A monument to Joseph Stalin by Zurab Tsereteli will be erected in Yalta. This decision was made by the Livadia village council, Rosbalt news agency reports with reference to the press service of the Crimean government. However, the monument will not be erected in the Livadia Palace, as expected, but either at the entrance to Livadia, or at the building of the village council.

The military registration and enlistment office. Photo from the site www.saratov.rfn.ru The Law on Alternative Civil Service needs significant changes and additions, on Wednesday at the press conference of the Coalition "For the Democratic Alternative Service" Sergey Krivenko, the responsible secretary of the humanitarian and adversity "compassion".

Alexey Pichugin. Photo from Newsru.com The Moscow City Court sentenced the Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin to twenty years in prison. According to the verdict, Pichugin will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. Another person involved in the case - Alexei Pashkun was sentenced to four years, also with serving a sentence in a strict regime colony. After the court session, the state prosecutor Kamil Kashaev said that she was satisfied with the verdict.

The UN Secretary General was unaware of the contract his son had signed with the Swiss firm Cotecna. Such a conclusion, according to the AP, was made by an independent commission to investigate financial fraud discovered during the implementation of the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq. On Tuesday, the commission released its final report.

The Preobrazhensky District Court began considering a criminal case against a police officer on Moskovsky subway sergeant Boris Kostruba. As Granyam.Ru was told at the Public Verdict Foundation, the policeman was charged with attempted murder, abuse of power and illegal storage ammunition. The investigation established that on July 31, 2004, a twenty-year-old worker from Tajikistan, Rustam Baibekov, tried to get to the Sokolniki metro station. together with his friend on one ticket.

The son of the deposed president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akaev, Aidar has been removed from his post as head of the country's national Olympic Committee. It is reported by RIA Novosti. This decision was made at an extraordinary conference of the NOC of Kyrgyzstan.

The Tula Regional Duma unanimously approved the candidacy of Deputy Chief Designer of the Instrument Design Bureau Vyacheslav Dudka, nominated by President Putin, for the post of governor of the region. Voting was open and by name. Initially, it was planned to vote on the candidate on April 7. The powers of the current governor of the Tula region, Vasily Starodubtsev, expire at the end of April.

Physical schools. Photo from the site www.auditoriya.info On Wednesday, two committees can be reorganized at the State Duma at the plenary meeting. According to the results of the meeting of the Presidium of the United Russia faction, the chairman of the State Duma committee on the regulations, Oleg Kovalev, reported to reporters, RIA Novosti reports.

The Special Parliamentary Commission for Presidential Elections of Moldova has registered the head of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic, Georgy Duca, as candidate number two. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by a representative of the parliamentary commission. On Tuesday at 24:00 local time, the deadline for nominating candidates. The first candidate on Tuesday was named Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin.

Saparmurat Niyazov refused to accept Ramazan Abdulatipov as Russian ambassador. This is reported by Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The Turkmen president refused to receive Abdulatipov in Ashgabat, demanding that Russia appoint a career diplomat to his country. As a result, Abdulatipov, a former member of the Federation Council, was appointed to Tajikistan, and the Russian Foreign Ministry is looking for a new candidate for the post of ambassador to Turkmenistan.

In the center of Voronezh on Wednesday, a mass brawl of young people was stopped, about 50 people were detained. As Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax, this was reported by a source in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Voronezh Region. According to him, at 17.30 in the city center on Revolution Avenue, two large groups of young people gathered, between whom a fight broke out. The opposing sides were fans of the Eagle football teams and the Voronezh Fakel.

The "Union of Right Forces" is shocked by the fact of the murder of one of the leaders of the Irkutsk right - a member of the political council of the Irkutsk branch of the Union of Right Forces, a deputy of the Slyudyansk District Duma Alexander Babuchenko. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in the statement of the Presidium of the Federal Political Council of the party.

The State Duma intends to respond to the actions of the Estonian authorities, which refuse to issue visas to Russian fans on the eve of today's match between Estonia and Russia. Lyubov Sliska, Vice Speaker of the State Duma, said this in an interview with RIA Novosti. "The fact that Russian fans are denied visas en masse can be described as the big ambitions of a small country," Sliska said.

Alexei Vasiliev and Nikolai Fomenko, FIA Grand Touring champions in the 2004 N-GT class, in the 2005 season will be performed as part of the new Russian Age Racing team in the FIA ​​GT championship, the RAMI.ru press service said. For the first time in 5 years of performances in the international championship, Vasiliev and Fomenko will go in the GT1 class, in the Ferrari 550 Maranello car.

The Federation Council unconditionally supports the proposal to reduce the limitation period for privatization transactions from 10 to 3 years. According to RIA "Novosti", this was stated on Wednesday at a briefing in Moscow by the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Hovhannes Oganyan. "The Federation Council fully supports this proposal of the head of state," he stressed.