The organizer of the Moscow gay parade Nikolai Alekseev announced the intention of his associates daily throughout May to spend five marches daily in the capital in support of sex-minorities. Recall, on the eve of the Moscow authorities banned the holding of unauthorized shares of sexual minorities scheduled for May 1 and 2. “In the very near future, we intend to notify the Moscow authorities of the gay of gay, five times a day until the end of May,” Alekseev said on Wednesday Interfax .

About a thousand people, mainly pensioners, took part in the picket against monetization of benefits for travel in public transport organized on Thursday by the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Communist Party, reports the New Region .

Journalists of the Estonian weekly Eesti EKSPRES have discovered the loss of materials of the parliamentary commission, investigating the fact of the possible illegal transportation of Russian weapons on the Estonia ferry, which had sank 10 years ago, writes Interfax . As the weekly reported on Thursday, the missing document is a minutes of meetings held by the commission as part of a visit to Sweden in 2006.

About a million people have been tortured in Turkey since 1980, when the last military coup had occurred in the country, the results of a study conducted by the local human protection fund. The most common form of torture in Turkish institutions is beating.

The correspondent of the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail Jane Armstrong was expelled this week from Chechnya, Russian human rights activists said on Thursday. According to human rights organizations, Armstrong and translator Olga Kravets were detained in Grozny by law enforcement officers of Chechnya, Interfax reports.

The chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov will have another deputy who will specialize in resolving conflict situations. The CECs will make the corresponding amendments to the regulations of the commission on Thursday. And members of the CEC with secret vote will determine who will take this position. As expected, they will become a native of the presidential administration Leonid Ivlev, they write Vedomosti .

A 52-year-old resident of Britain Jenny Crowley sued one of the world's largest Tesco retail chains (British analog German Metro). According to Times , at a refueling in one of the Tesco supermarkets in North Wales she was refused to check the tire pressure, since "this is not included in the insurance." Not knowing the pressure for sure, Jenny Crowley asked the tires to pump up, but she was again refused: too high pressure could be unsafe.

In the American state, Michigan was convicted by the former Marine Corporal, who was found guilty of the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old British. He met a girl on the Internet. The federal court sentenced the defendant to more than 11 years of imprisonment, writes The Guardian newspaper. A native of the state of Michigan Toby Stodebeker was read out in the court of Calamaz on Wednesday.

The author of the film "Basic Instinct", the famous Dutch film director Paul Verkhoven wrote a book about the life of Jesus Christ, which will be published in September. For this, since 1985, Verkhoven visited the scientific seminar about Jesus at the Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, whose members were searching for the historical facts of Christ’s life, RIA Novosti reports.

The ceremony of presenting the prestigious Kinematographic Prize "Golden Globe" in 2009 will be held on January 11 - this is the earliest date in the history of globes. The ceremony, which usually takes place at the end of January, will take place the day before the announcement of the Oscar Award, BBC reports.

Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Alexander Misharin believes that by 2105 the problem of overloading Russian motor vehicles will only aggravate, since the country's car park is doubled compared to last year. He shared his opinion at a government meeting on the development of the transport system of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

The first start after returning to the big sport for the Olympic champion and the repeated world champion in solitary figure skating of Russian Yevgeny Plushenko will, in all likelihood, will be the November stage of the Cup of Russia Grand Prix in Moscow. The illustrious skater himself curled up about this.

The Canadian government cancels restrictions on the export of automatic weapons to 11 countries, most of which recently joined NATO, in particular, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia.

According to updated data, an officer of one of the military units of the Far Eastern Military District (DVA) died during the tipping of the T-62 tank during the march. "The tank fell from the embankment to the tower during the march. At the same time, an officer who was on the armor was killed. The tank driver was not injured," the public relations and the media (DALL) on Thursday reported.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was caught red-handed when he decided to drive a hare by train to HEATHROW Airport to catch the plane in the United States, writes The Daily Mail . The ex-prime minister, now earning at least 500 thousand pounds at consultations, shamefully admit to the controller that he did not have 24.5 pounds in cash for a ticket-the money that his assistant gave him disappeared somewhere from his pocket.