Civil promise against the war in Chechnya, the Pervomaisky procession in Moscow. Photos of faces On February 26, Moscow will be held in Moscow "Stop the war in Chechnya." As the organizers of the action told the Franes.ru, it will take place at 14 o’clock in the square near Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanskaya Square. The rally is dedicated to the 61st anniversary of the Stalinist deportation of Chechens and Ingush.

The leader of the Party of Regions of Ukraine, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych expressed his readiness to meet with President Viktor Yushchenko and discuss with him the issues of creating a constructive and civilized opposition. According to Rosbalt in the press service of Yanukovych, he said this in Kyiv during a meeting with US Congressman Robert Veksler. The ex-premier expressed confidence that "Ukraine has finally and irrevocably embarked on the path of democratic development.

'Open Russia' '. Logo The tax inspectorate conducts the next audit of the Open Russia Interregional Public Organization, the chairman of the board of which is Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was reported to the faces of the organization’s press service. Inspectors visited the central office, as well as regional branches of Open Russia. Inspections are also held in 23 partnerships, the press service reports.

European Court of Human Rights. RTVI frame The European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling on Thursday, according to which the Russian authorities seriously violated human rights in relation to civilians during a military operation against separatists in Chechnya, reports Reuters. The board of judges, which includes one citizen of Russia, unanimously condemned Russia for violating the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Baikal seismological station recorded an earthquake with an intensity of 7 points on the Richter scale on Thursday night. Its epicenter was located on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia near the villages of Orlinga and Arshan, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region.

The head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydkoy, said in an interview with Gazeta that the Baldin collection should be returned to Germany. "Russia's commitments are not subject to revision," the former minister of culture said. Earlier, the current head of the Ministry of Culture, Alexander Sokolov, said that there was no talk of transferring the Baldin collection.

Photo '' New Izvestia '' Under the flag of the reform of the VGTRK in the country, a purposeful destruction of the entire regional state television system takes place, and this statement was made by the Union of Journalists of Russia. Most of the "local" programs leave the regional television, instead of which federal news will be shown to the population, reports the Union of Journalists. On the verge of dismissal, tens of thousands of regional television employees.

The first dark galaxy. Photo from the site www.jb.man.ac.uk The international group of astronomers from the UK, France, Italy and Australia for the first time managed to find an object, which is an invisible galaxy, almost completely consisting of dark matter. A dark galaxy is an area of ​​the universe, which contains a large amount of hidden mass, rotating like a galaxy in which there are no stars.

Chechnya, photo from the site http://www.inosmi.ru/ The unilateral truce declared by the leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov will last until the end of February. This was stated by Kommersant, the general of Maskhadov in foreign countries Umar Hambiev.

Unidentified people painted the fence of the synagogue in Saltykovka near Moscow with swastikas. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. According to a representative of the press service of the Jewish communities of Russia, these drawings were discovered last Saturday. "Before that, all the walls of the state institutions of the village and shops were painted with swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions," a spokesman for the press service said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority Parliament approved the new cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Reuters reported. MPs backed the new cabinet after including supporters of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Previously, the vote on this issue was postponed several times due to the fact that Qurei could not reach a compromise with the parliament.

A suspect has been detained in connection with the explosions at the Bank of Moscow. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the Federal Security Service for Moscow and the Moscow Region, the detainee is a resident of the Stavropol Territory. It was possible to detain him in cooperation with the 1st operational-search unit and the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow and the Federal Security Service for the Stavropol Territory.

State Secretary of the Latvian Foreign Ministry Norman Penke on Thursday handed a note of protest to the Ambassador in Riga, Viktor Kalyuzhny, in connection with the incident at the Latvian embassy in Moscow, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. Last Wednesday, the radical leftist organization "Vanguard of the Red Youth" href="http://www.grani.ru/Politics/Russia/activism/m.85094.html"> held an unsanctioned protest near the Latvian embassy in Moscow.

The Vladimir Regional Court upheld the verdict in the case of veterinarian Olga Tanaeva, convicted of selling ketamine, Tanaeva's lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov said, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the court dismissed the cassation appeal of Tanaeva's defense. On December 16, the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Vladimir sentenced Tanaeva to three years of probation.

Mikhail Kasyanov. Photo from the site Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov does not exclude his participation in the elections of the President of Russia in 2008. “Everything is possible. The main thing is that the one who will be president in 2008 leads the movement of Russia along the democratic path,” RIA Novosti quotes Kasyanov quoted. Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Moscow, Kasyanov also said that Russia retreated from democratic values.