In the United States, the defenders of animal rights accused the laboratory of North Virginia of conducting cruel experiments with beating and strangling of monkeys. The organization gives as evidence a video posted on the Internet at Peta.org . The organization of animal protection PETA has published its investigation data. A complaint on 253 pages and video are sent to the US Department of Agriculture with a request to close the laboratory for investigation.

In the United States, the new Director of National Intelligence John Negroponta is offered. The oath was accepted on Wednesday in Washington, the head of the White House apparatus, Andrew Card. The ceremony was attended by US President George Bush. "As director of national intelligence, John takes action to help everyone who serves in the intelligence community more efficiently do their job," Bush said.

In the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the sixth day is looking for a missing 9-year-old boy from the village of Antipayut. According to the representative of the department, the search for the child is conducted by 4 specially created full -time groups of specialists, which included employees of the district police department, criminal investigators, rescuers and public representatives. In parallel, the boy is looking for the entire population of the village, reports Interfax.

RAO "UES of Russia" presented tax claims for $ 130 million (3.7 billion rubles), which the company disputes in court. The company reports this in the report for the first quarter of 2005. The document states that claims arose after checking the correctness of the calculation of RAO income tax for 2001 conducted by the Federal Tax Service of the Federal Tax Service for the largest taxpayers N4.

The foreign press on Wednesday comments on the announcement of the verdict in the united case of Yukos, Khodorkovsky-Lebedev-Korinov. The final part of the process will most likely last more than one week. On Wednesday, the philistine court of Moscow announced the next break until Thursday.

Numerous unofficial polls show that the main contenders for victory at the 58th Cannes festival are currently five paintings. While leadership is preserved by the film by the Austrian director Michael Hankee "Secret" , representing France. However, according to the rating, the films "Broken Flowers" of the American director Jim Jarmush and the "Child" of the brothers Jean Pierre and Luke Dardenne came close.

The head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev), criticized the modern human rights movement in Russia.

The largest mobile operator of Russia, the company "Mobile Television Substarines (MTS), has been presented with tax claims totaling 372 million rubles. This is stated in the quarterly report of MTS OJSC.

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of John Paul II , the former head of the Roman Catholic Church . At his grave in the underground crypt of the Cathedral of St. Peter, a memorial Mass will be performed, which will be headed by his successor to the Pope Benedict XVI . A few days ago, he announced the beginning of the accelerated procedure for the Beatification (Providing Blessed) John Paul II, who was called the saints during his lifetime.

The responsibility of journalists and the media will be tightened for the dissemination of inaccurate information, Vladimir Pligin, head of the Duma committee on constitutional law and state building, said at a briefing on Wednesday.

A large amount of money was stolen in Stavropol. Four unknowns attacked a car in which the general director of one of the city enterprises and the auditor was taken to the bank money. The prey of robbers became 1 million 400 thousand rubles. According to the regional police department, the robbers stopped the car on Tuesday in the afternoon at the intersection of Dovatortsev and Tukhachevsky streets.

The Polish actor named Darius said in the Italian police that he lived and worked in Nice with a young pianist for several years, who was found on the coast in England and which is only known that he masterfully plays the piano. According to the Pole, the name of the mysterious pianist is Stephen Villa Mason, he is French.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 10 radioactive containers of ionizing radiation were discovered, said Andrei Drobinin, senior assistant to the district prosecutor. In Nadym, 10 radioactive sources of ionizing radiation were discovered at the Nadymstroygaz production base. The containers in which Radiy and Cesium were stored outside a specially equipped storage, are open to access unauthorized persons, RIA Novosti reports.

In Kiselevsk, the Kemerovo region in mine number 12 at 13:30 Moscow time, a methane explosion occurred. According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Viktor Beltsov, at that time 132 miners were in the face. The accident occurred in the fifth section on the so -called "burner" layer. All miners were raised to the surface, the vast majority of them left the mine themselves, RIA Novosti reports.

Although the Kremlin’s decision to revise the transaction scheme between Gazprom’s gas monopoly and Rosneft’s oil company was perceived positively, there are doubts that Vladimir Putin is able to control his own subordinates.