The famous picture of the famous French photographer Robert Duano "Kiss at the Parisian City Hall" was put on Monday for auction in Paris. The photo was taken in 1950, when the master was ordered by the American magazine Life worked on a series of Parisian lovers. The picture depicts kissing in the crowd in the square in front of the metropolitan mayor of the couple in love.

Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region detained two military servicemen who are suspected of three murders. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, military personnel called up from the Novgorod and Kaluga regions are suspected of killing two residents of Zvenigorod and a citizen of Belarus.

At least nine people died and 59 were injured as a result of a collision of a bus with a market train in South Africa, reports Reuters. The senior officer of the police department in the nearby city of Tokhinda Ailway Mushavkhanamadi informed the journalists that many victims were seriously injured, and some of them were carried out by a helicopter to five different hospitals. As a result of the collision, the bus turned on the rails.

The collapse of the sarcophagus over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant threatens a new environmental disaster. Recently, the technical condition of the sarcophagus of the 4th reactor has seriously worsened: cracks are coming along the walls, the total geometry of the building is deformed, the ceiling greatly sagged. These are the data of the external inspection, which are regularly carried out by specialists of the nuclear power plant.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended for another two months the term of detention of the deputy head of the legal department of the company "Yukos-Moscow" Svetlana Bakhmina. Thus, Bakhmina will remain in custody until July 2. As her lawyer Olga Kozyreva told Interfax, the court granted the prosecutor’s request to extend the preliminary imprisonment.

The Russian Salizhan Sharipov and the NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, who worked at the International Space Station, have returned to Earth today. Together with them, the astronaut Roberto Wittori, as well as worms and snails, over which they set experiments was returned from orbit. "The descent apparatus of the Ship" Soyuz TMA-5 "made at 02:08 Moscow time a soft landing of 95 km north of the Kazakhstan city of Arkalyk," ITAR-TASS said at the flight control center.

The prophylactic measures do not allow reducing the incidence of rabies of animals and people, the chief sanitary state doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko states.

In connection with the numerous facts of evasion of citizens from military service during the current spring campaign, the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, together with the military commissariats of the Moscow region, activate measures to search for conscripts and their arrival in the military commissariats, an informed source in the Russian military department said.

An additional doping test of the Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova, who was carried out at the request of the athlete herself, also gave a positive result. This was stated by the leadership of the Ministry of Sports of the Government of the French Community of Belgium, reports ITAR-TASS. Kuznetsova’s doping test, taken on December 19, 2004 during a demonstration tournament in the Belgian Charlerua, revealed traces of Ephedrine.

The concert of the military ensemble of the song and dance of the Russian Army named after Aleksandrov, dedicated to Victory Day, took place on Sunday in the center of Washington next to the Capitol. The final of the concert was unusual. Together with the famous chorus, the famous song “Katyusha” was sang in Russian by the US British General of the USA, Ken Ryan, who was on stage, so that on behalf of the Pentagon leadership, to thank the famous military ensemble from Russia.

Around 12:00 Moscow time in Moscow, a meeting of foreign ministers of Russia and Georgia Sergei Lavrov and Salome Zurabishvili began. Sergei Lavrov, opening the meeting, expressed the hope that according to the results of his negotiations with the Georgian colleague Salome Zurabishvili, the parties would determine the range of issues requiring a solution.

State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov took a new unexpected political step - he left his ally Harry Kasparov, with whom he tried to build a liberal party, and joined the Republican Party, headed by Vladimir Lysenko. This happened on Saturday at a meeting of the Republicans, writes "Independent Gazeta" .

In the city of Prokopyevsk (Kemerovo Region), a five -month -old girl was abducted from an infectious diseases hospital, RIA Novosti was told in the information and public relations of the regional police department on Monday. “Five -month -old Dasha is from a dysfunctional family, her mother was brought up alone in the hospital and did not visit the girl in the hospital,” the representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate noted.

The national minute of silence will be held in Ukraine on May 9, on the day of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Tomenko at a press conference on Monday in Kyiv. According to him, the national minute of silence will be "mounted" into one of the early events in which the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will accept.

The first exhibition in the Rane restored after the fire will open on Wednesday, April 27. As Interfax was told in the press service of the mayor and the Moscow government, more than 2 thousand works of the Honored Artist of Russia, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Sergei Andriyaki, as well as teachers and students of his watercolor school, will be presented at the exhibition.