The 2008 Committee: Free Choice expresses its indignation at the unjust and biased sentence issued by the famous Russian military expert Igor Sutyan. This is stated in the statement of the committee published on his website . Recall, on April 6, Igor Sutyan was found guilty of treason and was sentenced to 15 years in prison . The accusation insisted that Sutyan transferred secret intelligence to foreign intelligence on military topics.

In Great Hovgorod, a 29-year-old man tried to saw off a fragment of victory monument. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Hovgorod region, on the night of April 9, the operational services of the Great Hovgorod received information that a man was located on Sofia Embankment on the upper platform of the Victory monument about 30 meters high.

In Crimea near Bakhchisaray, a mass burial was found on the southern beam, presumably, victims of the Nazi executions of the Great Patriotic War. As the Center for Propaganda of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Crimea said on Friday, 50 people were found, as well as several German landmines and about a dozen shells. According to the head of the excavations of Vasily Rybka, in 1941, the SS SS 10-A Sanderkomand was shot here.

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz: AUTO NECROLOGY In recent years, so many of my dear, beloved friends have gone, as they say, into another world, and I had to write an obituary for each of them: “Lara, you knew him (her) better than anyone else, and you can write better than anyone else...” And you won’t refuse - after all, it would be like refusing to pay your last debt to a departed friend, as if you don’t grieve for him, don’t want to remember him with a kind word...

The first decade of April in the metropolitan region may end with thunder and lightning. According to Roshydromet, a thunderstorm is expected here on Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, the thermometer will delight the spring temperature. Now in Moscow - plus 5-7, in the region - 2-7 degrees of heat. Closer to noon, the thermometer column will reach 10-12 degrees above zero in the capital, and in its vicinity up to 7-12.

That night, the US Air Force threw needle bombs into the Iraqi city of El Falluj, then declared a ceasefire for a day, but, having violated their own agreements, during the day massaged airlines in the besieged city began to apply. On the first anniversary of the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, coalition troops began a new assault on El Falluji. At night, the US Air Force aircraft attacked the eastern and northern front of the besieged city.

Former US President Bill Clinton spoke on Thursday before the commission of investigating the circumstances of the attacks on September 11, 2001. These hearings lasted about 4 hours and passed behind closed doors, but at the end of the commission, both democrats and the Republicans, said that the ex-president was frank and readily answered their questions.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld wanted to make an American army of mobile, small and effective. However, now in Iraq it becomes obvious that his doctrine of a high -tech war did not justify itself - the head of the Pentagon underestimated the risks of the post -war period and was forced to send reinforcement for the second time. This was written by the publication of Spiegel , the translation of the article of which is published by Inopressa . Iraq is more than Kuwait 25 times.

For the first time in the latest Russian history, some reform has not only the date of its beginning, but also the end date: the tax reform will end in 2005. At the same time, oil workers and homeowners will pay more expensive for its rapid implementation.

The news of the seizure of three Japanese terrorists in Iraq and the threat to deal with them today led to a major decline in shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. According to the results of daytime trading, the Nikkei index, reflecting the quotes of securities of 225 leading Japanese companies, rolled down more than one and a half percent to the level of 1187.51 points.

The Russian cosmoplane could be built 30 years earlier than the American. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the scientific director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ivan Obrektsov. On the eve of the US Federal Civil Aviation Administration issued Scaled Composites license for flights of the first private suborbital, manned ship SpaceShipone to a height of up to 100 km.

Russia is gradually losing the status of a great space power - 35% of Russians are of this opinion. 24% of respondents are sure that Russia retains this status, and 28% of the survey participants answered this question less definitely - in their opinion, Russia is more likely a great space power than not. This is evidenced by the survey conducted by the Romir Monitoring research holding on the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the first flight of a person into space.

On Friday April 9, a annual international car dealership opens in New York for visitors - the second most important in the United States after Detroitsky Auto Show. Traditionally, in New York, American automakers led by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler rule the ball. However, recently, the United States has become the largest sales market for the Japanese, so at the current car dealership literally every American novelty is opposed to at least one Japanese.

Today, Christians around the world celebrate the great Friday. As you know, this year the Western and Eastern Christians - the churches who build their liturgical year according to the Gregorian and Julian calendars - celebrate the bright resurrection of Christ in one day. Therefore, all events preceding this holiday also occur in a single temporary rhythm. Such coincidences happen quite rarely. The last time Christian Easter coincided in 2001.

An unknown on Friday threw a canister with a toxic substance into an institution filled with visitors in Sofia. A significant number of people were injured. A 50 -year -old man who is suspected of committing this action was detained, Interfax reports. The incident occurred in the premises of the transport department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to official figures, 45 people were hospitalized, 6 of them are in serious condition.