Gazprom logo. Photo from Newsru.com Over the next years, Russia will reduce gas production by 10 percent of a year, Valery Golubev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, told RIA Novosti. "The decrease in consumption and production at 10% per year will remain for the next four to five years," Golubev said. According to him, in real terms, this is about 60-70 billion cubic meters of gas, which corresponds to the volume of annual gas consumption by Ukraine and Belarus combined.

Strasbourg Court of Human Rights The former secret agent of the KGB of Lithuania Egdiyus Zhichkus won a case against the authorities of Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights, which in 2001 deprived him of work for cooperation with the Soviet intelligence services. As Interfax reports, this is stated in a decision published on the official website of the court.

Spam. Image from the site www.shocking.com More than 97 percent of electronic messages sent via the Internet are spam. Such data, according to the BBC News report, are contained in a study conducted by Microsoft specialists. The main part of spam is offers to buy various medicines, "business offers" from scammers, pornography. In this case, messages with spam are often the varieties of computer viruses.

The flag of Moldova Moldova will send three Romanian journalists in the coming days. As RIA Novosti reports, a source in the special services said this. "They were engaged in activities incompatible with the legislation of the country," said the source of the agency, without naming the names of journalists. The day before, Moldova President Vladimir Voronin called the riots in Chisinau an attempt by a coup.

Alexander Makarov. Photo from admin.tomsk.ru The Supreme Court satisfied the complaint of ex-mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov, accused of official crimes, to the decision of the Tomsk Regional Court on February 16 on the extension of the term of detention and decided to release him from the custody of 4 million rubles. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the press center of Makarov.

Themis. Grani.ru collage The Moscow police detained Artyom Buzenkov on the street of a blind student, allegedly for participating in the "Mark of the Disagent", writes "News Time". Police officers took a disabled person to the department, and then accused of violation of public order. Now Buzenkov is trying in the Moscow City Court to protest a fine of 500 rubles, imposed on him by the Tver district court.

Pushkin Museum. Photo from the site kpnemo.ru Moscow museums, exhibition halls and galleries of urban and district subordination in the days of the historical and cultural heritage of the capital on April 18 and May 18 will work for free, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the city administration.

Opposition rally in Tbilisi. Photo from the site www.kp.md In the center of Tbilisi, tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered near the parliament building, reports Georgia Online. According to the Air Force, more than 150 thousand people gathered in the square. The city center is completely blocked for the movement of vehicles. The rally was discovered by an active supporter of Saakashvili during the "Revolution of Roses", the author of the new anthem David Magraze.

Andrey Piontkovsky First, about the general impression on the state of the minds of the Russian political "elite", which had prevailed after returning from a long foreign business trip. In personal communication, you will learn a lot of things that you will not read in any articles and reports. The Elites calmed down and came to the conclusion that social riots do not threaten them.

Sergey Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council. Photo by RIA '' News '' Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov at a meeting with teachers and students of the St. Petersburg State University named after Herzen refused to read the report prepared for them and instead read the poem of Marina Tsvetaeva, RIA Novosti reports. At the beginning of the meeting, Mironov asked the audience what their mood was. “Here I have it spring today,” said the speaker.

The logo of the newspaper "Chernivik". The chief editor and four correspondents of the Dagestan opposition newspaper Chernivik threatens up to 5 years in prison for the formation of a negative image of police officers and the excitement of hatred between the inhabitants of the Caucasus and the rest of the Russians. This was written by Gazeta.ru with reference to the message of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office.

Natalia Moral. Photo yasvoboden.ru The journalist of the Russian magazine The New Times, Natalya Morar in Moldova, has been an official charge, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Prosecutor General of the Republic Valery Gurbulu. The prosecutor's office is charging her "calls for the organization of riots." Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova reported that Natalya Morar was among citizens detained on suspicion of involvement in the riots.

Sergey Udaltsov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Left Front movement held a protest of a protest near the building of the public reception of the Prime Minister of Russia on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, the organization’s leader Sergei Udaltsov told Gazeta.ru. According to him, about 20 people participated in the action, three of them chained themselves to the gates of the reception room.

Logo of the company "Mechel" A group of American shareholders Mechel sued the company, accusing it of fraud, RIA Novosti reports. In the statement of the interests of the group of shareholders, Dean Fredrick, sent on Wednesday to the court of the Southern District of New York, it is indicated that the company made fraud by failure to provide sufficient information about its activities in 2008.

A gas pipeline. Photo by ar Turkmenistan completely stopped supplying gas to Russia due to explosion on the gas pipeline Central Asia - Center, Interfax reports. The explosion occurred in the evening on Wednesday near the border with Uzbekistan. According to experts, it will take at least three days to eliminate the accident. The reasons for what happened has not yet been reported.