Cigarettes. From the Air Force website Excise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products in the next three years will be indexed by about 20 percent per year. About this, as reports RIA Novosti, said Sergey Shatalov, deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of Russia on Thursday. According to him, an increase in excise taxes will lead to an increase in prices for cheap cigarettes by about one ruble per year.

Olympic fire. Photo from the Olympiad website-2004 In Beijing, a metro tunnel collapsed, which is built for the 2008 Olympics. There are six people under the rubble, but there are practically no chances to find them alive, reports Reuters with reference to the Beijing News. “There are several layers of land and concrete above them, so the chances of surviving are almost zero,” the agency quoted the words of the colleague of miners remaining underground.

Drawers. Photo from the site www.mn.ru Over the past seven years, the number of citizens who evade military service has declined almost four times. This was stated to reporters by the head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Administration of the General Staff, Colonel General Vasily Smirnov. If in 1999 the number of deviations exceeded 44 thousand people, then in 2006 there were less than 12 thousand.

Scotland Yard. Photo from the site www.politicablog.info Investigators of the Prosecutor General of Russia, working in the UK in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, are not experiencing any difficulties. This was announced on Thursday by the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, RIA Novosti reports. He said that the investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office had already met with the leadership of the Royal Prosecutorial Service, Scotland Yard and the British Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Victor Anpilov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Recently, Viktor Anpilov has not participated in joint events of another Russia and the organizing committee of the Marsh of Disagent. The Grani.ru correspondent tried to find out whether this is evidence of the final rupture of the opposition coalition with "labor Russia" or is it only about temporary disagreements.

The danger of infrastructure damage in the fall of asteroid (red). Image: Nick Bailey et al/University of Southampton from the New Scientist website According to new studies conducted by British scientists, China and the United States should be considered the most vulnerable countries from the point of view of future asteroid attacks.

Verkhovna Rada. Frame NTV The first vice speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Adam Martynyuk at an extraordinary meeting read out the draft decree of President Viktor Yushchenko on the dissolution of the parliament and the appointment of extraordinary elections, reports Prua. The document proposes to assign extraordinary elections for May 27. As a reason for the early termination of powers of the parliament, the absence in the Rada formed by the Constitution of the coalition is indicated.

Restaurant in Antalya after the explosion. Photo by ar Two Russian tourists were injured in an explosion in a five-star hotel in the resort city of Belek on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, ITAR-TASS reports. One person, a kitchen worker, died. 10 people were injured, among them 5 hotel staff, three tourists from Germany and two Russians. The Russian agency reported that the explosion thundered at the Kaya Hotel.

Screenshot from the site Putin.Su In Moscow, during an unauthorized protest campaign near the building of the Georgian embassy, ​​activists of the "Club of Fans of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin" were detained, Lenta.ru reports with reference to RIA "New Region".

Concluded in Guantanamo. Photo by ar Human rights activists urge the United States not to send prisoners of a military prison on the basis of Guantanamo to their homeland. According to Human Rights Watch human rights organization, they are pursued and tortured. The organization’s report is about the seven Russians captured by the Americans in Afghanistan. In March 2004, they were transferred from Guantanamo to Russia, where they promised a fair court.

Bribe. Photo from the site Press.try.md The mayor of the city of the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Mikhail Bulgakov, was detained red -handed when receiving a bribe of 750 thousand dollars. A criminal case has been opened under an article on bribery, according to the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office. In the case, the head of the city Chamber of Commerce and Industry is also held.

'' Marsh of disagreements '' in St. Petersburg. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The presidential administration inclines the party to sign the Charter on countering extremism, which contains a promise not to cooperate with the politicians-extremists. As the Vedomosti writes on Thursday, negotiations are kept in the strictest secret.

A cage for the defendants. Photo from the site '' Rossi newspaper '' The College of Criminal Affairs of the Voronezh Regional Court on Wednesday reduced the sentences of four minors who had beaten the native of Vietnam to death. According to RIA Novosti, one of the convicts has been reduced from seven years of the educational colony to five and a half years, the second - from five to four and a half, two more from four and a half years to four.

NBP flags at the rally. Photos of faces The case on the recognition of the NBP with an extremist organization and the ban on its activities will obey on the merits on April 18, decided on Thursday the Moscow City Court. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." “The hearings will be open in open mode,” said Anna Usacheva, spokeswoman for the Moscow City Court. The leader of the National Bolsheviks Eduard Limonov surrounded by 15 supporters and the press left the court.

Fei Terni. Photo by ar The woman detained among the 15 British sailors has not yet been released, as promised earlier. According to the Air Force, a high -ranking representative of the authorities, who spoke on Iranian television, stated this. According to him, the decision to liberate Fei Terni is canceled "in connection with the incorrect position of" London.