The former head of the Yukos, the president of the Open Russia Foundation, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while in the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center, sent the second appeal to the public and the Russian authorities through the participants in the regular forum of regional journalists held in Moscow.

A group of members of the Rodina faction proposes to consecrate the building of the State Duma. With such a proposal, the deputies Alexander Chuev, Alexander Krutov and a number of other representatives of the faction officially turned today to the chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov. "In the days of the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, a group of deputies of the Rodina faction addresses you with a proposal to sanctify the building of the State Duma," the deputies said.

The National Council on television and radio broadcasting ordered national television channels and radio stations from April 19 to broadcast only in Ukrainian. This was announced by the chairman of the national council Boris Kholod. "We came to the conclusion that if we want to preserve the Ukrainian nation, we must say clearly that the language should be Ukrainian," he said.

According to experts, about 200 thousand crimes are committed in the world. Over the past year, the world has only registered 450 million crimes committed, Interfax reports. In fact, according to experts, illegal acts are 3-4 times more, just these data are not registered, the deputy committee of the State Duma of Anatoly Kulikov said on Wednesday at the Media Center in the media center of the Izvestia newspaper.

The detectives began an investigation into a new accusation of cruelty with children against the pop star Michael Jackson. A certain person whose gender and age are not known, claims that the singer sexually harassed him in the late 1980s. The press secretary of the police department of Los Angeles said the case was transferred to the Department for the Protection of Children. It is still unclear whether the investigation will lead to new accusations.

On Wednesday, the International Football Federation (FIFA) published the April version of the rating list of prefabricated. The position of the Russian national team has not changed in a month-the wards of George Yartsev still take 29th place (654 points). The three leaders did not undergo changes.

In Iraq, the bodies of four of the seven employees of the American Corporation Halliburton, who were missing last Friday during an attack on a cargo convoy with gasoline on the road between Baghdad and El Falluja. This was reported to reporters on the basis of anonymity by the representative of the US State Department. According to him, the identities of the dead have not yet been established, since the remains have not been identified, the NBC television company reports.

Already eight US troops were killed in Iraq over the past day in clashes with the militants of Iraqi Resistance , ITAR-TASS reports with reference to sources in the Pentagon. Representatives of the command do not comment on where and under what circumstances military personnel died. According to the Skynews channel, four American marine infantrymen died in battles near the city of El Falluj.

Employees of the Moscow criminal investigation department detained four people suspected of the murder, committed on Monday in the south of Moscow. According to the Office of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, three people detained three people on Tuesday at 23:00, one of them previously convicted, who are suspected of committing this crime.

In the capital of Pakistan Islamabad, the Muslim radicals defeated the ancient statue of Buddha, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Pakistani sources. The statue of Buddha was planned to be installed in the cultural and historical Museum of Lock Virsa. After the destruction of the statue last weekend in Islamabad, the metropolitan police searched and closed the Muslim Theological School located nearby, associated with the actions of the radicals.

In Turkey last night, an earthquake of 4.6 points on the Richter scale occurred. The underground impetus was recorded in the province of Bole, 250 km west of Ankara, ITAR-TASS reports. Among the inhabitants there was a panic. Many left houses in a hurry through windows and balconies. As a result, 4 people were injured. According to preliminary data, there is no destruction. Most of the inhabitants of Bole spent an open air night.

The average daily air temperature in the metropolitan region exceeds the climatic rate by almost 3 degrees, despite the morning frost, Roshydrome reported. Now in Moscow minus 1-3 degrees, in the region - from zero to minus 5. In the afternoon, variable cloudy, no significant precipitation is expected. The air in the capital warms up to plus 7-9 degrees, in the region there will be plus 5-10. However, due to the north wind it will be cool.

The protection of the Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage in favor of the United States, filed a complaint with a request to cancel the accusatory sentence of the Moscow City Court on Wednesday. According to the lawyer of the scientist Anna Stavitskaya, the defenders believe that during the process "significant violations of the criminal procedure law" were committed.

The representative of the regional operational headquarters (Rosh) for the management of counter -terrorist operations in the North Caucasus, Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, announced permutations in the leadership of illegal armed groups in Chechnya. According to operational data, Shamil Basayev produced these permutations, removing Aslan Maskhadov’s proteges from the highest posts. "Law enforcement agencies received data that Basayev carried out some permutations at the top of illegal armed groups.

Between OJSC Don-Stroy and Mosenergo OJSC there are fundamental disagreements solely in relation to tariffs for the consumption of heat energy, says Don-Stroy. In a press release commenting on the information about the intention of Mosenergo, disconnect 9 houses of the company from the coolant for debts, Don-Stroy indicates that the company did not receive appeals and payment requirements of the energy company for 13 million rubles.