Shop In Moscow, on Thursday, a protest rally is held against discrimination of small businesses. It is carried out in the Novopushkinsky square entrepreneurs from different regions of Russia, reports Echo of Moscow. Participants in the rally are opposed to violation of the rights of entrepreneurs and, in particular, against the introduction from July 1, 102nd Federal Law.

Su-25. Photo from the site fas.org The fate of Andrei Vakhovsky - the pilot of the Su -25 attack aircraft, who fell in the Bryansk region - is still unknown. Attempts to penetrate the swampy areas where the wreckage of the car is located, until they were successful, on Thursday on Thursday the attendant of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Interfax. On Thursday, rescuers plan to nominate search groups to the fall in the fall. The day before it was possible to carry out air exploration.

Su-24. Photo from the website of the Ministry of Defense In the Pskov region, on Wednesday, during the implementation of planned flights, the Su-24 marine aviation plane was damaged, the assistant commander of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy told RIA Novomvo, the first rank captain Igor Dygalo.

Flood in Philadelphia. Photo from the site AP At least 16 people died as a result of flooding in the northeast of the United States, BBC reports. About 200 thousand residents of Pennsylvania are evacuated from their houses. The state of emergency was also declared in a number of states of New York and New Jersey. According to the governor of New York, George Pataki, there was no such serious flood for all 12 years of his work as head of state. He ordered to use the National Guard in evacuation.

On the exchange. Photo by the Air Force The draft law "On unscrupulous practices in financial markets", aimed at the Federal Service for Financial Markets to the Ministry for approval, is much more loyal to officials than the first option that was discussed a month ago. This is written on Thursday "Vedomosti", in whose disposal the text of the document was. The main goal of the bill is to fight the illegal use of insider information in the market.

Vladimirputin and boy Nikita. RTVI frame Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday informally talked with tourists who examined the Kremlin. According to Echo of Moscow, the president went from the Grand Kremlin Palace to his residence through the Cathedral and Ivanovo Square. On the way, he decided to stop to talk with tourists. Among them was a boy of four to five years old, who, at the question of Putin, said that his name is Nikita.

Parliament of Kazakhstan. NTV frame from the site Lenta.ru The Kazakhstan parliament adopted amendments to the law on the media. According to Kazakhstan Today, on Thursday at the plenary meeting of the Senate, deputies considered and adopted in the second reading the law "On amendments and additions to some legislative acts on the issues of the media." The law is aimed at signature to the president. The law was developed by the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Yuri Chaika. Frame from the site www.vesti.ru The first deputy prosecutor general will be Alexander Buksman, head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Registration Service in Moscow, which is part of the Ministry of Justice's structure. This was reported to Kommersant's sources in the Prosecutor General.

Sergey Mironov. Photo from the site www.portal.rosmu.ru The presence of the state on television should be strengthened, said the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov in an interview with Vedomosti. "I believe that the presence of the state today must be strengthened, primarily on television, which definitely needs moral and information recovery," Mironov said. According to the speaker, the state needs media that explained and maintain his position.

Map of Montenegro. Fragment. Image from the site Lib.texas.edu The former Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro on Wednesday became the 192nd state that received membership in the United Nations, reports Reuters. The Austrian ambassador to the UN Herhard Pfantzelter, whose country now presides in the European Union, announced the increase in the number of UN countries. Montenegro became an independent state after most of its inhabitants spoke in a referendum for a department from Serbia.

Valentin Ivanov on the field. Photo by ar The Russian referee Valentin Ivanov will no longer serve the matches of the World Cup. According to Reuters, on Wednesday, FIFA published a list of twelve referees, which will judge the playoff matches. Of their number, the judicial committee (FIFA) will choose judges for the eight remaining matches of the world championship - four quarter finals, two semi -finals, a fight for third place and the final game.

Shamil Basaev and militants. Photo from the website of the Ministry of Defense The leaders of the Chechen militants Shamil Basayev and Doku Umarov are hidden in the mountains of Ingushetia. This was stated on the air of the Chechen state television channel "The Terrible" senior operative officer of the Urus-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs of Arbi Krriyev. “They settled in the mountains of Ingushetia,” he said.

Handcuffs. Photo from Newsru.com The Birobidzhansky District Court sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in a penal colony of a general regime of a 18-year-old resident of the village of Nadezhdinskoye Artem Mikhaillev for a false message about a laid bomb, Interfax reports. According to the prosecutor's office of the region, on March 20, the young man called from his home phone to a local school and reported the allegedly laid an explosive device.

Meeting of the ministers "Big Eight" with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Photo by ar In Moscow, a meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry of the G8 countries began work. According to ITAR-TASS, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, the USA, Canada and Japan, President Vladimir Putin will meet. The meeting discusses preparations for the July summit in St. Petersburg, global and regional problems.

Mikhail Kasyanov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The leader of the People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov intends to participate in the 2008 presidential election as a candidate. However, according to him, the situation in the country is so catastrophically rapidly developing for the worse that his participation in the elections may be impossible. Kasyanov made this statement on the "round table", which was held on Thursday at the Moscow Conference Center "Extropolis".