The editors of NTV.ru received a letter from the press service of VTsIOM today. Here is its content: Dear colleagues! The press service of VTsIOM and a number of employees of our organization are sincerely outraged by the lawlessness and mediocrity shown by our authorities in relation to your television company. The principle of existence of our and your colleagues is also shocking - “you die today, and I will die tomorrow” - well, God will be their judge, and you - hold on! ..

In March of this year, demand for cars in the United States decreased by 4.2% compared to a year ago, Bloomberg reports. Despite this drop, the data obtained still exceeded experts' expectations. With the US economy slowing, the auto industry has managed to attract customers with deep discounts. According to the agency, the average discount was $1,462 per vehicle, with even higher discounts on vehicles from American manufacturers.

The Palestinians are setting as a condition for resuming peace negotiations with Israel a return to the agreements reached last year in Sharm el-Sheikh. Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath told EFE. Today he met in Athens with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. The EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, also took part in the negotiations.

The military attache of the Moldovan Embassy in Belgium, the representative of Moldova to the NATO Partnership for Peace program, Colonel Nikolai Turtureanu, left Brussels and disappeared, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax. Turtureanu was a naval officer in Soviet times, and served in the national army of Moldova from its founding. In January 1998, he was appointed by the then Minister of Defense to represent the Moldovan military department in Brussels.

In Tomsk, an elderly woman died due to a minor telephone terrorist. As Nikolai Zenkin, the chief physician of the Central City Ambulance Station, reported today, the night before the police officer on duty received an anonymous call that the building where the ambulance station is located was mined. Police officers and a sapper who arrived at the scene examined the premises for 6 hours in search of an explosive device.

Today the High Representative of the European Union, Javier Solana, arrives in Moscow. The purpose of the visit of a high-ranking European official is to prepare for the upcoming Russia-EU summit on May 17 and discuss the prospects for the participation of the Russian side in peacekeeping operations in Europe. Solana will spend two days in the Russian capital. During this time, he will have meetings with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and other officials.

NTV journalists at a meeting on the evening of Tuesday, April 3, decided that they would be on duty around the clock on the 8th floor of the Ostankino television center, in the television company's studio. NTV employees will wait for representatives of the Gazprom-Media company, but are not going to obey them.

Today, the Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the tax inspectorate number 3 of the Central Administrative District (CAO) of Moscow in satisfying the claim for the liquidation of the NTV television company , Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax. As a representative of the tax inspectorate said at the court hearing, the lawsuit to liquidate NTV was filed due to the fact that the company is unprofitable.

The Palestinians are asking for international protection from the actions of the Israelis, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Moscow, another large fire started in the morning - in the warehouses on Letnikovskaya Street. The fire area exceeded 400 square meters. meters, an explosion occurred from the burning in the hangar. However, by 12:40 the fire was extinguished. At the same time, a message was received about the extinguishing of the fire on the 4th street of Maryina Roshcha.

In a statement issued today, the Union of Journalists of Russia calls on all its colleagues to support the employees of the NTV television company who “refuse to cooperate with the management imposed on them.” As the statement says, it is absolutely obvious that the organizers of the so-called “meeting of NTV shareholders” went far beyond the law, and the impunity with which they did this, among other things, discredits the entire judicial system of the Russian Federation.

The fate of the terrorists who recently hijacked a TU-154 plane in Saudi Arabia depends on negotiations between the two countries.

Secretary of State of the Union of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin , who agreed to extradition from the United States to Switzerland , will be handed over to the Geneva police at the New York airport. According to the official representative of the Swiss Ministry of Internal Affairs, Folko Galli, an escort from the Geneva police will fly to New York especially for this purpose.

A Catholic priest from Zimbabwe protested against the likening of representatives of the leadership of the ruling party to Jesus Christ, the Blagovest-info agency reports. Fr Oscar Wermter, communications secretary of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference (ZCCB), has expressed concern over recent remarks by a provincial governor calling Employment Minister Border Gezi the "Son of Man".

Diego Armando Maradona has denied reports of his possible appearance in the Argentina-Peru World Cup qualifying match. "I'm 40 years old and I can't properly prepare for a match. It would be ridiculous to go onto the field with a cane," said Diego Maradona. Let us remember that the Argentines have already secured their place at the World Cup, and there have been reports in the press about Maradona’s possible participation in the inconclusive match with Peru in October.