A large fire occurred on Wednesday night in the village of Molodezhny Astrakhan Region. According to a source in the regional Ministry of Emergencies, in a fire in a three -story residential building, according to the latest data, six people could die. Houses in this village burn so often that people nicknamed this settlement "burning village". The fire occurred about two in the morning, the fire area was 540 square meters. The three -story building is completely destroyed.

The prosecutor's office stopped an attempt to acquire a central basic customs of the FCS of the Russian Federation of a representative class. The order for the purchase of a car for 8.3 million rubles was placed in March on the public procurement website. Only the elongated Audi A8 sedan in the top configuration is suitable for the description. At the same time, the most expensive exclusive version of this car costs 800 thousand rubles cheaper, writes Gazeta.ru .

Having clarified the key details of the operation to destroy the Osama Ben Laden, the media turned to Barack Obama, who gave the order to start a risky assault. This decision was not easy for the US President - he was considering him for 16 hours, writes The Daily Mail . The military were ready to immediately start the operation in Pakistan on Thursday, April 28, the newspaper writes.

The military prosecutor's office of the Balashikhi garrison of the Moscow Region began an audit in connection with the incident on April 29 at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow with the Tu-154 Ministry of Defense aircraft. Then the military pilots miraculously managed to prevent the fall of the aircraft and land the plane. The audit began after an amateur video recording of the incident appeared on the Internet, which shows how Tu-154 after taking off began to roll from side to side.

Employees of law enforcement agencies in St. Petersburg received new UAZ Hunter service vehicles, which have an inscription "Police". The keys to 23 patrol cars to employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Kalininsky district on Wednesday were handed by the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, the press service of Smolny said. Chelny police were transplanted to exotic transport - now they will patrol streets on two -wheeled electric scooters.

Significant fines should be imposed on owners whose land plots are not used, but are overgrown with grass and weeds, so that it would be unprofitable for the owners to maintain them, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Nikolai Pishchev told the Interfax agency.

Two attacks on police officers in Dagestan have been committed in the last day. On the outskirts of the Dagestan city of Kizlyar on Wednesday morning, the DPS post was fired: a police officer died, five civilians were injured. In the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, a Gazelle police with dog handlers was fired: as a result of the attack, one policeman died and one was wounded. Around midnight, unknown people fired on the post on the outskirts of Kizlyar from the forest.

The newspaper "Arguments of the Week" prophesies the ambulance of the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova. According to the article, one of the most unpopular ministers will be the first in the list of election victims. Moreover, the source of the newspaper in the presidential administration claims that Dmitry Medvedev will announce the dismissal at his unexpected large press conference on May 18.

Olympic champion in ski racing Evgeny Dementyev, disqualified for the use of forbidden drugs, is going to return to big sport. “Yes, I decided to return, but only now I’m talking about it openly. I did not confirm all unofficial versions from ordinary ethics so as not to embarrass anyone during the season,” Dementiev said in his Internet blog. The athlete noted that the decision to end his career two years ago was caused by a whole range of circumstances.

The jury of the American Prize Tony announced on Tuesday the nominees for the highest theater awards of the year, RIA Novosti reports. In terms of the number of nominations, the Broadway musical “Mormon’s Book”, set by Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, leads. The production claims to be 14 awards, including in the nomination "Best musical of the year." Parker and Stone are known as the creators of the popular animated series for adults "South Park".

In the east of Moscow, a mass fight with shooting occurred, as a result of which two citizens of Tajikistan were killed. Two more people with severe wounds are in the hospital, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The battle occurred on Amurskaya Street, in the area of ​​the house number 1. The circumstances of the fight and the number of its participants are still unknown. It is only reported that the police found 9 mm caliber on the site of 19.

US President Barack Obama decided not to publish photos with the image of the murdered leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Ben Laden, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the President’s interview with the 60 minutes of the CBS television company. “We discussed this inside the administration. We are absolutely sure that it was Ben Laden, we conducted DNA analysis, there was no doubt that we killed Ben Laden’s usam.

The third party of the state - speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov - may lose his position on May 18. On this day, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg will consider the issue of his review from the upper house of parliament. As Mironov RIA Novosti himself stated, he is personally notified on the date of the meeting. Moreover, he was invited to participate in it. On May 18, he will go to St. Petersburg, but before this date there will be no changes to his work schedule.

The magazine "Science and Religion published an interview with the director of the Russian Institute of the Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky. In an interview with journalist Mark Smirnov, the scientist gives the characteristics of the events that are covered by Arab countries today. According to the scientist, in an attempt to explain what is happening today in the Arab East, some single reason cannot be distinguished.

Employees of the Belarusian police conducted on Wednesday searches and detention in the office of the Vesna human rights organization in Minsk under the pretext of finding an explosive device. Several detained citizens of Russia, among which was the correspondent of Interfax Yuri Shamshura, released it after checking the documents. The rest of the detainees, including citizens of the Russian Federation, were sent to Pervomaisky police department.