The well -fortified militant base was liquidated in the mountains in the south of Chechnya, Interfax said on Sunday the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic, Colonel Ruslan Alkhanov. He informed that a special operation was prepared and carried out by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic.

Six people died as a result of an explosion of a 27-liter cylinder with gas in the city of Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Interfax told a source in the law enforcement agencies of the district. According to the source, the explosion occurred on the top floor of a five -story panel residential building. After the explosion there was a fire.

President of Poland Lech Kachinsky notes positive signals in relations with Russia, but believes that it is still too early to talk about a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. He stated this today at Varshava International Airport "Okshache" after returning from the United States, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian skier of Yevgeny Medvedev-Arbuzova took third place in the dualon (7.5 km classic style + 7.5 km free style) and brought the first medal in Turin for the Russian Olympic team. And the winner of the race was the Estonian skier Christina Schmigun.

The former Absolute World Superezhagov World Champion Mike Tyson can still take part in the Superfighter heavyweight tournament, which will take place in Australia on June 4. This was stated in an interview with the Australian radio company Sen Jeff Fenek, who trained Mike in the period of preparation for his last battle today. Recall that the Superfighter tournament will consist of four -preservation battles passing through the system with the release within one evening.

In the office of the Moscow FC Dynamo, a meeting was held on the so -called "Case of Koshtigni". General Director Yuri Zavarzin, head coach Yuri Semin and Koshtinya himself discussed the current situation. The conversation of the player with the leaders of the club did not change the situation. According to the SS , Kotinina wanted to stay in the team, but I could not convince Semina and Zavarzina.

On Sunday, the Indonesian authorities announced the death of another person from the bird flu virus, reports Reuters. If specialists in the Hong Kong Laboratory, having a certificate of the World Health Organization (WHO), will confirm the results of the analyzes made by their Indonesian colleagues, the number of victims of the "bird flu" in Indonesia will reach 19 people, the agency notes. Currently, the WHO confirmed two more cases of death from the "bird flu" in the country.

The Russian Sledalnik Albert Demchenko became the silver medalist of the 2006 Olympics. On the second day of the competition, Albert won both races (one even with the track record), however, the advantage of the Italian Armin Tsoggeler, which was obtained by him, provided the championship title to the owner of the highway.

At the battlefield with the Tukui-Mekteb of the Neftekumsky district of Stavropol, the gang was discovered by a gang, not 12, as previously reported, but 8 killed militants, destroyed on Friday. Such specified data from ITAR-TASS reported today in the Main Directorate of the Interior of the Stavropol Territory. It is assumed that from 3 to 5 bodies of militants can be discovered upon completion of a show-off 3 houses that lasted in Tukui-mectebe, from where intense firing was carried out.

Moscow motorists held on Sunday in Moscow an action in support of Oleg Shcherbinsky, sentenced in the case of the death of the Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov in the accident. According to Interfax, about five hundred vehicles were proceeded from the rowing canal in Krylatsky to the Vorobyevs Mountains. On the route of the column, there was an unusually large number of traffic police officers.

Today, in several Russian cities, including in Moscow and St. Petersburg, shares of motorists are held in support of Oleg Shcherbinsky and against the arbitrariness of road officials. In Moscow, a column of more than 500 cars moved from the rowing canal in Krylatsky towards the Sparrow Mountains. The shares will also be held in St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Krasnodar. Murmansk and other cities.

The peaceful demonstrations of protest against the publication of a number of European media caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad took place this weekend in the two largest cities of Canada - Toronto and Montreal. Several hundred Canadian Muslims gathered for a rally at the University of Montreal Mc Gill. “We are against insults of Islamic and any other prophets,” said the Imam of the local Al-Kuds Mosque Said al-Jaziri.

In the metropolitan region, slow, but true warming will continue. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in Roshydromet. According to a preliminary forecast of weather forecasters, by Friday, the daily air temperature in Moscow can reach 4 degrees of frost, the weather service said. This afternoon, cloudy weather will prevail in the capital and the suburbs, it will be at times snow, ice is possible in some places.

The Russian women's hockey team expectedly lost the match in the Turin team of Canada. North American are the current Olympic champions and multiple world champions, but 0:12 is still a bit too much. Our rivals quickly proved that there will be no sensation with the prefix "Super" this evening in the ice arena. Already in the first segment, the Canadians threw seven unrequited goals into the gates of the Russian team (Megan Agost, who designed a double).

The United States is preparing a blitz-attended nuclear facilities of Iran, writes Sunday Telegraph with reference to sources in the US Department of Defense. The Pentagon develops plans for the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities as the "last remedy" in this situation. The development of the plan is personally coordinated by Donald Ramsfeld.