On the West Siberian Railway (ZSZH, branch of Russian Railways), about 250-300 people refuse to dates the dates related to transit through Kazakhstan every day. This was announced to reporters by the First Deputy Head of the West Siberian Directorate for Service Passengers Viktor Kholodov.

The famous composer Naomi Shemher admitted to the deathbed that she borrowed a melody, which became the unofficial anthem of Israel. The author of many popular songs before death in June last year told his colleague that she stole the melody of the song "Golden Jerusalem". Shemer wrote in a letter to the composer Gil Aldem that she actually used the Basque lullaby melody.

For the fourth time, Nizhny Novgorod is a city called the "third capital of Russia", accepts the Orthodox exhibition -fair "My joy, Christ is risen!". Opening a fair, the holding of which was blessed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas George said today that this is how "we will know Christian culture and traditions, learn to understand and love our neighbors," ITAR-TASS reports.

The man died on Friday afternoon at the Serpukhov-Timiryazevskaya metro line, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax. According to him, at about 16:15 at the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station, a man fell on the rails, he fell under the train and died from the injuries. Due to the removal of the train voltage towards the center, they did not go for about 30 minutes. Currently, the movement along this line is completely restored.

According to the amnesty declared by the State Duma in connection with the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, about 150 veterans have already been released from places of imprisonment. This was reported to Interfax on Friday at the press Bureau of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation.

Estonia believes that the Second World War ended for it only with the restoration of independence in 1991 and condemns all totalitarian regimes operating on its territory. This is stated in the statement of the Government of Estonia, distributed on Friday. The text of the document emphasizes that "the Republic of Estonia at the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939 produced its complete neutrality.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will be in Moscow on May 8-9, where he will take part in the working meeting of the heads of the CIS countries and celebrations: he will meet with veterans, visit a festive concert. Then he will go to Kyiv for celebrations on the occasion of Victory Day, the press service of the head of state reports.

On Thursday, the director of the local school, whose captors paid a ransom, were released on Thursday, AFP reports. As it became known, the family Dominica Zheffar paid for its release a ransom, the amount of which is not specified. In her statement for local media, the woman said that the abductors did not treat her cruelly.

Many Muscovites prudently gathered in the coming weekend to the cottages, having received a rather frank invitation from the authorities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victory away from the city. Those who are coming on the weekend will have to arm themselves with a detailed map of the capital and, choosing the routes of detour and bypassing holiday events, in advance to calculate the trajectory of traffic along the backyards, avoiding prospectus and trunk streets.

The Government of the Russian Federation ordered the State Duma to introduce the bill "On the Special Economic Zone in the Kaliningrad Region" . According to the ITAR-TASS on Friday the government’s press service, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Vitaly Savelyev as an official representative of the government when considering this document in the Federal Assembly.

The metro station "Izmailovsky Park" will be renamed the Partizanskaya. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the head of the press service of the Moscow Metro Svetlana Tsareva.

Three young children died during the fire that occurred in the Yakutsk village of Tytyk-Kuel of the Tattinsky ulus. According to RIA Novosti on Friday, the press center of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the Republic of Sakha, the fire occurred in the morning in one of the apartments of a two-story building on Oyunsky Street, where the family with three children lived.

Three citizens of Ukraine, detained in Minsk on April 26 for participating in an unauthorized street action , were released on Friday from the receiver-distributor of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with German television channels ARD and ZDF categorically refuted the conversations that Russia seeks to become superpowers. “To say or hint that Russia wants to restore some greatness of superpower is just nonsense that does not correspond to absolutely neither the historical truth of the last time, nor today's realities,” Putin said in an interview, the text of which is posted on the president’s official website .

With the advent of spring, unexpected love unions arose in Hollywood. Following the erupted novel by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who even caught a too loud manifestation of carnal passion , rumors about the novel Diane Kiton and Keanu Reeves appeared. The 59-year-old leading role in the film "Annie Hall", who once conquered the hearts of Warren Bitty and Woody Allen, seduced the famous actor, considered one of the most sexy handsome Hollywood , 40-year-old Keanu Reeves.