2K 3 min. ... The campaign against Libya looks sudden from all points of view. This has never happened before Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Russia in Global Affairs" - especially for Ogonyok In the past decade, American popular (that is, not academic, but journalistic) political science has been enriched with two terms - war of necessity and war of choice.

The head of the Moscow region prosecutor's office went to work to close a high-profile case Yesterday it became known about another major scandal in the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region.

In December 1904, during the war with Japan, the newspaper Russkoe Slovo reported a sensation: its correspondent secretly visited an enemy country and brought back valuable information. However, just a few months after the publication of the reports, the pervasive reporter, who became known throughout the world, was quietly fired from the newspaper and later disappeared without a trace. Vlast columnist Evgeny Zhirnov looked into this mysterious story.

1K 1 min. ... Amnesty International has presented its latest annual report on the death penalty in the world. According to the organization, the number of executions has decreased by 25%. However, China continues to be a source of concern, with more executions than all other countries combined. According to Amnesty International , official figures show that 527 people were executed last year. A year earlier, the number of executed people was 714.

General Director of the CDS group of companies, Mikhail Medvedev, assessed the situation on the real estate market for SR and spoke about his expectations for this year. SOCIAL REPORT: What is happening to the real estate market now? MIKHAIL MEDVEDEV: Unexpected events do not happen on the market, at least in our St. Petersburg market. This is good. Everything develops according to a predictable scenario, without shocks. In general, there are no such concerns as there were a year or two ago.

Pavel Sheremet - about the prospects of a criminal case against the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has opened a criminal case against the country's former president Leonid Kuchma. For the first time, authorities have officially linked the president to the high-profile murder of a famous journalist. Pavel Sheremet, Kyiv - Moscow Leonid Kuchma was tightly tied to his native Ukraine - under a written undertaking not to leave.

Voice 133 1 min. ... “I am categorically against baseless insinuations spread by unscrupulous people for incorrect, unethical reasons.” Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev - about the accusation of the director of the Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva of corruption by museum employees

The Sarmat brewing company has completed the process of integration into the structure of SABMiller plc. As a result, it was renamed Miller Brands Ukraine. According to the company's general director Igor Tikhonov, it intends to develop beer brands in the premium segment, in particular, to pay special attention to licensed brands. Miller Brands Ukraine (TM Sarmat, Miller Genuine Draft, Zolotaya Bochka, Velkopopovicky Kozel, AmsterdamMariner) owns Donetsk Brewery CJSC. Alena Golubeva

The French Air Force bombed Muammar Gaddafi's command center near Tripoli on the evening of March 27. In recent days, French Air Force and Navy aircraft have been operating mainly in the areas of the cities of Misrata and Zintan. “Regarding missions in the last 24 hours, on the evening of March 27, two Rafale fighter jets carried out attacks on a command center located 10 km south of Tripoli,” General Staff spokesman Thierry Burcart said at a press conference in Paris on March 28.

In the “Work of Visual Art” category, the jury of the “Innovation” competition will have a difficult choice between graffiti on the Liteiny Bridge, a plasticine block, a silent video about the sea, a magnetic eye and three corridors with televisions. Andrey Monastyrsky. Installation "KD Corridor" Irina Korina. Installation "Show trial" Photo: Dmitry Lekai, Kommersant Group "Blue Soup".

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on March 28 that the intervention of a coalition of Western countries in the internal civil conflict in Libya does not comply with the UN resolution. In addition, he said, Moscow hopes that reports of civilian casualties as a result of coalition airstrikes will be verified in the near future. “There are reports of coalition air strikes on the columns of (Muammar) Gaddafi’s troops, and reports of support for armed rebels.

Chairman of the Housing and Communal Services Committee of the Kazan Executive Committee Alexey Frolov has been appointed Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of Tatarstan, the press service of the ministry reports. Today he was presented to the Ministry of Construction staff. Alexey Frolov will oversee investment and economic issues at the ministry.

60 years ago, the main news of Ogonyok was the release in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) of a new passenger car GAZ-M12, or simply “ZiM” - “Molotov Plant”. Stalin instructed the leaders of the automotive industry to create a universal passenger car in just a year, which could be used both for executive purposes and for official purposes, for example, for an ambulance or a taxi.

President of the Union of Entrepreneurs Andrey Bunich is confident The Russian authorities intend to get rid of a controlling stake in RusHydro. According to the President of the Union of Entrepreneurs Andrei Bunich, the decision is shocking and will not change the situation for the better. The state may give up control over hydropower. The head of the Ministry of Energy, Sergei Shmatko, said today that the issue of exiting the controlling stake in the RusHydro company is being considered.

Today, March 28, it became known that American lawyer Alan Dershowitz will defend the interests of ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in the case of the murder of Georgy Gongadze. Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, is known for his participation in many high-profile criminal cases. He has defended many celebrities in court, including Orenthal OJ Simpson.