Leonid Nevzlin is not sure of the authenticity of the appeal to him by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. “The texts that come out as Khodorkovsky’s comments are with a certain degree of probability of them. But I do not exclude that due to the specific conditions of his location, this is not his comments and not his thoughts,” Nevzlin said to the newspaper Vedomosti .

In Germany, a new version of the Sober computer worm is rapidly distributed by e -mail. Messages contain information about supposedly won tickets for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Over the past 2 days alone, various German institutions received 400 thousand infected e-mail, the German security department in information technology reported. All victims received an electronic message according to which they won the tickets for the championship.

The leaders of illegal armed groups planned to commit a large terrorist attack in Grozny on May 9 using women's suicide bombers. This was announced on Thursday evening by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic Colonel Ruslan Alkhanov on Thursday. He emphasized that, having received this information, the Ministry of Internal Affairs underwent surgery to detain suicide bombers and their accomplices.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Khloponin against the installation of a bust of Stalin in Krasnoyarsk. “The bust of Stalin should not be installed in the city,” said Alexander Khloponin during communication with patients of the War Veterans hospital. The governor also noted that the discussion on this occasion must be stopped, especially before the holiday of victory in the Great Patriotic War. “I don't like speculation on this issue,” Khloponin emphasized.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II awarded a group of veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the current military leaders the Order of the Holy Prince Dmitry Donskoy.

On the eve of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascist Germany, the French weekly recalls that it would not be if it were not for the heroism of Soviet soldiers. In the article “If it weren’t for the Russians ...” Le Nouvel Observateur writes that the West is unfair to Russia and its predecessor of the USSR (the translation publishes inPressa.ru ).

In the American city of Orlando (Florida), celebrations dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Disneyland children's entertainment park will begin on Thursday. The celebrations that the world -famous amusement park calls "the biggest holiday in their history" will open with a parade of fairy -tale heroes, characters of American cartoons.

The International Motorsport Federation (FIA) appealed to the Court of Appeal in Paris with a lawsuit requiring the exclusion of the BAR team from participation in the Formula-1 championship this year, accusing it of crook. "FIA asks the court to exclude the Lucky Strike Bar Honda team from the 2005 Formula -1 World Cup and oblige it to pay a fine of at least one million euros," Reuters quoted the document submitted to the court.

In the city of Zhukovsky, the Moscow region, an emergency occurred on the eve, as a result of which a policeman died, and his colleague was hospitalized in serious condition. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at about 16:30 on the street.

A prisoner who escaped a maximum security colony was detained in Voronezh. He was serving a deadline for the murder. According to the penalty execution department, 41-year-old Vyacheslav Barzak was discovered the night before in an apartment, which was rented specifically for him one of his friends. During the detention, the fugitive was not resisted, reports ITAR-TASS. The offender escaped a maximum security colony near Voronezh on April 12, breaking the attic overlap.

Russia and the EU have not yet settled the problems associated with the return of illegal migrants (rejection) and the facilitation of the visa regime. This was stated by the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the development of relations with the EU Sergey Yastrzhembsky to journalists.

The fans of the English football club Manchester United, who opposed the purchase of a team by American businessman Malcolm Glaiser, urge the Premier League home match with West Bromwich, which is scheduled for Sunday. The representative of the IMUSA fans' group said on Wednesday that they were calling for fans to stay at home or leave the Old Trafford stadium in the 15th minute of the second half, reports Reuters .

At the end of the war in 1945, the enormous condition of the leading Nazi functionaries was arrested. And even 60 years after the end of the war, the legacy of the National Socialist dictatorship remains tangible - in the literal sense of the word, writes the German weekly Stern , the translation of the article of which is published by the website inopressa.ru .

The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Orthodox Church fulfill common tasks in supporting compatriots abroad and overcoming interethnic and interfaith raision. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a reception on the occasion of Easter holiday, which was attended by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II .

In Moscow, four adolescents suspected of attacking two citizens of Algeria, who were on May 1 in the capital's metro, were detained. According to the information department and public relations of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, two citizens of Algeria, listeners of the Military Academy, addressed the police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro Police Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro.