At the end of 2010, the illegal export of capital from Russia amounted to $ 37.6 billion, the report of the executive secretary of the Commission of the Customs Union Sergei Glazyev said. The report was presented at the last interstate of the EU OPECE at the level of heads of government, Interfax reports.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the police are looking for two Thai citizens who worked in a massage salon and suddenly disappeared. The two foreigners who worked in the Thai massage salon in Pervouralsk mysteriously disappeared immediately after receiving a salary.

In the British city of hedge end (Hampshire County) last Saturday the police raided the White Tiger, whom the locals noticed lying in the field. As a result, a helicopter with law enforcement officers on board was sent to the place of the alleged location of the animal. Zoo specialists were going to lull the beast. However, later it turned out that the operations to neutralize a dangerous predator would not be required, since the tiger turned out to be a large plush toy.

The film "Pirates of the Caribbean: on the strange shores" (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), a fourth part of the franchise that turned actor Johnny Depp into the high -paid Hollywood star, brought a total of $ 346 million for the first weekend, becoming the largest release of 2011, becoming the largest release of 2011. reports RIA Novosti with reference to the resource of Box Office Mojo .

On Monday, the National Bank of Belarus (NBB) published on his website the official exchange rates of the Belarusian ruble to foreign currencies, Interfax reports. The official exchange rate for May 24 is 4930 Belarusian rubles per dollar, as previously reported by Finmarket with reference to a source in banking circles of the republic. The decline to the rate on May 23 was 56.3%. 1 euros now costs 6914.82 Belarusian rubles. Thus, the decrease occurred by 53.1%.

In the Republic of Ingushetia, the victims of the armed attack were the head of the Altievsky Administrative District in Nazran. A senior official was beaten, and then five guns were abducted from him. The victim was hospitalized with bodily injuries, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

The exhibition "Meni painting Dionysius", dedicated to the completion of the restoration of frescoes of Dionysius in the Ferapontov Monastery, was opened on the eve of the State Scientific Research Institute of Restoration (Gosniire).

The spiritual leader of the Taliban movement Mullah Mohammad Omar may be killed, sources in the special services of Afghanistan said. The country's authorities are now checking this information, but there is no confirmation for it yet. The representative of the Taliban movement through the Canals of the Islamic Agency of Afghanistan denied a message about the death of the mullah Omar on Monday, ITAR-TASS notes. According to some information, he was in Pakistan all recently.

The director of the Moscow Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology Leonid Roshal, who is rightfully considered the chief children of Russia, was not invited to a meeting of the modernization commission, which was planned on Tuesday, which will discuss the topic of children's health care. What this is connected is not officially reported.

It was possible to advance significantly in the settlement of the situation around the Khimkinsky forest , which is cut down under the construction of a new paid high -speed highway Moscow - Petersburg, at a special meeting of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on Monday in Moscow, said the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov.

The leadership of the Moscow Hermitage Theater reached an agreement with the Department of Culture of Moscow, according to which the theater will remain in its building during its reconstruction , RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Hermitage artistic director Mikhail Levitin.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the police detained a man convicted in Germany for a sexual crime. Immediately after the sentence, the criminal disappeared in Russia and later hid in the Urals and in Central Asia.

The visit of Barack Obama to Ireland on Monday did not do without incidents: the presidential Cadillac could not leave the territory of the American embassy in Dublin, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters.

Violetta Magarite, the editor of the picture from the Square of Freedom in Kharkov, at which the number of those present at the liturgy with the participation of Patriarch Kirill was doubled, had no malicious intent and deeply regrets what happened. She reported this to the Religion portal in Ukraine . “I, and no one else, in a sober mind and in memory edited this photo,” said Violetta. “There seemed few people in the square in that photo. They could have gathered more.

The 2011 sports gymnastics championship will be held, as planned, in the capital of Japan Tokyo from October 7 to 16. The corresponding decision was made at a meeting of the Council of the International Federation of Gymnastics ( FIG ).