The Russian Foreign Ministry made a commentary on the media reports about the incident with the Russian military attache in the Czech Republic. As it became known from the Czech press on Wednesday, the Russian military attache, Colonel Alexander Sketin was detained by the Czech police on April 12 after a meeting with the Director of the Institute of Anti -Jewelry, Military and Antibiological Protection Stanislav Brady.

Every third Russian had to give a bribe in the last five years. These are the results of the last study conducted by the analytical center of Yuri Levada, the new Izvestia newspaper writes on Friday.

The Government of Estonia decided on Thursday to break the contract with the Baltic Rail Services on the privatization of Eesti Raudtee (Estonian Railway), thereby preventing the sale of a large share of the EV for Russian investors. The official reason for the government’s decision is a violation of the BRS of the privatization agreement, in particular, non -compliance with investment obligations.

A multiple winner of the Russian championships, the winner of the 2001 World Cup in rhythmic gymnastics, Laysan Utyasheva leaves big sport. The gymnast itself reported this to the Sports Information Agency for Sports Information. “Yesterday I talked with the head coach of the Russian national rhythmic national team, Irina Wiener,” said Laysan Utyasheva. “I consulted and decided to make such a decision.

On Friday, in the suburbs, the final match between the local Khimki and the metropolitan CSKA ended the Russian Basketball Cup. The army team, the current owners of honorary trophy, managed to defend their title, being stronger than the owners of the site with a score of 79:76 (17:20, 20:11, 17:15, 25:30). This is the second Russian Cup in the history of CSKA and the first won tournament for the head coach of CSKA Italian Ettore Messina.

In Saratov, the verdict of the Oktyabrsky District Court in relation to the former operative for particularly important cases 1 department of the State Directorate of the State Directorate of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region Dzhumagaleyeva V.B., who was found guilty of illegal sales of narcotic drugs, entered into legal force. In this position, Dzhumagaleev worked since August 2003.

The prosecutor of the Kaliningrad region on Friday opened a criminal case against the mayor of the resort city of Svetlogorsk Oleg Vernikovsky in the fact of smuggling of weapons and ammunition.

Under the altar of the Spassky Cathedral of the Moscow Andronikov Monastery, the remains of two monks who died at the turn of the XIV-XV centuries were found. The chief specialist of the Moscow Bureau of forensic medical examination Sergey Nikitin is convinced that these are the relics of the great Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev and Daniil Cherny, a companion in the monastery and art. It is known that Andrei Rublev and Daniel Black died at almost the same time.

The price of June futures for oil at electronic auction of the New York commodity exchange, setting a new record on Friday-73.5 dollars per barrel on Friday, decreased to $ 72.89 per barrel, Interfax reports.

The Government of the Russian Federation will consider the possibility of exemption from taxation of individuals to the amount of the subsistence minimum. Such an order was given to the Ministry of Finance, following the discussion of the main areas of the tax policy for 2007-2009 at a meeting of the tripartite commission to regulate social and labor relations.

In Chelyabinsk, a baby abduction occurred. As the New Region was told in the city Internal Affairs Directorate, on Friday morning from the Chevrolet Niva car, parked near the house N1 along the Devil Building Street in the Metallurgical District, a 4-month-old girl disappeared. The police report that the child was dressed in a pink overalls and a pink hat. Everyone who has any information about the child or was a witness to the crime is asked to inform the police.

In Ulyanovsk, a monument to mother -in -law will erect. Local local historian Sergei Petrov gathered the mother -in -law for a seminar at the Museum of Folk Life and invited them to discuss what a monument should be. “I have been involved in the problems of the mother -in -law for ten years,” said Sergey Borisovich Komsomolskaya Pravda . “I studied the folklore of the peoples of the world and noticed that the mother -in -law as the main character is most often present in jokes and proverbs.

The main shareholder of the Yukos - the Gibraltar company Group Menatep - appealed to the New York court with a request to reject the request of the temporary manager of Yukos Eduard Rebgun to introduce a temporary ban on the implementation of the company's foreign assets. Now, according to this decision of the court , Group Menatep does not have the right to dispose of the company's assets .

OJSC Tomsk Communal Systems completed the connection of engineering communications to the Lutheran temple of St. Mary, built in Tomsk to the Russian-German consultations at the highest level. As the company representative told the Interfax agency, the construction of all necessary networks cost 3.256 million rubles, which were allocated from the company's own funds. According to the interlocutor of the agency, now in the church there is water, light and central heating.

The last weekday before Easter weekend in the metropolitan region will be warm and cloudy. Such weather, reported in Roshydromet, brought the southern periphery of the Atlantic cyclone, the center of which is located above Scandinavia. Mostly cloudy weather will be periodically replaced by sunny, and small rains will be held mainly at night. By the middle of the day, the thermometer column will reach in Moscow to 12-14 heat, in the suburbs-in places to plus 15.