Unknown criminals abducted in Moscow a car belonging to the adviser to the Embassy of Croatia in Russia. As a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday, hijacking from 23:00 on May 22 to 08:30 23. The unknown abducted a car parked near the house on Leninsky Prospekt. The damage amounted to 1 million 200 thousand rubles. A criminal case has been opened. Links on the topic

Serbia recognizes the results of the referendum on the independence of Montenegro "after the official end of the vote count and declare final voting results." This was stated by the Serbian Prime Minister Voislav Koshtunitsa at a meeting with a special representative of the EU at the referendum in Montenegro Miroslav Laichak, ITAR-TASS was told in the press secretariat of the Serbian government.

The composer and performer Nikolai Rezanov, the founder of the famous ensemble "Brothers Pearls", died in St. Petersburg at the 58th year of his life. Almost four decades of the history of Leningrad jazz are connected with his name, he made a great contribution to the development of the domestic genre song. In 1964, Nikolai Rezanov organized the first rock band "Forest Brothers" in Leningrad.

The success of the recently released film by Ron Howard "Code of Da Vinci" inspired its creators to film another novel by Dan Brown. As the Columbia Pictures film studio announced on Tuesday, she will make a film based on the novel "Angels and Demons." The author of the script will be the same Akiva Goldman, who, on the basis of the novel "Da Vinci Code" wrote a script for the film of the same name. The novel "Angels and Demons" was created in 2000.

Moscow enterprises, which planned to redeem the site under their buildings with the help of the Federal Property Management Agency, will not be able to submit applications there since June. And from July 1, only the Moscow authorities will be given permission to ransom. City officials have repeatedly stated that they did not want to give land to private property, the Vedomosti reports.

In Washington, on Tuesday evening, negotiations between US President George Bush and Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert took place. This was his first visit to Washington as the head of the Israeli government. During a meeting in the White House, Olmert acquainted the American president with his plan to establish the final boundaries of Israel.

The Russian language received the status of regional in one city of a millionaire of Ukraine - Dnepropetrovsk. The decision on this was made by deputies at the session of the city council on Wednesday.

In the court of Rockville (Maryland), a new trial in the case of the so -called "Washington snipers" began. The youngest of the couple of criminals Lee Boyd Malvo in court testified against his senior partner - John Allen Muhammad. Before starting to testify, Malvo said that he was ready to admit his guilt and testify against Muhammad. As Boyd Malvo stated, Muhammad told him that they would terrorize people, after which they went to a bloody hunt together.

The recently published document raises questions about whether Commerzbank officials were known more than a decade ago about, possibly improper ties between companies whose owners he hid, and the current Russian Minister of Telecommunications Leonid Reaman. So now Commerzbank employees will have to interrogate with addiction, writes American The Wall Street Journal .

The exhibition, at which about a hundred works of one of the most famous artists-designers of the present Robert Kapucci, opens on Wednesday at the Pushkin State Museum of Family Arts. The exhibition called "Moduns" is held in the framework of the Art Forest Forest Festival, RIA Novosti was told in the festival press service. Robert Kapucci himself will specially come to the Russian capital to open the exhibition.

The acting head of the administration of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) was appointed Alexander Sharenkov from May 22, Prime-Tass reported in the Office of Information and Public Relations of the NAO Administration. Sharenkov is the deputy governor of the NAO Alexei Barinov for capital construction. Before he arrived at the administration, he worked as deputy general director for the construction of Naryanmarneftegaz.

The head of the Catholic Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich , called the Pope Benedict XVI to Poland, where the pontiff, in particular, will visit the former Auschwitzi, outlined on May 25. “It is very important and symbolic that the dad will visit Auschwitz. It will be a big step for uniting peoples. After the war, many wounds are healed, but some pain remains,” the archbishop said today in an interview with the Interfax correspondent.

This year, a new legal system of a single accounting of crimes begins to be used in Russia. The head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation issued an order regarding the new system. Now, if there is no branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs nearby, but there is a unit of bailiffs, anyone can come to this department with a statement of crime. The Ministry of Justice’s order and instructions on this on Wednesday are published in the Russian Newspaper .

Materials, having survived a record fall last week, grew a second day in a row on Tuesday, while copper immediately rose by 12%, silver - by 3.7%, oil - by 2.6%, Interfax reports with reference to Bloomberg . Reuters/Jefferies CRB Futures Price Index index, which is calculated on the price of 19 exchange products, increased by 2.4% to 352.31, which is record -in -growth from October 25.

At the 28th court session in Baghdad, which opened in Baghdad, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Iraq Tarik Aziz began to testify. When asked about involvement in the mass killing of Shiites in 1982, after an assassination attempt on Saddam, Hussein Aziz said that he had nothing to do with the reprisal of 148 Shiites, Interfax reports.