10:39 // 11.03.2008 The heat supply of the four districts of Novosibirsk, where up to a third of the city’s population lives, was violated due to the morning gust of heating mains, Sergey Reichman, head of the Energy and Housing Department of Energy and Housing and Public Utilities, told reporters. "As a result of the heating main gully, at 5.49 local time (2.49 Moscow time), two pumping stations were disabled.

14:38 // 11.03.2008 Today, the Central Office of Gazprom was a meeting of the Chairman of the Board of Alexei Miller, the President of the KazMunaigaz NK Uzakbai Karabalin, the Chairman of the Board of the NHC Uzbekneftegaz Nurmmhamad Akhmedov and the chairman of the Turkmengaz Group of Companies, Yagshigeldy Kakayeva. The meeting discussed the prospects for cooperation in the gas industry.

17:12 // 11.03.2008 The suicide bomber in a mined car rammed the checkpoint of Iraqi special services and Sunni paramilitary units in Iraq - at least eight people died, 13 were injured, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, 16 civilians were reported, and 22 were injured in the explosion of the bus on the main highway, which runs in the south of Iraq and connecting Baghdad, En-Nassiria and Basra.

19:26 // 11.03.2008 The Ground Forces of Russia will fulfill previously signed contracts and the obligations to prepare students at military departments at civilian universities, RIA Novomitki was told by the assistant chief of the Ground Forces for Information Support Colonel Igor Konashenkov.

21:10 // 11.03.2008 Georgia did not recognize and will not recognize Kosovo as an independent state, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced today at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, a permanent representative of Georgia under the united nations Irakli Alasania.

S&P has increased the forecast for long -term ratings of the Russian Federation, the International rating agency Standard & Poor´s yesterday changed the forecast for the long -term ratings of Russia from the “stable” to “positive”. This news immediately added optimism to the Russian stock market. After the decision of the Paper Agency for most liquid companies on Russian exchanges, they entered the plus zone.

At the meeting in the Kremlin, some aspects of the future of Russia in the Catherine Hall of the First Corps of the Kremlin today a meeting of the executive and legislative power were discussed in detail. Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the leadership of the State Duma.

15:02 // 11.03.2008 In the upcoming extraordinary elections to the parliament, the best solution for the Serbs will be confirmation of the policy according to which Serbia will continue European integration only together Kosovo as part of its territory, the Prime Minister of the country Vojislav Koshtunitsa published in Belgrade. On Monday, the ministers of the Serbian government voted for early holding in the country of parliamentary elections.

09:04 // 11.03.2008 The Thai court rejected the petition of the Russian Viktor But, who was suspected of illegal weapons trading, on security, reported with reference to the statement of his lawyer Laca Nititvatvyan, the Associated Press Agency. According to the lawyer, the court’s refusal to release Buta is connected with fears that he may try to hide from justice and leave the country.

15:28 // 11.03.2008 Power engineers will not introduce restrictions on the supply of electricity for the municipal networks of Makhachkala, if the local authorities begin to pay off the debt from next week, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced today by the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Network Company Andrei Rappoport after a meeting with the head of Dagestan Muhu Aliyev, at which the situation with energy supply in Makhachkala was discussed.

11:53 // 11.03.2008 12 people were injured today as a result of a collision of two trams in Yekaterinburg, ten of them are hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the city traffic police, clarifying that the accident occurred at about 11.00 local time (09.00 Moscow time) on the tram ring. “Arriving at the end station, the carriage went to change the“ ticket. ”The car was not put on a hand brake and spontaneously touched.

10:42 // 11.03.2008 In the Ural Association of the Air Force and Air Defense, today a three-day training cycle for organizing and conducting search and rescue operations when planting the descent devices of transport and passenger spacecraft began. This was announced by ITAR-TASS, the head of the information and public relations of the Air Force, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky.

11:38 // 11.03.2008 The United Company "Russian Aluminum" (OK RUSAL) signed a loan agreement in the amount of $ 4.5 billion to finance the purchase of a 25% plus of one share of the Norilsk Nickel GMC, the loan organizers said in a statement. “We expect that the sample of funds will begin this week,” a press release of the word representative of the bank Credit Suisse, acting as a leading organizer of syndication, Adrian Walker, are given in a press release.

16:47 // 11.03.2008 The elected President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev considers it advisable to create a state-owned company in Russia, which will engage in the construction of roads, ITAR-TASS reports. At the same time, the creation of a separate ministry is inappropriate for these purposes, he believes.

14:55 // 11.03.2008 France plans to more closely interact with Russia in resolving the situation in the Middle East. According to Bernard Kushner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Foreign and European Affairs of Foreign and European Affairs, the French side expects to discuss this at a meeting of the bilateral council of security cooperation that has opened here today.