Two teenagers who were injured during a terrible fire that occurred on April 10 at a boarding school for deaf-mute children died at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala yesterday morning. Thus, the number of victims of that tragedy has now increased to 30 people. In total, as a result of the fire in the Makhachkala boarding school, 28 children died, and more than 100 more received burns and poisoning.

Lithuania and Russia agreed on transit regulations Today in Moscow the next session of the Lithuanian-Russian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation begins. On the Lithuanian side it is headed by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, and on the Russian side by Transport Minister Sergei Frank. At the same time, the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry will hold negotiations with his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov.

During the election campaign, any government, regardless of its merits or demerits, is subject to attacks by various political forces. Therefore, the Russian government is calm about increased criticism of the Cabinet of Ministers from political parties, since they understand that they have entered the pre-election period and will use the opportunity to gain additional votes by criticizing the executive branch.

Yuri Pogrebnichko staged a children's play The play based on Lewis Carroll's books, produced by the theater "NEAR Stanislavsky's House", has a long title: "Alice's penultimate concert in Wonderland." In recent years, Yuri Pogrebnichko, the most remarkable of Moscow’s theatrical “eccentrics” (a special, endangered breed!), has produced several divertissement performances in which actors sing quietly, dance melancholy, read poetry, and perform simple tricks.

The excitement around Surgutneftegaz shares continues. Due to transactions in these securities, trading volume on the RTS yesterday reached a five-year maximum. At the same time, Surgut share quotes also set a new market record - their value in the middle of the day jumped on the RTS by 30%, to $0.57 per share. However, by the end of the trading session, prices decreased slightly and the final value was $0.48, thus increasing by 17.78%.

Today there is no responsibility in the government. We cannot even list all the ministers. We don't know them. Who are these ministers, where are they from, biographies. Where they studied, what they want and what they can. This is not possible. The economy of the entire country and social processes are dying. This is where people freeze and die from fake vodka. Where is the monopoly on alcohol? Rosspirtprom exists, but what does it do?

The Queen of England celebrated her first 77th birthday Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain has a unique privilege: Her Majesty celebrates her birthday twice a year. First, on April 21, a real birthday is celebrated, and then, already in mid-June, a big official holiday is organized for all the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

For the first time, Russian authorities will return a stolen car to a Japanese car owner. As representatives of the Far Eastern Customs announced yesterday, they have completed an investigation into the relevant case regarding the import of obviously stolen property into the Russian Federation. Russian customs officers received information about the theft of a Toyota Land Cruiser jeep from the Japanese police back in October last year.

The 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg began with a pompous exhibition in Moscow An exhibition with the enchantingly original title “I love Petersburg...” (Russian Museum in Moscow) opened at the State Museum of Fine Arts on Volkhonka. Thus began the season of high diplomacy.

Nigerian opposition protests defeat The announcement of the final results of Nigeria's presidential elections could spark serious unrest. There are also fears that instability will further increase in the Nigerian oil field area, which currently ranks 8th in global exports of “black gold.” Then oil prices will receive an additional incentive to rise.

Evgeny Chigishev won the only gold for Russia Although the Bulgarian strongmen won four top awards out of eight possible at the European Championships, they took only second place in the team competition after the Russian team, which has its only winner, Evgeniy Chigishev. The point is his partners, who added two “silver” and two “bronze” to the total, plus Andrey Matveev (69 kg) and Vladislav Yarkin (94 kg) took fourth places.

It is always risky to draw historical parallels. Perhaps for this reason, President Putin sarcastically rejected attempts by journalists to find an analogy between the results of the St. Petersburg summit of the “European Three” and the 1945 Yalta conference of the “Big Three”. These two events evoke directly opposite associations - both in historical retrospect and in the perspective of post-war politics.

The Russian Aluminum company plans to place a second series bond issue in the amount of 5 billion rubles in the second half of May through an auction on the MICEX. Semi-annual payments on coupons have been established, while the interest rate on the first four coupons will be determined through a competition on the MICEX on the first day of placement. The yield on coupons for the third and fourth years of circulation is set at 8% per annum.

Our main complaint against the Cabinet of Ministers is related to the salaries of public sector employees. From the last increase, in early 2002, until the next increase, which will take place in October 2003, the cost of living has increased by 40%. And the government presents a 33% salary increase as a blessing. In fact, the entire intelligentsia will become poorer by at least 7% during this time.

Components of an explosive device were found near the synagogue On Sunday evening, all the capital's special services were alerted due to the discovery of an explosive device in the city center, near the Hasidic synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street. It later turned out that the bomb was “defective” and, in the worst case, could only set fire to nearby cars.