Strasbourg Court of Human Rights The European Court ordered the Russian authorities to pay 35 thousand euros to a resident of the Rostov region Olga Menesheva, Echo of Moscow reports. In 1999, Menesheva was detained in the murder case in which her acquaintance was suspected. In the department, where she was delivered, Menesheva refused to testify, and then she was beaten with rubber batons. In addition, the police threatened her with reprisals.

Jail. Photo from the site /www.cullmanpd.com The State Duma adopted a bill of arrest in the first reading, RIA Novosti reports. The document notes that the Criminal Code that entered into force in January 1997 and in July 1996, the Criminal Executive Code significantly expanded the circle of criminal liability measures not related to imprisonment.

Frame from the movie 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... And again spring.' From the site www.panterra.ru In the near future in the metropolitan region it will warm, ITAR-TASS reports. As reported on Friday in the Hydrometeorological Office, a warm atmospheric front is suitable on Saturday from the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to which spring weather will be established for a while.

Cottage '' `` wisteria ''. Photo from Newsru.com The Crimean Court granted the claim of the prosecutor of Crimea, invalidating the contract of sale of the Russian “Vneshotorgbank” of the buildings of the Crimean boarding house “glicin”, as well as additional agreements to it, the New Region Agency with reference to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the republic reports. At the same time, the court admitted bilateral restitution.

Mikhail Kaminin. Photo by RIA "News" The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kamynin, said that the US State Department in his report on human rights "twitches the facts", and the document itself "is an example of frank double standards." The relevant application is published on the official website of the Ministry.

Prison Abu-grab. Frame NTV Official representatives of the American authorities confirmed that in the coming months they intend to close the Abu-grab prison in Iraq, the Air Force reports. Now a new similar center is being built for maintaining prisoners on the American Camp Crumpper Capper near the Baghdad airport. 4,500 people who are contained in Abu Graib will be transferred there, and the prison in the center of scandals will be transferred to the Iraqi authorities.

White Cheburashka is a symbol of the Russian team at the Olympics in Turin. Image from the site www.olymp2006.ru On Friday, the opening of the Paralympic Games will be held at the Central Stadium of Turin. According to ITAR-TASS, Italian President Carlo Azelo Champi will take part in the ceremony.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo by ar Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia did not make Iran any secret proposals involving the possibility of a partial conduct of a study on the enrichment of Uranus in Iranian territory, RIA Novosti reports. Publications in the American media, which appeared on the eve of the visit of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry to the United States, which spoke about the secret offer made by Russia Iran, did not correspond to reality, Lavrov said.

Port Vladivostok. Photo from the site www.russia.org.cn Cyclone, who came to Vladivostok, caused an accident on the power line. As RIA Novosti reports, several areas of the city were left without electricity. According to the press service of Dalenergo, on a power transmission line serving a mine town and part of the first river area, a loop break occurred. "According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was icing of wires on power lines and a strong gusty wind.

Bird flu. Photo by ar In one of the schools of Tbilisi, two children died for two days. According to Interfax in the Tbilisi Children's Hospital, on Friday the 7-year-old girl died due to the fact that her treatment was launched. Doctors could not save the child. Two days ago, a 12-year-old schoolgirl of the same school died. The school interrupted classes and disinfection is carried out.

In Pakistan, a terrorist attack on a passenger bus killed 30 people, RIA Novosti reports. The attack was committed in the southwestern province of Balochistan in the southwest of the country, 300 kilometers from the administrative capital of the province, the city of Quetta. The passenger bus ran over a mine. Local observers believe that Balochist nationalists may be behind the attack.

The Transnistrian border. Frame NTV In Transnistria, the border service regime has been strengthened in order to avoid possible provocations. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced on Friday by Deputy Minister of State Security of the Unrecognized Republic Gennady Rosikhin. “We were accustomed to the fact that any provocations can be committed against us,” Rosikhin noted. On which side the deputy minister did not specify the provocation.

Mahmoud Ahmadinjad. Photo by ar At the meeting, the Iranian diplomat threatened to appeal to an international court in the Hague with a complaint about the agency on a nuclear problem. It is reported by AKI. According to the diplomat, the charter of the IAEA prohibits demanding the termination of nuclear developments from the countries that signed the agreement on the non -proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Senate building. Photo from the site Bensguide.gpo.gov The US Senate voted for a bill adopted a day earlier, the bill of representatives of the American Congress, finally canceling the effect of the Jackson-Vanik restrictive foreign trade amendment for Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. The voting in the Senate was watched by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Boris Tarasuk, who was at the guest gallery at that moment at the guest gallery.

Valentina Matvienko. Frame 1 channel. The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko came up with the initiative to grant the Blocades of Leningrad the right to receive a second pension, RIA Novosti reports. “We should not forget the feat of the inhabitants of Leningrad, who, for 900 days in inhuman conditions, led the defense of the city on the Neva,” Matvienko said, speaking at a meeting of the Victory Organizing Committee.