Armored Mercedes, equipped with special signals, provoked a serious accident in Moscow. Moving along Tverskaya Street, the Mercedes S600 with a number A 505 MR 97, not including a flashing light, accompanied by a guard jeep at high speed crossed two solid ones and, having drove to the red light, rammed the BMW to meet the green car. The accident occurred on Tuesday evening, at about 22 hours, at the intersection of Tverskaya Street and Tversky Boulevard.

On Wednesday, a passenger train got off the rails of Mallorca on Wednesday, 30 people were injured. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to local media, there are foreigners among the victims. The emergency happened in the morning in the central part of the island. According to the Mallorca authorities, during the railway lineup from the manor region to the main city of the Balearian islands - Palma de Majorca - the masses of the earth and stones collapsed on the rails from the slope.

Corruption in the Caucasus directly threatens the country's national security and is the fact of complication to separatists and killers who operate in this region, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday at a meeting with members of the Council for the Development of Civil Society Institutes.

The Football Association of England (FA) with trepidation awaits the publication of the second part of the transcript of the private conversation of Lord Trisman with his former mistress, in which he denounces "greedy, corrupt and ignorant" higher rank football officials. And also issues the next portion of anti -Russian comments, this time to the owner of the Chelsea, Roman Abramovich.

Russian scientists one step closer to the creation of "flying saucers", namely the so -called plasma shell for supersonic aircraft, which will significantly increase the speed and maneuverability of aircraft. As reported on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS in the Samara branch of the Physical Institute. P.N. Lebedeva RAS (FIAN), the nature of the “shock waves in a nonequilibrium environment”, which occurs around the wing of the aircraft, is practically clarified.

Several people were killed and 51 people were wounded during the riots that broke out again in the south of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday afternoon, Interfax was told in the press center of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan. It is possible that among the victims there are people with firearms.

The interstate aviation committee (MAC) came to the conclusion that there was no terrorist attack, explosion or fire on an airplane of Polish Polish President, who broke up on April 10 near Smolensk. This was announced on Wednesday by the chairman of the committee Tatyana Anodin. In addition, the Macs are sure that aviation equipment and engines regularly worked until the plane collided with the ground.

A teaspoon of the President of Russia will be put up for an online auction, which will end on June 25, ITAR-TASS reports. As the head of the Ukrainian student parliament, Maxim Makarchuk, said on Wednesday, from this cup that Dmitry Medvedev brought with him from Moscow, the head of the Russian state drank green tea during a meeting on May 18 with students of Kyiv University named after Shevchenko. He left the cup on the rostrum, with which he performed in front of youth.

The official Tehran called the draft of the new resolution on Iran illegal, which was introduced by the US delegation to consider the full composition of the UN Security Council, ITAR-TASS reports. The project "in no way can be recognized as legitimate," the adviser to the President of the Islamic Republic of Mojtab Samara Khachemi told the Iranian information agency FARS.

On Tuesday evening, in New York, an exhibition of the Russian art project “Draw the Court” opened, which became a kind of art mirror of the trial of the ex-UCOC Mikhail Khodorkovsky, RIA Novosti reports. The exhibition coincided with the news that Khodorkovsky announced an indefinite hunger strike in protest that the court had ignored the new, more liberal norm of the law, approved recently by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and automatically extended its term of detention.

The investigation detained on Tuesday the head of the city administration of Big Kamen Vladimir Khalavko on suspicion of extorting a bribe of a million rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation in the Primorsky Territory Aurora Roman. According to her, Khalavko was detained on May 18 at the airport of Vladivostok.

The eldest son of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky Pavel lives in the United States and is afraid to return to Russia because of the possible pressure from Russian law enforcement agencies, Infox.ru reports. In an interview with Pavel Khodorkovsky, he said that he arrived in the United States in 2003 to study at the university, and did not assume that he would have to stay there for seven years. "My father recommended that I return while he is in prison.

Rev. Jeremy Wright, the former pastor of Barack Obama, accused the president of abandoning him to their fate, the British The Daily Telegraph writes today. For a number of years, a dark -skinned priest was quite close to the Obama family. He committed his marriage, baptized his daughters, and even, as noted in the publication of NG-Little , blessed his "spiritual son" to participate in the presidential race.

After the victory over the Finns (5: 0), in the last round of the qualification round of the World Hockey Championship, which took the Russians in the starting match of the playoffs to the Canadian national team, the mentor of our team Vyacheslav Bykov called the upcoming revenge for the Olympic failure in Vancouver a challenge to fate. “The Russian team does not have any other choice. We always play for victory,” the coach said, summing up the strategic results of the match with the Finns.

At the coal mine in North China, 12 people were blocked as a result of the explosion underground. This was reported by the agency Sinhua. The accident occurred in the afternoon of May 18 at the Chendong Minks, in the County of Yuyan, the province of Shanxi. At the time of the explosion, 41 Shakhtar was in the face, 29 of them were raised to the surface, ITAR-TASS reports. At the scene of the accident, rescue work and investigation of the causes of the incident continue.