According to preliminary data released this morning by representatives of the opposition (or now the authorities), as a result of the night's outrages, three people were killed and about a hundred were injured. Today the local parliament is going to introduce a curfew in the capital of the republic. According to some reports, the bulk of the looters were southerners, who the day before made a decisive contribution to the overthrow of the regime of Askar Akayev.

After last Thursday the jury found Pichugin guilty of all the charges against him in the criminal case, the only question now is how severe the sentence will be. The judge will announce his verdict on March 30. However, Pichugin himself completely denies his guilt. The defendant's lawyers ask the court to acquit. Otherwise, they threaten to go to the Strasbourg court and try to find justice there.

While Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev was fleeing an angry crowd that stormed the Government House, his Russian counterpart was meeting with representatives of Russian business in the Kremlin. Moreover, even on the eve of this meeting, no one predicted anything out of the ordinary. It was expected that the entrepreneurs would once again attack and slander the publicans, and the president would listen carefully to everyone and let them go in peace until better times.

Commenting on the situation in Kyrgyzstan, the Russian President almost verbatim repeated his Kazakh colleague. He also said about the “weakness of power” and about “accumulated economic problems.” True, unlike Nazarbayev, Putin invited Akaev to visit. If he accepts the invitation and settles not far from the former head of Adjara Aslan Abashidze, then a small colony of former presidents of the former Soviet republics may soon appear in the Moscow region.

How much do you think our soldier is worth? Mere pennies. For private Oleg Terekhov (until his father came to pick him up), a resident of the North Ossetian village of Nagir paid the company commander seven hundred rubles a week. Or he brought a pig. But the fact of the matter is that there are many more soldiers in a company. If, for example, you sell fifty people a day into slavery, then you get normal money. Enough to put it aside and to share it with the regiment commander.

First Kyrgyzstan, now Belarus. Something hurts often. However, Lukashenko, of course, is not Akayev. If anything happens, Alexander Grigorievich’s hand won’t waver. We have witnessed many times the cruelty with which demonstrations are dispersed in this republic. So this time, it seems, things will not end well. The police use loudspeakers to call on those gathered to disperse. It seems that a little more and the batons will be used.

If the destruction of a huge plant and the death of fifteen Americans really were the actions of Al-Qaeda, this means that a new terrorist attack has been carried out on the United States. Understanding the seriousness of the situation, American officials are in no hurry to draw final conclusions: the investigation has just begun. However, it won't last long. Because if a terrorist attack was committed in Texas, the US authorities will have to quickly prepare to repel new possible attacks.

Nazarbayev also said nothing about whether the leader of Kyrgyzstan with fourteen years of experience is actually hiding on the territory under his control. According to some reports, the former President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev and his family are now in the Borovoye resort in the Akmola region in northern Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, a new head of state will appear in his homeland in three months.