21:30 // 03/03/2008 The prosecutor asked the jury to put out the indictment in the case of attempting to the head of the RAO UES Anatoly Chubais, RIA Novosti told one of the defendants Ruslan Zalyuzhny. "During the debate of the parties, the prosecutor asked to find the defendants guilty of all five criminal investigations to them," he said. The attempt on Chubais was made on March 17, 2005 at the exit from the village of Zhavoronka, Odintsovo district of the Moscow region.

14:34 // 03/03/2008 The authorities of the Sverdlovsk region will allocate 5.3 million rubles for the identification of the remains found from the old Koptyakovsky road and, which belonged, allegedly belonging to family members of Nicholas II, said the first deputy minister of finance of the region Svetlana Klimuk. "5 million 300 thousand rubles will be allocated for the identification of the royal remains," Klimuk said.

13:59 // 03/03/2008 Forbes magazine called the 12 best analysts Wall Street, the forecasts of which in recent years have been the most accurate, and the recommendations of investors were the most profitable. The 41-year-old Robert Spingern their Credit Suisse, which specializes in the aerospace market and the arms market, headed the Golden Dozen. His advice to buy, hold or drop offs in this niche was the most accurate over the past three years, RIA Novosti notes.

12:34 // 03/03/2008 The Chairman of the Board of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais believes that in the future, among the generating companies of the Russian Federation, "a wave of consolidation, their non -global enlargement." He stated this to reporters today, commenting on the purchase of CAS Holding generating assets, Prime-Tass reports. According to Chubais, instead of 20 existing generating companies, 11-13 will remain.

Icons from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery in the engineering building of the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG), the mobile exhibition “Orthodox icon of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus”, dedicated to the 1020th anniversary of the baptism of Rus' and the traditional days of Slavic writing. At the end of the exposition, the collection of icons will move to Kyiv, and then to Minsk, where it will be demonstrated in national museums.

Georgia expresses dissatisfaction with the restoration work on the territory of Abkhazia by military personnel of the railway troops who arrived to provide humanitarian assistance to the population of Abkhazia to restore transport infrastructure, began to perform work.

13:30 // 03/03/2008 From today, railway workers canceled the box office for booking tickets for trains via the Internet, ITAR-TASS reported in Russian Railways.

20:30 // 03/03/2008 Russia lifted the temporary restrictions on the import of beef and raw meat from the Central Brazilian state of Matu Gross, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil said with reference to the message received from the Russian Rossel-Knoznadzor.

The World Bank and the IMF predict the stagnation of the Russian economy, happiness is transient. Oil and gas gold rain, as international and Russian experts are sure, including government, already in 2010 should subside as a result of a global recession. Because of which a reduction in the demand for fuel will follow. But this is not the worst. Yesterday, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published the results of research on this and future Russian economy.

19:13 // 03/03/2008 Israel will disappear from geographical maps of the world, according to RIA Novosti , at a press conference in Rome, Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinejad. “This will happen for sure,” he said. At the same time, Ahmadinejad emphasized that this will happen regardless of Iran’s actions. “The regime of the occupation should end,” he added.

20:37 // 03/03/2008 Thousands of medical workers took part in Tuesday in a demonstration of protest in the Austrian capital against the reform of the healthcare system in Austria, RIA Novosti reports. Under the main slogan "Try to get sick!" Thousands of people in white robes gathered in the city center in order to express their disagreement with a change in medical insurance rules, which, according to doctors, will ultimately lead to the decline in the quality of the population’s service.

09:59 // 03/03/2008 The UN Security Council at an open meeting on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution that gives the right to the states to send warships to the territorial waters of Somalia to combat the pirates and the liberation of the people they captured. Currently, the pirates hold the team of the Dutch ship Amiya Scan near the coast of Somalia, whose team consists of nine people, including captain and three officers from Russia, as well as five Philippine sailors.

As it became known yesterday, three members of the Gazprom’s board sold shares of a monopoly, the total cost of which currently exceeds $ 25.5 million. Experts are sure that this event can foresee serious personnel permutations in the monopoly and the new outflow of Gazprom’s employees into power structures.

18:15 // 03/03/2008 In Poland, an unlimited strike of mail workers began, Rosbalt reports. In some regions of Poland, employees of most post offices are striking. In this case, the scope of the strike increases. Regional postal managers create anti-crisis headquarters to somehow cope with the situation. Postal employees require an increase in wages by 537 zlotys (160 euros). At the same time, they insist that they count the earnings from January 1 of this year.

17:22 // 03/03/2008 In the suburbs of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a brown bear attacked a woman, and she died from the injuries. According to ITAR-TASS , the operational duty officer of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka Territory, information about the emergency was received at the Ministry of Emergencies today at 23.15 local time (14.15 Moscow time).