President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that the Commonwealth of Independent States is undergoing the most critical moment in its entire history today. “Over the ten years of my work, the CIS has not yet experienced such difficulties when talking about his uselessness and split sounds,” Lukashenko said, meeting on Friday in Minsk with the participants in the meeting of the Council of Foreign Councils of the CIS.

In the Moroccan capital, Rabata prevents an attempt by mass suicide of the unemployed group. A group of 48 unemployed subjects of the kingdom, who called themselves members of the national autonomous organization, threatened to set fire to themselves on Thursday if they were not provided with work. The members of the group claimed that they were waiting for the work promised by him by King Morocco Mohammed VI for ten years.

The famous terrorist Shamil Basayev told one of the sites of Chechen separatists his version of the death of Aslan Maskhadov. According to Basaev, Maskhadov paid his life for the careless use of the phone and frequent SMS. The first leader of the Chechen separatists-Johar Dudaev-was also killed because of the phone. Dudaev was liquidated on the night of April 21, 1996, when he talked on a satellite telephone near the village of Gahi in the west of Chechnya.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation sent to the Prosecutor General the materials for four cases following the audit of privatization over the past 10 years, the head of the control department Sergey Stepashin told RIA Novosti . He explained that in general, over the past ten years, after privatization, about 40 cases have been sent to the Prosecutor General. Stepashin clarified that in April he would present in the State Duma a full report on the results of privatization.

Representatives of the Kyrgyz opposition, dissatisfied with the results of the past parliamentary elections , captured and hold seven buildings of regional and district administrations in different regions of the republic.

On Friday, the first quarter-final matches were started by the playoffs of the Russian hockey championship among the teams of the Super League. Recall that the eight best teams following the results of the regular championship were divided into pairs according to the following principle: a club that took a higher place is found with a team that took a lower place.

The US Congress discussed the problem of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (whose spiritual center is in Istanbul) and called on the Turkish government to eliminate the obstacles that interfere with the freedom of religion, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to the Turkish site Zaman.com .

On May 8, 2005, the 60th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany will be celebrated. But already in March two books were published about the last months of the Third Reich: Hitler's Book Henrik Eberly and Matthias Ulya and Hitler’s bomb Rainer Carlsha. Stalin was obsessed with Hitler's death. He did not believe in his suicide in the bunker, he was convinced that the Fuhrer was hiding somewhere.

The weekly Moscow News , which is led by Evgeny Kiselev, appeared today in the usual format in 32 lanes, despite the fact that most of the team left the publication due to the conflict with the editor-in-chief. Journalists who left the publication on Friday morning in the center of Moscow distributed their alternative number of the newspaper Moscow News without Evgeny Kiselev . The newspaper came out under the usual logo, but with the insert "without Evgeny Kiselev", taken into a black frame.

The completion of the investigation in the case of the murder of the State Duma deputy Galina Starovotova was postponed to March 21 in connection with the new documents that were submitted on Friday to be familiarized. It was expected that at a meeting on Friday the court would consider additions to the court investigation, after which it was supposed to be completed, Interfax reports.

In a fire in the hostel of the State Technical University, a 17 -year -old girl died in Tbilisi - she suffocated from smoke, several more people were sent to a hospital with burns of varying severity, the Georgian capital of the fire department said. According to preliminary data, the fire arose on the 5th floor of the hostel due to improper handling of household electrical appliances. As a result, 6 rooms with an area of ​​200 square meters burned out.

The visit of Vladimir Putin to Ukraine can be called "historical", given the fact that for the first time the Russian president will accept the new Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko. What reception the Russian president expects in the Ukrainian capital and what will be discussed in the upcoming negotiations, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.

The Russian government is studying the possibility of imposing economic sanctions against Moldova in connection with its unfriendly behavior. This was stated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry had already made statements that said that Moldovan authorities deliberately pump tension in relations between the two countries. Diplomats emphasized that "provocative statements to Russia are heard from Chisinau.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II wished the Lebanese people not to allow extremists to draw the country into a new internecine war. "The murder of the former Prime Minister Lebanon excited the public of the country, the opposition was activated. And today in Lebanon is restless again.

After the three transfers of the hearing on Friday in the Volgograd Regional Court, a new consideration of the case of the Italian citizen Nadezhda Fratti based on materials on the adoption of Russian children by foreigners began.