An unauthorized rally is taking place near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan. A rally in memory of Sergei Nazarov, who became a victim of violence by employees of the Dalniy police department, was organized through social networks. The details were told to presenter Andrei Norkin by the correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper in Kazan, Andrei Smirnov. – What’s going on there, could you tell us in more detail? –– I’m right there right now.

US primaries fail to identify clear leader Former Senator Rick Santorum won the primary elections in Alabama and Mississippi, beating Republican front-runner Mitt Romney. According to experts, Rick Santorum's latest success indicates a deep split in the ranks of the Republicans. The radical wing of the party is not yet ready to support the candidacy of ex-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, and the former senator is unable to attract votes from moderate Republicans.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's plans to upgrade Greece's sovereign debt rating upon completion of the program for the exchange of government bonds issued under non-Greek law to the level of "CCC" from "selective default" ("SD"), the agency said in a press release. The exchange of such government bonds is expected to be completed by April 11, RIA Novosti reports.

Personnel 73 1 min. ... President of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) Vladislav Tretyak became a candidate for member of the Council of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) from Russia, according to the official website of the Russian Hockey Federation. This decision was made based on the results of a vote held at a meeting of the FHR executive committee.

Today, at a meeting of the regional legislative assembly, the first annual report was made by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory, Yuri Valyaev, on the activities of the police to ensure law and order in the region. He said that in 2011 there was an overall decrease in the number of crimes. He drew attention to crimes in the field of shared-equity construction.

trend After 2009, when truck production fell by 62.1% compared to 2008, the Russian commercial vehicle market recovered surprisingly quickly last year. Moreover, if you believe the data of ASM Holding OJSC, in 2011 Russia took second place in Europe in terms of sales of new commercial vehicles, including LCVs and buses (372,990 units), after France (482,823), leaving Germany behind (334,822) and Great Britain (306,488).

Test Drive A white cab appears on a high hillock, it moves forward, and the front wheels hover in the air... A fully loaded Scania 8X8 dump truck gently rolls over the bend and descends a 40-degree slope. This is a demonstration of the capabilities of the new line of G and P series all-wheel drive trucks. The construction boom has seen all manufacturers flock to the heavy-duty four-wheel drive truck sector.

The German Wintershall offered Gazprom areas in the Dutch-British North Sea as part of an asset exchange, Rainer Seele, chairman of the board of the German company, said at a press conference on March 15. “We expect to establish a contractual basis for these proposals by the end of the year,” he said. Mr. Seele recalled that as part of the asset exchange, Wintershall expects to receive the fourth and fifth sections of the Achimov deposits of the Urengoy field in addition to the first.

But Inter, having been eliminated from the Champions League, no Football On Tuesday evening, two more Champions League quarter-finalists were determined. They were Bayern and Marseille. The Munich team easily compensated for the defeat to Basel (0:1) in the first match, scoring seven unanswered goals against the Swiss in the return match.

The prosecutor's office of the Olginsky district of Primorye sent a criminal case to court against the external manager of the fishing collective farm "Moryak-Rybolov", who owed employees wages of almost 6 million rubles, said senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Elena Telegina. “According to the investigation, the external manager of the fishing collective farm knew that the enterprise owed wages to its employees, but instead of paying off the debts, he sent the money to creditors.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for the Rostov region found Vimpelcom OJSC (Beeline trademark) guilty of imposing additional Internet services on subscribers, the antimonopoly agency reported.

Alexander Lukashenko refused to pardon those convicted of a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro. The court sentenced them to death. The details were told by the correspondent of the European Radio of Belarus Pavel Sverdlov to the presenter of Kommersant FM Ksenia Turkova. In November 2011, Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalev were found guilty of organizing the explosion at the Oktyabrskaya station, as well as a number of terrorist attacks committed in Belarus in 2005-2008.

The victory, won in two of the poorest US states at once, came as a surprise to Rick Santorum. Pollsters predicted Mitt Romney might win Alabama by a narrow margin, and polls in Mississippi showed a majority of voters ready to vote for former Speaker of Congress Newt Gingrich. As a result of the voting, it became clear that even the most famous sociological companies can make mistakes.

Ukrainian cheeses, the first to be banned by Rospotrebnadzor, do not contain palm oil. According to the head of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service Ivan Bisyuk, such results were reached by an independent examination carried out abroad at the request of the Ukrainian side. According to Mr. Bisyuk, the examination confirmed that these cheeses are of high quality and do not contain vegetable oils.

The actions of oppositionists “For Fair Elections” are dissected in a new NTV film. The documentary film entitled “Anatomy of a Protest” promotes the point of view familiar to the central television channel, commented Kommersant FM’s interlocutors. NTV started "Anatomy of Protest". Today, another revealing film will be released on the TV channel. This time it is dedicated to the “For Fair Elections” campaigns.