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.

On Friday, in the exhibition center in the south of the French capital, the Jubilee 25th Parisian Book Salon opens-it will be held under the motto "Spring in Russian". For the first time, Russia will become an honorary guest of the salon , who, according to its organizers, is intended for both professionals and the general public and annually collects about 180 thousand visitors.

A group of members of the public organization "Walking together" picketed on Friday the Bolshoi Theater, speaking against the premiere of the opera "Children of Rosental" on the libretto of Vladimir Sorokin, which should take place on March 23. The first picket of the organization took place on March 14th .

The Saudi Arabia police held a raid in the hall for wedding ceremonies after it became known from the informant that many men at the wedding were dancing and "behaved like women." 80 men were later released, and 30 appeared in court. Homosexuality in Saudi Arabia is prohibited and punishable by flogging, imprisonment or death penalty.

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.

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 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 .

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 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.

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.

A year ago, the former head of the Archival Department of the KGB Vasily Mitrokhin, who has lived in the UK, died in London. Back in 1992, when fleeing England, Colonel Vasily Mitrokhin took with him a huge number of secret documents. He worked in the Archive of the KGB of the USSR for 12 years, chose the most interesting, in his opinion, things and copied them, and then carried them out of the archive, hiding in boots, socks and trousers.

For cell phones, the design is becoming increasingly important, and the form of cell phones can prevail over functionality. Form, color, screen images, sound are no longer insignificant, they are included in the set of qualities that affect the sales and development of the mobile phones industry.