On May 19, the government will discuss the prospects of the Russian auto industry and, perhaps, will once again change customs duties. According to Vedomosti , the Ministry of Industry and Trade has already agreed and introduced the plan for the development of the industry until 2008. Among other things, the department of Viktor Khristenko proposes to change the duties for the import of used foreign cars.

The head coach of the Lutsk "Volyn" Vitaly Quartzyany was removed from work until the end of the disciplinary instance of the professional football league of Ukraine, UEFA.com reports. At a press conference, after Sunday, Volyn’s defeat in a visiting match with the Donetsk Metallurg (0: 1), the Lucian mentor spoke too much.

The American magnate Malcolm Glazer agreed to buy a control package of the Club of the English Premier League Manchester United and offered 790 million pounds ($ 1.5 billion) for the remaining share, Reuters reports with reference to the statement of the company representing his interests. Red Football Ltd, acting on behalf of Glaiser, said that she had reached an agreement on the acquisition of 28.7 percent of the Manchester United shares from John Magnican and J.P.

The European Court of Human Rights recognized the lawsuit “unfair” by Kurdish terrorist Abdullah Odjalan, held in Turkey in 1999. Now the EU will insist on a second consideration of the case of the Kurdish leader, reports Reuters. The court admitted that in Turkey, during the detention of Ojalan in custody, the trial of him and the adoption of his death sentence, certain provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights were violated.

In the United States, tickets for space tourists who want to visit space in space begins on Thursday. To fly into space private on the altairis suborbital rocket costs 150 thousand dollars. For this money, the rocket without a pilot will rise to a height of 128 km, where passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness, and then go down to the ground with a parachute. The Aera Corporation has developed an altairis missile.

The American authorities are not yet going to make any accusations against two aircraft amateurs who, on Wednesday on a single -engine Cessna aircraft, invaded the forbidden airspace over Washington.

The State Duma adopted immediately in the second and third readings the Federal Constitutional Law "On the Government of the Russian Federation", which determines that only a citizen of the Russian Federation and does not have dual citizenship can be the head of the Russian government. With the necessary 300 votes for the adoption of the document, the deputies voted unanimously - 417 votes, RIA Novosti reports.

Specialists of the National Aeronautics and Space Studies (NASA) are currently making every effort to help the Opportunity lure get out of sand captivity. On April 26, the device was bogged down by all six wheels on the sandy hill while moving on the surface of the Red Planet and still cannot move.

The health of the actor Nikolai Karachentsov, which has fallen in the end of February, continues to improve in the accident. For the holidays, he went to the country, where he met Victory Day with his family. The actor’s wife Lyudmila Porgina, together with her son Andrei, took Karachentsov out of town, to the country, to breathe fresh air. “I wanted Kolya to breathe more. What the air was there! They wandered around the forest. The barbecue was fried,” she told Komsomolskaya Pravda .

Yes, a lot of time has passed since the Yalta Conference has passed - for more than half a century. And if the visit of George Bush to Europe was remembered by something, it was an incendiary speech that the American president uttered in the capital of Latvia Riga, accusing Roosevelt and Churchill of the fact that they agreed to give Eastern Europe for the Summit in Crimea in 1945, writes American journalist Hovard Faynman in the Newsweek magazine (translation on the site Inopressa ).

Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Distribvili said that Tbilisi would not allow the rotation at the bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki, Interfax reports. "We will not be so loyal to Russian soldiers who are in Georgia without visas, we will not be allowed to move military cargo, as it was before, we will not permit the entry into the Georgia of the Russian contingent for the implementation of rotation at the bases," the head of the Georgian Ministry of Defense told reporters.

Residents of Beslan offer to build on the site of the school no. 1, captured in September last year by terrorists, the Orthodox temple with the preservation of the gym, which contained hostages. As the day before, the chairman of the Public Council of Beslan Mairbek Tuaev told the Interfax agency, the decision on the construction of the temple was made at a general meeting in which the victims of the city participated in the terrorist attack.

On May 12, in the City of Kyiv, the appeal of CJSC FC Dynamo (Kyiv) was examined to the decision of the Pechersk Court of the capital of March 9 regarding the arrest of 100% of the club’s shares. The first attempt by the court to consider it on April 29 of this year ended in nothing due to the unsatisfactory state of health of the representative of the defendant - the company Pacific International Sport Clubs Limited.

Iraqi rebels said that two American combat helicopters were shot down on Wednesday. According to the Katar satellite television company Al-Jazeera, this happened in the west of Iraq, where from Sunday the Americans are conducting a large-scale operation against the rebels. The group, which is led by Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, associated with the attacks on helicopters, was taken by the Al-Qaeda, Interfax reports.

The Diet of Latvia accepted on Thursday a declaration in the first reading, condemning the Soviet totalitarian regime and crimes of communism. 70 parliamentarians voted for the adoption of the document, against - 23, one refrained.