The Pope Benedict XVI and the former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres at a meeting in the Vatican discussed the settlement of the Middle Eastern conflict, the fight against terrorism, as well as relations between Israel and the Catholic Church.

Over the past year, more than half of the Internet versions of British publications have stopped taking a fee for watching their materials, BBC reports. The data was published by the Association of Online publishers. By the beginning of 2005, 63% of the publishers included in the Association charged a fee for viewing materials, but in early 2006 their share was only 37%.

Following the aggravation of the “customs conflict” on March 31 in Tiraspol, chaired by the speaker of the Supreme Council, Yevgeny Shevchuk, a congress of deputies of city, village councils and the Supreme Council of the Transdnestrovsk Moldavian Republic was held.

On the night of April 5 to 6, a fire occurred in the Nizhny Novgorod region, as a result of which five people were killed and one was injured, RIA Novosti reports. As the agency was informed at the Volga-Ural regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, “on Thursday about 04.15 Moscow time in the village of Kudeyarovo, Lukoyarovsky district, a fire occurred in a private residential building. During the extinguishing of fire, the bodies of five dead were found.

The Russian scientist, the creator of Soviet intelligence satellites, the former Director General of the CSKB Progress (Samara), academician Dmitry Kozlov announced his intention to abandon the “Honorary Citizen of the Samara Region”. He stated this at a press conference held in Samara along with the former artistic director of the Drama Theater Peter Monastyrsky. Kozlov motivated his decision by the fact that Boris Yeltsin was awarded the same title, reports Cosmonautics News .

Moldova does not exclude the opportunity to file a lawsuit in international courts, in connection with a ban on the import of Moldavian wine in the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced today by the Minister of Economics and Trade of Moldova Valery Lazer. He noted that about 80% of the total volume of Moldovan wines supplied to Russia have certificates of quality issued by the Moldavian branch of the Russian "Rostest".

Omsk Avangard became the second finalist of the Russian hockey super League. Today, in the fourth mast of the semi-final stage of the playoff series, Omsk hockey players in overtime won the Magnitogorsk Metallurg with a score of 3: 2. The score in the match was opened by the efforts of Chistov, to which the Vanguard responded with accurate blows of Chubarov and Troshchinsky.

In 1992, the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation outlined the guidelines of the future military reform, which suggested a gradual transition to the completion of the Russian army on a contractual basis. However, the implementation of this project was entrusted to the "security forces" and failed. In 2003, in the President’s Epistle, the Federal Assembly again sounded the idea of ​​the need to modernize the Russian armed forces.

Russian-British Postgraduate University. "Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences" is holding on April 14-15, 2006 the Fifth International Scientific and Practical Conference “VECTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN RUSSIA” In 2005, the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences solemnly celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Today will be a plenary meeting of the Committee on Content to the Modern Society (KVSO) of NATO as part of the Russia-NATO Council, the press service of the MPR reports. It will discuss the issue of creating a prototype of the information exchange system in the case of an environmental attack. The project to create such a system was first headed by Russia and Italy, now Romania, Latvia, Türkiye, Hungary have joined it.

A group of researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argon National Laboratory (US (Institute for TransUranium Elements) in Karlsruhe (Germany), led by Michael Manley (Michael Manley), first received experimental evidence of the existence of solitones in a solid body, predicted earlier theorists. The solitons were registered in the crystal lattice of a metal uranium.

The night before, an ambulance had an accident at the Moscow Ring Road, colliding with another car, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. As a result, five people were injured. As the agency was informed at the Moscow traffic police, the incident occurred around 23:00 on April 5 per 35 km of the MKAD internal ring. "Ambulance" after a collision with another car turned over. To extract people, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies went to the scene of the accident.

The Executive Vice President of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan did not appear in the court, where today the issue of his involvement in the embezzlement case should be decided. Currently, the court announces the decision on the proposal of the Prosecutor General’s Office to attract Aleksanyan as the accused. According to the law, in order for the prosecution to be submitted, the lawyer needs a court conclusion on the presence of a crime in the actions of Aleksanyan.

On the eve of April 5, at a meeting of the State Duma, deputies were concerned about the protection of the honor and dignity of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The well -known film director, member of the Duma faction “United Russia” Stanislav Govorukhin, a member of the Duma Redorukhin fraction, has stood up for the triumph of the recent Belarusian presidential elections, “Independent Gazeta” writes today.

On suspicion of fraud, the head of one of the sects Grigory Grabova was detained, RIA Novosti reports. Grabovoi - sectarian, founder of his own teaching. He became known some time ago in connection with the statements that he could resurrect the children of those who died in Beslan in 2004. Law enforcement agencies suspect Grabovoy that for this purpose he raised money from the parents of dead children.