Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak held a press conference on May 28, during which he set out his position regarding the further stay of Ehud Olmert as the prime minister. As expected, the Barak said that the current situation, especially the “threats from the“ Hizballah ”and“ Hamas ”, demands the removal of Olmert from the government,” Newsru Israel reports. "Let him take any opportunity - he will resign, take a vacation or temporarily move away from the leadership," he said.

Arizona Senator John McCain, who secured himself a nomination by a US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, called for a dialogue with Russia on nuclear disarmament, Interfax reports. Although until recently, he demanded to exclude Russia from the G8.

The investigation believes that the three schoolchildren found by the dead in the Khabarovsk Territory drowned on the same day, when they disappeared . This assumption is based on the fact that the bodies were found without signs of violent death.

In the American state of Arizona, the police arrested a robber who, in pursuit of money, even replaced a connected seller. The criminal himself began to serve the customers of the store, considering the revenue too small. The “responsible” robber was the 21-year-old resident of the city of Phoenix Mack Anthony Stavall. He has already been charged with robbery, abduction of people and theft with a hack, reports Associated Press. He was already confessed to his deed.

The main contender for nomination as a candidate for the US president from the Democratic Party Barack Obama mistakenly in his speech mentioned the fascist camp of death instead of Buchenwald. This was announced by the election headquarters of politics. Obama, on the day of commemoration, celebrated in the United States on Monday, mentioned in his speech before American soldiers that his cousin Charlie Payne in April 1945 participated in the liberation of Auschwitz.

The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder can become a Russian academician. The Department of Public Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences nominated the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as a candidate for foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences with a degree in international relations, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The draft amendments to the Tax Code for the introduction of real estate tax instead of land and property taxes will be prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy in 2010, according to the main directions of tax policy for 2009-2011, published on the website of the Ministry of Finance. It is reported by RIA Novosti . As noted, the ministries prepared a schedule for the development of the relevant head of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation.

The All -Russian protest of Russian railways employees may begin on June 17, the New Region agency reports. Evgeny Kulikov, Chairman of the Russian Trade Union of Locomotive Railways Locomotive Brigades, said that the strike would take place if the Russian Railways leadership did not go to negotiations with the trade union.

The winners of the Russian Mas-Srestling Championship, which will be held on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, will receive large Yakut diamonds as prizes, a representative of the permanent representative office of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the city on the Neva told RIA Novosti . Mas -srestling is a tug of sticks, a national Yakut sport.

In connection with the recent surge of the activity of Europeans in space, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) has announced a set of astronauts for the flight to the International Space Station, writes The Sunday Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru .) Not so long ago, the first unmanned ship Jules Verne was launched. And even earlier in February, the ESA "Columbus" laboratory arrived at the ISS, which requires a new generation of astronauts to conduct experiments.

The future of Orthodoxy in Kosovo directly depends on the efforts of Russia, said Alexander Torshin, deputy chairman of the Federation Council, who recently visited this region. “It is no secret that the policy of the restoration of Kosovo cultural and historical monuments declared by the Civil Administration of the Cosing and Historical Monuments every now and then gives serious malfunctions.

Dmitry Medvedev officially said goodbye on May 27 with the Board of Directors of Gazprom, and on the same day the chairman of the board of the concern, Alexei Miller, announced the new priorities of the company, writes "News Time" . "Now the main task set by the board of directors is the domestic market," he said. - The Russian economy requires more and more energy resources, since economic development, growth in the economy is an increase in energy consumption.

The ashes of more than 64 thousand who died as a result of a destructive earthquake on May 12 in the Chinese province of Sichuan is devoted to the earth. This was announced by the representative of the provincial government Chen Kaf. He emphasized that before the cremation of the deceased, all possible measures are taken to identify their relatives. The unidentified samples of DNA are taken so that they can be identified in the future.

In St. Petersburg, a sentence was sentenced to adolescents, whose victim was an 11-year-old boy. They stabbed the victim for the robbery of his apartment. The City Court of St. Petersburg sentenced two 17-year-old boys on the basis of a jury verdict, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the city prosecutor's office. The culprits of the brutal murder were convicted of 9.5 years in prison. They will serve his sentence in the educational colony.

The Union of Right Forces (ATP) , following the Communist Party of the Communist Party, will file a complaint to the Supreme Court of Russia on the recognition of elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in December last year invalid.