Candidates for mayors and members of the city councils of Romania resorted to extraordinary ways to attract voters to municipal elections: starting from the elephant output to the streets, images of candidates in the image of Christ and ending with condoms on a finger, Reuters reported. Elections to the municipal authorities will be held on June 1.

Spanish Minister of Defense Karme Chakon gave birth to her first -born on Monday - a boy called Mikel, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Radio of Spain (NRI). The 37-year-old Chacon, who in December 2007 entered into marriage, became the first woman-minister of defense in the history of Spain.

The opposition movement for democratic changes (DPP) accused Zimbabwe's intelligence of preparing an attempt on the leader of the party of Morgan Tswangirai, said the General Secretary of the DPP Tendai Biti at a press conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, the Associated Press reports. Tswangirai, who has been abroad for more than a month, has to participate in the second round of the presidential election scheduled for June 27.

Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian autonomy on a constant peaceful agreement once again came to a dead end. During the last meeting of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiation groups, the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Kureya put forward a new demand: the creation of a regular Palestinian army, writes Newsru Israel , citing Ynet agency.

For the first post -holiday week, real estate in Moscow also added in price, but not so much that we can talk about maintaining the previous excitement. So, according to the analytical center www.irn.ru , the average level of the cost of apartments increased by less than 1% and amounted to 5586 points. It should be noted that during periods of large -scale rise in the real estate market, the end of a long holiday is usually accompanied by a rather sharp price jump?

The expression that nerve cells are not restored can soon become unreasonable: British scientists have revealed a mechanism that causes one of the types of human nerve cells - the so -called lemmocytes, or Schwann cells - "fall into childhood." The results of the study conducted by David Parkinson and his colleagues from the University College of London were published in the Journal of Cell Biology , RIA Novosti reports. This discovery can help the treatment of many neurological diseases.

The regional aircraft Sukhoi Superjet-100 made its first flight on Monday, rising from the runway on the production site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Press Service of Civil Sukhoi Airplanes CJSC told Interfax . The flight lasted more than one hour, "the maximum flight height was 1200 meters," said Olga Kayukova, head of the press service. Successful completion of the first flight means that from this time the certification tests of the airliner begin.

More and more often New York representatives of the middle class enter the ranks of an unusual organization, which is engaged in the "raking of garbage" in containers with scraps. These are the so -called "frigans" - wealthy people who feed on emitted products for ideological reasons. They strive to penetrate the garbage containers with the remnants of food from fast -service restaurant networks before the garbage teams do it, writes The Times .

Another bill has been introduced to the State Duma, facilitating the process of communication between the state with the owners of land in Sochi. According to the document proposed by the deputy Vasily Zhurko, the most fast legitimate transition of precious "Olympic lands" from private hands to the state will ensure the mechanism of easements, that is, the state’s rights to limited use of other people's land, "Independent Gazeta" reports.

In the county of Qingchuan of the Southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, a new ardent impetus occurred. According to the Sinhua agency today, the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.4, ITAR-TASS reports. There have been no information about the victims and destruction of information. On Saturday and Sunday in Sichuan, underground shocks of 6.1 and 5.7 points were also recorded. The number of dead these days is not yet clear.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation decided to streamline the relationship of the State Authority Inspector with drivers and pedestrians. To this end, the department has developed a regulation that obliges the traffic police officers to act within the framework of uniform rules. In particular, the regulation obliges the police to present a service certificate of motorists, and they decided to overcome the problem of total bribery using the recorder on.

In the Sverdlovsk region, police detained a suspect in the shooting of adolescents after a disco. Of the three victims, two have already died. A 18-year-old resident of the village of Gaevo of the Irbitsky District is suspected of a double murder, Interfax reports with reference to the Investigation Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. The crime was committed last Saturday evening during a fight that occurred after a disco.

Last weekend at the Congress of the LDPR, the party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky voiced the idea of ​​the transition of Russia to the parliamentary republic. According to him, the regime of the parliamentary republic "is cheaper, simpler and safer." Experts believe that Zhirinovsky once again voiced someone else's idea, which is actually being worked out at a higher level, Kommersant writes.

According to Metrinfo.ru with reference to local media, more and more Russians prefer to buy real estate in China and move to this country. In the Chinese Borderlands, Russian towns have already appeared. The fact is that in Suifenhe 1 sq. A meter costs only $ 400. There are no such prices in Russia for a long time. As for the influx of Russians, China is not worried, but is happy to treat this.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will receive a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , Presidential press secretary Irina Vannikova told a briefing. The Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the autocephalous Orthodox churches, whose history begins in the year 330 - the year of the founding of Constantinople, which was the capital of Byzantium.