In Chechnya, Russian units conduct special operations in Grozny, as well as in Vedensky, Naursky, Sunzhensk and Shalinsky districts. According to law enforcement agencies, 4 Chechen fighters were killed during the clashes, 24 people were detained on suspicion of involvement in armed groups. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the military does not allow representatives of local authorities to the village of Mesker-Yurt of the Shali district fully blocked for the third day.

In Moscow last night, the director of the circus, the former presenter of the Abvgdeika children's television program, Alexander Osipov, was killed. According to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Osipov was found with a gunshot wound in the head in the entrance of his house on Novator Street. By the arrival of doctors, he was still alive and died in an ambulance. The police are searching for a killer who, allegedly hiding in a car of the Mercedes brand.

Lilya Palvelieva, Moscow: Unlike many countries where the population census is the obligation of citizens, and evasion from it is punishable by law, in Russia this is a voluntary case. It is more difficult to collect the most reliable information about the country's population. Meanwhile, says Viktor Polunin, head of the Moscow Public Relations Committee, the All -Russian population census is a very important event.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, yesterday there was an attack on the office of the Tatar public center. Four people were injured. According to the city prosecutor’s office, five criminals entered the premises of the center and beat the employees who were there with iron rods. Then the bandits arranged a pogrom in the office and disappeared.

The Ministers of the Interior of the countries of the European Union agreed to create unified police forces to combat illegal immigration. At the meeting in Rome, a special operation was also approved, the purpose of which is to block illegal immigrants to access to the EU countries through air and seaports. The agreement must be approved at the EU summit, which will be held in June in Seville.

The British company Sab (South African Breweries), the fourth beer manufacturer in the world, announced the upcoming purchase of 64% of the shares of the American company Miller, the sixth brewing company of the world belonging to the Philip Morris corporation. The new company, which arises as a result of a transaction, the total amount of which will be 5.6 billion dollars will become the second beer manufacturer in the world-after American Anheuser-Bush.

In the east of Afghanistan, a base of the anti -terrorism coalition was fired by the city of Gardez last night. According to the Afghan agency Islamic Press, three missiles were released by international forces. There are no reports of the victims. The base in the Gardez area was actively used by the troops of the United States and their allies in March - during the Anaconda operation against the Taliban and militants of Al -Qaeda.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev instantly responded to the statement of 15 countries of the European Union, which condemned the actions of violence against the opposition Kazakhstan press. The European Union harshly reminded the leadership of Kazakhstan about its obligations taken under international agreements on compliance with democratic norms, including in relation to free press.

Musa Khasanov, North Caucasus: Two military personnel of the military commandant’s office were killed in the district center of Shali. Unknowns shot them during patrols in the city center after which, taking their hundredth weapons, disappeared in an unknown direction. According to the employees of the Shalinsky Department of the Interior, the military conducts the so -called targeted "stripping" in the city of Shali in the search for the attackers.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. With the co -author of the television game "Who wants to become a millionaire?" Chris Tarrant was talked by the Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna. Andrey Sharry: The TV game "Who wants to become a millionaire?" She won the whole world and everywhere she, as in Russia, is the highest rating on television.

Vitaly Tsygankov, Minsk: three years ago on this day, 53 people were killed in the underground crossing of the Nemiga metro station in the Minsk Center, mainly 14-16-year-old guys and girls. Then, after a pop concert in the open air, the crowd, trying to hide from a sudden rain, rushed into an underground passage. People fell on wet steps, piled on each other, dying in the crush that had arisen.

US President George Bush urged Pakistan’s leadership to restrain the word and put an end to Islamic terrorism in Kashmir. Bush emphasized that the further escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan, nuclear powers, could lead to a war that will not serve the interests of any of these countries.

The US Federal Bureau will be completely reorganized to be able to take preventive measures against terrorist attacks on the country. This was stated by the director of this law enforcement agency Robert Müller at a press conference in Washington, in which US Minister John Eshcroft also participated. Both of them admitted that the FBI incorrectly interpreted the information received in the summer of last summer about the plans of terrorist attacks on the United States.

In Moscow, another court recognized the cessation of TV channel TV-6 illegal. The decision on the statement of a viewer was made by the Meshchansky court of Moscow on May 15, but this was known only today. A similar decision was made to the day by the court of the city of Khimki, which obliged the owner of the TV -6 - the company of the MNVK - to resume broadcasting within three months.

In Algeria, parliamentary elections are being held today. The situation in the country remains tense. Last night to the west of the capital - the city of Algeria - armed Islamists burned alive more than 20 local residents. Extremist groups acting in Algeria opposed the secular authorities and reject the policy of national reconciliation, pursued by President Abdelaziz Butoflika. This year alone, more than 600 people became victims of terror.