The Investigative Department of the Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation deployed in the city of Kronstadt is investigating a criminal case against the head of the military team of fire protection and rescue work of the 15th arsenal of the Navy of Lieutenant Alexei Stepanenko, the press service of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

In India, the Cabinet of Ministers was formed - the President of India Pratibha Patil approved another 59 ministers. Thus, the total number of members of the new cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is 79 people, the Russian Air Force service reports. In the first half of May, parliamentary elections took place in India. Residents of the world's largest democratic country voted during five stages over the past four weeks.

Politician, conducted by the general director of NPK Uralvagonzavod, Oleg Sienko, can lead to the collapse of the enterprise. This was stated by the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Eduard Rossel, reports Uralinformburo . The head of the region noted that in early May, Sienko sent more than 20 thousand employees of the carbon, metallurgical, instrumental and repair and mechanical workshops on a forced vacation.

The Russian government in 2009 will send about $ 4.5 billion to support the Russian nuclear industry. This was announced today, on May 26, in Moscow during the opening of the international forum "Atomespo-2009" Deputy Prime Minister, head of the government of the Russian Federation Sergey Sobyanin. According to Sergei Sobyanin, the atomic sphere is one of the priority areas in the cooperation of Russia and Europe.

The French court freed Irina Belenky from custody. The decision was made at the court session in the ex-en-provence, reports Channel One. After seven hours of interrogations and debates, the prosecutor of the city of Olivier Rate said that the accusation of abduction of her own daughter with Belenka was not removed, but she could go to Russia.

The deputy of the Kyiv City Council and the leader of the Klitschko Block faction, Vitaly Klitschko states that he suits the mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky. Klitschko said this today in an interview with reporters, UNIAN reports. “The mayor of Chernovetsky accused me that I allegedly asked for 2 hectares of land in his office, and there were confirming documents there. So: I sue Chernovetsky. I would like to see documents where Vitaly Klitschko demanded 2 hectares from Mr. Chernovets.

The editor -in -chief of the Russian Elle, Irina Mikhailovskaya, reports Lenta.ru , citing an unnamed magazine employee. According to her, this will be officially announced on Monday June 1. At the same time, Mikhailovskaya herself already spoke about her dismissal to the OpenSpace.ru portal. She claims that the Russian edition was fired in full force. According to Mikhailovskaya, the publisher is not satisfied with the reduction in the reader's audience of the magazine.

The day before, a presentation of the new innovative product of United Russia, the information and analytical system “Citizens' circulation”, was held. It is expected that thanks to the implementation of this system, all information about the work of public receptions Vladimir Putin will be combined into one database.

GDP in the CIS countries this year will be reduced by 5.4%. This is stated in the new report of the UN "World Economic situation and prospects for 2009", the UN news center reports. In addition, according to experts, the pace of development of the global economy will decrease by 2.6%. “The world economy has been experiencing the largest crisis since the time of great depression. She fell into a tough vice of financial and credit shocks. Back in January 2009 These forecasts were more optimistic.

Today, the head of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, Alexei Kudrin, told Minsk journalists that Russia offered Belarus a loan of $ 500 million in ruble equivalent, and Belarus refused.

The united command of the American contingent in South Korea of ​​28 thousand people and the South Korean number of 670 thousand people increased the level of combat readiness to the second of five levels - the last time this strengthening was carried out in October 2006, after the northern Korea of ​​the first nuclear tests. According to Yonhap South Korean news agency, Seoul is ready for further provocations from the northern neighbor - including new missile launches.

Yesterday, in the Tskhinvili, the KGB officers of South Ossetia detained the teacher of South Ossetian University Fatima Margiev and the North Ossetian human rights activist Vissarion Aseev. They were accused of trying to disrupt the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 31, Kommersant writes. The acquaintance of Fatima Margeeva told the publication that in the morning she left the house with a large package filled with copies of the Opposition newspaper "Position".

Gazprom OJSC decided to increase investments in the implementation of the project of the construction of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Khabarovsk-Vladivostoks to 50 billion rubles, the Gazprom press service reports. According to the chairman of the board of the company Alexander Ananenkov, such a decision was made due to the accelerated pace of work.

The Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office of Paint-Petersburg charged the murder (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code) to the leading engineer of the Committee on Press and Telecommunications of the Administration of the Leningrad Region, 20-year-old Dmitry Ostalsky. It was established that on May 22, 2009, during a quarrel that arose due to personal hostile relations, he strangled his 62-year-old mother.

Russian Marat Safin admitted that he was not experiencing any regrets, leaving the last Roland Garros in his career. It is reported by Eurosport. “There is no sadness, just one life stage is replaced by another, and maybe I just didn’t realize this in full,” Marat said at a press conference after the match of the second circle, in which he lost on Wednesday to the little -known Frenchman Joslen Uann - 6: 7 (2: 7), 6: 7 (4: 7), 6: 4, 6: 3, 8:10.