The President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev regularly writes letters to Kyrgyz journalists. Letters signed by the president come to the electronic address of the Kyrgyz National Information Agency "Kabar" from the server Mail.ru. “In total, we received two ordinary emails on behalf of Akayev and both with Mail.Ru. Each time - from different addresses.

A solemn evening with the participation of Her Highness Princess Alexandra, who took place on Monday at the Maly Theater of Russia, opened the anniversary year of the great Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in Russia dedicated to the 200th anniversary of his birth. According to Princess Alexandra, there will be a lot of interesting events within the year.

Polish scourge lovers celebrated Easter holiday, which Western Christians met on March 27, under water. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the Polish radio, 60 divers gathered on one of the lakes near Poznan. They went under water in pairs. At a depth of 8-10 meters, the divers exchanged Easter eggs and each eaten in half. According to the organizer of the "submarine Easter" Andrzej Ratechak, such actions under water requires serious training on land.

According to preliminary data, the Russians were not injured in Indonesia as a result of the earthquake, they were informed on Tuesday at the Russian Embassy in Jakarta. "We did not receive any information about the injured Russian citizens. However, this is preliminary information, we are constantly clarifying it," the embassy employee said. He found it difficult to name the exact number of Russians who are now in Indonesia.

In Krasnodar, the entrepreneur taken hostage was killed by a random shot of a policeman who participated in the operation to release him. According to law enforcement agencies of Krasnodar, the incident occurred on Monday in one of the private households on the Street convenient, where police officers conducted an operation to liberate the director of the construction company. As the investigation established, the businessman was illegally held by three local residents.

The Yukos case was an indicative example for other companies using tax minimization schemes, said Igor Shuvalov, Assistant Presidential Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation during the annual conference "Economic situation and investment climate in Russia".

On Wednesday, a small cooling is expected in Moscow and the Moscow Region, the Moscow Hydrometeoro Bureau reported. Forecasters predict cloudy weather with clearings, light snow will pass in places. At night, the air temperature in the capital will be minus 11-13 degrees, in the region-minus 11-16. In the afternoon in Moscow it will be 2-4 degrees below zero, in the suburbs-minus 1-6. The wind is north-west, 3-8 m/s, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Meshchansky court in the case of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Kraynov on Tuesday in the debate, the state prosecution should ask the court to impose a certain measure of punishment to the defendants. The process entered the final stage on Monday. The first in the debate began his performance by the state prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin. According to representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the fault of all three defendants was proved by evidence collected in the case.

In the Novospassky Monastery of Moscow, the honest head of the Monk Alexy, the man of God, delivered the day before from Greece, will be opened today for worship. According to RIA Novosti in the Board of Trustees of the Monastery, the action was organized with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and the Archbishop of Athens and the entire Ellad of Christodula .

In Chelyabinsk, a 31-year-old installer of one of the local firms broke from a 15-meter height when installing equipment on an office building in the city center and remained intact and unharmed. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the first city clinical hospital, where the installer was taken for examination after the fall. “The internal organs were not marked. The traumatologists drove the poor fellow twice at the X -ray installation without believing their eyes and experience.

In Paris, the school of the world famous French Mim Marse Marso threatens the closing. For twenty -seven years, the International School of Mimic Drama has been preparing actors performing in this genre. Her authority in the world of the theater is indisputable - to study at the Marso school come from all over the world. However, the city hall of the French capital, which always acted as one of the sponsors of the project, refused to financing the Marso school.

Inopressa. Most countries of the former USSR, including Russia, are now potential “candidates” for confrontation with protest movements. Galloping corruption, the concentration of all power in the hands of an oligarchic caste of people from the former party nomenklatura or intelligence services - all this has created a deep gap between peoples and rulers.

Scientists from the Center for Biomedical Egyptology KNH at the University of Manchester mapping the evolution of the disease of schistosomosis, better known as Bilgarsia. This disease develops due to the penetration under the skin of the larvae of parasitus worms, which live in polluted reservoirs. Scientists took tissue samples of more than a thousand mummies to create a map showing how the disease evolved for 5 thousand years.

The Kirovsky District Court of Samara sentenced the student of technical State University Evgeny Kifaryuk, who was found guilty of murder by negligence during the football match at the Samara Metallurgist Fighter of the Togliatti riot police Sergey Sergeyev. The fan must leave for two months in a colony-settlement, Kommersant reports. The incident occurred on April 20, 2004 in Samara during a football match between local "wings of the Soviets" and the Moscow Torpedo.

Cairo is paralyzed by thousands of police officers: on Sunday, the Egyptian state used all the means to prevent the extremist group of the Muslim Brothers ”to conduct a manifestation before the parliament building. About a hundred members of the Brotherhood were arrested the day before and during the demonstration - the first since the time of coming to power Hosni Mubarak.