The famous Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho arrived on Tuesday in Vladivostok. Primorye became the final point of his two -week trip to the Trans -Siberian Railway. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the regional administration, in the program of the writer in Vladivostok, a conversation with the governor of Primorye Sergey Darkin, meetings with readers and students of the Far Eastern universities. According to Coelho, for him, meetings with readers are of particular value.

On the day of commemoration - a national holiday widely celebrated in the United States - President George Bush visited the Arlington National cemetery and laid a wreath to the grave of an unknown soldier there. The president’s speech was dedicated to the war in Iraq and, as AR notes, was extremely emotional - he almost wept. Recently, Bush's tone on the issue of war in Iraq has changed dramatically.

The day before, it became known about the murder of a special correspondent of the Business Moscow program in the Moscow Region TV channel of the TVC Vyacheslav Akatov . As the main version, the investigation considers murder on household grounds. Most likely, a journalist was killed by one of his close acquaintances. The body of 37-year-old Vyacheslav Akatov was discovered last Friday in the apartment of house 38/4 on Kargina Street, which he rented in Mytishchi.

In Zaporozhye on Monday, an accident happened, surprising even the types of traffic police officers. The tram-liner, in the wagons of which there were 28 passengers, following the route "Zaporozhye-Levvo-Zaporozhye-1", in the area of ​​the South highway came off the rut and made a "collision" on a tree.

To introduce electronic messages sent via the Internet and mobile phones, the French deputy of the European Parliament Alain Lamasur suggested. In his opinion, significant revenues from these small taxes can be spent on financing the European Union programs.

The St. Petersburg Dynamo on Tuesday in the fifth, decisive match of the "up to three victories" series won at the Kazan UNICS with the minimum advantage - 71:70 and for the first time in its short history won the bronze medals of the Russian basketball championship. In the first quarter, the guests made a serious application for success - 25:13, and in the second ten minute the hosts were able to play only a point (15:14).

In Moscow, in the Gostiny Dvor on Tuesday, the IV general church exhibition-forum "Orthodox Rus'" was opened. According to the organizers, the exhibition is designed to combine the efforts of the church, the state and society to preserve traditional values ​​in the field of culture and morality. The exhibition was solemnly opened by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II .

Residents of the problematic village of Muslyumovo, located near the first -born of the nuclear industry - the Mayak plant, will be relocated to a new village or Chelyabinsk. About this at a meeting with the residents of the village, who suffered from emissions of the Mayak chemical plant, said on Tuesday the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko.

In the Ramensky near Moscow, upon receipt of a bribe with a red -handed person, the chief specialist of the Department of State Land Control of the Federal Agency "Rosnedvisiness" in the Moscow Region Alexander Burlakov. "It was established that on May 17 of this year, a representative of the state regulatory authority arrived for verification in the village of Stanovi, Ramensky district.

The Bush administration continues to fever. On Tuesday, it became known about the resignation of the US Minister John Snow. His place will be taken by the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Investbank Goldman Sachs Henry Pulson. George Bush officially announced new rearrangements in his office.

The underground impetus of up to five points occurred on Tuesday in the village of Tilichiki of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug (KAO), RIA Novosti was informed on Tuesday in the press service of the district administration. "The ongoing earthquakes and soil melting can lead to the further destruction of the housing stock, which had established after the first impact of the elements on April 21.

The Interregional Public Organization "Open Russia" appealed to the courts with claims and complaints of decisions of judicial and law enforcement agencies related to the arrests of the accounts of this organization.

In Russian prisons, they always rebelled - at present, in the arsenal, Russian prisoners have many ways to express mass protest. The newspaper Version writes about the options for the rebellion of prisoners in prisons and colonies of Russia. A hunger strike is an emergency for any correctional institution. There may be a lot of reasons for mass refusal of food: from poor -quality nutrition to the requirements of the change of the head of the colony.

Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko broke two metacarpal bones on his right hand in training. According to his coach Alexei Mishin, "he unsuccessfully slipped and fell ... Of course, he was hurt. But he holds on. Plushenko knows how to endure, he has a strong character." As the coach of Komsomolskaya Pravda said, this injury will not affect the athlete's training. “All performances will take place according to the schedule,” he emphasized.

A native of Armenia was again killed in the metropolitan region. The attack occurred in the train near Moscow on May 25, but it became known only now. In the train of the train, which was in the area of ​​the Sofrino Moscow Region, in the area of ​​the Klyazma station, the Armenian, 19-year-old Arthur Sardaryan, was killed. He was returning from Moscow to the city of Pushkino.