Not far from the Turkish Antalya on Friday, March 18, a tourist bus en route to the resort city from Istanbul overturned. According to CNN Turk , as a result of the accident, five people were killed and 38 were injured of varying degrees of severity. The incident occurred on a section of the highway between Antalya and the city of Isparta located north of it. Ambulances have already been dispatched to the scene of the accident.

18.03.2011, 18:20:30 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo by ITAR-TASS Free everyone Medvedev will continue to liberalize the Criminal Code On March 17, at a meeting with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a draft law was discussed, which is designed to ensure further liberalization of criminal legislation. In particular, it is proposed to transfer insult, slander, as well as causing property damage without signs of theft from criminal offenses to administrative ones.

On March 17, at a meeting with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a draft law was discussed, which is designed to ensure further liberalization of criminal legislation. In particular, it is proposed to transfer insult, slander, as well as causing property damage without signs of theft from criminal offenses to administrative ones. The government must discuss these amendments within a month. Decriminalization of certain crimes is not the only point of the proposed reform.

18.03.2011, 16:29:19 version Print | PDA/PDA At a rally in Yerevan on March 17. Photo ©AFP And I want it, and it injects me The Armenian opposition postponed the "revolution" On March 17, another large opposition rally took place in Yerevan. At the rally, there were calls for a change of government; those gathered (tens of thousands of people reportedly took part in the action) chanted “Now!

The radiation level near the emergency Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant decreased slightly after water was dropped from helicopters, Kyodo reports, citing the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency. The radiation background one kilometer from the second power unit of Fukushima-1, on Friday, March 18, at 05:00 local time, was 279.4 microsieverts per hour (0.28 millisieverts per hour), the Atomic Energy Agency reported.

The restored building of the museum of Russian artist Vasily Tropinin opened in Moscow on March 18, Interfax reports . was announced at the opening ceremony The participation of the head of the Moscow Heritage Committee, Alexander Kibovsky, . The museum, located on Shchetininsky Lane, has been under renovation for several years. During the restoration work, not only the museum building was restored, but also about 200 of its exhibits.

The identity of the suicide bomber who committed the terrorist attack in Karabulak in April 2010 was established through search and exclusion, the Kommersant newspaper writes on March 18 . Investigators announced this week that the terrorist was 20-year-old Umar Chakhkiev, who moved with his family to Ingushetia from Grozny.

In 2010, the number of Russians who declared income worth more than a billion rubles was 414 people, which is 241 people less than two years ago. These statistics are cited in the issue of March 18 by the Kommersant newspaper , citing official data from the Federal Tax Service. On March 16, Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service Svetlana Andryushchenko reported that declarations from 385 billionaires had been submitted to the service.

A criminal case has been opened in St. Petersburg regarding a robbery against the director of the Akimov Comedy Theater Leonid Sats, as a result of which he died. The city's investigative department clarifies that law enforcement agencies only became aware of the connection between the attack and Sats' death on March 18. Criminals attacked the 72-year-old director on March 4 near his home near the Moskovsky railway station. Sats was beaten and robbed.

A knitted sheer dress that Prince William 's lover Kate Middleton showed at a charity fashion show in 2002 sold for £78,000 (€89,000) at auction. writes about this The Sun . The auction took place in London on March 17. It is unknown who bought the famous outfit of the prince’s beloved. At the auction during which Middleton's dress was sold, two dresses from Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, also went under the hammer.

In 2011, the Ministry of Defense will purchase 36 strategic ballistic missiles, two strategic nuclear submarines and 20 air-launched strategic cruise missiles. stated this According to RIA Novosti , Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov . In addition, the military plans to buy five spacecraft, 35 aircraft, 109 helicopters, three multi-purpose nuclear submarines, one surface combat ship and 21 anti-aircraft missile systems.

The German Bundestag on Thursday, March 17, adopted a number of measures to tighten requirements for migrants, reports the n-tv channel. Amendments to migration legislation were approved by a majority vote of representatives of the ruling parties CDU/CSU and FDP. From now on, migrants who arrived in Germany from non-EU countries can obtain a permit for indefinite stay only if they complete mandatory integration courses and pass exams, including in the German language.

Gazprom sold one of its non-core assets at an auction - its subsidiary Gazprom Burenie. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the gas concern. At the end of 2009, the net loss of Gazprom Bureniya amounted to 1.857 billion rubles, and revenue - 39 billion. The transaction amount was 4.05 billion rubles with an initial price of four billion rubles. The deal was completed on March 11. Gazprom did not disclose who became the buyer of the asset.

The head coach of the Moscow football club CSKA Leonid Slutsky called the Portuguese “Porto” the favorite of the Europa League for the 2010/11 season. According to Slutsky, Porto plays modern fast football, and few in Europe can compare with this team. This was reported by the website of the publication "Sport-Express" . Slutsky said that he has no complaints about the players of the army club, which lost to Porto in the 1/8 finals of the Europa League.

A new poster for Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris has been released online. You can view its full-size version here . The poster depicts actor Owen Wilson's character walking along the embankment. Behind the houses on the opposite bank of the river, a section of the sky is visible, which on the poster was replaced with a fragment of Vincent van Gogh's painting "Starry Night". Woody Allen's new film Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy about a family trip to the French capital.