President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko the day before signed an order "On the regional receptions of the President of Ukraine", his press service reports. According to this document, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional centers, cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol, receptions must be created, which will obey the service of appeals of citizens of the presidential office. The president’s office was instructed to develop a draft Regulation on regional receptions.

In St. Petersburg, the police missed the National Bolsheviks to Palace Square. There was their rally, in which about 300 people took part, the Echo of Moscow reports. They held the flags of the Communist Party, the National Bolsheviks, the Communist Union of Youth and the Vanguard of Red Youth. Soon the rally ended. About 200 people are currently heading from Palace Square along the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospekt towards the Square of the uprising.

The fertile fire was transferred to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, RIA Novosti reports. The Blessed Fire was brought to Moscow by a delegation of the Russian Foundation Andrei the First -Called (FAP) from Jerusalem. Thousands of believers who gathered in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on this Easter night instantly handed each other the Holy Fire. From the Vnukovo-1 airport, several planes with blessed fire flew out by special enforcements in Minsk, Zaporozhye, St.

About a thousand supporters of the “Union of Right Forces” under party and state flags, marching on Sunday the column in the center of Moscow, plunged into river tram to celebrate May Day in the Moscow River. Supporters of the ATP carried banners "more rich - good and different", "hope for power, but do not flatter it yourself," "oil will end, but the brains are not forgotten." The column was accompanied by a brass band.

In the city of a successful, an outbreak of acute intestinal infection is localized, presumably, salmonellosis, the operational duty officer of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies said, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, over the past day, new facilities for medical help with symptoms of acute intestinal infection have not been registered. 16 people are prescribed, 41 patients remain in the inpatient treatment, including five children.

According to a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation, Victory Day is becoming more and more significant for Russians every year. If in 2003 83% of respondents stated that on May 9 an important date is for them, then in 2005 91% already expressed a similar opinion. The anniversary of Victory, who came to 2005, who came to 2005, also gives additional significance.

Participants of the Pervomaisian demonstrations of the Communists and the United Russia, having met in Kazan, meeting, greeted each other, RIA Novosti reports. The rally of the Communists, the application for which was submitted at once several left -wing organizations, was held in the square near the Tatar State Academic Theater named after Galiascar Kamal. Its participants were about 350 pensioners, as well as party activists and even a group of anarchists.

The swarms of the locusts paralyzed the road traffic on the highway, connecting the capital Bangladesh - Dacca with the southern port of Chittagonga, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to local police sources. According to them, due to millions of insects, the movement on the highway is completely blocked, panic began among passengers.

According to the British publication Observer, the audit company runs MG Rover in the process of bankruptcy, Nikolai Smolensky, the son of a Russian banker and entrepreneur Alexander Smolensky, turned. The audit company confirmed that the application of Smolensky is one of the two proposals, which the company considers serious. The second contender for the purchase of "Mg Rover" was the Iranian company "Dastan". The state of Smolensky Jr. is estimated at $ 100 million.

A powerful cyclone fell on Kamchatka, a storm warning was transferred. According to the Kamchatka Hydrometeorological Center, an atmospheric whirlwind that fell on Kamchatka on the night of Saturday to Sunday moves south of the peninsula in the Pacific Ocean, RIA Novosti reports. The weather stations on the southwest and southeastern coast record a storm wind of 25-30 meters per second. In Petropavlovsk, wind gusts reach 25 meters per second.

One of the most famous Afghan field commanders of the war with the Soviet troops Mohammed Yunus Hales called for jihad against foreign troops in Afghanistan. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a number of Pakistani news agencies.

For various offenses during the football match between the Spartak teams (Moscow) - "Terek" (Grozny), 26 fans were detained, Interfax reports. According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, most detainees were intoxicated, some were detained for petty hooliganism. All detainees are the fans of the Spartak team (Moscow). According to the representative of the department, in general, the match was held without serious offenses.

The left -wing forces gathered about 10 thousand people today in Moscow, reports Echo of Moscow . About 10 thousand people take part in the procession of left -wing forces in the center of Moscow. The first column in which supporters of the Communist Party of the Communist Party is already approaching the theater square, where the rally will take place. The procession stretched from Leninsky Prospekt to the Kremlin. For the first time in 4 years, the NBP column has been headed by Eduard Limonov.

Taiwan President Chen Shui Bayan said on Sunday that he had prepared “sensational proposals”, which he intends to “directly into the hands” of Chinese leaders next week through the head of the opposition, who is sent to Beijing, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Le Monde. “I demanded from Suna (the leader of the People's Party of Taiwan - Polit.ru), who shares my ideas and position of the government, to transfer our messages to the Beijing leaders,” he said.

Under the slogans of the fight against unemployment, increasing wages and protecting the rights of workers, traditional May Day processions of trade unions and political parties take place on Sunday in Paris, RIA Novosti reports. As usual, the leading trade unions of France form on this day columns that march and hold rallies in various areas of the French capital.