Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo from the site www.orc.ru "Not a step back from the cordon! The enemy does not sleep!" - heard the guests of the capital on May 8, 9 and 10. "Where, boy? Go by!" - At the same time, Muscovites who were not selected for the masses, trying to get into the center of their own city, heard. "Do not chat! The talker is a find for a spy!" - the journalists heard.

The An-2 plane crashed on Thursday in the Sumy region. This happened near the village of Kolyadinets during agrotechnical work, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, a pilot and an employee of a local agricultural company died in the crash. The cause of the accident, according to preliminary data, is a technical malfunction of the aircraft.

Nino Burjanadze. Photo by ar The Georgian authorities are going to unilaterally begin the withdrawal of Russian military bases from their territory. About this, as reports "Echo of Moscow" with reference to Interfax, the speaker of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze said on Thursday. If in the near future negotiations in Moscow and Tbilisi regarding the withdrawal of bases do not bring results, Georgia will fulfill the resolution of its parliament of March 9.

On May 9, several terrorist attacks were prevented in Chechnya, the Regional Operational Headquarters for the management of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus said on Thursday. "As part of several special operations, militants were detained, on the basis of whose testimonies caches with explosive devices were discovered," the source said.

On Thursday, the military prosecutor's office of the federal group of forces in the North Caucasus opened a criminal case into a car accident in Chechnya that killed a teenage girl and seriously injured three others. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. The day before in Chechnya, an infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) collided with a Volga on the Grozny-Shatoy highway, when a column of the military commandant's office of the Itum-Kalinsky district was moving towards Khankala.

The FSB of Russia has data on the preparation of the next "velvet revolutions" in the post-Soviet space. The FSB suspects a number of foreign non-governmental organizations of this. According to RIA "Novosti", this was stated by the director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Patrushev, speaking in the State Duma at the "Government Hour".

The Latvian Seimas adopted a declaration in which it requires Russia to compensate for the damage caused to Latvia during the years of the country's entry into the Soviet Union. According to RBC, the amount of claims ranges from 60 to 100 billion dollars. The declaration condemns the "Soviet occupational totalitarian regime". The author of this document is Alexander Kirshteins, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament.

The US command will not bring criminal charges against Colonel Thomas Pappas, one of the main defendants in the case of bullying in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. He was reprimanded and fined $8,000 for dereliction of duty. This was reported to Reuters on Thursday by a source in the US command. Colonel Thomas Pappas was in charge of organizing interrogations at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Moscow intends to take retaliatory measures in case of a threat to Russian military bases in Georgia. According to RIA Novosti, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this on Thursday at a parliamentary hour in the State Duma. “If steps are taken to create threats to our bases or the lives of Russian citizens in terms of their normal life support, not to mention the threat of ammunition in service falling into the wrong hands, I assure you that we will not sit idly by.

The agreement on the state border with Estonia is planned to be signed on May 18. This was announced at a government meeting by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. At the same time, an agreement on the delimitation of maritime spaces in the Gulf of Finland and Narva will be signed. "We have received their assurances that no interpretive unilateral statements like the Latvian trick will be made," the Foreign Minister said.

Ivan Mironov. Photo from the site '' Kommersant '' Ivan Mironov, the son of the former head of the Ministry of Printing Boris Mironov, put on the wanted list on the assassination of Anatoly Chubais, made itself felt. His letter received from the mother of Ivan Mironov, on Thursday, publishes Kommersant. Mironov Jr.

In Chechnya on Wednesday, an infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) collided with a Volga. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, as a result of an accident, a teenage girl who was in a car died, three more people were seriously injured.

Abdullah Ojalan. Photo from the Air Force website The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled that the verdict of the Turkish court, who condemned the leader of the Kurds Abdullah Ojalan, is illegal, reports Reuters. The leader of the Kurdish separatists in 1999 was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Ojalan’s lawyers, the verdict was sentenced as a result of an unfair court and in the absence of full legal assistance.

"Black boxes" and the remains of the pilot were found at the crash site of the Russian Air Force MiG-29 fighter in the Tver region. The plane crashed on Thursday at about 11.51 Moscow time in the area of ​​​​Adriapol airfield. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. "The accident occurred during scheduled flights of the MiG-29," said the head of the press service of the Russian Air Force, Alexander Drobyshevsky.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced four police officers to lengthy prison terms for exceeding their official authority and inciting a false denunciation. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported on Thursday by the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office.