Polls foresee that the second round of elections in France will be victory for Sarkozy, reports Reuters . IPSOS survey data was conducted. According to forecasts, Sarcoszy will receive 54% of the vote, his rival is Siglaul Ruayal - 46%. The second round of elections will be held on May 6.

The US President is deeply saddened by the death of Boris Yeltsin, who, according to him, is a “historical figure”, which played a key role during the collapse of the Soviet Union, RIA Novosti reports. “Laura and I am deeply saddened by the death of the former President of Russia Boris Yeltsin,” the statement of George Bush said. “President Yeltsin was a historical figure and served his country during the most important changes,” the American leader said.

In Krasnoyarsk, more than 24 kilograms of mercury were found in one of the residential neighborhoods, RIA Novosti reports. A sports bag with four plastic tanks of mercury was found by playing children. They reported the find to parents who, in turn, called the police. The experts of the Ministry of Emergencies called to the scene of the incident utilized the found mercury. Now law enforcement agencies are looking for an enterprise to which it belonged.

On Monday, the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin suddenly died, the Kremlin press service said. The cause of Yeltsin's death was a sudden cardiac arrest. Boris Yeltsin was remembered by different contemporaries. Many associated with his name “predatory privatization”, many believe that it was thanks to Boris Nikolaevich that democracy appeared in the country.

The parameters of the forecast of the socio-economic development of Russia until 2010, like all state forecasts, plans and programs, are extremely vague. In addition to the most general data on the dynamics of the main macroeconomic indicators and the growth rate of prices for basic goods and services, from these parameters there is little to find out and understand. True, there are still some detailed outlines, but they concern more external than the internal conditions of our life.

In the south of Yakutia in the city of Neryungri, 12 pensioners continue the fifth day, the Freedom radio reports. According to the calculations of pensioners, every month they lose up to 1200 rubles due to the underestimation of the coefficient. The starving demand from the Russian Pension Fund to execute court decisions on an increase in the coefficient when calculating pensions.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Events of the day The official results of the first round of the presidential election in France will be announced. According to preliminary data, in the second round of voting on May 6, Nicolas Sarkozy and Alena Ruayal will enter the struggle. Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov will meet in Moscow with the head of the Pentagon Robert Gates.

Voice votes are almost completely calculated in France, reports Reuters . The first round of elections with 31.11 % of the vote was won by the representative of the ruling law-conservative party "Union for the People’s Movement" by Nikola Sarkozy. 25.84% of the French voted for the representative of the opposition socialist party, Ruayal. Both of these candidates go to the second round. The third place from 18.55% of the vote was taken by the leader of the centrists Francois Bayru.

On April 5, the College of Civil Cases of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court agreed with the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg of December 20, 2006 to satisfy Anatoly Bezrukov’s claim against MTS, Kommersant reports.

In 2006, the investment structure in the transport industry began to change in favor of a private business, the deputy minister of transport Alexander Misharin told reporters at a press conference on the holding of the first international transport forum (will be held in early June in Sochi). According to Misharin, a public-private partnership is a promising area of ​​cooperation between private capital and the state.

After the Virzhinsky tragedy, the majority of the media called to introduce additional restrictions on weapons. However, unlike previous years, the congressmen do not offer the relevant bills, the Air Force reports. The last time serious attempts to introduce new restrictions on weapons were made in Clinton times and cost the American democrats expensive, who are now bypassing this topic.

During the assault on the house in the Dagestan village of Pervomayskoye (Khasavyurt district), one of the militants was killing. The assault continues, reports Gazeta.ru. In a number of other houses there is an “targeted stripping”. The house with the alleged militants was cordoned off about eight in the morning. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, there are from two to four bandits.

“Yeltsin is a whole era. I remember how he came to the Central Committee, what complex ways he went in his life. The fact that Russia has become a free country or a country of democracy that has entered the path of democracy, and this cannot be taken away from him, ”Vera Oskina, deputy of the State Duma, said in an interview with the Polit.ru correspondent. “He was brave, decisive, unpredictable in resolving political issues and placement of personnel.

“At the time when I worked with Boris Nikolaevich, I not only had no reason to doubt that he was a convinced democrat, but, referring to many situations that were formed in Russia and about which I was well informed, is firmly convinced that democracy for him is not a toy, but a serious value. In my opinion - I emphasize, in my opinion, - he perceived himself as a person who brought Russia freedom. And for him it was valuable, ”Yegor Gaidar said about a year ago in an interview with Izvestia .

The water supply of residential buildings on Trubnaya Street in Moscow, where last Sunday the roadway collapses , is carried out according to a temporary scheme. According to news agencies, repairs are being repaired at the site of the collapse, specialists are restoring disturbed engineering networks. In addition, the movement of cars on the site from Sadovo-Sukharevskaya Street to Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, as well as along Trubnaya Street towards the center, is limited.