The Independent Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern about the intention of the Russian authorities to expel Yury Bagrov, a correspondent for Radio Liberty, who works in the North Caucasus, from the country. According to a CPJ press release received by Graney.Ru, the correspondent was summoned Wednesday to the North Ossetian Interior Ministry, where he will be informed of his impending deportation.

The Tyumen Regional Duma on Thursday approved the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin for the post of governor of the Tyumen region. According to a correspondent of RIA Novosti, Sobyanin's candidacy was supported by 24 deputies, "against" - one. Sobyanin decided to trust the president himself. He resigned, after which Vladimir Putin submitted his candidacy to the Tyumen Regional Duma for approval.

A residential building caught fire in the center of Moscow. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by a source in the UGPS of the capital. "At about 2.20 pm Moscow time on Thursday, a fire broke out in one of the apartments of an old five-story residential building on Ostozhenka Street," the source said. Two fire crews arrived at the scene, he said. The arrival of the third calculation is expected later. The fire was quickly put out and no one was hurt.

In Ukraine, the privatization of two energy generating companies, Dniproenergo and Centrenergo, has been halted, Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov said at a press conference on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports. "We carefully studied all the documents and came to the conclusion that these companies are continuing a hidden and shady privatization process that does not meet the national interests of the country," the minister said.

The bodies of eight people were discovered on Wednesday by Iraqi police in one of the settlements north of Baghdad. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. People were killed about three days ago. All of them worked at the American military base. Four of those killed, security officials said, may be foreigners. Last day, four acts of sabotage were committed on the main pipeline, which supplies fuel from Baiji to the Ad-Dawra oil refinery in the vicinity of Baghdad.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the official website of the president Reforming army aviation turned into a loss of combat readiness of one of the most "flying" parts of the Russian Air Force. This conclusion was reached by officers of the 344th Center for combat use and retraining (CBPP) at their officer assembly, held in early February 2005.

Mikhail Zurabov. Photo "light" In early March, the State Duma may consider the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov. The speaker of the lower house of parliament Boris Gryzlov reported this to RIA Novosti. The draft relevant resolution was made by State Duma deputy Boris Reznikov. According to Gryzlov, the document was considered on Thursday at a meeting of the Council of the Duma.

On the evening of February 16, in the north-east of Moscow, a teenager committed suicide. This happened at about 21.30 on Argunovskaya Street (Ostankinsky district). 15-year-old Roman Vorobyov, a student at college #33, left a suicide note and jumped out of the window of his apartment, located on the 11th floor. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Most of the auctions for the right to use subsoil held in 2005 will be open, Minister of Natural Resources Yury Trutnev told reporters. According to him, in 2005 it is planned to hold 250 auctions for the right to use subsoil, RIA Novosti reports. "90% of the auctions held will be open to foreign companies," the minister said. The ban on the participation of non-residents in auctions applies only to deposits that are strategically important for Russia.

NBP. Photo from the site nbp-info.ru Life is full of riddles. Why, let's say, an ordinary rat inspires people with disgust, while a rat with thorns called "hedgehog" causes tenderness and tenderness? Why do Russians vote for Putin? When will the end of the world come? There is no clear answer to these questions to the mortal. Or here is a fresh example.

Noam Chomsky. Photo from the site humanites.edu.ru. Grani.ru collage The theory of the famous American left -and -radical thinker, professor of the Masachusa Institute of Technological Institute of Naum Chomsky , according to which the development of developed mathematical abilities is the development of a natural language, received a serious blow.

In the markets of Chechnya, OMON officers are conducting a special operation. They seize videocassettes and CDs with videos of terrorist attacks, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax. In Grozny's central market alone, police officers have confiscated hundreds of such products over the past 24 hours, Artur Akhmadov, commander of the OMON at the Chechen Interior Ministry, said on Thursday.

Destroyed house in Buinaksk. Image from the site Lenta.ru The prosecutor's office of Dagestan completed the investigation and transferred to the court the criminal case of a resident of the republic Magomed Salikhov, accused of organizing a terrorist attack in the city of Buinaksk on September 4, 1999. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Vadim Soloviev. Frame NTV The Communist Party does not intend to refuse to organize protests, despite threats from the Ministry of Justice. This was in an interview with "faces" said the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Vadim Soloviev.

Roman Zvarich. Photo from the site Communist.ru President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko interpreted the statement of the Minister of Justice of Roman Zvarich about the resignation as the "Problems of the formation and growth" of the new Cabinet of Ministers. But in fact, we are talking about the problems of the formation and growth of a new Ukrainian society.