England and Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham's BMW X5 worth 70 thousand pounds sterling (more than 120 thousand dollars) was stolen. According to the British publication The Scotsman, the theft was committed at one of the shopping centers on the outskirts of Madrid, when the football player was shopping, Lenta.ru reports. According to Spanish police, the car was stolen by members of a criminal group specializing in the theft of expensive cars.

In Dnepropetrovsk, a group of young nationalists beat a Jewish youth and stabbed him, Lenta.ru reports, citing the Israel National News agency. According to some reports, the attack occurred on Thursday. The boy was returning from a dinner hosted by the city's Jewish community when he was attacked by several aggressive teenagers. The attackers threw the Jewish youth to the ground and beat him. When the victim lost consciousness, one of the attackers stabbed her in the back.

The leader of the National Front, uniting French-speaking nationalists in Belgium, Daniel Feret intends to seek political asylum in Russia, according to the website of the Belgian newspaper Le Soir en Ligne, Lenta.ru reports.

Banks presented about 20 candidates for election to the board of directors of Rosneft as independent members, Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Monday in London. There are very interesting candidates, including representatives of large energy companies, he said. At a meeting on April 17, the Board of Directors of NK decided to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on June 7, at which three independent members of the Rosneft board of directors should be elected.

22 people were injured as a result of a collision between a tram and a shuttle bus in Almaty, the republic’s Ministry of Emergency Situations told Interfax-Kazakhstan on Monday. The incident occurred last Sunday evening. As a result of the accident, 22 passengers with various injuries were hospitalized, the agency’s interlocutors noted.

The head of Yekaterinburg Arkady Chernetsky on Monday held a working meeting with the head of the Sverdlovsk Railway Shevket Shaidullin, at which the two leaders discussed the prospects for the development of the City Electric Train project. It was decided to extend the existing line “Sverdlovsk Sortirovochny” - “Sverdlovsk Passenger” - “Keramik” to Mramorskaya station. These works will be completed in 2007. And already in 2006 the train will run to the Sysert station.

The fact of illegal oil production was first discovered by employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Surgut region, said the head of the criminal police of the region, Vladimir Kulakov. According to him, at one of the oil wells 8 km from the border with the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, oil was produced without the necessary documents for several years.

In the Turin urban district, as a result of the flood, three villages were cut off from the outside world: Kumarinsky, Chernysheva and Davydovo, in which 182 people live.

The Chelyabinsk company Zhiltekhstroy is obliged, at its own expense, to demolish the shopping center on Alom Pole, which was built without completing the necessary documentation and is now recognized as an unauthorized structure. This decision was made on Monday by the Arbitration Court of the Chelyabinsk Region, the press service of the mayor's office reported.

Nursultan Nazarbayev congratulated Kazakhstani Christians on Easter on Sunday at the Holy Ascension Cathedral. “This wonderful spring holiday is celebrated not only by Orthodox Christians, but also by all Kazakhstanis, because at the heart of this holiday is love for a person, despite his faith, nationality and traditions,” Nazarbayev said. “May the hope that shines in our hearts be realized in our deeds! Congratulations, dear compatriots, on this bright holiday!

Already, more than 120 employees of the Republican Television and Radio Corporation Kazakhstan JSC have resigned of their own free will. In particular, according to the source, all heads of the channel’s creative associations – “Zhan”, “El”, “Zhiger” - submitted their resignations; production center "Arna", recording studio "Kazakhstan Records", heads of the directorate of information and analytical programs, chief operator of the corporation.

An An-2 plane crashed in the Stavropol Territory on Sunday, April 23, in the evening. The plane crash was recorded by traffic police officers in the area of ​​the village of Tersky at about 20.50. According to preliminary data, four people died as a result of the disaster. Operational groups of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Stavropol and police officers are working at the scene of the incident.

Intellectual Property Days will be celebrated in Russia from April 23 to 27, Interfax reports. As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will hold a joint campaign “Stop Piracy” as part of these Days, aimed at attracting public attention to the problems of combating counterfeit and pirated products.

Experts from the technical commission at the Moscow City Hall, who determined the causes of the collapse of the Basmanny Market, came to the conclusion that the roof fell due to improper operation of the building, reports “NEWSru.com” However, the commission’s conclusion will only gain legal force when the mayor of Moscow signs the document.

Today, April 24, at a meeting of the Tyumen administration board, the head of the municipality, Sergei Smetanyuk, introduced his new deputy for economic affairs, 47-year-old Alexander Burov. In the city administration, he will oversee the department of investment, innovation and industry. As Smetanyuk noted, Burov has extensive management experience, which will be useful in the implementation of city programs.