VAZ workers demand to double the salary and threaten a strike. The strike committee was formed last week. It included 13 people, all of them are activists of the alternative VAZ trade union "Unity". The requirements of the committee are economic in nature. The workers threatening the strike requires two to increase the wages to the staff, to carry out a monthly indexation of wages in full and to bring the salaries of workers and managers to a ratio of 1 to 5.

The war in Iraq and the spread of atypical pneumonia will become this year the main factors in the slowdown of economic growth in East Asia. Such conclusions are contained in the report of the World Bank. On average, the predicted indicators of economic growth will fall in the region to 5% from last year’s 5.8%. And this is precisely the pneumonia - since the fighting in Iraq was unexpectedly fleeting and did not affect the economy significantly.

Russian priests, despite the threat of atypical pneumonia, went from Moscow to the farthest countries to commit Easter worship. As the head of the sector of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, the priest Nikolai Balashov, told the ITAR-TASS today, festive services will be held in all 245 foreign parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church , as well as in countries where there is no permanent clergy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Thursday a decree on the appointment of Boris Sergeyevich Aleshin as deputy chairman of the Russian government, the press service of the head of state told Interfax. Boris Aleshin will oversee industrial policy and some other issues, noted in the press service.

Today, the Tokyo District Court has begun the final hearing of the case of the founder of the sect Aum Sinrika Seko Asahara, the Japanese Mainichi Daily News reports. He is accused of organizing 13 murders, including attacks with the use of neuro-paralytic gas, as a result of which 27 people were killed. The accusation requires Asahara a death sentence. The final act of the prosecution says that "the defendant preached religious doctrines who justified the murder.

An examination of a patient hospitalized from Yakutsk Airport with suspicion of atypical pneumonia will take from three to 10 days. Currently, the passenger of the flight Khabarovsk - Yakutsk - Mirny undergoes an examination in the hospital, he did an X -ray. From three to 10 days, he will be under the supervision of doctors. RIA Novosti was reported on Thursday in the press service of the Yakutsk City Hall.

A resident of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh burned his house to the ground, trying to kill the mouse that settled in it. Ranvir Singh, a resident of the village of Paul Paul, in the Manipur region, tied a piece of fabric impregnated with kerosene, to the tail of the mouse after he managed to lure it into a trap, reports Ananova . After that, he set fire to the fabric. However, the mouse managed to escape from the trap.

In the capital of the Czech Republic on Thursday, an armed robbery of the branch of the largest commercial bank in the country was committed. According to the press secretary of the Prague Police of willow Klonova, the armed man and the woman broke into the bank premises on Murmanskaya Street in the Prague-10 area. The criminals were masked. More than 1 million Czech crowns were stolen from the bank (1 US dollar is 29 crowns), RIA Novosti reports.

The Pentagon identified the remains of the pilots from the crew of the F-15e Strike Eagle fighter, who suffered the disaster on April 7 during the fighting in the area of ​​the Iraqi city of Tikrit . This was announced by the Fox News TV channel. The circumstances of the crash of the aircraft are not reported. The remains of captain Eric Dasa pilot were identified last week, and on Wednesday it was announced to identify the remains of Major William Watkins.

Two people died and 13 were injured in varying severity as a result of an explosion of a bomb at the railway station building in the Israeli city of Kfar Saba, RIA Novosti reports. One of the dead is the suicide bomber himself, and another is the station guard who blocked his path. The explosion occurred at about 8:30 a.m. Moscow time. According to SEM40.ru , the condition of one wounded, hospitalized at the Meir hospital is critical.

In Vladivostok, a criminal case was opened on the fact of the murder, a local businessman committed on Thursday morning. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory, on Thursday, at about 10:30 in the morning local time, an explosion and fire of the Toyota Land Cruiser car occurred on the roadside of the Soviet Medium-Lady, on the side of the road along the road along the road along 100 years.

Now, in order to “correct” the lips, without resorting to artificial methods, it will be enough to use a special cream that stimulates the natural expansion of tissues controlled by the body itself, writes the Italian portal Staibene.it Such a miracle cream was represented by a professor of plastic surgery Romulo Mene from Rio de Janeiro at the XXIV National Congress of Italian enterprises of aesthetic medicine.

The police of the Amur Region announced the wanted list of more than 200 DPRK citizens who worked in the Amur region and arbitrarily left their jobs. The press service of the region’s Internal Affairs Directorate was informed on Thursday Interfax that in accordance with the agreement concluded with the DPRK government this year, about 1.5 thousand North Koreans, who should work on the harvesting of forest and agriculture, income in the region.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov considers a year a “optimal period” of a call service. Opening on Thursday a government meeting, the prime minister expressed the opinion that for such a period, military personnel will be able to undergo the necessary training, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, Kasyanov emphasized, “you can agree to a reduction in the service life of a call” only after the government assesses the effectiveness of such an army.

The vice-governor of the Saratov region Yuri Moiseev is placed in the investigative insulator on suspicion of beating a certain Vitaly Gladyshev. The reason for this was the article published in the newspaper "Reporter" The article is looking for a particularly dangerous vice-governor, "Saratov Business Konsulting reports. The publication described the circumstances of the crime.