PARTY BUILDING On April 12, the famous singer Sergei Krylov, who left his stage career some time ago, appeared in the assembly hall of the President Hotel in a new role. Here the presentation of the new party “Children of Russia” he created took place. Krylov began the press conference by declaring that his party is not a political organization. The first task of the party, in contrast to all sorts of other foundations and societies, is targeted financial assistance to specific orphanages.

INCIDENTS Yesterday at approximately one o'clock in the morning at the Dagestan Lights station near Derbent, an explosion occurred in one of the cars of passenger train No. 192 of the Azerbaijan Railway, traveling along the Moscow-Baku route. According to the road department, there were casualties. To clarify the causes and consequences of what happened, responsible road workers, as well as law enforcement agencies of the republic, went to the scene of the incident.

The press service of the President of Crimea explained the reasons that prompted Yuri Meshkov to appoint new Minister of Internal Affairs of the Autonomous Republic and Chairman of the Crimean Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

Finally, decent games from 1994 began to appear in Moscow. Unexpectedly, MicroProse, which has been expanding and producing new games at an alarming rate, has unexpectedly pleased all its fans with two creations at once. This company, by the way, has perhaps the most ambitious plans for the remaining months of this year, in any case, it has announced its intention to release almost two dozen games for it!

The Moscow City Hall, together with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, decided in April-May to strengthen city law enforcement services with police units from other cities, specially invited to carry out a number of preventive operations. Many associate this event with the amnesty announced by the State Duma on February 23.

In accordance with the instructions of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the disciplinary battalion of the Pacific Fleet located on Russky Island was disbanded. As reported in the press center of the Pacific Fleet, some of the convicted military personnel were released by an act of amnesty, the rest were transferred to the corresponding military units in the cities of Ussuriysk and Vanino, the press center of the Pacific Fleet told Interfax.

The Russian President's visit to Spain has ended. The program of Boris Yeltsin's stay on the Iberian Peninsula, the content of the negotiations and the nature of the documents signed were standard for this kind of trip. So standard that the commentary on this matter could be universal for any presidential visit - all that would be left to do is change the names of the countries and the names of the heads of host states in the text.

AZERBAIJAN The Armenian side finally handed over 10 corpses of Azerbaijani prisoners killed in Armenia. In this regard, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan addressed the representative offices of countries accredited in Baku and the embassies of the republic abroad with a request to send their experts. Doctor of Medicine from Great Britain Derek Pounder, who arrived on April 6, performed an autopsy on the corpses and stated the following.

A five-kilometer security zone along the Russian-Chinese border is being introduced in the Jewish Autonomous Region. Access to this zone is now provided by special passes or documents certifying residence in it. Foreign citizens also require a registration mark with the internal affairs bodies. This procedure for entering the border zone was established by the administration of the autonomy in accordance with the recently adopted law on the state border of the Russian Federation.

On April 13, N. Yu. Durova turned 60 years old Her nanny was Lily. She made sure that no one else approached the child. With Lily she entered the arena for the first time. It was in '39. The 20th anniversary of the Soviet circus was celebrated. They had been preparing for the celebration for a long time. Actually, her performance was ready a long time ago. Lily adored Natasha.

PROFESSIONAL SECRET There are no miracles in the world. And personally, I don’t trust any sorcerers, clairvoyants, shamans, I don’t know who else is there... Sometimes their dominance simply begins to irritate. Not a day goes by without one of them broadcasting something from the telescreen. The General Secretary of the Central Committee has never been shown to the public as much as it is now.

The progress of the investigation into espionage for Russia is actually forcing the five-year-old son of Aldridge and Rosario Ames, Paul, to leave the United States. The fact is that among the arrested Ames accounts was an account in Colombia in the name of Paul’s grandmother and Rosario’s mother, Cecilia Dupuy, with whom Paul actually now lives. The court allowed them to withdraw only $500 a month from this account, which they do not have enough.

FIRES Spring has finally replaced winter. Its smell - the smell of smoke from burning landfills - has firmly established itself in the air of Moscow streets. However, as befits every season, spring dictates its own laws, by which it is recognized. Here are a few examples that prove that winter’s misfortunes are over and spring’s misfortunes have arrived. Commercial tents, which caused a lot of trouble for firefighters over the winter due to their fire hazard, have finally calmed down.

ROCK PARABLE The first trip of the Izhevsk metal band “Dizinter Dead” to the “Iron March” festival, which took place over the weekend at the Metrostroy Palace of Culture, almost ended tragically. It all started in Izhevsk, when the wheels of the train began to slowly spin towards Moscow. Either from the joy of the upcoming day, which was very important for the group, or out of habit of “killing time” in this way, the musicians and their fans decided to drink beer.

Yesterday at 6 o'clock in the morning at the Central Republican Clinical Hospital in Moscow, after a long illness, at the age of 84, the outstanding actor of Russian cinema Nikolai Kryuchkov died. Starting from the 30s, he created on the screen a whole gallery of images of simple and courageous, honest and cheerful people. Already the first films with the participation of N. Kryuchkov - “A Guy from Our Town”, “Tractor Drivers” - were included in the golden fund of Russian cinema. N.