The author of the program Alexander Genis The NEO cave is located at the border of the three countries - France, Spain and Andorra. But neither the first nor the second, not to mention the third, have nothing to do with what is happening in this wilderness. Even the road here is so cool that you want to click on, which you should not do at the Pyrenees. Those who are lucky to get to the entrance receive rubber chobots and a lantern on the forehead.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and the director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting in Chechnya, at which they discussed the course of a military operation with the leadership of the republic. The meeting was attended by the head of the administration of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov and the commander of the united group Vladimir Lalterskaya.

In Beijing, the police erected fencing from barbed wire around foreign diplomatic missions in order to prevent attempts by North Korean citizens to seek political asylum in embassy buildings. At the end of April, three citizens of North Korea crossed the walls that are surrounded by the territories of the Embassies of the United States and Germany, and after two days they achieved permission to go to South Korea.

In the capital of Chechnya - Grozny - security measures have been strengthened. As Interfax reports with reference to law enforcement agencies, traffic in the city center is limited. On the main street, travel of all types of transport is prohibited. At the intersections, reinforced outfits are exhibited. In the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya, a car was blown up on a landmine. Two local residents were killed. In the Shalinsky district, a police checkpoint was fired. One policeman was wounded

In France today they choose the president. In the second round of voting, the current President Shak Shirak and the leader of the ultra-right, Jean-Mari Le Pen, who went around the candidate of socialists, Prime Minister Lionel Zhospen, fight for the post of head of state. By the middle of the day local time, the turnout of the voters exceeded 26 percent. This is more than 5 percent higher than the corresponding indicator during the first round of voting in mid -April.

In France, 12 Polish climbers were saved, who, due to bad weather, could not go down from Montblan and spent 5 days more than four thousand meters cut off from the surrounding world. Today, rescuers evacuated them by helicopter in the city of Chamonist. Despite the fact that in a special shelter where climbers were located, there was an oxygen chamber for the restoration of forces in the rarefied air, three people were affected by oxygen starvation.

In Moscow, in the Mitino area, an apartment of a senior employee of the Russian Ministry of Finance was robbed. According to the police, the criminals entered his apartment from the neighboring balcony between the second and fourth of May. The deputy head of the Department of the defense complex and law enforcement agencies of the Ministry of Finance stole 11 thousand dollars, things and jewelry - in total in the amount of 420 thousand rubles.

-Israeli troops blocked the city of Tulkarm on the west coast of Jordan. Searches of houses are held in the camp of Palestinian refugees in the city. The Israeli military stated that the operation would soon be completed, its goal is to prevent an attack planned by Palestinian militants.

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President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo interrupted today a trip to the countries of South Africa and returned to his homeland in connection with the disaster of a passenger aircraft, which fell yesterday in the Nigerian city of Kano to the residential quarter. At least 106 people died. Nigeria authorities fear that the number of victims will grow, since many people could be under the ruins of houses.

Japanese Foreign Minister Ioriko Kawaguti is currently in Tehran to a meeting with Iranian President Mohammad Hatam. Yesterday, Kawaguti held negotiations with the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Harrazi. During the meeting, the head of the Japanese foreign policy spoke out for the normalization of relations between the United States and Iran. In her opinion. This would contribute to the growth of stability in the region and around the world.

In the city of Bethlehem on the western coast of Jordan, through the mediation of Western diplomats, negotiations on the cessation of the blockade of the Israeli military of the Christmas of Christ, in which a group of armed Palestinians, is continuing. Last night, Palestinians handed over to representatives of the European Union a list of more than 120 people in the church. In addition to Palestinian militants, the issuance of which Israel achieves, civilians and clergy are blocked there.

In Russia, since July of this year, 30 times - up to 300 rubles, the size of the fine for stiseral travel on suburban trains has been increasing. For passengers of long -distance trains, it will be 600 rubles. In addition, fines for violations of the rules for transporting dangerous and bulky cargo are increasing. From those passengers who throw garbage from the windows of the train or smokes in wagons, they will be charged with a fine of 300 rubles.

The second space tourist in history - South African businessman Mark Shattluort - returned to Earth today. The descent device landed in Kazakhstan. The expedition, which, in addition to the shuttluort, also included the Russian and Italian cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Roberto Wittori - spent eight days at the International Space Station. A businessman from South Africa paid about $ 20 million for a flight.