12:36 // 20.03.2008 Moscow offices of oil companies TNK-BP and BP are working as usual today. This was reported by ITAR-TASS representatives of companies. According to them, there are no representatives of law enforcement agencies in the Arbat office on the Arbat. “We work as usual, everything is calm,” the company representative said. However, ITAR-TASS became known that a corporate server has been disconnected in the TNK-BP office.

Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova met in the semifinals of the tournament in Indian-Wells Russian women Svetlana Kuznetsova and Maria Sharapova will play among themselves a ticket to the final of the tennis super rounder in Indian-Wells. The day before, neither one nor the other, contrary to expectations, did not meet the stubborn resistance of the rivals.

20:47 // 20.03.2008 The shareholders of CJSC KM Invest, managing joint assets of Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov worth $ 14.7 billion, voted unanimously against extraordinary meetings on Thursday against the liquidation of the Fund, the KM Investa reported.

90% of legal universities in Russia may close the majority of legal universities and faculties can be closed after public certification, which will be held by the Association of Russian Lawyers (Ayur) together with the Ministry of Education and Science. This was announced on Thursday in an interview with the newspaper, co -chair Ayur, head of the working group for public certification of universities, Academician Oleg Kutafin.

14:44 // 20.03.2008 PepsiCo sent a request to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) on the approval of the purchase of 75.53% of the shares of Lebedyansky, the director of public relations of Lebedyansky OJSC Alexander Kostikov told reporters. Earlier it was reported, RIA Novosti recalls that PERSICO, together with The Pepsi Bottling Group, acquire shares of Lebedyansky juice business, excluding the business of mineral water and children's food for $ 1.4 billion.

Osama Ben Laden in a new message promises to take revenge on Europe for cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad on one of the Islamist Internet sites on Thursday a new audio recording appeared, which is attributed to the leader of Al-Qaeda Osame Ben Laden. A voice on the film promises to punish the European Union for the re -publication of a series of caricatures at the Prophet Muhammad.

15:50 // 20.03.2008 The Slyudyansky District Court refused the West Baikal Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office to satisfy the claim against the Baikal Central Bank of the CBC to compensate the damage caused to Baikal bioresources as a result of work without special fish protection devices, the representative of the prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti . "The court refused the prosecutor's office to satisfy the claim in the amount of 595 thousand rubles.

13:59 // 20.03.2008 As part of a visit to Moscow, the famous Dutch photographer Anton Korbayn will open the exhibition “Four Dimensions of Anton Corbine” at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art and present his debut film “Control” on Thursday, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Cinema without Borders. Musical critics are sure that Corbine did no less to advance rock and roll than the musicians themselves.

The President of Moldova proposed to the post of new Prime Minister Zinaida Grechana President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin at today's meeting with the opposition parties of the Moldavian parliament, he proposed the candidacy of the first deputy prime minister Zinaida Grechana for the post of prime minister of the country.

16:48 // 20.03.2008 Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory approved at today's meeting the chairman of the Government of the region Valery Sukhikh, the regional administration said. On March 4, by order of Governor Oleg Chirkunov, Valery Sukhikh was appointed acting Chairman of the Government of the Territory. In accordance with the procedure established by the law, its purpose was agreed with the regional parliamentarians, Prime-Tass reports.

The price of gold experienced the most sharp drop in the fall of alarmed investors on Wednesday covered risky positions, trying to go into safe assets, as a result of which the price of gold experienced the most sharp fall in the last quarter century, the courses of a number of national currencies began to decline smoothly, and the situation in the stock markets remained still unstable.

09:51 // 20.03.2008 The Prime Minister of Armenia, the elected President of the Republic, Serzh Sargsyan will pay a working visit to Moscow on March 23-24. This was announced by the Government of Armenia. This will be the first foreign trip of Sargsyan after his election by the President of Armenia, ITAR-TASS notes. Inauguration is assigned on April 9.

The second day of the swimming tournament in Eindhoven brought Russia silver and bronze on the second day of the swimming tournament at the European Water Sports Championship in Eindhoven, five sets of awards were played. There are two medals on the account of Russian athletes - silver and bronze. Anastasia Zueva finished the second at a distance of 200 m on her back. She did not have enough only 0.2 seconds to beat Russia's record set by Stanislava Komarova five years ago.

16:59 // 20.03.2008 Moscow airports "Vnukovo", "Domodedovo" and "Sheremetyevo" are working in normal mode, despite the Snowfall in some areas of the city, the representative of the Central Dispatch Service (CDS) of Moscow told RIA Novosti . "Currently, all airports are operating normally, without failures. All ups and landing are carried out on schedule, without restrictions and delays. Visibility at all airports is good - more than a thousand meters.

In Moscow, the bandits tried to shoot a PPS outfit in the Russian capital on Thursday night an armed attack on a police patrol. Two employees of the patrol officer (PPS) outfits were injured. It was possible to detain two attackers, but two more managed to hide.