Mi-8. Photo from the site www.airwar.ru The Border Department of Estonia claims that the Russian helicopter crossed the Estonian border over the Chudsk Lake on Thursday. According to RIA Novosti in the department, at 11.24, the radar on Pieruvere recorded an illegal crossing of the border by the Mi-8 helicopter. According to the Estonian border guards, the Mi-8 went deeper by 300 meters into the territory of Estonia, then at 11.25 he turned towards Russia.

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. Photos of faces Decree of President Putin "On measures to counteract terrorism", which gives the FSB new powers and establishes under its auspices the National Anti -Terrorism Committee (NAC), met an ambiguous attitude in the expert community. Read the opinions of political scientists and lawyers. Lev Levinson , expert of the Institute of Human Rights: The President issued his decree on the basis of the Law "On Countering Terrorism".

PPP in Palestine. Photo from the Air Force website The Israeli Ministry of Defense will turn to the acting Prime Minister Ehudu Olmert with an appeal to introduce strict measures against Palestine from the nearest Sunday - the day after the official start of the work of the government formed by Hamas. It is reported by Ha'aretz.

UPPSAL. Photo from the site www.sjk.se On Friday, the Swedish court brought a Russian citizen to spy. According to Reuters, the General Prosecutor of Sweden Thomas Lindstrand said that the accused had damaged the armed forces of the kingdom. According to "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the data of the Swedish special services, his name is Andrey Zamyatin. The man was detained in the university city of Uppsal.

White Cheburashka is a symbol of the Russian team at the Olympics in Turin. Image from the site www.olymp2006.ru The Russian State Duma decided to request information in the government about how Cheburashka became a symbol of the Russian Olympic team. On Friday, at a plenary meeting, the chamber adopted the corresponding protocol order to the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports. "On what conditions and by whom was the Syburashka symbol of the Russian Olympic team took?" - The document says.

After an avalanche. Photo from the site www.sportelement.ru The snow avalanche fell on the railway line with coal, which followed the southwestern coast of Sakhalin. This is reported by Interfax. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, the incident occurred at about 20.00 Moscow time on Thursday on the 11th kilometer of the Nevelsk -Gornozavodsk road, which was laid along the shore of the Tatar Strait.

Georgian police. Photo by RIA Novosti The Georgian military police detained two Russian troops on the ZIL-131 truck on Friday in Batumi. This was announced by News-Georgia agency, head of the military police department, Adjara Goch Ninidze. There were 42 shells for tanks in the car. The machine belongs to the Russian military base deployed in Batumi.

British soldier in Basra. Photo by ar Foreign Minister Iran Manechekhr Motaki demanded that the UK withdraw his troops from the city of Basra in southern Iraq, which contains 8 thousand British soldiers. It is reported by the Air Force. "The Islamic Republic of Iran requires an immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra," the minister told reporters during a visit to Lebanon. The presence of British soldiers in the city, Mottaki noted, destabilizes the entire region.

Underground move. Photo from the site www.mat.ru In Moscow, a robbery of one of the large Russian banks was prevented, to the storage of which an underground passage was dug. About this, as Interfax reports, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies said on Friday.

Badri Patarkatsishvili and Boris Berezovsky. Photo from the site www.compromat.ru Boris Berezovsky is selling the Kommersant Publishing House, and with it his other assets. According to Vedomosti on Friday, the new owner of this business is a longtime partner of Berezovsky Badri Patarkatsishvili. Since 2001, he has been on the international wanted list at the request of Russia and lives in Georgia. Tbilisi refused to give Patarkatsishvili to Moscow.

Roman Abramovich. Photo from the site yahoo.com The owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich offered the Russian Federation of Football (RFU) to help with the payment of the services of the Dutch specialist Hus Hiddinka, who is supposed to become the new head coach of the Russian national team. This is written on Friday by the British Daily Mirror.

Yuri Schmidt. Photo from the site Lenta.ru The Supreme Court postponed on March 2 the consideration of the complaint of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the recognition of the procedure for determining the meeting with the convicts. According to RIA Novosti, the meeting was postponed in connection with the disease of the lawyer Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt.

The editors of the Volgograd newspaper 'City Vesti'. Frame of Channel One The City Hall of Volgograd covers the newspaper "City News", which published a cartoon on a religious topic. This decision, as RIA Novosti reports, was confirmed on Friday at a press conference by the first vice-mayor of the city Andrei Doronin. “If someone does not agree with this decision, let him go to court,” he said. Doronin said that in connection with the liquidation of the newspaper, her team will be dismissed.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The State Duma at a plenary session on Friday adopted the Law "On Ratification of the United Nations Academy of Education against Corruption". It is reported by Prime-Tass. The Convention signed on behalf of Russia on December 9, 2003 in the Mexican city of Merida. The document provides for a wide range of measures for the prevention of corruption in the field of public service and in the private sector.

Prosecutor General. Photo from Newsru.com The prosecutor's office of the Vologda region on Friday opened a criminal case against the editor -in -chief of the local newspaper "Our Region+" Anna Smirnova in connection with the publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Gazeta.ru reports. According to the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia, the criminal case was opened under Art.