The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine officially accused ex-Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko of organizing the murder of people's deputies Evgeny Shcherban and Vadim Getman. This was stated by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Gennady Vasiliev, ITAR-TASS reports. “There is no policy here, pure crime. Lazarenko should be punished according to our laws,” said the Prosecutor General. The trial of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister in San Francisco (USA) is planned on March 8.

On Orekhov Boulevard in the Southern Administrative District of the capital, an attack was attacked on a slot machine room, a cashier was killed. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the corpse of a 31-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds found at 13:30 the police outfit in the grocery machine room of the Pboyul Krupnikov. As the examination established, the cashier was killed about 30 minutes before the arrival of the outfit.

The FSB of Russia officially confirmed that one of the leaders of the militants in Chechnya Ruslan Gelaev was eliminated in the mountains of Dagestan. "Gelaeva was identified by previously detained militants and persons who knew him well, in particular, by the nature of the injury on his leg, personal things and a dash, with whom he never parted," the representative of the FSB of Russia said on Tuesday Interfax.

Ronaldo will not go to Roman Abramovich in the London Chelsea. On Tuesday, the Brazilian agreed to extend the contract with his Madrid Club of Madrid today. Now the "dentist" will belong to Real Madrid until 2008. This was stated by official representatives of the Spanish team. Recall that in 2002, Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid from Inter for 45 million euros, signing a four -year agreement with the team.

The number of viewers who watched the 76th ceremony of presenting prestigious awards of the American Film Academy amounted to 43.5 million people. This number did not become a record, but 32% exceeded the same indicator of last year, when the ceremony, at which the Chicago musical was recognized, watched only 33 million spectators around the world.

The spiritual leaders of the CIS must unite for the education of youth in the spirit of tolerance, according to the chief rabbi of Russia ( the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia - Feor) Berl Lazar , RIA Novosti reports. “In our society, tolerance is in great lack of,” Berl Lazar said in Moscow at the II inter -religious peacekeeping forum of the CIS.

In the Palestinian city of Gaza, unknown people shot the adviser Yasir Arafat, prominent journalist Halil Az-Zabin on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources, the attack was committed after midnight when Az-Zabin left his office. The attackers shot a journalist several times, and as a result of the wounds he died on the way to the hospital. 59-year-old Az-Zabin headed the Ang Nashra magazine financed by the Palestinian National Administration.

Much has changed since Moses at the command of the Lord ascended the mountain and accepted ten commandments on stone signs. Now potential authors of the eleventh commandments are attracted by beer stands, and they send their options for SMS.

Catalikos-patriarch of all Georgia Elijah II proposes to create a religious peacekeeping contingent of the CIS. " The Georgian Orthodox Church acts with the initiative that clergy should take upon themselves the responsibility of peacekeepers with the right to unhindered movement in conflict zones," Elijah II in Moscow at the II inter -religious peacekeeping forum of the CIS countries said today.

Former President Haiti Jean Bertrand Aristide said that he had left the country not of his own free will. Aristide said that the United States force him to leave Haiti. “They (the Americans) lied to me and forced me to lie to you, they squeezed me by force,” he said in a telephone interview with CNN from Africa, where he arrived on Monday. Aristide left Haiti last Sunday.

Nikolai Khabibulin defended his 35th joke in his career and brought the victory to his "Tampa-Bay" in a meeting with Colorado 3: 0. Thus, Tampa won the fifth match in a row and does not lose in regular time in the last 12 meetings. Moreover, Tampa entered the leaders of the Eastern Conference along with Philadelphia and Ottawa. This victory was 18 for the team on the road.

This morning, the II inter -religious peacekeeping forum of the CIS was opened in Moscow, in which about 300 religious figures, politicians and scientists of the Commonwealth take part, Interfax reports.

The spiritual leaders of the CIS must confront terrorism and violence together. This, according to RIA Novosti , said today in Moscow by the head of the Supreme Religious Council of the peoples of the Caucasus of Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pasha-Zade, speaking at the II inter-religious peacekeeping forum of the CIS countries. The spiritual leader of the Muslims of the Caucasus along with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II is one of the initiators of this forum.

Russia categorically rejects the identification of terrorism with Islam . This was stated by the acting Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov, speaking today in Moscow at the inter -religious peacekeeping forum of the CIS.

Already this year, import duties on digital video and audio equipment may decrease. The Government Commission on protective measures in foreign trade and customs-tariff policy will consider this issue at a meeting in the second half of March. However, given the accompanying initiatives of the State Customs Committee, household appliances are unlikely to be cheaper. After all, customs officers tightened the conditions for its import in Russia as much as possible .