Merchants often demand tens of thousands of dollars from suppliers only for consent to trade their goods. In order for the goods to fall into a profitable place, they require even more. Without money, even regional networks and some Selpo do not allow money to their regiments, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Most of all, producers of alcohol and cigarettes pay for a place on a shelf, the least of all - manufacturers of ketchup.

Several hooligans tried to disrupt intergovernmental consultations in Tomsk, the Tomsk Review website reports. At 13:00 Moscow time, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel left the Tomsk House of Scientists after the final press conference, several people tried to light torches and began to throw the heads of the Listovka state.

The Court of the Pervomaisky district of Minsk awarded 15 days of administrative arrest to one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition Alexander Milinkevich, Pavel Mazheik spokesman Paul Mazheik told RIA Novosti . Milinkevich was accused of participating in the unauthorized rally "Chernobyl gentry" on April 26 in the Belarusian capital. Most likely, he will serve his sentence in a specialist-distributor on Petino.

Russia has become one of the main world centers for human trafficking. Articles on the Russian Criminal Code entered in 2003 do not work on the use of slave labor. For two years, only 12 people were convicted of them, despite the fact that 30-60 thousand women are exported from Russia annually. This is stated in a report on human trafficking in Russia, provided by the International Migration Organization, New Izvestia writes.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded to betray the Russian diplomat to the American court, who violated the rules of the road in the United States. According to Bloomberg, it is necessary that the Russian authorities withdraw diplomatic immunity with the attache of their mission to the UN of 28-year-old Ilya Morozov, Echo of Moscow reports. The American side claims that he hooked a policeman in New York with his car, traveling on a blocked road.

For the first time in 15 years that have passed since the conflict in the Prigorodny district in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RSO-Alania), an interethnic Ossetian-Ingush marriage was concluded. This was reported on Thursday in the archive of the registry office of North Ossetia.

In the south of the capital, a murder of a student of grade 8 was committed. As Interfax reported on Thursday in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office, last night on the landing of the 13th floor of the house 14 on the street of the Serpukhov shaft, the body of the young man was discovered, born in 1989, with seven stab wounds in the chest and neck.

The British secret intelligence service, it is MI-6 , on Thursday for the first time in 97 years of its existence placed in print ads on hiring. This unprecedented step is motivated by the need to expand the MI-6 state in order to more effectively counteract the new threats of the 21st century. Recall that in October 2005 the MI-6 website began to work , the main purpose of which was declared recruiting new agents.

The European Conference of Ministers of Transport issued a number of recommendations for increasing road safety . In addition to a significant increase in fines and the introduction of strict speed restrictions in the city line, European ministers proposed to establish the maximum permissible indicator of the amount of alcohol in the blood of the driver. As a result, this limit can be set at a level of 50 mg/100 ml, that is, 0.5 ppm.

The Chairman of the Party of the Communists Sergey Kalyakin and the leader of the labor party, Alexander Bukhovostov, were arrested on Thursday morning by OMON employees. Party leaders were called to the city department of the internal affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee to discuss the format of the opposition campaign, which was supposed to take place in Minsk on May 1.

The Nepal Maoists announced on Thursday a one -way ceasefire for three months.

Gennady Moskal was dismissed from the post of head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration. The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko signed the corresponding decree on April 26, his press service reports on Thursday. The possible resignation of the head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration became known on April 21, when Gennady Moskal filed a statement of dismissal of his own free will in the name of the president and prime minister.

The position of Moscow on the Iranian nuclear problem is unchanged, Vladimir Putin said at a press conference in Tomsk. "We are against the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including at the expense of Iran, but we believe that Iran should be able to develop modern technologies and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes," the head of state said.

On April 26, Domodedovo International Airport and Transaero Airlines summed up their five -year cooperation. The special press conference was attended by Transaero CEO Olga Pleshakova and the general director of the Domodedovo airport Sergey Rudakov. According to Transaero, passengers of the airline began to fly by airplanes more often and further. For the first quarter of 2006, the passenger flow, compared with the same period of the previous year, increased by 63%.

The prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory opened a criminal case against the head of the Far Eastern Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and his first deputy, Interfax reports with reference to law enforcement agencies.