Financial conspiracy of neighbors uncovered in Khabarovsk A unique criminal case was opened in one of the Khabarovsk police departments. 17 citizens pass through it as victims and suspects at the same time, and all of them are neighbors - residents of two entrances of one of the houses on Bolshaya Street. According to investigators, the victims-suspects took part in the creation of the so-called credit pyramid.

Yesterday in Krakow, the famous Polish writer Stanislaw Lem died in the Collegium Medicum hospital after a long illness. He was 85 years old. The total circulation of Lem's books, translated into 41 languages, amounted to 27 million copies. Lem was born on September 12, 1921 in Lvov into a family of doctors. In 1939-1941 he studied at the Lvov Medical Institute. During the German occupation, Lem worked as a mechanic's assistant and welder.

How will the elections in Ukraine affect relations between our countries? Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia Sergei KARAGANOV assured the Vremya Novostey newspaper that no major changes are expected. — I don’t think that this or that election result in Ukraine will have a significant impact on the development of Russian-Ukrainian relations. The vector of Ukrainian politics has already been set.

The court of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug rejected the claim of an opponent of regional consolidation The court of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug (UBAO) recognized the legality of the resolution adopted by the Duma of the autonomy to set the date for the referendum on the issue of unification of the Irkutsk region and UOBAO and rejected the claim of opponents of the merger.

The Ministry of Defense intends to introduce a lie detector into the Russian army The Ministry of Defense intends to use a lie detector, also called a polygraph, during medical examinations of conscripts. The head of the Main Directorate of Educational Work (GUVR), Colonel General Nikolai Reznik, said that the military had already submitted a corresponding proposal to the State Duma. The main goal of introducing a polygraph is to prevent people with mental illness from joining the troops.

On the eve of today's elections in Israel, the most heated debate has centered around plans to continue the evacuation of Jewish settlers, this time from the West Bank. In August 2005, Israel had already evacuated about 7 thousand settlers from the Gaza Strip. According to professor of geography at the University of Haifa, famous demographer Arnon SOFER, Israel needs to evacuate another 70 thousand settlers.

Synagogue massacre recognized as an “unsocial” act Yesterday, the Moscow City Court announced the verdict of 21-year-old Muscovite Alexander Koptsev, who on February 11 this year carried out a massacre in the Lubavitch synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street, as a result of which nine people were injured.

The whole world will be able to watch the eclipse on Wednesday As you know, a person can look at three things without stopping - fire, water and how others work. All of humanity will have to face the first hypnotic element in just a few days. On March 29, the world is preparing to watch an eclipse of the fiery solar disk. Hundreds of astronomers of all nationalities are already flocking to the area of ​​the Turkish resort of Antalya.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, having defeated the famous Martina Hingis, reached the fourth round of the tournament in Miami The prestigious tennis tournament NASDAQ Open, which has already created many sensations, continues in Miami, America. American courts have so far been quite favorable to our compatriots. This can be confirmed by the fact that eight Russians have already reached the fourth round of the competition.

— Is Lem a current writer for you, or are these rather memories of his youth? - Lem is a relevant author to this day, and I think he will remain so for a long time. Of course, when you read now in Eden how a starship crashes into a planet and its lamps and transistors break, and then they are soldered throughout the novel, this may seem naive and ridiculous. But Lem's point is not in the technological details.

Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir POLOKHALO, whom BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko names among the bloc’s ideologists, told Vremya Novostey about his vision of the situation in Ukraine. -- Before the elections, Tymoshenko refused to recognize Viktor Yushchenko as the leader of the “orange” coalition. Will the president's party agree to this condition after the current defeat in the elections?

Most of the European territory will remain under the influence of the anticyclone. But its days are numbered, an Atlantic cyclone is approaching from the west, which on Tuesday will cover the north-west of the territory, where precipitation will occur in the form of sleet, with temperatures around 0°C during the day. The North Atlantic cyclone intends to change the weather pattern in the central regions, driving away the frosts and finally opening the way to spring.

In the final match of the Women's World Chess Championship, held in Yekaterinburg, Chinese Xu Yuhua became the world champion ahead of schedule. In the first game, she beat Alisa Galliamova with Black in an equal position and miraculously did not win the second game. Alice's attempt to win back with White in the third game turned out to be tragic. In the opening, Galliamova gained a serious positional advantage, won a pawn, and then... miracles began.

Lokomotiv-Belogorye and Dynamo in Rome were “consoled” by the face-to-face meeting In Rome, the “Final Four” of the men's Champions League ended unsuccessfully for the Russian teams. It summed up one of the best seasons in the history of Italian club volleyball. The triumph of Sisley from Treviso, which defeated the Greek Iraklis (Thessaloniki) in the final match - 3:1 (25:23, 23:25, 25:23, 26:24), became the sixth this season for teams with Apennine Peninsula.

In an interview with Vremya Novostey, one of the ideologists of the presidential bloc “Our Ukraine”, director of the legal department of this bloc, former Minister of Justice Roman ZVARYCH commented on the possibility of creating an “orange” coalition. — How high is the likelihood of creating an anti-presidential coalition in the Rada? - It would be a disaster for Ukraine. In any case, the current election results do not make it possible to create such a coalition.