In the Sunni quarter of Baghdad, El-Azymia on Monday broke out fierce clashes between local residents and militants. According to security services, street battles began after a group of unknown people fired last night by a local police station, ITAR-TASS reports. At the moment, the quarter is completely cordoned off by law enforcement.

This year, Riga’s authorities plan to close Russian elementary schools in two microdistricts of the capital - Zolitude (Zolitude) and Bolderaja (Bolderaja), Deputy Director of the Department of Education of the Riga Duma Guntis Helmanis said on Monday. The following year, he said, instead of these schools, it is supposed to open kindergartens and stop a set of first -graders.

People have a much more and less noticeable effect on each other than this has been considered so far. The American magazine Current Directions in PSYCHOLOGICAL Science has published an article that proves that the information received during communication is postponed in a person’s memory and affects his behavior and decisions. This thesis was obtained experimentally.

Scientists deduced the formula for the dependence of the commercial success of films on the reviews of the audience about it, which will predict cash fees. Dr. Cesar Idalgo, together with colleagues from the University of Notre-Dame, developed a method of quantitative assessment of the quality of films, which he believes can be used by film studios to assess the commercial value of film products.

Domodedovo International Airport turned out to be the leader in passenger transportation among the airports of the Moscow Aviation Node, the press service of the company East-Line said on Monday. According to the report, 2.749 million passengers transported 2.749 million passengers for the first quarter of 2006 - 17.2% more than in the same period of 2005. The popularity of flights in Rostov-on-Don, St.

Trying to break through the blockade of the capital, the Nepal police officers opened a fire on Monday by participants in the anti -monarchical performance in the city of Nijada, located about 200 km east of Kathmandu. According to eyewitnesses, one person died, four more were injured.

For Orthodox Christians, a passionate week (week) has come today. In the early Christian communities, in the last week of a great post, there was only dry food, to avoid entertainment, to stop working and business in courts, to free prisoners. All worships of the passionate week are distinguished by the depth of experiences and consistently "reproduce" the last days of the life and suffering of Jesus Christ.

The Russian Ministry of Defense states that Private Andrei Sychev, undergoing treatment in the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after Burdenko, continues to be in military service. “Sychev is a private military service and will be dismissed when he is cured,” said Deputy Minister of Defense - State Secretary, Army General Nikolai Pankov in an interview, published on Monday in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets , Interfax reports.

Every fourth Muscovite (23%) has enjoyed loans over the past year to purchase long -term goods. Of these, more than half of the respondents (56%) purchased household appliances on credit, every fifth loan (18%) took Muscovites for the purchase of video equipment, another 16% of borrowers bought mobile phones, 14% - a car. These are the results of the study conducted by the Romir Monitoring holding in February of this year.

Iranian high -ranking officials make loud statements that now the dialogue with their country must be conducted on new conditions, taking into account the fact that Iran has nuclear technologies. In turn, experts believe that Iran’s “problem” may be resolved by Israel, which, perhaps, will strike at the key objects of Iran already in 2006.

On April 12, a resident of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg was walking with the dog, found the body of the 20-year-old Yuri Dolgashev , who served in the military unit number 08774 in Krasnoye Selo, 300 meters from the Petersburg-Vilosi road and 800 meters from the unit. According to the official version, the guy froze on January 18: in those days, the temperature dropped to minus 32 degrees.

The seven-time world champion in the Royal Class of Autogan Formula 1 Michael Schumacher signed a new 2-year contract with the Ferrari team in the amount of 60 million pounds. It is reported by Eurosport with reference to the British publication The News of the World. There has not yet been an official confirmation of information from the camp of "Skuderia". It is reported that the agreement is signed according to the 1+1 scheme, according to which Schumacher Sr.

Bulgaria bored you? Tallinn seems too fresh? Then why not try his luck in Moscow? "Forget the lines for bread, gray dull skyscrapers and sweet traps with the participation of a seductive, but deadly KGB spy named Tanya.

The emissaries of Islamic terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda, for years had the opportunity to easily cross the boundaries of the former Yugoslav republics. This was reported on Monday by the Belgrade Agency "Vonet" from Sarajevo, the detailed report prepared by American and Croatian special services said. According to experts, the militants used the lack of sufficient control at border crossings for 15 years, RIA Novosti reports.

The sports pig Kostik Rossish Schwin and the Russian team in leadball became Olympic champions at the III Olympic Games among the piglets who ended in the Moscow Exhibition Exhibition Center, the all sport sports information reports. The Russian athlete Kostik, nicknamed Roussish Schwin, became the Olympic champion in running disciplines. The second place also remained for the representative of our country - the piglet with a spy. The bronze award was received by the French runner Jean-Fransua.