On Thursday, in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square at 19:00, an action began in defense of the political prisoners of our time. About 400 people took part in the action organized by the movement "For Human Rights" , the liberal movement "Russian radicals" and the "Conscience" group.

The legendary Scottish rock band Nazareth, touring in Russia , did not expect such success at its concerts in Russian cities. “We were accepted very well,” the vocalist of the group Den McCafaferi said at a press conference in Volgograd, sharing the impression of concerts in Kamchatka and in Khabarovsk. On Thursday, the rock band will give the only concert in Volgograd, reports RIA Novosti . “If I were informed at the age of 12, that I would play in Kamchatka, I would not believe.

The first politician who announced his intention to fight for the post of President of Chechnya was the ex-mayor of Grozny and the former Minister of Press and Information of the Republic of Bislan Gantamirov. “I firmly decided to put up my candidacy,” said Gantamirov. The “Independent Gazeta” recalls that in the past presidential elections, Gantamir openly supported the Moscow businessman Hussein Dzhabrailov, for which he paid a ministerial chair.

The full -scale embossed layout of the whole of Moscow is planned to be created in the near future. Such an order was given by the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov at a meeting of the Public Town Planning Council, Interfax reports. It is assumed that on the embossed layout of Moscow, copies of all buildings that are currently located in the capital will be depicted.

The Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate is looking for a missing France citizen Roger Pierre Poli, the press group of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Department of Internal Affairs reported on Thursday. R.P. Poly - born in 1946, a native of the city of Kaisha (France).

The police of the Japanese city of Tottori arrested a 15-year-old teenager who, together with his friend, made an attempt to kill his mother with an ax. The teenager really did not want his mother to scold him for stole a bicycle from a neighbor.

Representatives of the American command in Iraq on Thursday confirmed that 41 people died (including 18 women and children) as a result of an air strike in the Iraqi village. However, the military denied the information that on Wednesday evening a wedding procession was subjected to an air attack , Reuters reports with reference to General Mark Kimmit.

Orthodox Russians today celebrate the great holiday of the Ascension of the Lord . The main place of celebrations in Moscow will be the Ascension Church at the Nikitsky Gate, where the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will be worship. The service will be attended by a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, led by Metropolitan Lavr , ITAR-TASS reports.

Israeli helicopters inflicted a missile blow to the refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. There have been no data on victims and destruction. Meanwhile, six Palestinians were killed on Thursday by Israeli troops during the last third day of military operations in the city of Rafach in the south of the Gaza sector. Among the dead, according to local media, the head of the military wing of the Hamas, the Group of the EZZ ED -Din Cassama battalions.

In the Indian Ocean, a ship of 12 people on board built for Spain in Singapore was missing for Spain in Singapore. Communication with the Spanish shipping company "Balearia" by the catamaran was lost more than 72 hours ago. At this time, the ship was not far from Singapore. Ten of 12 sailors located on board the catamaran is the Spaniards, RIA Novosti reports.

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel approved the decision to close the local government for the press. On the air of the Echo of Moscow in Yekaterinburg, he stated that the presence of the media fettered officials, not allowing them to express what they think. “There is a brainstorming, and each person should be free when expressing. And when 16 channels are removed, and they are all politicized, focused on some customers, then each channel takes, cuts out what is interested in.

The Bank of Russia cannot guarantee the return of funds to Sodbusinessbank depositors, the Deputy Director of the Department of Licensing and Financial Recovery of Credit Organizations of the Bank of Russia Ruben Amirants said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

At the current Cannes Film Festival, the legendary model Naomi Campbell announced that she was completing his career on the catwalk and intends to become a movie star. It is reported that Campbell in the near future begins to shoot in a British film, set in a series of comics "Fat Tublores". She will play the role of a commercial manager.

The case of the ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred to the judge of the Meshchansky court of Moscow Irina Kolesnikova, who considers the case of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev , and previously made a decision in relation to the former head of Yukos-Moscow Vasily Shakhnovsky . This was announced on Thursday by "Interfax" one of Khodorkovsky’s lawyers.

Following the Portuguese, the preliminary composition of the national team at Euro 2004 was announced by another rivals of the Russian national team for group A, the Spaniards. The Coach of the Spanish national team Inyaki Saes included Gabri Garcia and Huanito Guterres in the application, but ignored the young Jose Antonio Reyes from Arsenal and the hero of the UEFA Cup in Valencia - Mista.