Belarus will begin to produce oil in Venezuela in 2007. The relevant agreements were reached between Secretary of State Security of Belarus, Viktor Sheiman and President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. The meeting of senior representatives of the two countries took place in the Venezuelan province of Borino, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Security Council of Belarus.

Contrary to expectations, the Marakana stadium in Rio de Janeiro did not witness the 1000 goal of the 41-year-old Brazilian striker Romario on Sunday. To fulfill this program, playing for the Vaska da Gama against Flmengo, the football player had to score two goals. He scored only one - 999th in his football career, and his team won with a score of 3: 0.

Almost every second crane in Moscow works with various violations and can collapse at any time. About this, as the New Izvestia writes, said the inspectors of the Mostuhnadzor based on the results of checking cranes on the capital's construction sites. The state of these structures was interested in the tower crane in St. Petersburg, when he fell, “cut” a residential building , then 3 people were killed, including an infant.

Tehran categorically rejected the resolution of 1747 of the UN Security Council and realized its threat to limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Thus, the Islamic Republic responded to the tightening of the sanctions of the world community introduced due to its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment activities. “This document has not become something new for the Iranian nation.

The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant announced on Monday the intention of placing shares on the London Stock Exchange. This is stated in the message of the company. The plant plans to place 13.64%, which is 1.45 billion of new shares. The company will carry out the listing of global depository receipts (GDR) on its ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange in connection with the global placement of new and existing ordinary shares and GDR.

On Monday, March 26, the outstanding Russian theater and film artist Mikhail Ulyanov died in the Central Clinical Hospital (Central Design Bureau) of Moscow. The People's Artist of the USSR, the artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater, died after a serious and prolonged illness, according to the website of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation . As the artist’s friends say, recently he has been very ill.

Intel received permission to build a plant for the production of chips in China worth $ 2.5 billion. Currently, in China there is a huge demand for chips for personal computers and mobile phones. The plant will be located in the city of Dalyan. The launch is scheduled for 2010, reports CNews . The increase in demand for chips in China is due to a rapid increase in the number of users of mobile phones and an increase in computers sales.

The chairman of the Russian-speaking constitutional party, the secretary of the Estonian anti-fascist committee, Andrei Zarenkov, believes that the campaign “Day of History”, which nationalists want to hold on May 9 at the monument to the warrior Tallinn from the fascists, was planned with the participation of the authorities.

The parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted against changes to the Criminal Code of the Republic, which abolished the criminal punishment for polygamy. 42 out of 75 deputies of parliament, fully consisting of men, voted against the bill, RIA Novosti reports. The Criminal Code of Kyrgyzstan provides for imprisonment for up to two years for polygamy, that is, cohabitation with two or more women with the maintenance of a common economy.

The Brazilian housewife, who killed and roasted her husband, was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Two years ago, in the city of Salvador, 53-year-old Rosanita Neri Dos Santus introduced her husband Rammundo while he was sleeping, a drug, and then inflicted several deaths to him. After that, the woman cut her husband’s body on more than 100 pieces that she cooked, frying and folded in plastic bags under the stairs at home. The police discovered fragments as a result of an anonymous call.

US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice, who is on a visit to the Middle Eastern region, offered the Israeli government to temporarily abandon direct contacts with the Palestinians, Newsru Israel reports. Rice believes that at present, direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have come to a standstill and it is hardly possible to achieve progress in this direction.

In Moscow and the Vladimir region, law enforcement officials detained three people suspected of killing two Muscovites. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the criminals dealt with the victims to take possession of the apartment in the metropolitan district of South Tushino. Double murder was committed in December 2006, reports REGNUM .

In the village of Presnetsovo, Lykovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, unknown attackers stole 15 icons from the Nikolsk Church. As the Interfax agency in the Main Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region was informed today, at the end of the past week, the attackers entered the church, breaking the rods of the window grill. “The church is not protected and is not equipped with alarm,” said the representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

April 25 and 26, the Russian federal property fund (RFFI) will put up two non -core stakes of the bankrupt Yukos in banks - VTB Bank (Deutschland) AG and Khanty -Mansiysk Bank OJSC. The sale of other significant assets - mining or processing - was no longer reported.

In the metropolitan region it will be slightly colder. According to Roshydrome, today the cold northeastern wind will intensify to 3-8 meters per second. In the afternoon, air in Moscow warms up to no more than 6-8 degrees, in the suburbs-up to 5-10 degrees. Cloudy weather is expected to clear. Mostly without precipitation. The atmospheric pressure gradually decreases, but so far it remains higher than the norm: it will be 756 mm of an eg.