In the Khabarovsk Territory, a car and a minibus failed under the ice, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia said. According to preliminary data, five people were killed by five people as a result of a tragic incident that occurred in the village of Vretsovo, Okhotsk District of the Khabarovsk Territory.

In Japan, a genetically changed variety of soybeans is bred, which stimulate hair growth and prevent their loss from chemotherapy. If the safety of a new product is confirmed, then in order to escape from baldness, it will be necessary to just periodically eat these beans, the head of the Kyoto University of Kyoto, Professor Massaka Iosikawa, said on Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin introduced a bill "On the State Service of the Russian Cossacks" to the State Duma. According to the press service of the President of Russia, the head of state sent the corresponding letter to the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov.

The American chess player Bobby Fisher withdrew his lawsuit against the US government, which filed a court of San Diego (California) in March. According to the lawyer Richard Wattuon, Fisher wants to return to a normal life. “He is no longer interested in court claims, so the question is closed,” the lawyer emphasized, abandoning further comments.

The “Civil Freedom Fund” Boris Berezovsky transferred material evidence to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine in the case of the murder of journalist George Gongadze, as well as the episodes of the attack on deputy Alexander Elyashkevich and the illegal sale of the Iraqi weapons system.

In Romania, the mortality rate among newborns is the highest in Europe. This was stated on Wednesday at a press conference in Bucharest, the director of the National Institute of Mother and Child Alin Stanescu. In 2004, almost every 60th newborn died in the country, which is 16.8 deaths per thousand births. According to Stanescu, this indicator has practically not changed compared to 2003, when 16.7 deaths per thousand newborns were registered.

In Dagestan, as a result of undermining two patrol police cars on Wednesday night, one died, two were seriously injured and three more police officers were easily injured. Makhachkala reported that the first explosion occurred at about 0:15 Moscow time at the Makhachkala-Aerport road, when the UAZ car, in which employees of the first regiment of the police patrol service, drove there. One policeman died, two with severe wounds were delivered to the Republican Trauma Hospital.

In the law enforcement agencies, Chechnya has information about the plans of the militants to conduct several high -profile terrorist attacks in the summer. “There is information that the leaders of terrorists in the summer plan to conduct several high -profile terrorist attacks to declare themselves. They called this period“ Fiery Summer, ”said Vladimir Kravchenko prosecutor RIA Novosti.

To find out in which region your ancestors lived 10 thousand years ago and in what part of the world your roots are located, it is not necessary to conduct long research in the archives. You just need to pay 99 dollars 95 cents. It is this amount that the geneticist Spencer Wells, employees of the American National Geographical Society and Research Labs, asks.

When translating the will of John Paul II from the Polish language to Italian, several mistakes were made, the La Stampa newspaper said today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ) One error is associated with an unlawful reduction, another one is actually an incorrect translation. The transfer of the will was read out to the cardinals gathered for a congregation on Thursday April 7, and after 24 hours became public.

In Krasnodar, unknown personalities in a very unusual way transformed the monument to Vladimir Lenin in one of the city squors, pulling the sculpture of the leader of the world proletariat on the head of the rubble mask of the killer from the cult American film "Scream). The NTV television company notes that the attackers had to show a fair dexterity, since the head of the statue is at an altitude of about five meters.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia resumed an investigation in the case of the murder of the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Adjara Nodar Imnadze. He was shot in the office of Aslan Abashidze on the night of April 29-30, 1991. The former head of Adjara is the suspect in this case. The new investigation was announced today by Georgian Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili on the air of the Tbilisi television company "Imady", ITAR-TASS reports.

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted almost unanimously for the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union. This will happen no earlier than January 1, 2007. 522 deputies spoke out for the reception of Bulgaria, 70 voted against and 69 abstained. The entry of Romania was supported by 497 deputies, 93 spoke out against and 71 abstained. The signing of the relevant agreements prepared as a result of the negotiations ongoing several years should take place on April 25.

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not meet on Tuesday with the Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov, Interfax was told in the press service of the head of state.

In the Kirov region, a criminal case has been instituted against the conscript of Yevgeny Zhirkov for evading alternative civil service (part two of Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to RIA Novosti on Wednesday, the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Anna Savin, the case was referred to the Kirovo-Chepetsk District Court. Zhirkov, who is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect, refused to serve in the army for religious reasons.