The remains of former President Chile Salvador Allende were exhumed on Monday, May 23, to establish the true causes of his death, Agency France-Press reports. It is officially believed that Allende shot himself from the machine gun during the assault on the Presidential Palace by the troops of General Augusto Pinochet in September 1973. However, later weapons were not found, from which the president allegedly shot himself. There is an opinion that Alende was killed by Pinochet soldiers.

On the courts of Paris, the last -last matches of the open championship in tennis. The Russian representative office "Roland Garros", 2011, also managed to suffer losses. “Roland Garros”, which is included in the series of “Big helmet” tournaments. In the annual calendar competitions of the series, he is ideal for Australian Open, the apot will convey the baton “Wimbledon”, and already that - usopen. In the male -deciduous category of Roland Garros, Russia has already lost only one -ledge.

The National Bank of Belarus reduced the official exchange rate of a local ruble by 54% in relation to the dollar. It is reported on Monday, May 23, " Interfax " with reference to a source in bank circles. The official press release of the National Bank of Belarus promises to release in the evening. The official exchange rate on May 24 was set at 4,930 Belarusian rubles per 1 dollar.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that 3.5 trillion rubles will be required to repair a housing stock, and over 6 trillion to modernize the housing and communal services infrastructure, on Monday, May 23, RIA Novosti .

13 people were injured in a major accident at the railway crossing in the Orenburg region, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, on Monday, May 23, at 17:20 Moscow time, about 8 km from the Mednogorsk station, the MAZ Basos, which was on the crossing, was faced with passenger passenger train "Orenburg-Yekaterinburg" and a truck of 46 wagons with fuel oil. As a result, 6 wagons with oil products overturned.

The leader of the Taliban movement, Mullah Omar, was killed in Pakistan. This was reported with reference to the private television channel by the Chinese news agency " Sinhua ". Afghan television, citing a source in the intelligence of Afghanistan, reported that Omar was killed during the following from the Pakistani city of Kvetta to the North Waziristan region, Pressstv reports. The date and details of the destruction of the leader of the Taliban are not reported.

The Investigative Committee charged one of the explosions suspected of organizing explosions on April 26 in Volgograd, the department’s website reports on May 23. The under investigation is accused under the articles “Entertaining for the murder of two or more persons committed by a group of persons by preliminary conspiracy by a generally hazardous way based on ideological hatred and enmity”, “illegal production of weapons” and “illegal turnover of weapons”.

The former head of the Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of VTB Capital, Sergei Dubinin, will replace the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin as chairman of the VTB supervision council. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said Presidential Assistant Arkady Dvorkovich. “Yes, there is such a proposal ... It is likely to be likely,” said Medvedev’s assistant.

On May 23, the Moscow City Court returned the case of journalist Oleg Lurie to the prosecutor’s office, who is accused of slander, Interfax reports. The indictment in the Lurie case was approved on May 16. Today, preliminary hearings were supposed to take place, but the judge decided to return the case to the prosecutor’s office to eliminate the violations that were discovered when drawing up an indictment.

The Pakistani troops managed to restore control of the Metzhran military base in Karachi, attacked the day before by the Taliban, reports on Monday, May 23, Sky News . On Sunday, a group of armed persons with a number of 15 to 20 people burst into the territory of the Metrih naval base. The attackers produced several explosions in the hangars, as a result of which two reconnaissance aircraft were destroyed.

As a result of a powerful tornado, which fell on the city of Joplin in Missouri, 89 people died according to the latest data, reports the Associated Press . Currently, in a city where about 50 thousand people live, there is a search and rescue operation. The number of victims may increase in the near future.

The desire of the ex -spectator President Yusufov to enter the capital of the Domodedovo Airport is far from the first experience of the Yusufov family in business. According to unofficial data, Yusufovs can act in the interests of VTB. For Domodedovo, the deal could allow the situation with constant attacks on the business.

On May 20, the Piroga Pies on Sretenka gathered a lot of young people: the form of ordinary young people gathered. Most of them were commissars or activists of the public movement “ours”, and they came to support the representatives of the “ours” movement ( http://www.nashi.su/ ) in the debates with the leaders of the Sakharov movement ( http://sakharov-today.ru/ ).

In 2011-2015, the government will spend 12.6 billion rubles on an “accelerated technical re-equipment of the Russian electoral system”, of which about a billion in 2011, the same amount in 2012 and 3.5 billion in 2013. The centrizbirircom is recommended to approve this program. The proposal of the CEC on the conclusion of long -term state contracts for the “accelerated technical re -equipment of the electoral system” is approved.

On May 23, 2011, a meeting of President Dmitry Medvedev with recipients of megagrators - leading Russian and Western scientists was outlined. The 2010 Fields Laureate confirmed their participation in this meeting, professor at the University of Geneva Mathematician Stanislav Smirnov, as well as a molecular biologist, professor at the University of Michigan Alexei Kondrashov. The latter to the question "What is the agenda?" He replied that she was not unknown to him.