In the Swiss Nyon, a preliminary draw of the Intertoto-2007 Cup took place at the UEFA headquarters, whose winners receive the right to compete for the UEFA Cup. The list of participants is not yet known, but the tournament grid has already been formed, which promises to give a lot of exciting fights. The final list of applicants will become known at the end of the 2006/07 season, but it is already known, clubs from which countries are destined to meet with each other.

Former and current heads of states and governments of many countries of the world are going to take part in the farewell ceremony with the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, who died the day before at the age of 76. Ex-President of USA George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton will come to Moscow to say goodbye to Yeltsin, ITAR-TASS reports citing an informed source.

Conference of the heads of the Foreign Ministry and finance ministers of leading industrial countries, preceding the Grand Eight Summit -2008 on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido, will be held in the cities of Kyoto and Osaka, respectively. This was reported on Tuesday by government sources in Tokyo. It was also decided to hold meetings of Ecology and Labor Ecology "Eights", respectively, in the port cities of Kobe and Niigat.

The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant (MMK) during the public placement of shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) attracted $ 1 billion, the company said. This is less than hoping before placement: global depository receipts are placed along the lower boundary of the range - 12.5 dollars apiece. During the placement, shares of the owner of the MMK Viktor Rashnikov were sold, so he did not receive 6-8% compared to quotes in the RTS.

On Tuesday, the seventh meeting of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine began, which considers compliance with the Basic Law of the Presidential Decree on the dissolution of parliament and the holding of early parliamentary elections. The meeting is held with the participation of the full composition of 18 judges, ITAR-TASS reports. The judges remained to interview two representatives of the government and the Central Election Commission, after which the meetings will continue closed.

The reason for the mass death of seals on the coast of the Caspian Sea on the territory of the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan (in the west) could be Pasteurelles, said the head of the regional department for emergencies, Kazimurat Khairushev. “It is possible that this infection was the reason for the death of seals,” Khairushev said on Tuesday Interfax, referring to the examination data.

In connection with the implementation of mourning measures related to the organization of the funeral of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, on Wednesday, April 25, the movement of vehicles in the center of Moscow will be limited, Interfax on Tuesday in the Moscow traffic police. According to the representative of the traffic police, from 08:00 to 15:00, travel along Volkhonka, Simonovsky, Novodevichy and Luzhnetsky driveways will be partially closed.

The number of hockey players of the Russian national team preparing for the World Championship at the base of the Moscow Region in Novgorsk was reduced by three more people. The team of the team was left by the goalkeeper of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv Semen Varlamov, the center of the unfortunard of Mytishchi Chemist Albert Leshchev and CSKA striker Alexei Simakov, the official website of the Russian Hockey Federation reports.

In the west of Moscow on the street Krylatsky hills, a landslide formed on Tuesday evening. "The landslide formed at the house 1 on Krylatsky hills Street. It partially touched the roadway," the Novosti press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the city told RIA Novosti . It was noted there that the cause of the landslide was the consequences of the fire extinguishing in everyday life located nearby.

The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota on Tuesday announced that for the first time she bypassed its main competitor - the American General Motors concern for world sales for the quarterly period, RIA Novosti reports. The quarterly report published on the company's website says that from January to March 2007 almost 2.368 million cars were sold, while GM sold 2.26 million cars for the same period. Most of Toyota sales fall on foreign markets. About 694 thousand cars were sold in Japan itself.

On Friday in Moscow, the world hockey championship with the puck starts. Only victory is expected from the Russian team - after all, domestic hockey has not seen big success for 13 years. On the website of the Bwin bookmaker, which is the official partner of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF), there were quotes that evaluate the chances of victory of all participants in the Moscow tournament.

In connection with the death of B.N. Yeltsin addresses the relatives and friends of the deceased from Russian representatives of various faiths, which notes the contribution of the first president of Russia to the revival of religious life in the country.

Japan at the funeral of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin will be represented by the Ambassador of this country in Moscow, Yasuo Saito, the general secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Yashis Syodzaki told reporters on Tuesday at a press conference. According to representatives of the government, none of the Japanese politicians will go from Tokyo to Moscow, since no official invitations from the Russian side were received, ITAR-TASS reports.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA won the Russian Cup. On Tuesday, in the final, the army team won over the Kazan UNICS with a score - 74:59. The army team made a significant application for success in the third quarter, winning it with a two -time advantage (22:11), after which their advantage reached 18 points. The most productive player of the match was the Slovenian striker of CSKA Matyazh Smodish (21 points).

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court on Tuesday passed a conviction to the residents of Magnitogorsk Alexei Dolbilov and Ilgiz Akkildin, who were accused of murder under Article 105 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. As the court established, in 2005, Dolbilov, who worked as a criminal investigation department of the line of internal affairs at the Magnitogorsk station, was left by the girl with whom he lived since 2004.