Currently, weddings and other important events from the life of even secondary stars of show business have become a profitable business for them. Over the past twenty years, celebrities weddings have become the main affiliation of glossy magazines. Reporters of magazines "OK!" And "Hello!" For hours they find out who intends to be combined with a marriage in order to be the first to have time for this event.

The international terrorist Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, who managed the al-Qaeda network in Iraq, has distributed a statement on the Internet in which he branded Iraqi Shiites as “religious facilities” and “collaborators”. The audio recording of the application was posted the day before on one of the Islamist sites, where al-Qaeda’s Iraqi cells are often published. The voice on the recording, stated, belongs to Az-Zarkavi. American special services check its authenticity.

The Russian military bases will be brought from Georgia to the territory of Russia, and part of the military equipment to Armenia, said on Thursday the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Yuri Baluevsky. "If we say, where the bases from Georgia will be withdrawn, then definitely - to the territory of Russia," he said.

The rector of Moscow Theological Schools, the Archbishop of Vereisky Evgeny (Reshetnikov) handed the on the eve of diplomas about the graduation of the Moscow Theological Seminary to students from North Korea, reports Blagovest-Info with reference to the official website of the Moscow Theological Academy . Korean students were aimed at studying in Russia through the exchange of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Union of Believers of Korea.

The State Duma on June 8 may consider a bill involving the election of the President of the Russian Federation by not universal direct secret vote, but at a meeting of the State Duma. This legislative initiative of a member of the LDPR faction Alexei Mitrofanov was discussed on Thursday at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction. It was recommended to submit a document for a meeting of the chamber on June 8.

The Estonian parliament can adopt an explanatory declaration for an agreement on the border with Russia, similar to the one that Latvia put forward. This was stated by the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Estonian Parliament Anne Esmaa. He welcomed the signing of Russian-Estonian border agreements held on the eve of Moscow.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko signed the law "On the approval of the decision of the President of Ukraine regarding the direction of the peacekeeping contingent for the participation of Ukraine in the United Nations to observe the disconnection of the Israeli and Syrian troops." This was reported in the press service of the head of state.

In Nizhny Novgorod, law enforcement officers detained two teenagers who are suspected of organizing an explosion at school N110 , who thundered on Thursday morning. According to Interfax, the head of the public relations department of the regional police department Alexander Gorbatov, one of them is a student of the injured school, the other is a former student expelled for hooliganism. Both detainees - born in 1989.

Two earthquakes occurred in Japan on Thursday, the country's main meteorological administration reported. The first earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale began at 01:33 local time (May 18 at 20:33 in Moscow) 60 kilometers from the city of Kusiro on the northern Hokkaido Island. Underground fluctuations were felt on the vast territory until the northern regions of the main island of Honshu.

Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the Federation Council of the Federation Council on Defense and Security, proposed to name on May 18 Russian football and celebrate annually, RIA Novosti reports. It was on this day that the Moscow CSKA for the first time in the history of domestic football won the UEFA Cup, defeating the Lisbon Sporting in the final with a score of 3: 1. “I haven’t slept yesterday until I watched the game, although I just flew from Khabarovsk.

At the door of the reserve exit of the building of one of the schools of Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday morning, a homemade explosive device with a capacity of 200 g in TNT equivalent worked. There are no victims as a result of the explosion, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod region said.

One of the best Portuguese football players - Havbek of Real Madrid Luis Fig - after a short break decided to return to the national team and will prepare for the qualifying matches of the 2006 World Cup against the national teams of Slovakia and Estonia. Figure decided to end his career in the international arena in August 2004 after the defeat of Portugal from the Greeks in the Euro-2004 final. In total, he played for the national team of 110 meetings and scored 31 goals, reports UEFA.com .

The process and verdict in the “case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev” is a “judicial farce”, the former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov said on Thursday at a briefing for journalists. "My unequivocal opinion: this is a demonstration that it can also be or tougher with anyone," Kasyanov said. In his opinion, such actions of the authorities are unacceptable, Interfax reports.

The victory of the Moscow "army" in the UEFA Cup was celebrated last night in the center of the capital. CSKA became the first Russian club to win the UEFA Cup, in the final match, having outplayed the Portuguese Sporting with a score of 3: 1 (photo) . More than one and a half thousand people came to note this historical event to the central streets. Many of them watched football in various cafes and clubs.

The Kremlin makes his tough actions out of the dubious oligarch Khodorkovsky martyr democracy. The accused in a steel cage decide crosswords and read magazines, lawyers try not to fall asleep, and some listeners have fun with the help of mobile phones - this is how the German magazine Focus , calling everything that happens in the courtroom by a button.