In Kyiv, a "missing" monument to the classics of Jewish literature was found. Earlier it was reported that from his pedestal on Rognedinskaya Street in the very center of the Ukrainian capital, a monument to the famous Jewish writer Sholom Aleichem disappeared . Moreover, there was no official announcement of the transfer of the monument from the Kyiv authorities.

The Embassy of Lithuania in Russia denied the information that 11 detainees on the eve of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border of the Russians were asked for political asylum in Lithuania. “There is no such information. We specifically found out that there were no appeals to the political investigator to our border guards, as well as the Foreign Ministry,” Laurinas Yonushauskas, spokeswoman for the Lithuanian diplomatic mission in Moscow said on Tuesday.

In Georgia, the prosecutor’s office is preparing to charge Jennifer Wilbanks, who escaped a few days before the wedding from under the crown, and considered the victim of the maniac. For a staging of the abduction, Beglyanka faces a prison term and a huge fine. As the investigation established, last Tuesday Wilbanks, telling her fiancé that she had gone to run, took a bus and went to Las Vegas. The wedding, to which 600 guests were invited, was scheduled for Saturday.

The flight of Germany’s astronaut Thomas Ruter to the ISS will be postponed to September due to the transfer of the start of the shuttle. This was announced on Tuesday by the official representative of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Vyacheslav Davidenko. "Due to the announced transfer of the start of the discovery of Discovery on July 14, to the negotiation schedule for the contract of the astronaut of the European Space Agency (ECA) Retira made adjustments.

The Vatican’s economic services did not allow the new Pope Benedict XVI , who last week moved to the papal chambers in the Apostolic Palace, to take with him a new place of residence of two domestic cats, ITAR-TASS reports. “Everyone knows the love of the holy father for cats. We carefully follow the difficulties of Pope Ratzinger, who is forced to often return to the previous apartment next to the Vatican to take care of the cats.

The Supreme Court of Norway made a very unexpected decision. He recognized for employees of private and state institutions the right to view pornography during working hours and at the workplace. This decision was made as part of the consideration of the claim of two employees of the oil company, dismissed for unworthy behavior, writes The Sun. In 2002, two workers were disgraced from ConoCo Phillips for the fact that during working hours they watched porn sites.

Officials are looking for ways to get control of Gazprom and maintain the independence of Rosneft. One of the options - the state will simply buy the missing shares of the gas monopoly from its "daughters", and with the proceeds, Gazprom will be able to buy other assets, such as Sibneft instead of Rosneft. The solution to the issue depends on Vladimir Putin, and officials are waiting for the president’s verdict, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Tuesday.

The Berliner Zeitung newspaper writes on Tuesday about the problems of restitution and a special attitude to this Russia. Huge funds from German archives, libraries and museums fell into the hands of Americans in 1945. In Washington, at first it was considered the opportunity to include them in his own meetings. However, American officers who were responsible for the preservation of historical values ​​raised a riot.

One of the strongest Russian hockey clubs - Kazan "Ak Bars" - lost almost all the main players. The capital of Tataria immediately left 16 hockey players. They will be replaced by eight Dynamo. One of the strongest Russian hockey clubs - Kazan "Ak Bars" - lost almost all the main players. According to ITAR-TASS, citing a source in the club’s press service, 16 hockey players left the capital of Tataria at once.

In the suburbs, a police officer was killed during a robbery. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Mytishchi district, on the eve of the morning at the 42nd kilometer of the Dmitrovsky highway near one of the stores in the VAZ-2114 car with gunshot wounds in the head and chest, the body of a 23-year-old assistant to the operational duty local police department was found. A 54-year-old local resident was discovered near a car with similar firearms, Interfax reports.

The export of oil from Russia from June 1, 2005 will be set at a new record level - $ 136.2 per ton. This was reported to "Interfax" on Tuesday, Deputy Head of the Department of Customs Payments of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexander Sakovich. Since April 1, the Russian Federation has a record amount of export fee for oil $ 102.6 per ton to date.

The Canadian national team, which is called the main contender for victory at the World Hockey Championship in Austria, defeated the Slovenia team as part of the tournament in group "B" with a score of 8: 0. By the first break, North American hockey players won with a score of 3: 0, having removed all questions about the winner of the match. In the future, they easily brought the score to the crushing.

A resident of Ireland Katlin Kelly Krigan, confident that beauty leaves her, made a decision that would only a few years ago seemed an unthinkable wife of a farmer and mother of two children: she will make a facelift of a famous surgeon with Manhattan, which she read in the newspapers. Her determination was fruit. Having visited the doctor’s website, Krina quickly received an invitation, and, barely realizing what he was doing, was already flying to New York.

In Australia, the defender of animals is judged, which, through simple tricks, interfered with the export of livestock to Muslim countries. The man is accused of causing economic damage, but the defendant considers himself innocent, the Australian ABC television channel reports. According to her, the court has video recordings of how the representative of the organization of animals of South Australia Ralph Hanhauser in November 2003 poured a ground ham in Portland in Portland.

Vladimir Putin spoke out against the use of military slogans during agricultural work, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with members of the government, the Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev said that on the eve of the sowing, a number of meetings were held, which were under the slogan used in wartime: "organized svom, you are approaching the victory!" "We considered that he (the slogan) falls on the current situation," said Gordeev.