In the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict near the village of Echenwi, two Georgian police officers were blown up on a mine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, the victims were hospitalized with severe wounds. The explosion occurred on a bypass road, along which the Georgian residents of the region and the police go bypassing Tskhinvili. The ministry does not exclude that the controlled mine was blown up.

The American actress and TV presenter Ellen Degeneeres announced her intention to marry the actress of de Rossi ( Portia de Rossi ). Dedenerys reported this during the recording of her talk show on Thursday immediately after the Supreme Court of California recognized the ban on registration of same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional. The law will enter into force after a few weeks, but conservative organizations achieve its cancellation.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Britain Britain recommended not to feed the bread of birds living in the wild. According to the organization, there are no substances that are useful for birds in bread, but, streaming bread, birds get a feeling of satiety and no longer seek healthy food. In the British Bird Protection Society, about a million members consist of and most of them feed birds.

The program is conducted by Alexei Kuznetsov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Irina Peters takes part . Alexei Kuznetsov : The new documentary “The Empire of Missing” was presented in Vilnius by the Lithuanian radio journalist Rimantas Plyikis. It presents the history of the fight against the broadcast of programs of Western radio stations, which, through repression and powerful technical means, led the Soviet authorities until 1989. Radio Liberty correspondent in Lithuania Irina Peters.

Primorye governor Sergei Darkin left Primorsky Krai, Russian news agencies report. According to some sources, he flew to Moscow, according to others - to China. Yesterday, Darkin got to the hospital with a heart attack. Hospitalizations were preceded by searches in the house and office of the head of the region - as part of the investigation of the case against local officials about large fraud in the sale of state property.

In the fifteen districts of the Irkutsk region, a special fire regime has been introduced, ITAR -TASS reports. Over the past day, the number of forest fires exceeded 120 in the region. The taiga burns in an area of almost 2 thousand hectares. Meteorologists predict the deterioration of the situation in connection with the wind increase and the temperature increase to 25 degrees.

In Transbaikalia, six people were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for negligence, which entailed an explosion in the mine. In September 2006, as a result of the explosion, 25 miners who worked in the face were killed, another 11 were injured. The inspector of the regional department of technical supervision was sentenced to 4 years in colony. He is found guilty that, knowing about violations of security measures at the mine, he did nothing to eliminate them.

In Serbia, three political parties announced their intention to form a government coalition. The Ultra-Nationalistic Radical Party, the Democratic Party of Serbia and the Socialist Party said they agreed on the principles of the formation of the coalition. Despite the fact that the general elections won the pro -European parties on Sunday, they lack parliamentary places to create the majority government.

The total number of current credit organizations in Russia in January-April 2008 decreased by 7 and amounted to May 1, 1129, the Central Bank said. The number of credit organizations with 100% foreign capital for this period did not change and amounted to 63, and with more than 50% of a foreign share increased from 23 to 27. The total number of Russian credit organizations with one or another foreign participation over the first four months of the year increased from 202 to 204.

Since May 16, Ukraine has become a member of the World Trade Organization. This was reported by the Ukrainian Agency UNIAN with reference to the Ministry of Economy of the country. The Protocol on joining the WTO was signed on February 5 in Geneva by the director of this organization Pascal Lami and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. On April 10, the document was ratified by the Verkhovna Rada, and on April 16 it was approved by the government and signed by the president.

US President George Bush today held negotiations with the king of Saudi Arabia Abdullah in Riyadh. The President called on the Saudi leadership to help reduce record oil prices in the world market. The parties also discussed the problem of Iran, which both Washington and Riyadh are considered as a threat to security in the Middle East. This is Bush's second visit to Saudi Arabia this year.

"The arrest of the father." The program about how psychologically the arrest/imprisonment of the father affects children. The historian I.P. Savitsky, the son of the repertory economist and geographer P. Savitsky, journalist A. Daniel, the son of the writer Yu. Daniel and others, participate. "How free Free Jazz?" Famous Russian musicians tell and play. "Screams on the court." The composition of the acoustic aspects of the big tennis (M.Sharapova, D. Safina, M.

In Karelia, a criminal case has been instituted against the head of the federal state institution "Belomorkanal" Anatoly Shalonin. According to the Republican Administration of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of Russia, Shalonin is suspected of illegally spending budget funds. The management website says that it is more than two million rubles.

The FSB of Russia announced the detention in the Southern Federal District of the Georgian special services agent Alexei Vlasov: "I would consider everything that happens exclusively in the context of the information war between Russia and Georgia"