Group Menatep shareholder Leonid Nevzlin, who is exile in Israel, made a number of high -profile statements. Nevzlin denies the accusations that the Russian authorities bring to him and his colleagues, and says that these accusations are a continuation of the intimidation campaign that the Kremlin conducts. Nevzlin said that the Russian judicial system "uses illegal methods and takes hostages" from among former Yukos employees.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced the main indicators of the country's economy in February. In February of this year, Russia's GDP grew by only 5.2% compared to last February, and in the first two months of 2005 - by 4.4% compared to similar indicators of the previous year. This is clearly not enough to doubling GDP.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned about the development of the situation related to the situation in the south of Kyrgyzstan. This is stated in the official message of the Foreign Ministry.

Eugenika, a science that arose at the junction of centuries, proposed a seductive future: the future without poverty, without drug addiction and alcoholism, without crime. According to scientists engaged in Eugenica, most social vices were explained by genetic flaws transmitted from generation to generation. Having prevented people with similar flaws - and especially mentally inferior - to have children, scientists hoped to solve these problems once and for all.

In Greece, the police detained a group of children suspected of shelling at a bus stop, Greek state television said on Sunday. The 44-year-old suspect Dimitris Mazarakos was hiding from the police in the mountains near the city of Arts from the moment the crime was committed in the past Wednesday. Then a 17-year-old schoolboy died from shots at the bus stop. According to unconfirmed reports, the detainee suffers from a mental illness, RIA Novosti reports.

President Putin embodied hope for the modernization of Russia with the help of forced measures. A significant part of the liberals abandoned pluralism for the sake of efficiency. But the "controlled democracy" suffered too many failures in a year. In Moscow, they begin to laugh at the "soft authoritarianism" of the Kremlin. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro , in Russia there was a fashion for Vladimir Putin.

The Pope John Paul II greeted thousands of pilgrims from all over the world from the window of the apostolic palace in the Vatican , who arrived at the Holy Sunday - the last Sunday before a passionate week and Easter . The pontiff blessed believers at the end of the traditional Sunday prayer Angelus and the Liturgy of palm (Palm) Sunday. The Vatican and Italian television channels conducted a live broadcast from St. Peter's Square.

The woody python of a bright saloon color, the inhabitant of the islands of Papua and New Guinea, was awarded the title "Miss Universe" at the international beauty contest among snakes in Tulle. This half -meter snake beauty was voted by 1,100 visitors to the local zoo. The second place, along with the title of Miss World, went to the California White Snake, said the director of the zoo Igor Ryabov today.

The team of international youth expedition "Heavenly Odyssey - For the Glory of Russia" set in Antarctica 3 world records already listed in the Russian Book of Guinness Records, the project manager Alexander Begak said on a satellite telephone.

The legendary Scottish group Nazareth begins a three -week tour of Russia on Monday. According to ITAR-TASS, the organizers of the tour, the current trip of Rock and Roll veterans, which starts in Kirov and ends on April 13 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, covers 14 cities. The group will visit traditional Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as quite rare for performers of this level of the city of Blagoveshchensk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The group comes to Moscow for the ninth time.

Relations between the Belarusian Orthodox Church and the secular authorities of the country serve as an excellent example of mutual understanding and cooperation in the spiritual education of society in the republic. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during the occasion on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of Metropolitan Minsk and Slutsky, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus Filaret (Vakhromeeva), Interfax reports.

The role of Count Rezanov in the legendary performance of the Lenkom Theater "Juno and Avos", which was performed by Nikolai Karachentsov , Dmitry Pevtsov will play on March 23. This was announced in an interview with RIA "Novosti" by the chief director of the theater Mark Zakharov. “This is the first understudy that we prepared, but there will be others. The next next in line is Alexander Lazarev,” Zakharov said.

Monetization of benefits turns into a new crisis: providing citizens with free medicines may be at risk of breaking. The inconsistency in the adoption of laws and decisions led to the fact that pharmaceutical companies have to release medicines from a preferential list on credit, that is, debt, and this has been going on for the third month. The state has funds to pay for preferential medicines, but pharmaceutical companies cannot get their part of the allocated 50 billion rubles.

The presidents of the unrecognized republics of Transnistria, South Ossetia, Nagorno -Karabakh and Abkhazia will meet in April in Abkhazia. This was announced on Monday at a press conference by the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh. According to him, before this meeting, the head of the foreign policy departments will prepare the appropriate memorandum, RIA Novosti reports.

Hundreds of pilgrims arriving on these pre -passerful days in Rome are wondering if they will be able to see John Paul II this week, when the services of a passionate week will be performed. The state of health of the pontiff has recently alarming many, moreover, perhaps the Roman Catholic Church is about to become a witness to the Virtual Pontificate.