St. Petersburg deputies call for the release of priests from military duties by the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg yesterday adopted in the first reading an appeal to President Vladimir Putin with a request to exempt from the urgent service in the army of priests and seminarians of traditional faiths. The appeal emphasizes that the abolition of deferrals for the priests ordained into the dignity will entail a problem for the church.

11:00 // 06.03.2008 The debt of Ukraine to Gazprom for the consumed gas will be repaid after its legal registration within the time periods, which will be determined at the upcoming negotiations with the Russian side, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Naftogaz Valentin Zemlyansky told RIA Novosti .

16:26 // 06.03.2008 Milan prosecutors demand to put in prison for 2 years and 9 months of the former Minister of Health of Italy Girolamo Sirky, accused of corruption and illegal assignment of funds, local media said. The reports say that the prosecutors expressed such a requirement at the end of the indictment in the process regarding this case. The ex-minister headed one of the branches of the Milan hospital, RIA Novosti reports.

15:16 // 06.03.2008 Smuggling fish worth more than 500 thousand rubles was seized in the Kaliningrad sea shopping port. According to ITAR-TASS Senior Inspector for Public Relations of the North-Western Customs Administration for the Kaliningrad region, Lilia Tanyuk, the operations of the Kaliningrad customs and representatives of the port carried out the operation of the cargo detention.

14:41 // 06.03.2008 The police confirmed that this morning, on the main square of New York, Times Square worked an explosive device of low power, there were no injuries, the Associated Press reports. The explosion occurred at the building of the draft point. A window is broken in the building, RIA Novosti reports. Police blocked the entry of cars to this part of the area and protected the scene with a yellow tape.

Kondoliza Rice on an empty stomach tried to convince the Palestinians to return to negotiations with Israel on Wednesday and Thursday in the Middle East the negotiation process was so violently that even its direct participants did not have time to react. The head of the administration of the Palestinian Autonomy (PA) Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday in the morning refused to resume the discussion of a peace treaty with Israel, agreed during the day, refused again on Thursday night.

15:42 // 06.03.2008 The Ukrainian government is still opposed to the creation of Naftogaz and Gazprom, joint ventures for gas supply to the country and its implementation in the domestic market of Ukraine instead of the existing Monopolist Exporter Rosukrenergo and the monopolist-immigrant "Ukrgaz-Energo", said Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Timoshenko in his letter to President Viktor Yushchenko, Which performs a tour of the Central Asian republics.

15:48 // 06.03.2008 Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a compromise resolution on the issue of joining NATO, according to which the decision to enter Ukraine into the Alliance is made only following the results of the All -Ukrainian referendum. The text of the decision was supported by 248 deputies with the necessary 226 votes. The document was supported by representatives of all fractions, except for the Communists, unwell RIA Novosti .

19:27 // 06.03.2008 The lots of watercolor drawings of the Rossiya ships (dating from 1839), Fershampenoaz (1849) and Empress Alexander (1850), presumably stolen from the Museum of the Higher Naval Engineering School named after Dzerzhinsky in St. Petersburg, were removed from the Internet catalog of the Swedish auction house "Stockholms" Aukshunverk ". “So far I can’t tell you about any details of this story, I know too little to myself.

Sellers of fake olive oil blew up a reputation of Italy Italian police on Wednesday held a raid against merchants with fake olive oil. During the Operation Oil Oil, in which more than 400 police officers took part, 23 people were arrested and 85 farms were sealed. As the investigation established, merchants imported low -quality oil from other areas of the Mediterranean and resold as a real Italian.

18:44 // 06.03.2008 The Government of the Moscow Region is confident in the innocence of the First Deputy Minister of Property Relations of the region Irina Shestak, in respect of which a criminal case has been instituted on suspicion of exceeding official powers in transactions with land plots.

Ramzan Kadyrov was excluded from the Union of Russian journalists the day after the adoption of the Secretariat of the Union of Journalists of Russia (SDR) canceled on Thursday the decision of his Chechen branch, which, on the eve of a festive atmosphere, who handed the Construction to the President of the Union. The SDR referred to the fact that Kadyrov had never been engaged in journalism, and therefore, according to the charter of the Union, could not be in the organization.

11:35 // 06.03.2008 The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov sharply criticized RAO UES and other monopolists who artificially overstate tariffs for connecting small business enterprises to engineering networks. "Chubais and all organizations were completely overwhelmed. Neither the FAS and no one controls their work," the prime minister said, opening the government meeting.

18:20 // 06.03.2008 The programmer, who installed Microsoft counterfeit programs on computers, was detained in the north of Moscow, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, a resident of the Moscow Region Zheleznodorozhny city born in 1982 was detained on Wednesday. "According to preliminary data, the total cost of counterfeit specimens of programs illegally saved by a young man exceeds 50 thousand rubles, which is a large size," - The source said.

16:58 // 06.03.2008 NATO foreign ministers did not make any decisions on the prospects for taking Ukraine and Georgia. This was stated by NATO Secretary General JAP de Hop Joffer, ITAR-TASS reports. “The decision is not made. So far, you can only say that the alliance door is open to everyone,” he emphasized. Source: gzt.ru