In Iraq, a group of militants fired at a minibus, seven people were killed, including a child, AP reports with reference to a police source. The minibus, heading to Baghdad from the city of Halis, was fired near the city of Baakub, 60 kilometers northeast of the capital of Iraq.

A resident of the Chita region on Sunday found 18 million, 250 grams of gold and 1.75 kilograms of silver, dedicated to the Baikal Bank during the robbery. This was stated by the assistant to the regional prosecutor Anatoly Uskov, RIA Novosti reports. “All values ​​and 18 million rubles were found in the forest a few kilometers from Chita near the Chita -Irkutsk highway. The local resident found them, walking with the dog, ”said Uskov.

The Special Commission of the Prosecutor General’s Office, sent to the First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman, completed the audit in the administration of the Ryazan region. With the participation of the inspectors, the local prosecutor’s office started two criminal cases against the mayor of Ryazan Fedor Sternov, who enjoyed the special location of the governor, and George Shpak himself accused of illegal use of housing.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss the improvement of interaction with Azerbaijan during a visit to Baku on May 21-22 in the political, military, economic and humanitarian spheres. This was stated by the official representative of the ministry Mikhail Kamynin, RIA Novosti reports. "We consider this trip to the head of Russian diplomacy as an important element of the rich and dynamic Russian -Azerbaijani political dialogue," Kamynin said.

Today, at the 89th year of his life, an outstanding Russian writer, an honorary citizen of the Saratov region, Mikhail Alekseev, has died, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Information and Press of the Saratov Region. Mikhail Alekseev was born on May 6, 1918 in the village of Monastyrskoye, Saratov Region.

Due to the strike of the Italian Alitalia workers, 394 flights will be canceled tomorrow, including several flights following Moscow and departing from the Russian capital, RIA Novosti reports. According to the official website of the airline, flights following from Moscow to Rome and Milan will be canceled: AZ0561, AZ0549, AZ0595, as well as flights heading to the capital of Russia: AZ0560, AZ0548, AZ0596.

One of the world's largest private yachts belonging to Saudi billionaire Nasser, Ar -Rashid, suffered an accident at the Cote d'Azur of France, Echo Moscow reports. The 108-meter vessel fell aground, as a result, a fuel leak occurred. Environmental anxiety has been announced in Cannes. Due to the accident, I had to close the beaches of two hotels, which housed the VIP guest of the Cannes Film Festival.

UEFA President Michel Platini stated in an interview that for professional football an exception should be made in European laws on the free movement of labor. “Football is not a product, but part of our life,” Sport -Express quotes Platini with reference to the Financial Times. “I really hope that the European Commission will listen to people from the world of sports and do not make incorrect decisions.

Two hours after the ceasefire in the camp of Palestinian refugees, Nahr El Barid in Lebanon resumed the battles between the Lebanese Army and the militants of the Fath El Islam group, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the OOP information service in Lebanon Hisham Dibsi, at the moment when some of the ambulance vehicles with a humanitarian load entered the camp, the Islamists opened fire on the positions of the Lebanese army from machine guns and RPGs.

The seventh session of the Russian-Arab business council (RADS) opens in the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain Manam on Monday, RIA Novosti reports. The forum is attended by the heads of large Russian companies, headed by the chairman of the Russian part of the RADS, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, leading businessmen of the Arab countries, representatives of the CCI, ministries and departments of the Arab world.

Vladimir Slutsker, Deputy Chairman of the United Commission on National Policy and Relations of the State and Religious Associations under the Council of the Federation, proposed to develop a new national project “Spiritual Unity”. Moreover, the senator noted, speaking at a joint meeting of the Council of Legislators and the United Commission, this project should be no less than “affordable housing”, “health”, “education” and “agricultural”.

A powerful typhoon approached the Southern Japanese Island of Okinotori in the Philippine Sea, Echo Moscow reports. Gusts of wind in the central part of the typhoon reach a speed of 50 m/s. According to the country's meteorological administration, the element is now moving to the northeast. A storm warning is sent to all ships in this zone.

On the night of Monday, a Tallink REDINA Baltica ferry, which made a flight from Stockholm to Riga, a fire occurred. There were 535 passengers and 135 crew members on board, no one was injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of a shipping company. All passengers were evacuated to the deck, and the fire was localized. Fire did not cause significant damage to the vessel.

The agreement discussed all the past week on the additional supply of Central Asian gas, signed by the presidents of Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is slightly clarified by the alignment of forces in the gas market. Until some time, relations between consumers (Europe) and the main supplier (Russia) were extremely clear: you are currency, we are gas to you.

Polit.ru continues the theme of the twentieth anniversary of “Zmeinka” - the famous seminar of the so-called Moscow-St. Petersburg school, which united economists and sociologists who tried to understand how the domestic economy really works and how its planned reforms can be effective.