In Ingushetia, the opposition is preparing a nationwide rally demanding the resignation of the current president Murat Zyazikov. The rally is scheduled for April 30, and, as expected, on this day several tens of thousands of people will go outside. The main requirements of the demonstrators will be the expression of distrust to the President of Ingushetia and the adoption of decisive measures to combat corruption and theft, the site of Ingusheti.ru reports.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Moscow for one day to participate in a meeting of the Higher State Council of the Union of Belarus and Russia. The Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus has discussed today a number of integration issues, primarily the problems of currency integration, interaction in fuel energy, and ensuring the equal rights of citizens of the two countries.

In New York, the first session of Russian trading was held at the Sotheby's auction, which was marked by a series of sensational sales. So, for 3 million 936 thousand dollars, an anonymous buyer was acquired by a couple of palace vases, made in 1825 by the masters of the St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain Plant Nikolai Kornilov and Vladimir Stoletov. Specialists of the auction house estimated their approximate cost of 500-800 thousand dollars.

A 57-year-old man who suffered as a result of shooting arranged by an 11-year-old boy died in the hospital of the Karelian district center of Segezh, without coming. During the investigation, it turned out that a child living in a neighboring house shot a man. The tragic incident occurred last Monday. An elderly man and his seven -year -old grandson went to the cellar for potatoes.

The military prosecutor of the Volga-Ural Military District Vladimir Melnikov announced the result of evidence that excludes the version of the murder of four military servicemen, whose bodies were found hanged on trees last Wednesday, 3 km from the Sokol military flight. "The results of the inspection of the scene, the forensic medical examination of the corpses and other evidence significantly confirm the fact of group suicide," Melnikov said, Interfax said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko opened a series of meetings with Russian oil workers who refused to obey the order of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine on the introduction of marginal vacation prices for fuel. After the first round account 1-0 in favor of the Government of Ukraine.

The statements regarding the possible meeting in Moscow of US President George Bush with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko are not true. RIA Novosti was reported on Friday by phone in the press service of the US Embassy in Moscow. "We do not know anything about such plans. There is no reason to believe that the statements of the negotiations of President Bush and President Lukashenko in Moscow are true," the embassy said.

The Italian friend of Tom Cruise actress Ivon Shio, who has a house in Los Angeles, and the dentist in New York, in an interview with Corriere Della Sera , spoke about how Hollywood stars are watching her teeth. About her boyfriend, Shio said that he had one problem: with age, his teeth are displaced, and he had to align them with the help of an apparatus that is fixed from the inside. In particular, two years ago he was at the Oscar Award with braces. White teeth are an American idea.

Estonian television will be broadcast on May 9 from Red Square a parade in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Victory over Hitler Germany, said the director of state television programs, ETV Ainar Rawsaar. "We plan to show the parade live on the networks of the European Union of Translations (EBU). True, so far there is still no one hundred percent confidence in the show, since EBU is still negotiating with the Russians," Rouusaar said.

The goalkeeper of the Marseilles "Olympic" Fabyen Bartez received a three -month disqualification for a spit in a Moroccan judge during a friendly match in Casablanca. The match that took place in February and in which the Olympic was opposed by the local team was interrupted after the 33-year-old bartes spat on Abdullah Achiri. This happened in the 80th minute of the meeting, which was already comradely only by name, the Air Force notes.

The head of the government of Japan made the words of repentance to the Great International Audience. In the Japanese-Asian Summit, Japanese Prime Minister Dzyuniitiro Koizumi, in Japanese-Asian countries, made a speech to the forum participants and apologized, RIA Novosti reports.

The host of the Christian talk show at one of the radio stations of the state of Pennsylvania lost his job due to the fact that he allowed himself to live incorrect statements about Catholicism and the personality of the late Pope John Paul II. The management of the Word-FM radio station said to the 39-year-old pastor Marty Mino that his comments are “repelled” by radio listeners. “I said the same thing that I always say in my radio programs,” the pastor said.

The Fund for Supporting the Construction of a Russian Orthodox Church in Rome turned to the Russians calling for participation in the raise funds for the construction of this church. "We need not only your material, but also prayer assistance," the fund’s appeal, the text of which is quoted by Interfax today. The document notes that the need to build the first Orthodox church in Rome is primarily caused by the multiplicity of the flock of the Russian Orthodox Church in this city.

The parliament of Kyrgyzstan rejected the bill obliging the acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev to resign the powers of the head of state if he is running for the presidential election. With the necessary 38 votes, 35 deputies voted for the bill, against 25, RIA Novosti reports. The bill makes amendments to the election code according to which the highest officials of the country should resign in case of participation in the presidential election.

In Moscow, an attack on the entertainment center was made, 12 slot machines were stolen. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, on the eve of the two unknown on Vasily Petushkov Street entered the slot machine room of one of the companies and, threatening the operator with a gun, took 12 slot machines. The raiders loaded machine guns into the Gazelle car and disappeared, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data, the damage amounted to more than one million rubles.