Georgia is ready to agree to the withdrawal of Russian bases from the country within four years, that is, until January 1, 2009, with the condition that all this time the troops will be “in withdrawal mode,” that is, there will be no exercises and no new military equipment introduced , and the personnel will be steadily reduced. As Kommersant writes , Georgian representatives announced this at inter-Ministry of Foreign Affairs consultations, which began on Wednesday in Moscow.

On Wednesday, the judge presiding over Michael Jackson's case banned the jury from showing evidence seized from the singer's computer, including erotic images, to the jury. Reuters reports this. Instead, the jury looked at more than 75 porn magazines seized from the pop singer's ranch. In addition, the jury was shown ordinary photographs that Jackson kept in his possession, including a photo of actor Macaulay Culkin, known for the Home Alone film series.

On March 24, about 30 youth and student organizations of Armenia, on the initiative of the youth wing of the Dashnaktsutyun party and the Youth Union of Armenia, sent a letter to the organizers of Philip Kirkorov’s concert in Armenia demanding to cancel the event. Philip Kirkorov and Anastasia Stotskaya plan to perform in Armenia on the occasion of the holiday of motherhood and beauty celebrated here on April 7. reports this RIA Novosti .

25-year-old inventor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab (MIT Media Lab) Gauri Nanda has created an alarm clock that prevents the owner from falling asleep after he pressed the sleep button, reports the New York Daily. Clocky not only starts ringing a second time ten minutes after disconnecting, but it goes to the other end of the room, and its owner has to get up and look for the mechanism.

03.04.2005, 16:46:56 version print Kadyrov's special forces destroyed the "marine" In the person of Rizvan Chitigov, the separatists lost a valuable specialist Rizvan Chitigov, apparently, did not deserve the title of Chechen “action number three” for nothing. For three days he sat almost continuously in a room in which, according to the special forces, an ordinary adult man could not spend even three hours.

Muammar Gaddafi called Israelis and Palestinians "idiots." This assessment was made by the Libyan leader when he spoke at a meeting of the League of Arab States in Algeria. According to Gaddafi, the parties to the conflict, instead of creating a single state, are building two states for two peoples, Reuters reports. “I cannot recognize either a Palestinian state or Israel. The solution to the problem is the creation of one single state.

Participants in the rally in the central square of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, began to be dispersed with batons. Moreover, as RIA Novosti reports , this is done by people in civilian clothes, armed with police shields. From their side, stones are thrown into the crowd of oppositionists - the protesters respond in kind. According to some reports, shots have already been fired in the square where several thousand people have gathered.

On the day of the premiere of Leonid Desyatnikov’s opera based on the libretto by the writer Vladimir Sorokin, “Children of Rosenthal,” as many as four public movements held pickets in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

The Parliament of Moldova has elected a new chairman. According to the ITAR-TASS news agency , he was 39-year-old Marian Lupu, Minister of Economy of Moldova. His candidacy was nominated by a faction of the ruling Communist Party in Moldova, which controls 56 of the 101 seats in parliament.

At the upcoming meeting on Thursday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of Russian business, the latter are expected to ask the head of state to stabilize tax legislation and limit government interference in business practices. According to the Kommersant newspaper , the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Oleg Kiselev, who is the chairman of the board of directors of Renaissance Capital, will make a report on tax reform.

87 percent of Russians believe that the state should regulate prices for automobile fuel. This is evidenced by the results of a public opinion poll conducted by the research holding ROMIR Monitoring. At the same time, every tenth resident of Russia is indifferent to the issue of state regulation of gasoline prices. Every hundredth person believes that the state should not interfere in this area, and the remaining two percent found it difficult to give any answer.

British troops will remain in Iraq until at least 2006. This is due to the fact that Iraqi intelligence services are still too weak to single-handedly counter the wave of violence that has swept the country, AFP reports, citing a report by the House of Commons Defense Committee of the British Parliament. The authors of the document argue that the US-led coalition was completely unprepared for the uprisings that broke out after the war.

The invisible grandmaster eluded the US Bobby Fischer delivered a clever checkmate to the US authorities On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, one of the brightest and without a doubt the most mysterious chess player in the world, Bobby Fischer, received Icelandic citizenship. He has already been released from prison for illegal immigrants and has flown to his new homeland.

The issue of evacuating Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev from the Russian military base in Kant was not considered. this to Interfax Russian military sources in Kyrgyzstan reported on Thursday. They also emphasized that reports about the preparation of an aircraft for the Kyrgyz president at the Russian base do not correspond to reality. Earlier there were reports that the Kyrgyz leader intended to seek political asylum on the base.

The American company Lybra International Holding Group Corp. filed a lawsuit for more than a billion dollars against the government of Turkmenistan. As the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported in its issue dated March 24, 2005, the lawsuit was filed in the federal court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiff claims that the Ministry of Agriculture of Turkmenistan owes him money under 1992 contracts for the supply of equipment and technology for two sugar factories.