None of the Russian television companies agreed to broadcast the appeal of the Pope to the Catholics of Russia, despite the incoming proposals. This was reported to Interfax on Friday at the information center of the conference of Catholic bishops of the Russian Federation.

At least 50 people, most of whom are Muslims, died on Friday as a result of clashes of Hindus with representatives of Muslim communities in the state of Gujarat in the west of India. As a representative of local authorities told Reuters, three major incidents occurred on Friday evening. However, it does not yet specify exactly where and how the clashes occurred. The number of victims of the most bloody in the last decade in India clashes between Hindus and Muslims currently reaches 260 people.

The Japanese economy lost 230 thousand jobs in January, which is the highest in the last four months. At the same time, consumer prices decreased by a record 1.4% compared to the same period last year, Bloomberg reports. Moreover, the reduction in the number of jobs in February can accelerate, as companies seek to complete the costs of reducing costs before the end of the financial year (March 31), the agency predicts.

In Altai, a unique archive of the actor, director and writer Vasily Shukshin, who was still considered lost, was discovered. According to Echo of Moscow , Schukshin’s creativity researchers believed that the Shukshin family archive disappeared in the village of Tosty, when Vasily's mother moved to another house. It was customary to believe that the new owners of the house, along with various garbage and forgotten things, burned letters.

Two killed were discovered by the Baltimore police in a car registered in the name of the ex-champion of the world in heavyweight in heavyweight Hasima Rahman. The man and woman found by the boxer shot in the car, according to preliminary data, worked for him and, on his behalf, were engaged in the project to open a finished clothing store in Baltimore, reports SE.

The Russian figure skating Federation completed the tasks that the Olympic Games, having won two gold and three silver medals, her President Valentin Piseev said at a press conference today. He emphasized that the skaters successfully fought in all four disciplines, ITAR-TASS reports. “On the eve of the games, it was clear that it would be difficult to speak on the North American continent,” Piseev said. “Due to the tendentity of the press and spectators.

On Friday in Moscow, a meeting of the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, Radio General Director Yuri Fedutinov and Gazprom-Media general director Boris Yordan, Interfax reports. According to Venediktov, the parties agreed that Gazprom’s delaying the decision to sell its media assets destroyed the business, in particular, Echo of Moscow.

The American authorities agreed to facilitate the conditions for the detention of prisoners at the Military base of Guantanamo, after almost two -thirds of the Afghan prisoners of war were there, Interfax reports. In the hunger strike, according to the BBC television radio corporation, 194 prisoners took part. According to the prisoners, this action was caused by the fact that from one of them the turban, which he put on during prayer, was forcibly removed from the sheet.

Experts from the temporary forensic medical laboratory created in Severomorsk identified with the help of relatives the body of the first rank of Vladimir Bagryantsev. He was the chief of staff of the seventh division of the submarines of the Northern Fleet, which included the Kursk Premier League, and died on a combat post with the crew of the nuclear traction on August 12, 2000. The body of the Electronics group, the senior midshipman Vladimir Fesak, was also recognized.

At the Myasishchev experimental engineering plant in Zhukovsky on March 14, a presentation of a unique reusable ship for space tourism will be held. According to the "Business News Agency" in the press service of the plant, the S-XXI aviation-space system, developed by Russian designers, is intended for short-term suborbitral flights. The space module is designed for three passengers. The presentation will present a layout of a life -size aircraft.

The families of those who died in a plane crash over the Black Sea in October 2001, first of all, are waiting from Ukraine to establish and punish those responsible for the tragedy, "and monetary compensation is a secondary issue." So the representative of the initiative group of relatives of passengers of the flight Tel Aviv-Novosibirsk Pavel Kapchitz commented on ITAR-TASS information about the readiness of Ukraine to pay the victims of this disaster for 10 thousand dollars.

The Netoscope news agency, which is a leader among Internet projects dedicated to the IT industry, ceased to exist. This was reported to the Fontanka.ru agency by the editor -in -chief of Netoscope Natalya Khaitina. The reason for the closure, according to her, is that she, Natalya Haitina, decided to leave. Meanwhile, the "non -register" could continue to exist comfortably, but its founders did not allow this to do this.

The Supervisory Board of Alrosa is expected to choose a new president of the diamond company at its meeting on Friday in Moscow. According to RIA Novosti , the meeting will begin in the afternoon, approximately at 15:00. Officially, the name of the new head of the Russian diamond monopoly is not called. The press periodically offers candidates for this post - from Pavel Borodin to the head of Irkutskenergo Konstantin Ilkovsky.

The sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in our country has reached extreme scale √ This applies to underground porn industry, and children's prostitution, and the sale of girls in sexual slavery. According to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Moscow leads in the production and distribution of pornography: on average, one or two such crimes are disclosed weekly. This is followed by St.

The Russian intelligence services reported that they had documentary evidence that Chechen militants are preparing people to commit terrorist attacks. According to the representative of the FSB of Russia Ilya Shabalkin, under the leadership of the so -called President Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov, people are being prepared for the terrorist attacks in Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, a cache was found, which belonged to a group subordinate to Maskhadov.