14:16 // 18.03.2008 The Chinese government does not exclude the possibility of traveling foreign journalists to the administrative center of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the city of Lhasu, where unrest was held for a week, the Prime Minister of the State Council of the PRC Ven Yyabao said at the Beijing press conference in Beijing.

16:23 // 18.03.2008 Employees of the Kaliningrad operational customs stopped the illegal removal of the Cold weapon collection from the time of the Third Reich. As ITAR-TASS was told by the press secretary of the North-West Customs Directorate for the Kaliningrad region Lilia Tanyuk, military rarities-bayonet-knife, dagger and two cortical cortics of the third Reich, issued in 1933-1938, were tried to transport members of the criminal group across the Russian-Lithuanian border.

18:52 // 18.03.2008 Police officers of the Voronezh region detained two suspects accused of the murder of the 94-year-old Veteran of the Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, as well as the theft of 500 rubles and half a mezzard of sugar from his apartment, the official representative of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation (SCP) Vladimir Markin told .

There will be no visa -free regime before the summer during the tour of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Middle East (from March 19 to March 21, the newspaper), we expect to sign an agreement on a bilateral cancellation of visas, ”Anna Azari Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israeli Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israeli said yesterday. However, when the Russians will be able to go to Israel without visas, and the Israelis to Russia, she did not specify.

Heavenly losses in the internal troops grew by 9% at the hearing of the Commission of the Public Chamber (OP) on the affairs of veterans, military personnel and members of their families yesterday for the first time, the data of non -earnings in the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were published. The main cause of the death of military personnel still remain suicides. Over the past period in 2008, eight BB soldiers committed suicide.

18:31 // 18.03.2008 The trader of the French bank "Societe Generale" Jerome Kerwel, accused of fraud, because of which the bank lost 4.9 billion euros, left the La Sante prison, where he spent about six weeks, reports RIA Novosti . In the morning, the court decided to release Kervel from custody during the investigation before the sentence. His defense filed a request for this last week. According to the agency, he left prison at 17.30 Moscow time.

The main thing is to live until 2020 "The Social -Democratic Polar program turned out." So he appreciated the last version of the long -term concept of socio -economic development (until 2020), represented by the government last week (see yesterday's "newspaper"), one of the authors of the project - deputy head of the mayor Andrei Klepach. However, Andrei Clepach does not attribute itself to the Social Democrats.

14:25 // 18.03.2008 Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badavi announced today the composition of the updated half-the cabinet of ministers, formed by him according to the results of extraordinary parliamentary elections on March 8.

12:27 // 18.03.2008 The BET faction intends to leave the parliament in the event of a refusal of the Rada to appoint extraordinary elections of the Kyiv City Council and the mayor of Kyiv. The Prime Minister, leader of Blok Yulia Tymoshenko, after a meeting of the faction, told reporters about this.

19:28 // 18.03.2008 The first edition of John Ronald Ruela Tolkien "Hobbit", dated 1937 and inscribed by the author, was sold at the Bonhams (Bonhams) for the records of 60 thousand pounds at the London auction, the auction house said. This amount was twice the estimated cost of the book, RIA Novosti clarifies. A unique publication with illustrations made by Tolkien himself was purchased by telephone by the buyer who preferred to remain anonymous.

The body of Evgeny Manbetov was discovered by the police found the body of Evgeny Manbetov, put on the federal wanted list on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the Saratov Region prosecutor Evgeny Grigoryev, a law enforcement source said. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the body of 41-year-old Manbetov was discovered last weekend. After putting on the wanted list, he was hidden on the border of the Saratov and neighboring regions.

13:16 // 18.03.2008 A fire in a driving school in the west of Moscow, as a result of which one person died, extinguished, said Evgeny Bobylev, the head of the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies, told RIA Novosti . "With a fire in a driving school in house 11 on Poklonnaya Street, it was possible to cope at 12.52 Moscow time.

The driver of the ex-governor of New Jersey Jim McGrivi adjusted his sexual preferences not even a week passed, as Eliot Spitzer left the post of Governor of New York due to the connection with the group that supplied the clients of expensive prostitutes, and the choport American government shocked another sex scandal. It became known that the former Governor of New Jersey Jim McGrivi and his wife once a week had sex with their driver.

16:36 // 18.03.2008 Consent on the issue of missile defense and the future restrictions on strategic offensive weapons (START) has not yet been reached in Russian-American negotiations, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after a meeting with US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice and the head of Pentagon Robert Gates.

12:55 // 18.03.2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the commitment to Russia to deepen strategic partnership with China. This is stated in a congratulatory message, which the head of the Russian state, according to RIA Novosti , sent the Chinese PRC Hu Jintao on the occasion of his re -election to this post.