Passions have been raging in the Russian Internet zone for the fifth day. Not all of it, of course; fans of glamor and crime news won’t even understand what we’re talking about. A flurry of responses and emotions was caused by the news agency “Fergana.ru” about the removal from Tashkent of a monument in memory of the family of the Uzbek blacksmith Shaakhmed Shamakhmudov.

The President of Israel attended the ceremony Five days of commemorative events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers began yesterday in the Polish capital. It broke out on April 19, 1943. Since this year this day coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover, the events began earlier. The main event was yesterday's ceremony at the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The hurricane wind that swept through Spain and Portugal at the beginning of last week gave way to a real storm, but this time a sport one, by the weekend in Lisbon. For three days, on the tatami of the Atlantico Hall, the passions of the European Judo Championship were in full swing - the last, and therefore in many ways decisive, rating tournament for the 2008 Olympics. In the homeland of Vasco da Gama, in a dispute with representatives of 46 European teams, the Russians won four awards.

Political scientists on the transformation of power in Russia Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA asked political scientists how future Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's agreement to lead United Russia without joining it would affect the system of power in Russia.

Disabled war veterans will switch to Zhiguli Disabled people from the Great Patriotic War, who are waiting in line to receive a free car , this year for the first time will receive not the usual Oka, but a Zhiguli of the seventh model. Representatives of AvtoVAZ OJSC and the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav) announced the signing of a government contract for the supply of 11,347 such cars to the state yesterday.

Metallurgists can drive the Russian defense industry into a dead end One of the most pressing problems of the Russian defense industry in the near future will be the rise in prices for metal products. Some leading metallurgical enterprises in Russia have significantly increased selling prices since the beginning of April. In April alone, the products of Evraz Group, Severstal, Mechel, Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, as well as other manufacturers, increased in price by 45%.

Palestinians want machine guns and a peace conference President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Moscow this evening. However, Vladimir Putin, who invited him, will already be far from the Russian capital at this time: in northern Africa in Tripoli , where he will have important negotiations with the leader of the Libyan revolution, Muammar Gaddafi.

What is the reason for the ever-increasing friction between Russia and the West? In the discrepancy between reality and expectations, which turned out to be illusory. Unfulfilled illusions are replaced by indignation and indignation. Russia is strong and powerful again, but neither it nor the West knows how to behave in these circumstances. And we will not succeed until we learn to soberly assess and understand our differing interests, political culture and value system.

Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Ogryzko, who arrived in Moscow on a working visit, agreed to begin consultations at the expert level in connection with Kiev's intention to join NATO . “The experts will outline Russian concerns in detail and will try to ensure that they are practically taken into account by the Ukrainian side,” the Russian minister said.

Muslims defend the right to be considered the founders of Nizhny Novgorod along with the Orthodox Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod region do not agree with the attempts of the local authorities to erase representatives of their faith from the history of the founding of the city.

Berlusconi will become Prime Minister of Italy for the third time The victory in the early parliamentary elections in Italy of the center-right coalition “People of Freedom” led by 71-year-old billionaire Silvio Berlusconi turned out to be brilliant. The election bloc, which also included Umberto Bossi’s Northern League and the Autonomy Movement, received 47.2% of the vote. The “people of freedom” received a solid majority in both houses of parliament - the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Former Federal Chancellor of Germany, 78-year-old Helmut Kohl, has decided to get married again and, in his words, “as soon as possible.” His chosen one, 43-year-old Maike Richter, works at the German Ministry of Economics. The ex-chancellor first presented it in public in 2005. His first wife Hannelore, who was allergic to light, committed suicide in 2001. The couple lived together for 41 years.

RSUH is ready to negotiate with everyone except the Cossacks The “long-running” litigation between the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) and the Zaikonospassky Monastery, which lays claim to the university premises located on Nikolskaya Street, has entered a new phase.

Watch from April 17 on Moscow screens "Kings of the Streets" (USA, 2008, David Ayer). Not entirely adequate after the death of his wife, Los Angeles cop Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves - "Speed", "The Matrix", "Little Buddha") finds himself unfairly accused of the death of a colleague and finally goes off the rails, beginning to administer justice according to his own, very peculiar rules.

A portrait of Chechen stability three weeks before the presidential inauguration The forms of hell created by people come in different forms. These could be the heads of captured soldiers, sawed off with a two-handed saw for a television camera, or they could be high-rise buildings of a large city, crushed by shells and bombs into construction debris along with the remains of the civilian population.