The Swiss court softened the sentence to Viktor Kaloev, convicted of the murder of the Swiss air traffic controller, the court of the Swiss canton Curich reduced to 5 years and three months the prison term of Russian citizen Vitaly Kaloev. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for the murder of the Swiss air traffic controller Peter Nielson in February 2004, involved in the disaster of the Russian Tu-154 aircraft over the Boden lake.

The Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow will be renamed the Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow Airfield Ramenskoye will be renamed the Zhukovsky airfield. The corresponding agreement was reached between the Zhukovsky city administration and the leadership of the air harbor of the Flight Research Institute named after Mikhail Gromov (LII).

16:58 // 03/03/2007 The wedding boom awaits Ukraine on July 7 - the number of people who want to see in their marriage certificate date 07/07/07 twice the number of newlyweds on ordinary days, RIA Novosti reports the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The employees of the registry offices explain this trend with superstitions of the newlyweds regarding the date of 7.07.2007, which is allegedly happy due to a combination of three seven. On July 14, an increased number of marriages is also expected.

16:15 // 03/03/2007 The Kuntsevsky court of Moscow satisfied the two claims of the prosecutor's office to release two sites in the Garden partnerships "Rechnik" and "gardener" in the west of Moscow. As ITAR-TASS reported in the capital's prosecutor's office, “two claims of the inter-district environmental prosecutor's office of Moscow on the liberation of unauthorized land plots in the Garden partnerships“ Rechnik ”and“ Gardener ”were satisfied.

12:03 // 03/03/2007 To take strict disciplinary measures to officials violating the procedure and terms for citizens on the operation and repair of the housing fund, the Moscow government intends, a representative of the city administration told RIA Novosti . The decision "On the practice of working with citizens of citizens on the operation and repair of the housing stock in Moscow" was signed by the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov.

According to friends, the musician Sergei Zolotukhin was inclined to depressions on the eve of the body of the 27-year-old adopted son of the famous actor Valery Zolotukhin Sergey was found in his apartment. The musician of the Dead Dolphins group was discovered in his Moscow apartment on Profsoyuznaya Street in Moscow. This was announced by a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital. The body of Sergey was discovered by his girlfriend Ekaterina Ryagudova.

21:53 // 03/03/2007 Yuri Luzhkov proposes to establish an increased income tax rate for rich citizens. The metropolitan mayor stated this, speaking on the air of the capital's TV channel of TVC. He added that the same principle will remain with the increase in transport tax rates in Moscow. They will be significantly increased for machines with super -powerful engines.

The right to a non -public decision on construction will remain only in the capital's officials, the Moscow government discussed yesterday a draft of the Town Planning Code of the capital. Its authors together gathered the norms of more than a dozen current city laws. Among the main stated goals - within the framework of federal legislation, take into account the features of Moscow. As it turned out, the capital's specificity lies in the maximum expansion of the powers of officials.

Gastarbaiters with salmonellosis can bring employers to the prison scandal with poisoning builders-gastarbeters at the construction of the construction site, which began last week, received an unexpected continuation. Yesterday, Rospotrebnadzor sent the circular to the leaders of his departments throughout Russia, who allows officials to suspend construction.

10:08 // 03/03/2007 In Chita, the car, in which the ex-head of the MENATEP MFI Platon Lebedev and escort, was in an accident, a representative of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chita region told RIA Novosti .

13:19 // 03/03/2007 Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov called the Town Planning Code of the Town Planning Constitution and asked the chief architect of the city of Alexander Kuzmin to finalize the document. "This document is very important, this is the city -planning constitution of the city, and it needs special attention," the metropolitan mayor said at a meeting of the metropolitan government during the discussion of the project of the Town Planning Code of the capital.

14:41 // 03/03/2007 The Nagatist court of Moscow began consideration on the merits of the criminal case of three police officers accused of applying violence in relation to Dmitry Noskov, a student of the Moscow Engineering and Physical Institute (MEPhI). On the bench of the defendants-the former head of the 4th operational-search unit Major Elena Volchkova, the operatives of Konstantin Pukhov and Yuri Popov. They are accused of excess of official powers using violence and special equipment.

The most popular Russian site for downloading music is closed to the scandalously known Russian site for downloading music Allofmp3.com closed. Last week, he stopped loading, and on this site owner - MediaService has launched an alternative resource mp3sparks.com. The reason for the closing of allofmp3.com is constant accusations of illegally distributing the content with the copyright content site.

16:43 // 03/03/2007 The music site Allofmp3.com, whose work threatened to slow down Russia's entry into the WTO due to copyright violations, stopped working. A new alternative site belonging to the same Moscow company MediaServices has already appeared. Former MediaServices employee confirmed the Echo of Moscow that the activities of allofmp3.com were stopped under the pressure of the Russian authorities.

Sochi-2014 approached the last line of choice today at 18.30 Moscow time in Guatemala at the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will begin the final presentation of the Russian Babilizing Committee. This mandatory procedure in many ways will precede one of the most long -awaited events of recent months - the choice of the capital of the 2014 Olympic Games. An hour is assigned to the presentation on the regulations. Sochi will present its application with the first number.