17:31 // 31.03.2008 The brush of the famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was considered the lost canvas of the brush in one of the private collections in the UK, RIA Novosti reports. The painting "Hug" made by Guasha, the artist wrote in about 1901-1902 at 20 years. It depicts a naked Picasso, hugging with his lover Louise Lenoir, also known by Odette's pseudonym. The authenticity of the work of Picasso he conferred in 1969. The message does not say when the picture was lost.

The son of the former British prime minister is again married to Sir Mark Thatcher, the son of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, married a second time. The wedding ceremony was a secret and was held in Gibraltar, a British enclave between Spain and Morocco. There were only three people among the guests. The chosen one of Mark was Sarah Russell, the sister of the Viscountess of the Roterskaya. Their novel lasted three years.

19:35 // 31.03.2008 The Government of the Russian Federation approved the Deputy Prime Minister - the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Cabinet of Ministers Naryshkina co-chair of the Russian-Tajiki intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Government’s press service, the Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov signed the corresponding order on March 29.

The Russian Football Premier League is gaining momentum the third tour of the main Russian championship brought a lot of surprises. The Moscow Spartak barely escaped the defeat from the Khimki near Moscow, the Dynamo at the road outplayed the Perm “Amkar”, according to the results of two rounds, heading the standings. The Grozny Terek won the first victory in the season, Luch-Energia first won in Vladivostok, Oleg Blokhin continues to lose.

For two years, researchers compared the social behavior of the inhabitants of Russia and European countries of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University and the Institute of Comparative Social Research presented on Friday the results of the “European social research”, carried out by order and with the support of the EC in 2006-2007. The subject of study was the living standards and value guidelines of citizens of 20 European countries and Russia.

The group of church property kidnappers was arrested by employees of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Moscow Region detained four participants in the criminal group specializing in thefts of icons in the Yegoryevsky district. Detectives are known about four episodes, when attackers stole 47 icons from the Churches near Moscow. Perhaps the group is involved in similar crimes in the territory of other areas. Four thefts were committed in a similar way.

13:56 // 31.03.2008 The growth in electricity tariffs in 2009 can be 20-23 %, the head of the Federal Tariffs Service (FST) Sergei Novikov told reporters. "Tariff growth rate may be 5% higher than predicted last year," Novikov said. According to him, RIA Novosti reports, the updated weighted average includes both the share of the liberalized market and regulated electricity tariffs. Source: gzt.ru

The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship Yevgeny Fedorov in an interview with Gazeta, the concept of innovative development of the country, proclaimed by Vladimir Putin, involves the full modernization of the Russian economy.

20:45 // 31.03.2008 The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko said today that "any real movement of Georgia to join NATO will negatively affect Russian-Georgian relations," ITAR-TASS reports.

16:14 // 31.03.2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the accession of the Russian Federation to the agreement on the privileges and immunities of the Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea, the Kremlin press service said. The State Duma adopted the agreement on March 5, the Federation Council approved the document on March 19.

11:41 // 31.03.2008 The ex-Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov, who was called for interrogation to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation as a witness in a criminal case, considers this as an attempt by the authorities to intimidate the opposition. "I am considering a call to the Prosecutor General as part of a systematic operation in relation to the opposition," Kasyanov told reporters at the entrance to the department of the department.

The mayor of the capital of Kalmykia was temporarily suspended by Mayor Elista Radiy Burulov temporarily removed from his position. At the request of the investigating authorities investigating the criminal case against Burulov, the Elistinsky City Court made the decision on this on Saturday. According to the press service of the city hall, the duties of the head of the city will be performed by the First Deputy Mayor Alexander Ermoshenko.

The representative of the Dalai Lama XIV in Russia Tashi in an interview with Gazeta on March 10 in Tibet, several hundred Buddhist monks held a march in memory of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising, which was suppressed by China and forced Tibetan religious leaders to flee India. Later, other Tibetans joined the monks, and the peace procession turned into an anti -Chinese protest.

10:51 // 31.03.2008 More than 300 illegal parking lots liquidated in Yekaterinburg during March 2008, police officers and prosecutors. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District. "The activities of all these car parking were accompanied by the illegal seizure of sections of the urban territory.

12:01 // 31.03.2008 The French Pernod Ricard won the tender for the purchase of the world-famous Swedish vodka brand Absolut and pays about 6 billion euros for the VIN & Sprit group, the press service of the Swedish Ministry of Financial Market said on Monday. As RIA Novosti clarifies, the country's authorities concluded an agreement with Pernod Ricard on the sale of the company owned by the company, the production of which will still be based in Sweden.