The court of the Medvezhyegorsky district of Karelia on the eve of the 61st anniversary of Victory satisfied the statement of the Republican prosecutor’s office on recognition by a disabled by the Great Patriotic War of a front-line soldier, who died 19 years ago.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II on Saturday, on the day of George the Victorious, the heavenly patron saint of the Russian army, congratulated the presidential regiment on the 70th anniversary, reports Interfax.

In the USA, in the state of Florida, Sheriff's assistants are accused of killing a 14-year-old teenager. The re -opening of the body of a boy who died under mysterious circumstances in a camp for minor offenders showed that he died not from a rare blood disease, as was originally established, but was strangled by the assistants of the sheriff. The practice of re -educating young offenders in camps with semi -war rules causes more and more complaints, notes Russian NY .

In Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), about 19:00 Moscow time, unknown people shot a police outfit. As a result, one police officer was killed, the second is hospitalized. According to RIA Novosti sources in local law enforcement agencies, the incident occurred at the intersection of Togliatti and Ogorodnaya streets. Two policemen during the planned operation stopped two suspicious persons.

Employees of the FSB conducted searches in Volgograd from the local National Bolsheviks of the party. This was announced at a press conference on Saturday in Volgograd, the head of the department for the protection of the constitutional system and the fight against terrorism of the FSB Office in the Volgograd Region, Peter Samara. Samara noted that on the eve of the employees of the regional FSB conducted searches and interrogations of six Limonovites.

On May 5, the Board of Directors of NK Rosneft OJSC decided to recommend to shareholders to be sent to the payment of dividends for 2005 11 billion 335.5 million rubles, which is 20% of the company's net profit and is 6.5 times the amount of 2004 dividends, the Rosneft press release said. For one promotion, it is assumed, 1.24673 rubles will be paid. The net profit of Rosneft for RAS for the past year amounted to 56 billion 700 million rubles.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the critical statements of the US Vice President Dick Cheney will not undermine international efforts to build democracy in the world. “What can I agree with Mr. Cheini is that he would like to see the world as a community of sovereign democracies,” said Lavrov, whose commentary, due to the statement of the US vice president, was posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, Interfax reports.

The President of the Dynamo IFC Konstantin Eremenko is sure that his players will show their best qualities to achieve the necessary result in the return final match of the UEFA Cup. In the first meeting in Madrid against the Spanish Boomerang, the white-and-white lost with a score of 3: 6. "It is unpleasant to lose with a score of 3: 6, at a time when the team showed a good game. But I can assure you that the players will show their battle character.

The President of Yukos-RM CJSC (the main production unit of Yukos) Anatoly Nazarov doubts the possibility of healing the Yukos oil company. Answering the question of the agency of oil information (ANI) about the possibility of Yukos paying payables and financial recovery of the company, Nazarov said: “I think that this is hardly possible.” He also said that he had met with the temporary manager of Yukos Eduard Rebgun.

During laboratory tests of blood biomaterials, a wild goose, shot for testing in the suburbs of Arkhangelsk, was discovered antibodies of the H5 poultry flu, the chief specialist of the APC Department of the Arkhangelsk Region Hikolai Yuferv told Interfax. According to him, this fact suggests that the goose was either in contact with a sick bird or is sick. “To draw a conclusion on one result,” Yuferv emphasized.

The capitalization of Gazprom OJSC at current market prices in the RTS exceeded $ 300 billion. As of 15:36 Moscow time, the price of the last transaction with shares of a gas giant in the RTS amounted to $ 12.7 apiece, setting another record, Prime-Tass reports. Given that the authorized capital of Gazprom consists of 23 billion 673 million 512.9 thousand shares, market capitalization, based on the price of the last transaction, is $ 300.65 billion.

Rescuers of the Mountain-Altai Search and Rescue Service found the bodies of three climbers from Novosibirsk, who died on Friday when climbing the top of Kurumdu (more than 3000 meters) in the Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic. Rescuers are currently transporting the dead to a convenient site, from where they could take a helicopter. According to ITAR-TASS, the head of the Gorno-Altai PSS Vyacheslav Shipunov, nothing threatens the only surviving climber.

The new Director of the CIA may become the Air Force General Michael Hayden, Time magazine said with reference to informed sources. He is currently Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Hayden is considered one of the authors of the program for intercepting the telephone conversations of Americans and correspondence by e -mail without sanction. This measure, which seemed to the administration as an important element in the fight against terrorism, caused great criticism in the United States.

American billionaire Warren Buffett acquired 80% of the Israeli company ISCAR METALWORKING COS on Friday for $ 4 billion. After this transaction, the owner of the ISCAR Metalworking COS company. Stef Vertheimer became the richest Israeli. According to Forbes magazine, the state of Vertheimer in 2005 was about $ 2.4 billion, NEWSRU Israel reports. 20% of the company's shares will remain in the hands of the Vertheimer family. In addition, leading top managers of ISCAR Metalworking COS.

The Pope Benedict XVI gave the day before in the Vatican an audience to the chairman of the European Union Jose Manuel Barrosa. The meeting took place on the eye.