At a press conference in Ulan-Ude, the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia reported the disclosure of the murder of three post-communications colleges . According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic, Mikhail Tsukruk, a former law enforcement officer was detained. The ex-militia is suspected of execution on March 5 in Ulan-Ude three colleges and abduction of 1.2 million rubles.

The head of the Pentagon Donald Ramsfeld performed at a briefing on Friday with a tough warning to Syria and Iran in connection with a military operation in Iraq.

In the area of ​​the Southern Iraqi city of Nasiria on the Euphrates River there is a fierce battle between the Iraqi troops holding the city and the US Marine Corps. In the morning, street battles began in the residential quarters of Nasiria. This was reported from the scene of European journalists. These are the first intense combat clashes inside the city line since the start of the US invasion of Iraq.

The first days of the war of the United States and its allies against Iraq showed that the American forecasts regarding the course of the military action were "not realistic," said German defense Minister Peter Shtruk. In his opinion, the assessments made by the American side before the start of the war "" quite obviously did not correspond to reality. " From a military point of view, it is completely clear that the initial scenario can change rapidly, the minister said.

Russian military experts believe that the official data on the losses of the US troops and the UK in Iraq are underestimated. "The department of strategic influence in the Pentagon often provides the public with unilateral information and even frank disinformation," said former deputy minister of defense, Colonel General Valery Mironov, who at one time in Afghanistan.

A drunken 58-year-old resident of the capital threatened to blow up the US Embassy on Thursday evening. According to Interfax, at about 18:30 on the phone 02 a message was received about the threat of an explosion at the American embassy. With the help of special equipment, police officers found that they called from the apartment of the house on Novosynevsky Prospekt. They sent a group of immediate response, which detained the owner - Valery Ruprusin.

In Bryansk, during the customs inspection of the Moscow-Kishinev passenger train, 7.2 kg of unprocessed natural diamonds was discovered at the stiseless passenger of the sleeping car. The operation to detain the smugglers was carried out on the eve of employees of the FSB department in the Bryansk region together with the operatives of the linear department of the internal affairs.

The Roman Catholic Church Pope John Paul II confirmed the intention to return the icon of the Kazan Mother of God to Russia. As RIA Novosti reports, the speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, the speaker of the Federation Council, told reporters after the audience on Friday at the pontiff. "The Pope said about his desire to return this shrine to our country," Mironov said. According to the speaker, in the first part of the audience, dad spoke Italian.

At least eight powerful explosions were heard in the center of Baghdad on Friday - Holy Day for Muslims. Allied aviation inflicted a new blow to the Iraqi capital, reports Reuters. During the bombing over Baghdad, a rumble of aircraft was heard. Iraqi air defense batteries opened fire from the roofs of houses and tried to bring down enemy aircraft.

The American marine infantrymen in the area of ​​fierce battles near the city of En-Nasiria knocked out a civilian bus in which the bodies of 12 unarmed Iraqis were found. In their luggage, only two pistols were discovered. It is reported on Friday by the British newspaper The Guardian . According to her, the bus was attacked, apparently, on March 26, when the sea infantry decided that there were Iraqi militias in it.

The famous filmmaker Alexander Mitte marks 70 years on March 28. The official honor of the master will be held on March 31 in the House of Cinema the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. A new film “Redeated Saturday” has recently been released in wide rental, and the Culture TV channel shows its tape “Gori, Gori, my star” on Friday. The director was born in Moscow in 1933. He graduated from the MISi Engineering Faculty.

American soldiers talk about ambushes arranged by Iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. “We saw civilians who appeared from the hospital behind the river. When we approached them, they began to shoot from Kalashnikov’s machine guns ,” says a wounded American.

The Iran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied the report that on Thursday the paratroopers of the coalition forces were mistaken in Iranian territory. “There were no American or British paratroopers or pilots who accidentally flew into Iranian territory,” RIA Novosti said in the press service of the Iran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Today, at the World Hockey Championship with the ball held in Arkhangelsk, the scandal unexpectedly erupted. And the Swedes arranged it. According to the Soviet Sport , after the daily match of the national teams of the United States and Estonia for the artificial ice of the Stadium 'Trud', the following participants - the team of Sweden and Norway should have been released. But time flew, and the teams never appeared on the field. Spectators in the stands were perplexed: what happened?

Over the past day, Iraqi troops defiled 33 tanks and armored vehicles of the American-British troops, four military personnel were killed. Such data were cited by the Minister of Information of Iraq Muhammad al-Sahhaf, Reuters reports.