The Christmas Kremlin fairy tale ended: the evil was punished and forgiven. The Moscow garrison military court announced a sentence in the criminal case of beating the ordinary presidential regiment of 20-year-old Alexander Fokin. The accused of the former junior sergeant of the presidential regiment Vladimir Shumenko, during the investigation he was unclenched to the ordinary, was accused of hazing and sentenced to two years in the disciplinary part, Interfax reports.

Nobody wants to be the mayor of Norilsk: the recent election of the mayor failed, the leader was first removed from the election, and the remaining three applicants with one after another lifted their candidates themselves. Today, the acting was resigned Mayor Gennady Petukhov, reports RBC. Explaining the reasons for the resignation, acting He referred to difficulties with the fulfillment of the budget of this year, "difficulties" in the city administration.

The government is categorically against immediate payments to deceived depositors of money remaining in the accounts of the Federal Social-Government Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Depositors and shareholders. This was announced today by the Deputy Chairman of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation Konstantin Zuev, who was invited to the government hour to the Duma.

The scandal around the participation of Dauning Street in editing intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass defeats to the parliamentary investigation. In fact, the Commission on International Affairs of the House of Commons is arranging investigations after each war with the participation of Great Britain, but this time it was stated that the ministers will be subjected to an open investigation for society, the Guardian correspondent reports.

For the first time since George Bush left Evian, there was a huge uproar around the summit. Information came from one of the members of the British delegation that Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend nuclear cooperation with Iran until Iran signs an additional protocol to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Further explanations seemed intended to completely obscure the situation.

The Chechen amnesty has not yet been adopted, according to information from the headquarters for managing a counter -terrorist operation, already bears fruits. According to the headquarters of the ITAR-TASSU, one of the Chechen field commanders hiding from law enforcement agencies, someone Yakub Bidiev, through intermediaries offered his help in the capture of the leader of the militants Shamil Basayev.

In Chechnya, people were abducted in times of independence - under Dudaev and Maskhadov, they continue to be kidnapped under Kadyrov. But Kidneping is already difficult to call only the Chechen national fun, this business is not disdained by the federal forces. According to the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, on June 2, relatives bought a resident of the Chechen village of Serezhen-Yurt Rizvan Munaev, who was taken away from the house last Saturday.

In Jordan, a tripartite meeting was completed, dedicated to the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas met in Akabe, the American President George Bush played the not last role. After the summit, a press conference was held with the participation of all parties to negotiations.

Under the very curtain of the Great Eight summit in Evian, a sensation was born. This is told by "News Time" . The British media reported with reference to anonymous sources in the delegation of his country, as if on the eve, during a dinner in a narrow circle of colleagues, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is suspended nuclear cooperation with Iran until he signed an additional protocol to the agreement on non -distribution of nuclear weapons.

Day a day with the adoption of a project on an amnesty in Chechnya in the second reading, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Sergey Friedinsky announced the next successes of his department in this republic. According to him, the attack, committed at the end of last year at the House of the Government of Chechnya, was disclosed, and it is finally proven that Shamil Basayev was involved in him (which, in fact, declared this himself ).

Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow acquitted two employees of the State Customs Committee, accused of abuse of authority to verify the facts of smuggling of furniture, which was sold in the Tree Kita and Grand stores.

The head of the Ministry of Protection believes that for the financial problems of the Channel of the TVS, which in the coming days threatens to turn off the broadcast, its leadership is responsible. “All negative consequences follow from the slurred position of the channel management,” said the Minister of Press Mikhail Lesin, according to which, within five months, the TVS was virtually uncontrollable.

An emergency occurred at the Kamensk-Ural foundry: oxygen cylinders exploded on the open area of ​​the compressor workshop. As a result of the explosion, at least six people were killed, fragments of several more bodies were found under the rubble of the building. Two victims in serious condition are in intensive care. An emergency commission was created to investigate the incident, specialists from the FSB and CO and emergencies work at the scene of the explosion.

Contrary to the concern of the Russian press by the fact that NATO moves the troops closer to the Russian border, which today the ministerial meeting of the Council of Russia V NATO has led to profitable, although incomprehensible-as-state-related agreements. The alliance countries promised to show “military restraint” in the territories of recent and new members of the Alliance, Igor Ivanov, the Russian Foreign Minister, told reporters after the meeting.

The hunger strike V ordinary event in the zones, and it is announced by the prisoners because they are mentally ill and they have nothing to do, v so commented on our publication by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Justice of the Ministry of Justice Vladimir Logachev a message about a “quiet” hunger strike (without written statements) in the colony ”2 in the Astrakhan region. The hunger strike, begun on Monday, joined 15 people, RIA "Avers" reports.