40 people were injured and 1 died later in hospital as a result of the protest riots in Tallinn last night. At an emergency meeting Estonian authorities accepted the decision to dismantle the monument earlier than it was claimed.

The US senate committee has approved a bill banning foreign countries from forming oil or gas cartel organizations. The document says the USA can prosecute governments of countries violators.

Tallinn police has pushed aside the people protesting against removing the Bronze Soldier statue and the mass grave situated under the monument. On the 9th of May the memorial will be unavailable to visit.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russian Federation, has died at the age of 76, reportedly of heart failure.

The first international festival “Kremlin dawns” will take place in Red Square in Moscow September 13-16. Russia, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, German, and Italy are going to participate in the new festival.

Russia has prepared an international treaty on prevention of “star wars”. The document is aimed at precluding placement of weapons in space, resorting to force and threats regarding space objects.

The Belgian newspaper Le Soir has recently published the information about the country’s intentions to make Russia pay 15 billion Euros by bond certificates of the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire.

The administration of the museum in the former Auschwitz concentration camp has decided to close the Russian exposition and says it can be reopened only if Russia acknowledges occupation of Poland by the USSR.