In the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine, a passenger minibus on 202 km of the Highway Stary-Kirovograd-Snamenka collided on the forehead with a truck, 12 people were killed in the accident, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the Department of the GAI of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the accident occurred on Tuesday at 14:10 Moscow time.

The Japanese newspaper Mainichi protested the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Ministry) in connection with the beating by the OMON employees of his correspondent Naoi Servogi, who covered the “disagreement” in Moscow last weekend. “Yesterday, employees of the Moscow Coroning of the newspaper visited the Russian Foreign Ministry, where they set out the editorial position,” Interfax quoted the source in the Moscow media circles.

The Netherlands refused the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Hania in issuing a visa to participate in the conference in Palestinian refugees, which should take place in Rotterdam on May 5. The Dutch authorities motivate their refusal to belong to Hania to the Hamas movement, which was reckoned with the European Union to the category of terrorist organizations. This was announced on Tuesday by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands, Rob Dexker, ITAR-TASS reports.

Leading tennis players, led by Rozhe Federer, protested against the policy of the leadership of the Association of tennis players-professionals (Asia-Pacific region). The reason for dissatisfaction was attempts to deprive the status of Masters competitions in Hamburg and Monte Carlo. “At first they took up tournaments in Germany and Monaco, then they would take the Davis Cup ...

The growth of industrial production in Russia in March 2007 amounted to 7.9% compared to March 2006, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said on Tuesday. This significantly exceeds the expectations of analysts surveyed by Interfax: they predicted only 5.9%. Statistics were pleased with the manufacturing and energy engineering.

A protracted political crisis in Ukraine reduces its chances of winning a competition for the right to accept the 2012 European Football Championship. This opinion, according to Reuters , was expressed in an interview with the Ukrainian media, the head of the National Olympic Committee Sergey Bubka. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Union of European Football Associations will begin in Cardiff on Tuesday, which will make a decision on the venue of the championship.

Three Swiss journalists, employees of Sonntagsblick published in Zurich, appeared on Tuesday before the military tribunal in St. Gallen on charges of disclosing military secrets, ITAR-TASS reports. The guilty to journalists is charged with the fact that in January 2006 they published a secret document of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, confirming the presence of illegal prisons of the US CIA in Europe.

Governors are in a hurry to solve the issue of their own reassignment until President Vladimir Putin yielded a chair to the new head of state. In the near future, Putin’s question about trust are gathering the head of the Moscow -Council Boris Gromov and his Vologda colleague Vyacheslav Pozgalev. The petitioners will not be refused, even after March 2008, Putin will be interested in loyal governors, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Tuesday.

Late in the evening on Tuesday, a transaction was completed on the acquisition of Gazprom by the Sakhalin Energy Control Stock Package, Sakhalin-2 project operator, says News Time . Members of the Supervisory Board of the project, which includes six representatives from the participating companies and the same number of Russian officials, considered the issue of approving a new estimate, around the increase in the volume of which there are still great disagreements.

After five rounds, the first coaching rearrangement took place in the Russian football Premier League. The unsuccessful performance of the Kuban at the start of the championship, the lack of victories and the last place in the standings led to the fact that Pavel Yakovenko was fired from the post of head coach of the Krasnodar team. His place will take 52-year-old Leonid Nazarenko. The second attempt by Pavel Yakovenko to work in the Premier League was like the first, notes UEFA.com .

On Monday, a 33-year-old athlete from Chuvashia won a traditional marathon race among women Boston Marathon and became the first Russian to win in Boston over the past 14 years. For the past eight years, these competitions have invariably won Kenya natives. Grigoriev, a year ago, set a record on the Marathon highway in Los Angeles, this time showed the result of 2 hours 29 minutes 18 seconds.

A citizen of South Korea named Kim was so disappointed in his mobile operator SK Telecom, which in his own way approached the solution of the problem with the help of a car. According to Zoom.ru , after 16 calls to the service center and 2 visits to the main office, it remained unsatisfied with his mobile phone. The company representative invited him to replace the broken device with a new one, but Kim refused, demanding that he be repaired the old one, but in the company did not go to meet him.

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaidi, who is on a working visit to the United States, was hospitalized at the Houstonian Clinic of St. Luke, where he will be performed, the head of the Prime Minister Giy Zurabishvili said on Tuesday on the air of the Georgian television.

Forward of the National Hockey League Club (NHL) "Washington Capitals" Alexander Semin, by the decision of the coaching staff, was expelled from the location of the Russian national hockey team, which continues to prepare for the Moscow World Cup. Such a decision was made due to the fact that Semin was late with arrival at the base in Novogorsk.

The 61-year-old mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Ittio, who was injured as a result of an attempt committed on Tuesday and was in a state of clinical death, died in the hospital. The attempt on the end was made at about 20:00 local time (15:00 in Moscow) in the center of Nagasaki, reports Reuters with reference to the NHK television channel.