The rector of the State Polar Academy was killed in St. Petersburg. According to Fontanka.ru , the 35-year-old Kermen Basangova died in the hospital from stab wounds received. At Basangov was attacked at about half past seven in the evening near the intersection of Voronezh street and Prilukskoye in the Frunze district. In building 79 along Voronezh Street there is directly the Academy, whose rector was Basangov.

The diplomats from Western countries accredited in Addis Ababe decided to boycott the official reception organized in the evening on Tuesday Ethiopia on the occasion of the country's visit to the country of President Omar al-Bashira, looking for an international criminal court on charges of crimes against humanity and military crimes in Darfur.

Rosstat published general statistical information about the state of the economy in the first quarter of 2009, which clearly describe the future recession in the Russian economy. The Ministry of Finance, on the eve of announced data on the execution of the budget for the first quarter, demonstrating the real growth of government departments in March, and the Federal Tax Service published the final data collection , completed the overall picture.

The Russian stock market has decreased the second consecutive day together with world stock venues and oil. Negative on Tuesday added a quarterly report Bank of New York, which turned out to be worse than expectations, sums up the results of Interfax's day. According to the results of trading, the MICEX index dropped to 877.21 points (-0.6%), the RTS index-up to 775.24 points (-3.1%), most of the "chips" on exchanges fell by 0.1-5.2%.

Cyprus Minister of Finance Harilaios Stavorkis and director of the Ministry of Finance of the Ministry of Finance Ilya Trunin signed a protocol on amendments to the current agreement "On avoiding double taxation in relation to income taxes and capital." The agreement of December 5, 1998 allows Russian companies registered in Cyprus to optimize taxes. Amendments to the protocol will not allow companies registered in Cyprus to use tax payments minimizing schemes, Kommersant believes.

In the Primorsky Territory, the missing four -year -old girl Polina Kartavochkin is wanted. She went for a walk from the house in the village of Lazo, the Dalnorechensky district in the afternoon of April 19. Since then, no one has seen the girl. The girl’s parents began to beat the alarm. Currently, in search of the child, the police department in the Dalnerechensky city district and the Dalnerechensky municipal district are involved, the daily news reports.

The European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) proposes to stop matches in case of football fans of a racist nature behavior. This, according to RIA Novosti , said on Tuesday by the president of the organization Michelle Platini. Last weekend at the match in Turin, Juventus fans, insulting chants chants to the dark -skinned striker Milan Inter - 18 -year -old Mario Balotelli. That match ended with a score of 1: 1, but "Old Signora" will hold the next game without spectators.

The CEC of South Ossetia refused to register candidates for the parliament of the republic from the opposition People's Party, headed by Roland Kelekhsaev. The People’s Party has already prepared a lawsuit in the South Court of South Ossetia in order to appeal the decision of the CEC. However, the opposition themselves do not believe in success, Kommersant writes. "On April 17, the CEC returned to us the documents marked" return without consideration "and refused to register our candidates.

The 64-year-old Sandra Smith was obliged to dress the figures of three naked gnomes that stand in her garden. This was reported on Tuesday by the British newspaper The Sun. The figures of the gnomes - one of them male and two busty figures - female - are standing near the Sandra house for 15 years. They entertain guests, and, according to Sandra, her grandchildren adore the dwarves.

The South Korean delegation of seven people, led by a senior official from the Ministry of Association of Kim EN, went to the border Ceson, where negotiations on problems related to the activities of the inter-Korean industrial complex begins, ITAR-TASS reports. This first from January last year, the official dialogue between the North and the South will be held against the backdrop of the almost completely frozen political relations of the two countries.

A large car accident occurred in the west of Moscow on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street. As a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies said, the accident occurred at about 7 in the morning. On a slippery road in the area of ​​the Borodinsky bridge, approximately 12 cars collided. In connection with the accident, traffic in this place is extremely difficult in both directions. Currently, the traffic police are engaged in the design of the accident.

A fight for the vacant European champion title (EBU) in heavyweight between the Ukrainian Alexander Dmitrenko and Russian Alexander Povetkin will not take place. “Literally today I was informed that the promotional company Sauerland Events refused to participate in the applications competition, which was supposed to take place on April 21 in Rome,” Alexander Dmitrenko said in an interview with Allboxing.ru .

The economic crisis was unexpectedly affected by auto -contestants. The cars began to steal less, and the interest of criminals shifted from the prestigious expensive models to the so -called budget foreign cars. According to the Trud newspaper on Tuesday, if earlier the products of the domestic auto industry were in greatest demand for hijackers, now they are clearly neglecting it.

In the border with the Lithuanian city of Sovetsk, Kaliningrad region, an elderly man died, who received numerous bites from stray dogs. However, doctors do not exclude that a man could lose consciousness the night before and die from hypothermia, and then stray dogs attacked him, reports REGNUM with reference to the central hospital of Sovetsk. They reported that the ambulance delivered a living man on Tuesday morning from the city cemetery. Doctors failed to save the patient.

The Georgian opposition holding mass promotions demanding the resignation of the President of the country Mikhail Saakashvili, from Tuesday, begins to install "prison cells-cameras" all over Rustaveli Avenue, the leader of the united opposition Levan Gachechiladze said at a rally before parliament. Cells for citizens, according to the opposition, symbolize that Georgia has turned into a police state.