Schuchinsky District Court of Belarus sentenced the opposition activist Sergei Lyashkevich to five months of arrest, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to his supporters, for the first time, the opposition was found guilty of violating part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (“Training or other preparation of persons to participate in the riots, as well as financing or other material support of such activities”).

Nurses and masseuses - Favorite characters of porn films and tabloid publications. Moreover, if in porn films, these are mainly positive characters that help all other actors reveal their sexuality, then in media plots are the main outrageous of morality.

On the eve of the day of commemoration in the United States and Great Britain (in connection with which all financial markets in these countries will be closed today), the activity of trading in the Forex market was low on Friday. According to some estimates, due to the lack of foreign exchange trading at venues in the USA and the UK, the volume of trading today will be more than 40% lower than average.

The Ministry of Economy of Transnistria prepared projects of five protocols for signing with various departments of Russia in the development of a previously signed bilateral protocol on interaction in the socio-economic sphere, the head of the ministry Elena Chernenko said today, RIA Novosti said.

The Russian government supports the merger of Severstal and Arcelor and does everything possible to end successfully, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov said at a meeting of the President of Russia with government members, RIA Novosti reports. The question of the deal was raised by Vladimir Putin at a meeting with government members. "Do you know about her (transaction) and support her?" - the president asked the prime minister. Fradkov answered in the affirmative.

According to a survey conducted by the analytical center of Yuri Levada, today 45% of Rensponde are familiar to varying degrees with the text of the presidential message. However, among the youth group (18-24), the percentage of those who did not hear anything about the President’s message (44%) is quite high. Nevertheless, 52% of respondents are convinced that it should have a serious impact on the country's life.

Over the past week, 2 thousand 585 kg of drugs were confiscated in Iran, including 2.5 tons of opium, 45 kg of heroin and 40 kg of hash. At the same time, at the request of the Iranian police, in the period from May 17 to 23, a series of special operations were held in various regions of the country, during which 573 drug dealers and 549 drug addicts were arrested, RBC reports. According to the UN data, Iran ranks first in the world in the annual volume of confiscated drugs.

President Viktor Yushchenko gave preliminary consent to the appointment of the Director of the Crimean Electric power system of the GP NEC "Ukrenergo" Viktor Plakida, Ukrainian Pravda reports, citing the presidential press service. Such a decision was made at the work of Yushchenko with the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Crimea, Anatoly Gritsenko. The Placida, who also attended the meeting, set out his vision of the economic development of the Crimean autonomy to the president.

** Themes of the day ** As usual on Mondays, the main materials on newspaper stripes are reserved for the events of the end of the week. At the same time, the end of the week was marked by the proclamation of a very large transaction for Russia, the total amount of which can reach $ 13 billion: the Luxembourg company Arcelor is going to unite with the Russian Severstal , as a result of which the largest steel company with about 70 million tons per year may appear on the world market.

For a long time, DNA was considered the main material agent of hereditary transmission of genetic information. However, new studies, apparently, indicate that RNA also plays an important role in the inheritance processes, which also ensures the transfer of hereditary information in a series of generations.

The French Party "Green" condemned the acceleration of the Saturday gay parade in Moscow. According to the party’s statement, such a turn of events is all the more shocking that Russia has just headed the European Council as the current chairman, Echo of Moscow reports.

The Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican from his first pastoral trip. The pontiff since May 25 was in Poland, in the homeland of his predecessor John Paul II, RIA Novosti reports. During the trip, Benedict XVI, German by nationality, visited Auschwitz. There, he lit a candle in the underground bunker number eleven fascist concentration camps, choosing the memory of prisoners tortured there. This bunker was called the “Block of Death”, the prisoners sentenced to death were thrown there.

The head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, restored the General Director of the Production Association by the lighthouse Vitaly Sadovnikov, RIA Novosti reports. The corresponding order was signed on May 26.

The Israeli police released the 18-year-old daughter of the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Hania without charges, RIA Novosti reports, citing a police officer of the Mickey Rosenfeld police. According to him, she will be sent back to the gas sector. The daughter of Hania, the Palestinian Prime Minister and one of the leaders of the Hamas movement, was detained while trying to get to the Israeli prison on a date for a prisoner, serving life imprisonment for murder.

Oleg Deripaska restructures the construction assets acquired last year and lead them to the exchange. The managers of the “basic element” expect that by spending about $ 550 million, they will be able to create a holding with capitalization of up to $ 1 billion. The market participants believe that the construction business of Deripaska can cost more, the Vedomosti newspaper writes today.