In the near future, Ukrainian courts will consider the circumstances of the privatization of three thousand Ukrainian enterprises. This, as reported by RIA "Novosti", said on Wednesday at a briefing in Kyiv following the government meeting, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko.

The murder of Mufti Urus-Martan Khas-Magomed Umalatov has been solved in Chechnya. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported at the Regional Operational Headquarters for the management of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

The political council of the regional organizations of the Power of the People coalition and the Socialist Party of the Dnipropetrovsk region is asking President Viktor Yushchenko to dismiss Governor Sergei Kasyanov, who was appointed on February 4, Ukrainian News Agency reports. In their opinion, Kasyanov violated the agreement concluded between the regional administration and the political council with his appointments.

A group of residents of the Bashkir city of Blagoveshchensk held another picket on Wednesday near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. The picketers thus express their protest against the actions of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, and also demand from the prosecutor's office an objective investigation of the facts of abuse of authority by policemen in Blagoveshchensk.

STS. From the site SAT2.HP.infoseek.co.jp March 4 begins the broadcasting of the Home TV channel. According to the Gzt.ru newspaper on Wednesday, the M1 channel will replace the M1 channel in the Moscow range, which STS Media acquired last fall. Given the television, Perm and Kazan purchased at the same time in St.

At the request of Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, all high-ranking military officials in the armed forces of the republic resigned. A source in the Georgian Defense Ministry, who wished to remain anonymous, told RIA Novosti that the minister is dissatisfied with the progress of reforms in the armed forces. "Dissatisfaction with the course of reforms and the work of officials became the reason for the dismissal of the generals," he said.

Pershin brothers. Installation of faces In the Urals Federal District, on charges of large theft, the leaders of the Khanty-Mansiysk oil company and the Nazim oil and gas company were arrested. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the Minister of the Interior Rashid Nurgaliev. "The Director General of the Khanty -Mansiysk Oil Company and the Nazim Oil and Gas Company were taken into custody.

US President George W. Bush, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko held telephone conversations on Tuesday. As a REGNUM correspondent was informed in the Mass Media and Public Relations Service of the Presidential Administration of Georgia, during the conversation a number of political and regional issues were considered.

Committee - 2008. Members of the “Committee-2008: Free choice” at a meeting on Tuesday agreed to continue consultations on the creation of a single democratic party. As reports with reference to Interfax Newsru.com, a special working group has been created for this. "I believe that the meeting was successful.

By 2010, Yukos plans to increase oil production to 100-110 million tons per year. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax, this is stated in the Yukos report for the fourth quarter of 2004. Besides, in 2005 the company plans to leave the level of oil production practically unchanged - about 85 million tons of oil per year. The report states that Yukos does not exclude oil from Yuganskneftegaz from its oil production plans for 2005.

Harry Kasparov. Photo from the site www.uasport.net An unauthorized rally against the socio-economic policy of the government takes place in St. Petersburg near the building of the Legislative Assembly. According to Gazeta.ru, the rally began at 9.20, about 800 people took part in it. The authorities of St. Petersburg the day before rejected the application for the action. According to Maxim Reznik, the chairman of the St.

Iranian authorities have refuted media reports that on Wednesday an unidentified aircraft attacked the area of ​​the city of Daylam in the Iranian province of Bushehr. According to a representative of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the territory of Iran was not subjected to airstrikes. The airstrike was reported by the country's state television, citing eyewitnesses, Reuters reports.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Russia certain provisions of the law on preferential payments. As betrayed by RIA Novosti, he announced this on Wednesday at a meeting of the board of the Moscow prosecutor's office. "We are appealing to the Constitutional Court. The second part of the law (on preferential payments) is bewildering," Mr. Luzhkov said.

Russian agents in the Qatari court. Photo from Newsru.com The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation does not have data on the whereabouts of two Russians convicted by the Catar court for involvement in the murder of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. The head of the service, Yuri Kalinin, told reporters about this, as reported by RBC. “I don’t know anything about them. We don’t have them,” he said.

On Tuesday evening, a meeting of the public "Committee-2008: Freedom of Choice" opened in Moscow. It considers the project of creating a united democratic party. "It's time to make a decision or stop useless actions," Garry Kasparov, chairman of the committee, said opening the meeting, RIA Novosti reports. Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, attended the meeting of the "Committee" for the first time, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax.