A strong fire in Moscow was extinguished today on Neglinnaya Street. It started around four in the morning, and an occupied three-story wooden building caught fire. The fire was assigned the third category, the fire threatened to spread to neighboring buildings, its area reached 1200 square meters. meters. The fire was extinguished by 30 fire crews, and by five in the morning it was extinguished, Interfax reports. Firefighters believe homeless people are to blame. There are no casualties.

At the same time, local elections were also held with the governor in Vladivostok. According to RIA Novosti, for the first time in six and a half years, the capital of Primorye gained the City Duma - there was no representative power in the city since Yeltsin dispersed the advice, and during this time there were twenty unsuccessful attempts to organize the election of the Duma.

517 houses are flooded in Barnaul, and in the next day a further rise in water level is expected. At 7 in the morning Moscow time, the water level in the OA was exactly 6 meters, which is 80 cm higher than the critical one, RIA Novosti reports. It is expected that during the day the water level will rise by another 8-10 cm. 6 evacuationplaces for 2960 people are deployed in the city. Organized round -the -clock duty of rescuers.

In connection with the day of the border guard, Vladimir Putin now in the Kremlin meets with the director of the Federal Border Service Konstantin Totsky. At the beginning of the conversation, the president congratulated the entire personnel of the border wrap and Totsky personally on the holiday. Totsky must report to Putin about the state of affairs in the border worshipers.

The Tikhonov brothers have a new charge that significantly exacerbates their position. Now they are accused of complicity of encroachment on the life of Aman Tuleyev (the word "cooking" is crossed out of the prosecution). For this, they are facing from 12 to 20 years in prison or in general - a lifelong conclusion. The investigation of the criminal case against Tikhonov is completed, now the procedure for familiarizing themselves with the case materials is ongoing.

While the authorities calculate the loss of floods, interested parties are looking for guilty. The senator from the Irkutsk Legislative Assembly Valentin Mezhevich believes that the responsibility lies not only on incredible weather conditions, but also on the regional authorities.

The authorities completed the preliminary calculation of the damage caused by Yakutia by a flood. According to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vasily Vlasov, the damage amounted to 5.9 billion rubles. The largest damage is inflicted on housing: the total number of apartments and private houses that suffered from flood and private houses. Separate line allocated coastal work and the restoration of dams - the figure pre -agreed with the State Construction of Russia is 331.5 million rubles.

The National Council on Pension Reform is considering at today's meeting the most controversial bill of judicial reform, which determines the procedure for investing funds from the Pension Fund, RIA Novosti reports. The government rejected him at the meeting on May 11 and sent it for revision. The bill, invented by the department of Mikhail Zurabov, did not allow citizens to dispose of the funded part of the pension (that is, the one that they must pay themselves, and not through the employer).

Svetlana Sorokina agreed to conduct news on TV-6. It will be aired with the first release on June 4, the company's press service said. In addition, in the fall, the “voice of the people” with Sorokina as the leader will probably begin to go out.

At the invitation of Putin to Moscow, the head of the Palestinian administration, Yasir Arafat, will come with a brief working visit tonight. As Interfax said at the Palestine embassy, ​​the Arafat visit is connected with a sharply aggravated atmosphere in the Middle East. " True, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov says that this visit was planned in advance and is not unexpected. First of all, Arafat will meet with Putin. In addition, meetings with Ivanov and others are planned.

Another fire in the center of Moscow. A three -story reconstructed building burns on Volkhonka. According to Interfax, the fire occurred at about 12:50. The fire area is currently up to 100 square meters. meters. There is no information about the victims yet. There are gas cylinders in the building, so there is a possibility of their explosion. The traffic through the Volkhonka is limited.

The morning newspapers add little to the already known picture of the right-wing congress, the main results of which Polit.Ru reported yesterday morning.

The Duma clearly caught the signals from the law enforcement agencies about how the moratorium on the death penalty interferes with the restoration of justice.

The recent initiative of Yuri Luzhkova found unexpected support from the government. Viktor Khristenko at today's meeting of the Presidium of the State Council said that from next year, people with high incomes will fully pay utility bills, RIA Novosti reports. Like the metropolitan mayor, Khristenko did not explain which income will be considered high.

“Unity” and “Fatherland” are unlikely to unite in a single structure, only the coalition union is possible between them, Interfax reports. This was said at a press conference in Saratov, the leaders of "Unity" - Sergey Shoigu and Franz Klintsevich. According to them, about the "structural merger", as well as about the self -dissolution of "unity" or "fatherland" is not talking. The political coalition will discuss the options for the future possible coalition at the meeting on June 1.