The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the requirements of the Moscow Society of Consciousness of Krishna (Mosk) to the Moscow government to return the land seized by Mosk in October 2005, Kommersant reports. The plot with an area of ​​1.05 hectares at 39 Leningradskoye Shosse was allocated in January 2004 by order of the capital's mayor in return for the two -story building on Khoroshevsky highway.

The members of the Jewish community of Iran fear that they will make them scapegoats if the desire of President Ahmadi Nezhad to develop a nuclear program will end badly for the country.

The Chinese and the Russian government have a single opinion on the resolution of the UN Security Council on the Iranian nuclear program, Keen Gang, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on March 21. According to him, China and Russia share each other's views on the way of resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis. It is reported by Newsru Israel with reference to Reuters.

Sweden Foreign Minister Lyla Freivalds resigned. For less than three years of work, she made two unforgivable mistakes: she attacked freedom of speech, closing the Internet site that published religious carications, and made heartless delay, responding to the consequences of the Asian tsunami. On Tuesday, March 21, at a press conference in Stolm, the country's Prime Minister Joran Person officially announced the resignation of Laila Freivalds.

Iraqi police accused American soldiers of killing 11 peaceful Iraqis, including four young children and a 6-month-old baby, during a raid on March 15 in the area of ​​the city of Blad. The accusations are contained in the report of the Iraqi police, which was at the disposal and was published by the Knight Ridder agency.

The Romir Monitoring research holding by order of the International Talent Agency was a rating of actresses most beloved by the Russians following the results of the winter season. In the first place due to the support of every fifth Russian (22%) was Anastasia Zavorotnyuk. In second place was Lyubov Polishchuk (15%). Lyudmila Gurchenko, leading actresses in the autumn rating, sank to third place with 13% of the votes of Russians.

In the village of Shemeyyaya Perm Territory, the murder of a man is revealed. The corpse of a 74-year-old local resident with signs of violent death was discovered in the courtyard of the house along Yuzhnaya Street. The body of the man was buried in the snow. During the operational-search events, police officers found that a 14-year-old teenager who also living in this village brutally beat a pensioner, strangled him and buried him into a snowdrift.

The intention of Turkmenistan to increase the price of gas for Russia and the persistent requirement to return debts from Ukraine can lead to a serious complication of relations between Ashgabat, Moscow and Kiev. This conclusion was reached by British economists from the analytical group of Business Monitor International . At the same time, as domestic analysts indicate, the importer - Ukraine, will have the most difficult thing.

The People’s Assembly of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic adopted on Tuesday an appeal to the leadership of the Russian Federation with a request to "change the existing mechanism for the formation and distribution of profits from the oil produced in the territory of the Chechen Republic." Deputies are asked to transfer to the government of the republic a control package of shares of the subsidiary "Rosneft" - "Grozneftegaz" and re -register a license for the right to develop and use

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II sent a congratulation to Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the victory in the presidential election in Belarus, wishing him the help of God in the works for the good of the people. “Seeing the impressive results of your former labors in this post, the multinational people of the republic again rendered you their trust and supported your candidacy by a majority vote,” Interfax quotes the text of the Patriarch’s message.

The representative of the organization that monitors the place where the 16-year-old Nepal teenager Pama Bahadur Banjan, revered in Nepal as the next reincarnation of the Buddha, showed the BBC reported by the BBC, showed the BBC . According to Lama Baed Bahadur, who presented the video, he and his colleagues met Bomjan last Sunday 3 kilometers from the place of meditation. Bomjan talked about half an hour with them, Lama told reporters.

In the Russian government , the struggle for the title of Putin’s successor is aggravated. In response to the successful moves of Dmitry Medvedev in the rank of the head of national projects, Sergey Ivanov, by the presidential decree, was controlled by the budget of the military-industrial complex, which is estimated at $ 25 billion. All this even more weakens the positions of the head of government Mikhail Fradkov, as well as some "economic" ministers, Russian newspapers write on Tuesday.

During the militants' raid in the city of El Mikdady, about 100 km northeast of Baghdad, at least 18 police officers were killed. Such data are given by Iraqi law enforcement officers, reports ITAR-TASS. The attack of at least 20 people underwent the city headquarters of the police and the court of the detachment of at least 20 people and the court of the court. All persons who were in the chambers of preliminary imprisonment are released.

Priests, scientists, teachers, journalists from Russia and Italy will take part in the round table "The role and place of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches in modern society", which will be held from March 29 to 30 in Rome. Participants in the meeting will discuss topical issues as the state of the religious and secular sides of the life of society, the position of two churches on a number of modern problems, Interfax reports.

Two cases of collective suicide occurred over the past two days in Japan, as a result of which five people died, one is in a coma. According to the investigation, people were poisoned by carbon monoxide. In recent years, such suicidal pacts consist in Japan more and more often. In the first case, the bodies of two women and men were discovered on Monday in the car of the car in the forest, on the island of Avaji in the west of Japan. Both women were dead, but the man is still in a coma.