On Friday, the Lenin District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Andrei Novgorodov, who seized five hostages on the night of December 2, 2005 in the building of the local television company "Channel 4". According to Interfax, Novgorodov was sentenced to three years in prison in a colony-settlement. Novgorodov was charged under Part 2 of Article 127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal imprisonment with the use of weapons against two or more persons) and Art.

In Chuvashia, the court sentenced a physical education teacher who beat the student. According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the republic, the Krasnoarmeysky District Court found the teacher guilty of committing a crime under part 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings). The teacher must pay a fine of five thousand rubles. In addition, he must compensate the victim’s moral damage in the amount of 3 thousand rubles, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian tennis player Marat Safin entered the semifinals of the ATP tournament in the Spanish Valencia, whose prize fund is more than 400 thousand euros. On Friday, a Russian who got into the main net of competition only thanks to a special invitation of the organizers (Wild Card), in less than an hour and a half confidently outplayed the second racket of the Argentinean Gaston Gaudio, two sets with an account of 6: 4, 6: 4.

Continued by Iran of nuclear developments contrary to the requirement of the world community to clarify their ultimate goal will not be left without consequences. This warning was made on Thursday at a joint press conference, at the end of the negotiations held in Washington, US Secretary of State Condoliza Rice and Foreign Minister Peter Peter McKay. The US Secretary of State stated that the UN should take decisive measures against Iran.

President of Adygea Hazret Council wrote in the name of the head of state a request for a resignation.

The United States is still striving to complete bilateral negotiations with Russia under the conditions for its entry into the WTO to the July Summit of the "Big Eight" of the leading world powers, ITAR-TASS was told by the unnecessary high-ranking trade representative of the United States. The parties are “very close” to the agreement, the agency’s source says. The real prospect of the end of the negotiation process may be clarified over the next two weeks.

After the death in August 2005, a notorious dog named Sam , who was awarded the title of the most ugly dog ​​in the world three times in a row, this “honorable” place remained vacant. Now, several applicants will fight for the title of the first freak at once , mainly the same breed ("Chinese crested") as Sam. In their "beauty" they may well compete with the deceased champion.

A 21-year-old local resident suspected of kidnapping and killing a child was detained in Sochi. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Sochi Internal Affairs Directorate, during the interrogation, the suspect admitted to the deed and indicated where he hid the body of the deceased boy. Last weekend, the boy called his stepfather’s mobile phone and said that he had been abducted. Then an unfamiliar male voice demanded 2 million rubles for the return of the boy.

In the UK, a three-year-old girl needed hospitalization after she stuck in one of the bowling centers to the toilet sitting, on which the glue was smeared. Lucy Richmond with her mother and older brother was in a bowling. Her 37-year-old mother Anabel tried to tear her daughter away from the toilet sitting, but soon a tumor appeared on her leg, BBC reports. The child was taken to the hospital and subjected to examination and treatment. “I tried to tear her away, but could not.

Foreign travelers, US citizen Dmitry Kifffer and UK citizen Karl Bushby, detained on April 1 for the transfer of the border of Russia in the area of ​​the village of Wellen, bypassing customs and border control, by the court of the Chukotsky district (the village of Lavrentia), will be expelled outside Russia, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Ministry of Education and Science set the dates of a single state exam for graduates of 2006. In schools, exams will be held from May 19 to June 13. On the first day, graduates throughout Russia will take foreign languages, May 23 - chemistry and social studies, May 27 - geography, biology and literature, May 30 - Russian, June 5 - mathematics, and June 13 - history or physics, writes "News Time" .

In Moscow, on Friday, the Forum of the Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the CIS opened, which was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some participants took the opportunity to personally tell the head of the Russian state about their problems. They managed to improve the moment before and after the speech of President Putin.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine denied the message of the Russian media that Rosukrenergo since April 10 had halved gas supply to Ukraine since April 10. "We have no problems of gas supply. So far, we have enough gas," Yehanurov said on Friday April 14. Supported the prime minister and spokeswoman for Naftogaz Ukraine. Eduard Zanyuk said: “Today, there is no reason to talk about any reduction or restriction of gas supplies, the pressure corresponds to the norm.

On April 14, the acting director of the Kamchatka Center for Communications and Monitoring (KCSM) Alexander Gennadievich Zheltyshev was beaten in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. In his statement to the police, Alexander Zheltyshev wrote that he was attacked by the head of the operational department of the Rosselkhoznadzor Office Sergey Putilov. As a result, the victim received a concussion, and his nose was broken.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko published a declaration of income in 2005, according to which his income amounted to 288 020, 4 hryvnias (about 57 thousand dollars), and all members of his family - 384,975.8 hryvnias ($ 77 thousand). A copy of the presidential tax return was published by Presidential press secretary Irina Gerashchenko on Friday in Kyiv.