13:43 // 03/03/2008 The fire began at the largest oil refining enterprise Kuwait, RIA Novosti reports citing France Press. According to him, the fire arose in one of the reservoirs of the enterprise in the city of El-Ahmadi, processing up to 460 thousand barrels of oil per day. A source of the agency, who wished to remain unnamed, also said that the cause and area of the fire are still unknown.

The President of Russia proposed to defrost the relationship of Transnistria, Igor Smirnov, takes a moratorium on negotiations with Moldova to resolve the Transnistrian conflict, Smirnov said after negotiations with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We previously posted a moratorium on meetings, since there were no reactions of the President of Moldova to events in South Ossetia. Now we will defrost," Smirnov said in an interview with Russia Today.

The court defended the metropolitan debrcaders of the Moscow Arbitration Court of the Moscow traffic police in a lawsuit to invalidate the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which recognized the Moscow State University Mosvodokanal, GUP Gormost and OJSC Moscow City electric grid company (MGSK) violated the competition law.

14:26 // 03/03/2008 President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that he would dissolve the parliament if the current coalition as part of the pro -presidential "of our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" and the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko will fall apart, and the new one will not be created within the established time, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, the Buty faction voted on a number of issues along with the opposition party of regions and the Communists.

The Russian prime minister replaced the leader of last year Rupert Murdok. This is the first appearance of Putin in the ranking, which, according to Vanity Fair,. Getting into the rating, adds a magazine, "depends on a number of factors: well-being and influence, as well as such intangible components as vision, philanthropist and X-factor." Putin de facto remains the leader of the world's largest country, despite the fact that in May he left the presidency, occupied by him for eight years.

14:23 // 03/03/2008 The Council of Secretaries of Security Councils of the CSTO countries supported the proposal to prohibit the supply of weapons of Georgia, the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said to reporters. "We are against arresting the Saakashvili regime, so that the prerequisites for the genocide of one or another people are created," Patrushev said after a meeting of the CSTO Secretary Secretary Committee, RIA Novosti reports.

19:20 // 03/03/2008 In the world section of the Presnensky district court of the capital, pre-trial preparations were held in the lawsuit of 16 Russian managers of the TNK-BP oil company for its head Robert Dudley. According to ITAR-TASS, lawyer Istsov Sergey Akhunzyanov, "preliminary hearings in this case were scheduled for October 1." According to the court decision, the process, with the exception of preliminary hearings, will be open.

16:18 // 03/03/2008 President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko launched a massive campaign against Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, since she is his competitive in the presidential election in the winter of 2009-2010, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the BET statement. Yushchenko accused BYuT, the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of the political and constitutional coup after these factions on the eve adopted a number of laws that limit the powers of the head of state.

15:06 // 03/03/2008 At the Plenary meeting of the Secretary of Security Councils (KSSB) of the Agreement on Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), the Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Bagdasaryan said. The signed documents relate, in particular, the training of personnel for law enforcement, fire, emergency rescue bodies and special services of the CSTO member states.

13:29 // 03/03/2008 Explosions in burning arts plans in the Kharkov region of Ukraine continue, but with less intensity, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the country's Ministry of Defense. "The intensity of the explosions over the past day amounted to 14 explosions ...", - the department said on the website of the department. It is noted that the explosions were local in nature and allowed work on the technical territory of the arsenal.

14:20 // 03/03/2008 Georgia has not fulfilled the obligations to withdraw troops and is engaged in their active regrouping, said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko. "One of the elements of agreements says that Georgian troops should be returned to their barracks. We, unfortunately, are not observed. On the contrary, we observe increased activity in regrouping of the Georgian armed forces, to equip them.

09:39 // 03/03/2008 George Bush supported the candidacy of the Republican Senator John McCain for the presidency of the United States, turning to the participants of the nationwide congress of the US Republican Party (Minnesota) the day before during the National Congress of the Republican Party during a direct satellite video conference from the White House.

Negotiations on peaceful settlement in Cyprus are negotiated between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish units of the island. President of Cyprus Dimitris Christophys and General Chairman of the Republican Turkish Party Mehmet Ali Talat are found today in Nicosia. “We must put an end to the suffering of our peoples and reunite the country,” Christopias said before the meeting began. These are the first direct negotiations since 2004.

Regions will receive 50 billion rubles for overhaul in the Ministry of Regional Development are satisfied with their work. This was reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by the head of the Ministry of Regional Development Dmitry Kozak. Not all, of course, but in the field of overhaul and generally reorganization of housing and communal services - for sure.

The Moscow authorities once again try to turn the requests to the fees yesterday another attempt to rid the capital from paid parking lots was made. The General Director of the State University of State Affairs “City Park Parking Service” Igor Khokhalev announced that from September 101, 101 out of 116 paid municipal parking lots will be considered illegal, and people in vests who collect money for parking are scammers. Only 15 paid parking lots in the station territories will remain legal.