The reciprocal football match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League between the Italian "Roma" and the English "Manchester United", which will be held on Tuesday at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, preferred a mass fight of Italian fans with the police. A crowd of Roman tyffosi threw firewood pulled to the stadium. In response, the police used batons.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday again met with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. According to his press service at the end of the meeting, the position of the head of state regarding the settlement of the political crisis in the country remained unchanged. Yushchenko is convinced that a compromise between political forces is possible only if early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, which will make it possible to overcome the crisis, reports UNIAN .

The Krasnodar Regional Court prohibited the activities of a religious group, which used symbolism similar to the Nazi in its activities.

On the eve of Iran solemnly celebrated the national nuclear technology day. In the nuclear center in Natanze, where foreign diplomats were invited, the vice-president of the country, the head of the Iranian atomic energy organization Gormrazov Agazade, and President of Iran Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad, performed.

In the UK, they can in the near future legalize traditional Hindu -air cremation. According to the British The Times , a precedent, who may be the reason for a revision of the legislation on cremation, was created by 68-year-old Hindu Daewender Kumar Ghai, who demands that after his death his remains to be betrayed by the Holy Fire.

In Strasbourg on Wednesday, a trial begins against a 59-year-old man who is suspected of killing and abuse of the bodies of two girls and one woman committed by him three years ago. Pierre Bodein, nicknamed "Crazy Pierrot", spent most of his conscious life behind bars. The corpses of the 11-year-old Jeanne-Marie Kezhelen, the 14-year-old Julie Sharsh and 38-year-old Edwig Valle were discovered in June 2004. The maniac also tried to kidnap two more girls.

The ATP began preparations for the Duma elections with discussions to restore the image by returning to the party, if not all its founders represented by Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, then at least the last. In the meantime, the regional branches are engaged in discussing further political tactics: some are configured for great opposition, others, on the contrary, criticize the leadership for the lack of interaction with the Kremlin.

Over a thousand people throughout Kyrgyzstan participate in a hunger strike with a demand for the resignation of the president of Kyrgyzstan and the appointment of the date of early elections. At the same time, on Tuesday morning, thirty -one people from starving in Bishkek Square in front of the building of the Kyrgyzstan parliament stopped a political hunger strike.

The US President launched a program to assist Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO. Previously signed by George Bush, the law was already approved by the American congressmen . The bill provides for the stimulation (including financial) further expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance ( NATO ) and the promotion of the timely reception of new members to this organization - Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia.

In Turkey, a passenger plane was captured, following a flight to Istanbul. The captured board with 179 passengers on board had already landed in Ankara. The passenger aircraft of the Turkish airline PEGASUS, flying a flight from the city of Diyarbakyr to Istanbul, was captured by unknown people and landed at Esenboy Airport in Ankara, Interfax reports with reference to Turkish television.

In the city of Mogadisho, the capital of Somali, more than a thousand people died in a few days of clashes, more than four thousand were injured. This was reported by the Air Force with reference to Hussein Aden Korgaba, the elder of the ruling clan of Hamiya. Another 124 thousand people left the country. At the same time, the elder did not say how many civilians are among the dead and wounded.

More than 20 people went to the hospital as a result of a serious accident involving a passenger bus that occurred on Tuesday in the Balakhninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The accident occurred on the Nizhny Novgorod - Balakhna highway at about 16:45 Moscow time on Tuesday. The bus, following from Nizhny Novgorod, overturned 10 km from the city of Badakh. There were 62 people in the cabin, 25 of them were injured.

The Ministry of Culture of Russia was engaged in the development of determining the concept of public morality and the criteria for its violation in the media. This is stated in the letter of Deputy Minister Andrei Busygin to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC) to Metropolitan Cornelius.

In St. Petersburg last night, unknown people fired at two minibuses on Sedov Street at the house of 21 at about o’clock in the morning. According to law enforcement agencies, immediately after receiving information about the incident, employees of the police department left for the place. According to the Fontanka.ru website, the police found that two passenger minibuses were subjected to shelling 31 routes. They broke several sectors and the case was damaged.

The Government of Latvia on Tuesday approved the bill on ratification of the border agreement with Russia and sent it to approval to the Latvian parliament, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the country's government. As previously stated by the Prime Minister of Latvia Aigar Kalvitis, the parliament must ratify the contract until May 17. The contract will enter into force from the moment of ratification by its parliaments of both countries.