The Russian youth bestseller “Give me” Irina Moneyzhina received a diploma of the Main British Competition of Foreign Literature - the Awards of Foreign Films of the Independent newspaper. A 19-year-old student from Yekaterinburg published a collection of stories first on the Internet, and in 2002 he was printed in Russia. Monozhkna immediately became famous, almost received the National Bestseller Award, losing only to the novel "Mr. Hexogen" by Alexander Prokhanov.

Dogs are connected to the search for children missing on April 16 in Krasnoyarsk, searches are conducted with the help of a boat on the Yenisei, the region said in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The police do not exclude the fact that the children are still in the city - employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, together with the employees of Vodokanal and Krasnoyarskenergo, are examined by sewer wells, hatches and heating mains.

The manager of the President of the Russian Federation, the head of the organizing committee for the preparation of the main events related to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Kozin said on Thursday that today the heads of state and governments of 53 countries confirmed his participation in festive events in Moscow.

The place, date and time of holding in Grozny, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, will be communicated only to a narrow circle of persons. This was announced at a meeting of the government by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen government, Belkis Baydaeva. According to her, this measure is associated with security considerations during the celebration of Victory Day, RIA Novosti reports.

Ukrainian border guards are ready to introduce a visa -free regime from May 1 for traveling citizens from the countries of the European Union and Switzerland to Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the State Border Service Nikolai Litvin. He recalled that by decree of the President of the country Viktor Yushchenko, on March 31, a visa -free regime for Western Europeans is introduced for four months - until September 1. “No problems at the border are expected.

The Moscow CSKA began the struggle with the Italian Parma for a ticket to the final of the UEFA football Cup. At the Annio Tardini stadium, the audience did not see the spectators in Parma. On the eve of this fight, army football players received rest from continuous matches - the leadership of the Premier League, apparently, took into account the claims of the army and postponed two matches with their participation at once .

The Russia-European Summit will be held on May 10 in the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow. This was announced on Thursday by the manager of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozhin at a press conference at Interfax. "The Russia-European Summit will open at 12:00 in the Great Kremlin Palace. At 15:30, a press conference of the President of the Russian Federation and the leaders of the European Union will be held," Kozin said.

The Government of Estonia at a meeting on Thursday agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of the Interior to allow visa -free entry into the country for tourists from countries that are not members of the European Union. "The resolution applies to tourists from countries for which there is a visa requirement who want to go to Estonia ashore during cruise trips. Thus, the decision concerns tourists from Russia and other CIS countries," the press service of the Estonian government explained.

Following the global boom for those who offer only a minimum set of services, but extremely cheap tickets of the Economy Class airline, in the Australian state, Victoria decided to apply the same concept for wires on the last journey. Palacom acting in the state won in its 15-year struggle for permission to open a special cemetery "without luxury" in Derrinalluom (180 kilometers west of Melbourne), RIA Novosti reports.

In Nizhny Novgorod, police officers detained the participants of three criminal groups at once. As the investigation established, the account of ten suspects of a total of 3 murders and 9 robberies committed over the past week in the Avtozavodsky district of the city. The criminals brutally beat their victims with baseball bats. As a result of such attacks, three victims, one of whom was a 24-year-old police officer, died in the hospital.

The Polish priest Konrad Haymo, who for a long time was one of the close employees of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican , hastily left for Warsaw. The Italian agency Ansa became known from Polish religious sources in Rome, RIA Novosti reports. According to information from these sources, the priest intends to personally clarify the situation that arose in connection with accusations against him in cooperation with the special services of socialist Poland.

In Ingushetia in the city of Malgobek, operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of the republic seized 45 kilograms of Hexogen. “The cache with explosives was discovered at about 15:00 Moscow time in one of the private garages on Industrial Street,” an employee of law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia told RIA Novosti. According to him, the explosive mixture - hexogen - was packed in two black plastic bags, the total weight of which was 45 kilograms.

Sheremetyevo airport has been presented for tax claims for 2001 for $ 10 million, Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing in Moscow. According to Vedomosti , the claims of the tax authorities were caused by the fact that Sheremetyevo took into account the costs of the airfield, the objects of which belong to the state. Since 1994, in Russia, the privatization of such assets (for example, runways) has been prohibited. But the airfields needed investments.

The court of the Right -Bank District of the city ordered the budget to return the financial assistance transferred to the budget in Beslan of Schools in the first minutes of the capture of the N1 school in Beslan . We are talking about thirty schoolchildren who managed to navigate at the time of the school capture and immediately after the first automatic lines escaped from school . In the first days after the attack, each of the escaped received 25 thousand rubles in cash.

On May 9, the French pop star will perform in a festive concert in Moscow dedicated to Victory Day. This was announced on Wednesday by the radio station "France-Internet" with reference to sources surrounded by the famous singer.