Gennady Khazanov ends his solo pop career, Ekho Moskvy reports. He explained that he was going to play only in dramatic performances, especially since the interest in his existence on the stage is several orders of magnitude lower than in performances with his participation. "Perhaps the main reason is that I am not alone on the theater stage, and that my partners, such as Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova, Anatoly Ravikovich, are of equal, if not greater, interest.

In one of the units of the Malino garrison near Moscow, an officer accidentally shot a conscript, Interfax reports. "While on guard on March 6, Senior Lieutenant Hotnichuk unintentionally fired a shot from a PM pistol. The bullet hit Corporal Khrushchev in the head, who died without regaining consciousness," the military prosecutor's office said. Currently, the investigation is considering the version of the officer's violation of safety requirements when handling weapons.

Investigators from the Prosecutor's Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg are conducting a search in one of the offices of the timber industry corporation Ilim Pulp CJSC (St. Petersburg), Gazeta.ru reports. This was reported to Interfax by the head of the press service of "Ilim Pulp" Elena Konnova. "Special attention is paid to documents related to the financial and commercial activities of the corporation," she said.

One of the first decisions of the new prime minister, Mikhail Fradkov, was to allow meat importers to independently choose a supplier country if veterinary problems arise in the one to which they are attached. about it writes Vedomosti . American poultry farmers now have such problems - chicken flu is raging in the USA.

A bas-relief of Vysotsky's profile was stolen from a memorial plaque on the building of the Sports Palace, REGNUM news agency reports with reference to Samara Today. The board was installed in 1997 in the presence of Vysotsky's son Nikita and Taganka actors. The leaders of the Vysotsky Center ask the thieves to return the bas-relief, since it is made of dur-aluminum and they will not get more than thirty rubles for it.

Fedorov Konyukhov's yacht "Scarlet Sails", on which he is now with his wife, is blown into the open ocean by a storm, ITAR-TASS reports. Irina Konyukhova suffers from seasickness, so she cannot help her husband in any way. By the morning of March 12, the storm that caught the yacht on the way has been going on for two days.

Among the victims of the terrorist attacks on March 11 in Madrid are citizens of 11 states, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said. It is reported by Reuters. According to preliminary data, there are no Russian citizens among the victims. In total, 198 people died in the explosions, more than 1,400 were injured.

All Russians who wished to vote early in the Russian presidential elections in Iraq did not have enough ballots - they had to be produced on the spot, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 1,042 people took part in the early presidential elections in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. Early elections in the region are held in hard-to-reach and remote places - at weather stations, lighthouses, in reindeer herding brigades, in geological expeditions. A total of 56 polling stations have been formed in the district. More than 29 thousand people are included in the electoral lists. Boycott.Ru: Russia without Putin

LDPR presidential candidate Oleg Malyshkin and the leader of this party, State Duma Vice Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky held a rally to combat counterfeit liquor, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax. They and several other representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party visited one of the wholesale fairs, where they bought several bottles of liquor - vodka, cognac and wine.

The Georgian authorities are planning to repeat the so-called "Rose Revolution" in Adzharia on March 14-15, but the Adjarians will not allow this to be done, Aslan Abashidze, head of the autonomy, said. This is reported by Interfax. Abashidze, referring to "serious sources", specifies that the Georgian authorities intend to gather 100,000 people from all regions and send them on March 14-15 to Batumi.

On Friday, during the day in Moscow and the region will be a little cloudy, no precipitation is expected. By noon, the air in the capital will warm up to plus 3-5 degrees, in the region - up to plus 1-6. According to ITAR-TASS, at present the Moscow region is located on the southeastern periphery of the Scandinavian anticyclone. Dry and almost windless weather, which has been in the capital for almost a week, has led to a deterioration in the environmental situation in the city.

In Vladikavkaz, an attack was made on the cashiers of an ambulance clinical hospital, RIA Novosoti reports, citing sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia. On Thursday, three masked men armed with a sawed-off hunting rifle at the entrance to the hospital attacked two female cashiers and the deputy chief physician, who brought salaries for the staff.

Defendant Fridon Jobava, who took one of the witnesses hostage in the courtroom, surrendered after negotiations with representatives of law enforcement agencies. This is reported by Interfax. Jobava freed the hostage and handed over the grenade he had threatened to detonate. Jobava was sentenced to life imprisonment for two murders and nine robberies, after which he took a witness hostage. It is not yet known where the defendant ended up with a grenade in her hands.

The son of Ringo Starr, who, like his father, became a drummer, now works with the bands Oasis and The Who. Zach Starkey is rehearsing with the Gallagher brothers in preparation for a charity concert, which will be held on March 30 at London's Albert Hall. A Sun newspaper source close to Oasis explained that Zack dreamed of working with Oasis, and the members of this group are also delighted with the opportunity to work with the Beatle's son.