An employee of the Estonian special service, Alexei Dressen, who was recently arrested on charges of connections with the Russian FSB, transmitted information to Moscow not only about Estonia, but also about Latvia. As DELFI reports, this was stated by the director of the Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution (Latvian intelligence service) Janis Kazocins.

The family of Lee Jae-chan, the nephew of Samsung head Lee Kun-hee, filed a lawsuit against the head of the South Korean corporation. This was reported by the Yonhap news agency. The lawsuit was brought by the widow and two sons of Lee Zhe Chen, who committed suicide in 2010 after a series of business failures. Lee Jae Chen was the child of Lee Chang-hee, the second son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull. The current head of the corporation, Lee Gun Hee, is the third son of the founder.

The Turkish TV channel TRT aired a program about the role of otherworldly forces in intelligence activities, Vesti.az reports. Its participants - publicists Mehmet Sheker and Omar Ozkaya - argued that foreign intelligence services use jinn in their work. According to them, Russian intelligence is most active in this direction. According to program participants, genies help in obtaining various information.

Information about offshore investments by the family of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov could have been disseminated by the official’s former lawyer Pavel Ivlev. The RAPSI agency reports this with reference to a statement by Artem Dymsky, managing partner of the ALM Feldmans law office.

The placement of Russian Eurobonds, which is due to take place in the near future, has caused a stir among foreign investors, the Vedomosti newspaper writes in its issue dated March 28. Demand was about $17 billion, while the state plans to borrow about $7 billion for the full year. Apparently, this amount will be closed in one issue. The government intends to place five-year bonds for $2 billion, ten-year bonds for the same amount, and plans to sell 30-year bonds for $3 billion.

Major road repairs will begin in Novosibirsk at the end of April, the city’s official website reports. The city budget for 2012-2013 provides 475 million rubles for road repairs. During 2012, it is planned to repair about 30 sections of roads, primarily on the streets of Stanislavsky, Yesenin, Kamenskaya, Krylov, Chelyuskintsev and Berdskoye Highway.

Kazakhstan has decided to clarify the rules regarding the playing of the anthem (as well as the use of other state symbols) at sporting events. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Sports Agency Ilsiar Kanagatov, as reported by Novosti-Kazakhstan.

The Russian national hockey team, which will begin preparations for the 2012 World Championship on April 1, has suffered its first personnel loss. Sibir Novosibirsk defender Nikita Zaitsev, called up for friendly matches with Germany, Slovakia and Latvia, was injured and will not be able to come to the national team training camp, the Sibir official website reports. 20-year-old Zaitsev was injured on March 24 in a match for the youth team of Siberia - Siberian Snipers.

28.03.2012, 06:01:54 version Print | PDA/PDA Shaul Mofaz. Photo ©AFP Israeli Kadima party chooses new leader The Israeli opposition party Kadima elected a new leader on Tuesday, March 27. As reported on Wednesday night on the website of The Jerusalem Post newspaper, he became former Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz . Mofaz received 61.7 percent of the vote, significantly ahead of Tzipi Livni , who was seeking re-election to the position.

"Milan" - "Barcelona" Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Lionel Messi. Photo © AFP In the first match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League, Milan hosted Barcelona, ​​a team that no one wants to see as opponents. This match did not turn out quite as it could have turned out: Milan skillfully defended, Barcelona did not attack very actively. The result is 0:0, and everything will be decided at the Camp Nou in the return match, which will take place in two weeks.

The conference finals of the Gagarin Cup start on March 28. The first match of the best-of-four series between SKA St. Petersburg and Dynamo Moscow will take place on Wednesday in St. Petersburg. The next day in Chelyabinsk, the winner of the KHL regular season, Traktor, and the Omsk Avangard will begin to sort things out. West.

The German government has decided to ease the conditions for immigration of qualified specialists, The Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing sources in the cabinet. This information was later confirmed by CDU/CSU domestic policy experts Reinhard Grindel and FDP Hartfrid Wolff at a press conference in Berlin on March 28, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Soundgarden's new track "Live to Rise" will appear on the "The Avengers" soundtrack. A message about this appeared on the group's Facebook page . The musicians also posted a 20-second fragment from the new composition on YouTube. The song "Live to Rise" will soon be released as a single. It will be available for download on iTunes starting May 1, 2012. Soundgarden's fifth and final full-length studio album to date, "Down on the Upside", was released in 1996.

28.03.2012, 17:49:55 version Print | PDA/PDA The building of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Photo by RIA Novosti, Roman Galkin Get off the needle Officials will try to protect the budget from fluctuations in oil prices The Ministry of Finance has developed budget rules, the purpose of which is to protect the state treasury from fluctuations in oil prices and create a “safety cushion”.

The Russian Air Force will be renewed by 70 percent by 2020, and new aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles will appear as part of the aviation force. Colonel General Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, spoke about this in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets . will enter service In particular, in the next ten years, T-50 fighters (PAK FA) , advanced long-range aviation systems (PAK DA), A-100 long-range radar detection and control aircraft and attack UAVs .