Visibility in the city and the surroundings fell almost to zero.

The Al Manar television channel, financed by the South Libean terrorist organization, Hizballlah, said that on Monday, an unmanned aircraft belonging to this organization barred on Israeli territory. The report said: "The Mirsad-1 reconnaissance aircraft" for the forces of Islamic resistance made the Israeli settlements, after which he returned to his base safely. " In a conversation with Reuters, representatives of Hizballlah confirmed this message.

The wife of the former FSB deputy head Anatoly Trofimov, who was killed the night before in the north of Moscow, died in the hospital. During the attack, she received severe injuries and was hospitalized, but the doctors could not be saved - the woman died in the intensive care unit of the hospital, ITAR -TASS reports. Recall that the murder occurred at about 19:40 in the courtyard of house N11 on Klyazminskaya Street.

The wife of the former Governor of the Saratov region Dmitry Ayatskov Olga Sergeeva, accused of embezzlement by fraud by two cottages belonging to the government, was put on Sunday on the federal wanted list. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the department of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District.

Three candidates will apply for the presidency of the Russian Hockey Federation (FCH) after the deadline for registration of those who wish to head the federation expired at noon on Monday. This was announced on Monday in an interview with RIA "Novosti" by the head of the Commission for the preparation of the reporting and election conference of the FCR Vladimir Shalaev.

The Church can count on the assistance of the state in the implementation of its social, charitable, educational and other socially significant programs, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia is convinced. He stated this today at the opening of the International Conference “State, Church, Society: Historical Experience and Contemporary Problems,” RIA Novosti reports.

The sculptor and artist Zurab Tsereteli handed over to St. Petersburg the statue of Peter the Great. "The authorities of St. Petersburg, Governor Valentina Matvienko, expressed a desire that this monument to the founder of the city Peter the First remained in the northern capital - I would love to give it to the city. I returned to Moscow, and Peter the Great remained in the northern capital," Interfax told Tsereteli, who returned to Moscow from St.

The New York Public Library intends to sell 19 works of art, including two portraits of George Washington Gilbert Stuart. As expected, all the proceeds will go to the acquisition of books and ancient manuscripts. Works of art will be put up for auction. Their cost is estimated from 50 to 70 million dollars. "We are not a museum, we do not have exhibition halls for paintings and sculptures.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine calls for the interrogation of the president of the Dynamo football club Igor Surkis to give explanations about the transfer of 6 million hryvnias ($ 1.1 million) to the Fund of the ex-president of the country Leonid Kuchma Ukraine.