10:21 // 23.03.2008 About 60 thousand people were left without water due to flooding with the flood waters of the sewer manifold in the city of Uralsk (administrative center of the West Kazakhstan region), the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Emergencies) of the Republic said.

Hamas and Fath will begin to unite autonomy on April 5 for the first time this year negotiations between the main political opponents of the Palestinian autonomy (PA) - the movements of Fath and Hamas - ended yesterday by a single declaration of reunification. The so -called Yemeni initiative opens up the negotiation process, which will again make PA a single political education. Autonomy is split in two since last year.

In Moscow, Dyan Shuur was the Moscow performance of the ensemble of the American singer and pianist Dyan Shuur continued the international jazz festival organized by the Union of Composers club. The club, which has just turned a year, has been holding the fifth festival of this kind. They are usually stretched for a month or more and are not united by a common idea. Invited musicians represent different areas of modern improvisational music.

In Moscow, the annual nickname film awards in the Russian capital on Friday was awarded the ceremony of presenting the Kinematographic Prize "Nick". The main triumph this year was Sergey Bodrov’s film “Mongol”. The large -scale history of the formation of the son of the steppes, the unifying of the nomadic tribes of Genghis Khan won six awards of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts. Among them are prizes for the best film, directing, costumes, sound, work of operators and artists.

The IMF will force sovereign funds to play according to the rules of the board of directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a report on the state and prospects for the development of sovereign investment funds last Friday. The main message of the document: sovereign funds should be as transparent as possible. Their investment strategy is to meet economic rather than political goals.

10:47 // 23.03.2008 Unknown armed bandits killed the police chief of the Afghan province of Kunduz, RIA Novosti reports. The incident occurred on the night of Friday to Saturday, when the policeman was driving on his car along the highway. In the Alchin area, his car was fired by unknown from automatic weapons. The policeman died on the spot, the bandits managed to escape from the scene of the crime. Source: gzt.ru

Once upon a time there was a ruble zone. I lived well. It was a kind of ersatz of the USSR. The calculations between the countries of the former USSR were first supposed to be preserved in rubles. But the zone immediately began to torment phantom pains. The Gaidar government was forced to hit isolationism, insisting on market calculations, which, in those conditions of an unbridled fall in the ruble, could be carried out only in the SLE. The zone is still preserved.

The observer of the "Gazeta" tells about the moods of the inhabitants of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, the Russian Duma insists on consideration by the government and the president of the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. When this happens and with what a result, it is still incomprehensible.

15:44 // 23.03.2008 A government commission has been created in Ukraine, which will study the circumstances of the crash off the coast of Hong Kong Naftogaz-67, RIA Novosti reports. First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Turchinov held her first meeting. The vessel "Naftogaz-67", on board of which there were 25 people, 24 of which were Ukrainian citizens, sank the day before in the South China Sea. To date, seven people have already been found.

The Public Chamber advocates the popularization of the jury commission of the Public Chamber (OP) on public control over the activities of law enforcement agencies and the reform of the judicial system discussed on Friday at the round table the problems of the jury. OP members are sure that such courts should take the main place in the system of Russian justice, but now need popularization. In Russia, the jury annually consider about 1.2 thousand cases.

Ingo Metskmacher conductor in an interview with Gazeta in Berlin continues the festival "Bach and Messian - musical religions." Its initiator is the conductor and pianist Ingo Metzmarian, heading the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Dutch opera. He also led the Hamburg opera, where he worked with the glorified director Peter of the Confusion.

16:33 // 23.03.2008 Uzbekistan, confirming its firm position on the "Unified China", believes the Tibetan autonomous district of an integral part of the PRC and supports the measures taken to restore law enforcement and ensure stability in this area, which are the internal affair of China. This is stated in a common statement by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan.

15:50 // 23.03.2008 In the center of Moscow, a “march of vowels and consonants” was held, reports Echo of Moscow . Several thousand people took part in it.

The Russian government is waiting for cosmetic repairs in the Kremlin and the White House are actively working on the structure of the executive branch, which will work after May 7 - the inauguration of the newly elected President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. The main architect is Presidential Assistant Igor Shuvalov and officials close to him.

10:15 // 23.03.2008 In Orenburg, after two accidents at once on the city sewer manifold, the city’s water supply was restored, the representative of Orenburg Vodokanal LLC told RIA Novosti . "On Sunday night, the accident at the sewer manifold was eliminated, the water supply in the city was restored. About 7 in the morning local time, all the water intakes of Orenburg were brought up for regime work," the agency’s interlocutor said.