'' Silver ghost ''. Photo from Autooboz.site.kz On March 15, 1906, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls founded Rolls-Royce. Before arriving in auto -industrial, Roys released lamps, rail taps with electric drive, motors. In 1904, he built his first car and agreed with Charles Rolls, who traded cars in London, on the sale of his products. The first model of the company was the 6-cylinder silver ghost (Silver Ghost).

The Russian military demolished a house in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, where Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed a few days ago. This was reported on Monday by the AR with reference to eyewitnesses and representatives of the authorities.

The mandate of State Duma deputy Kirill Ragozin, who died in January of this year, was transferred to Eduard Khamitov, rector of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University. This decision was made on Tuesday by the Central Election Commission of Russia. In accordance with the law, the deputy mandate of the deceased deputy was transferred to the next registered candidate from the same Bashkortostan regional group of the United Russia federal list.

Grenade launcher. Photo from the site http://arms2.narod.ru In New York, 18 people suspected of organizing smuggles of weapons from Russia were announced in the arrest, Reuters reports. They are suspected of illegal supplies of portable missile systems of the Earth-Athos and anti-tank grenade launchers.

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence in the case of narcologist Nikolai Trukhin, convicted of selling Relanium. The amount of the fine that Trukhin must pay has been reduced to 25,000 rubles, RIA Novosti reports. The court motivated this decision by the fact that his guilt in the sale of potent substances that are not psychotropic and narcotic drugs is excluded from the sentence against the doctor.

Sergey Shapkhaev. Photo from the site http://bro.burinfo.ru FSB officers seized computer copies of secret cartographic materials from the Center for Geoecological Research in Buryatia, which is the Laboratory of the Department of Ecology and Life Safety of the East Siberian State Technological University, ITAR-TASS reports. Meanwhile, according to REGNUM, the removal was carried out on March 9.

Abdul-Khalim Saydulaev. Photo from the site '' Caucasus Center '' The new leader of the Chechen separatists Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev said that not a single crime of the federals against the Chechen people will be left without proper punishment. Sadulaev’s statement, published on the website of the Caucasus Center separatists, says that the policy of the leadership of Ichkeria will not undergo significant changes after the death of Aslan Maskhadov.

A protest action against the education reform resumed in Tbilisi near the building of the Georgian parliament, Svoboda reports. About 100 students of the medical college are demanding the return of their right to enroll in a university without exams. As Novosti-Georgia reported earlier, representatives of a number of Georgian opposition parties were supposed to join the students.

Colonel-General Alexander Belousov, First Deputy Minister of Defense, said that in 2005 there would be no indexation of salaries for servicemen, RBC reports. At the same time, Belousov noted that, according to experts, the growth of the price index in 2005 could reach 25%. He also said that, according to the Ministry of Defense, today more than 34% of military personnel and members of their families have incomes below the subsistence level.

The hunger strike of former workers of the Tavdinsky Microbiological Plant (TMBK) in the Sverdlovsk Region, who are seeking full repayment of wage and severance pay arrears, has been suspended. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday by the chairman of the trade union committee of the enterprise, Lyudmila Solovieva.

Illustration from the cover of the report of the journalist protection committee Russian journalists are increasingly becoming victims of contract killings, and Iraq is the most dangerous place for journalists in the world, Reuters reports. As stated in the annual report of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, in 2004 56 journalists were killed around the world.

In the course of under-ice work in the Vyborg Bay (Leningrad region), the underwater archaeological expedition "Memory of the Baltic" conducted a study of the Swedish frigate. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday by the head of the expedition, Rear Admiral of the Reserve Konstantin Shopotov. "Expedition" Memory of the Baltic "started its new field season, having made an under-ice dive in Dalnaya Bay. During the work, a Swedish fireship frigate was investigated," Shopotov said.

Russian human rights activists are calling on the authorities to give the body of Aslan Maskhadov to his relatives, Ekho Moskvy reports. "We consider it shameful to refuse to transfer the ashes of the deceased to relatives for burial," the statement, which was signed by representatives of the For Human Rights movement, the Feedback group and the Ecology and Human Rights coalition, says.

Andrey Fursenko. Photo from the site www.inno.ru The Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko on Tuesday at a meeting with students in the Krasnoyarsk house, teachers were thrown into eggs. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, two young people ran up to the minister and shouting "There is no education reform!" They threw raw eggs into it. The minister took off his jacket and asked those present not to succumb to emotions.

In the center of Moscow, in an old house located at 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard, building 2, an explosive device was found, NTV reports. The bomb was found on Tuesday night in the attic of the building. This house houses the offices of the investment company Finvest and the private security company Coliseum, Lenta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. The explosive device had a capacity of about 600 grams of TNT.