17:05 // 03/17/2008 The famous musician, ex-member of the Beatles group, Sir Paul McCartney, is obliged to pay his ex-wife, the Hizer Mills Model 24.3 million pounds, he decided by the London Royal Court. Of this amount, 16.5 million pounds will receive a musician’s ex -wife in cash, and another 7.8 million in the form of real estate, property and other assets, RIA Novosti reports. Initially, it was assumed that the hearings would be entirely closed.

20:46 // 03/17/2008 NATO Secretary General JAP de Hop Scheffer confirmed that international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo (KFOR) will be valid under the resolution of 1244 Security Councils of the UN, Vladimir Chizhov, a constant representative of Russia at the European Union, told RIA Novosti .

11:02 // 03/17/2008 According to the “Additional Dispensation” program since 2008, all working citizens of the Russian Federation are subject to voluntary medical examination, and not only those who work in the budget sphere, as it was in 2006-2007. This was reminded by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Olga Borzova in an interview with ITAR-TASS .

10:01 // 03/17/2008 There was a fire in Samara on the territory of Ikea hypermarket under construction, there were no injured. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. On Sunday evening, construction garbage and insulation caught fire on the territory of the hypermarket under construction. The fire area was 500 square meters. The extinguishing was attended by 10 fire engines and 55 personnel.

19:13 // 03/17/2008 NATO will “strengthen the mandate” of international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo (KFOR), the official representative of the alliance James Appuray told RIA Novosti . Employees of the special forces of the UN Civil Mission (UNMIK), as well as KFOR military personnel, took the court building early in the morning in Kosovsk-Minovitsa, which was captured by Serbian justice workers from Friday, demanding return to their jobs.

13:54 // 03/17/2008 At least 20 Serbs were injured in clashes in the city of Kosovsk-Mitrovitsa in the north of Kosovo, after the UN police and KFFOR military personnel occupied the court building and detained the Serbs there, the Beta agency from the city of Kosovsk-Mitrovitsa reported. According to RIA Novosti , two Serbs received firearms. One of them with serious wounds was urgently transported to Belgrade. The rest of the victims are in the hospital in Kosovsk-Mitovitsa.

The car will be able to take the car to the parking lot from the house despite criticism, the car movement service wants to expand the geography of its activities. Some time ago, the draft document that changes the schemes of special vehicles was received by the Department of Housing and Communal Economy and Improvement of the city, which oversees this service, Interfax reports.

18:03 // 03/17/2008 On Friday, the City Court of St. Petersburg will consider the cassation for the decision on the two-month arrest of the leader of the Yabloko regional branch of Maxim Reznik, whom law enforcement agencies accuse the use of violence against the police and their insult, the press service of the party’s branch told RIA Novosti . "On March 21, at 10.00 in the City Court of St. Petersburg, a consideration of the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the leader of the St.

13:33 // 03/17/2008 The Russian Foreign Ministry recommended that the Russians refrain from traveling to Tibet, where riots occurred. "At present, the Russian Foreign Ministry recommends that Russian citizens refrain from traveling, including tourist, to the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the PRC," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says in a commentary on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

20:57 // 03/17/2008 The launch of the American DirectV 11 television show from the Pacific Board as part of the Marine Start program, scheduled for March 17, was postponed indefinitely due to technical problems, RIA Novosti told the “sea start” of Paul Korn. "The flight manager suspended the pre -launch count for launching DirectV 11 in order to study the problem about the day before the start. The countdown was stopped due to the information received during pre -launch tests," Korn said.

Americans and Europeans were ahead of Russian tourists in Syria within two days in Moscow was a presentation of the Syrian tourist direction for Russian companies. Tourism Minister Dr. Saadalla al-Kalaa opened the exhibition of photographs of world-famous ancient, Christian and Islamic shrines located on Syria land, and signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Tourism Agency.

21:22 // 03/17/2008 The leader of the presidential race among the Democrats, Senator Barack Obama, supported the initiative of former Secretary of State and US defense ministers for the complete destruction of all nuclear weapons reserves in the world, said the director of the Nuclear Security Program for political progress Joseph Syner in Washington. "Senator Obama supported the destruction of nuclear weapons as a goal," said the Syner at a conference in Washington.

13:04 // 03/17/2008 For the first time, the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) of Russia will transfer the declassified documents to the niece of the famous intelligence officer Boris Lago, who in the thirties, the key figure in the Tarantella operation, which was the purpose of which was to suppress the activities of the English secret service against the USSR, said RIA Novosti Press Bureau of the SVR of Russia Sergey Ivanov.

The program of the VII Moscow Easter Festival was announced in 2002 on the initiative of Valery Gergiev, the Moscow Easter Festival over the past time has turned from the capital's forum into the All -Russian forum. Every year, his geography became wider, and the number of concerts and performances grew.

17:49 // 03/17/2008 US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice states that she had good working relations with the elected President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and counts on their continuation, RIA Novosti reports. US Secretary of State congratulated Dmitry Medvedev on a victory in the presidential election on March 2.