In the Astrakhan region, a couple of lovers committed suicide, hanging on a high -voltage line. The probable cause of collective suicide is relations with parents who did not give consent to marriage, the Komsomolets Caspian newspaper reports. The drama was played on April 8 in the village of Osepnaya Bugor. A 20-year-old Turkmen guy, along with his 17-year-old girlfriend, came to a wedding to friends.

Russian tennis player Marat Safin in the first round of the ATP tournament in Valencia beat his compatriot Igor Andreev with a score of 7: 6, 6: 4. The next rival of Marat is the representative of Serbia and Montenegro Boris Pashansky. Andreev, when sowing in Valencia, became the 5th racket of the tournament, and Safin got into the main grid only thanks to Wild Card.

In Moscow, three suspects of abduction of a person were detained in order to seize an apartment. According to the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor's office, some time ago an unemployed Ukrainian turned to the police. He said that at the house of N12 on Tikhoretsky Boulevard, unknown people, threatening with a gun, was seated by force in his car and his friend - an unemployed 29 -year -old Muscovite.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held on the eve of the Kremlin a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions dedicated to the preparation of the annual presidential message to the Federal Assembly, writes "News Time" . The last similar meeting took place almost a year ago - May 18, 2005.

In the American city of Buffalo, a 12-year-old girl made 1000 false calls to the salvation service. A young girl whose name is not called due to the fact that she is a minor, admitted that she made about 1000 false calls by phone 911 from her cell phone. At the same time, the girl laughed, teased and sentenced "Do not catch!", The agency of AR reports. Last weekend, the girl was charged with an administrative violation on two points in connection with the cottages of false messages.

The Moscow prosecutor's office charged three suspects of the Kabardino-Balkaria Minister of Culture Zaura Tutova. “Today, three previously arrested suspects in the Tutov case are charged,” the official representative of the capital prosecutor’s office told Interfax on Wednesday. The names of all detainees are still not called.

According to the Memorial human rights organization, in 2005, 317 residents were stolen on the territory of Chechnya, New Izvestia writes. Of these, 153 were missing, another 126 people were released, 23 were found killed, 15 are under investigation. And on the eve of the representative of the "Memorial" Dmitry Grushkin brought data for 2006: since the beginning of the year, 30 residents of the republic have been killed, and 45 people were stolen.

The Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation withdraws household appliances owned by the Technolars from a warehouse in Kotelniki near Moscow, Anton Guskov, head of the Service of Public Relations of the Association of Trade and Compacts, said Interfax. We are talking about one of the key warehouses "Technosyla" located in the White Dachi area in the village of Kotelniki at Yanichkin Passage, house 3. The area of ​​the arrested warehouse is 18,000 square meters.

Due to the increase in gas prices, 48% of Americans began to drive less by car or began to move at shorter distances. 54% of US residents were forced to reduce home costs due to rising prices for automobile fuel. It is not surprising that people with a low level of income are forced to engage in trips primarily on trips - such steps were taken by six of ten surveyed US residents with a family income of less than 50 thousand dollars a year, Washington Profile notes.

The General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Muhammad al-Baradei arrives on Wednesday to Tehran for negotiations on nuclear problems. This is reported by Iranian media.

The five -year government in Italy of the right -centers, led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, seems to have come to an end. In the elections to both chambers of the parliament, their eternal opponents - levocentrists won. More precisely, the Union Bloc, led by the former chairman of the European Commission Romano Prodi. According to Exit-Polls, the Soyuz scored from 50 to 54 percent of the vote, the Coalition "House of Freedom" Silvio Berlusconi received from 45 to 49 percent.

This year, apartments in St. Petersburg can grow one and a half times - such a disappointing forecast is made by real estate market specialists. The reason is the lack of liquid offers with high demand from buyers. The revival in the housing market, which began in the middle of last year, went into excitement in the first quarter of this year.

In St. Petersburg, the murder of a man is revealed. The criminal tried to cover the traces, dismembering the corpse of the victim and scattering parts in various places of the Kirovsky district. According to the REGNUM IA in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the remains of the man were first discovered on April 4 near the house of N40 on the Renaissance Street.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation plan to create new police units that will ensure safety on highways. This was in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta by the First Deputy Minister of the Interior Alexander Chekalin. The Ministry of Internal Affairs seriously work out the project to create a road police that would take up the order on the highways. Not by checks, namely the order, especially on federal routes.

One of the leaders of the LDPR Alexei Mitrofanov brought public apologies to Yulia Tymoshenko for the erotic film "Julia" , which clearly parodies the persons of Yulia Tymoshenko and Mikhail Saakashvili, Interfax reports.