On the Rublevo-Uspensky highway in the suburbs, in the village of Gorki-2, the Odintsovo district, a powerful explosion of mines occurred. There are no victims. The prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances of the explosion. According to the RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region, on Wednesday in the village on the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Shosse, a radio-controlled mine of the MON-50 exploded near house 15.

The visit of the Pope Benedict XVI to Russia during the contacts of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican is not considered, said Metropolitan and Kaliningrad Kirill, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP). At the same time, he noted that recently the dialogue between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches has become more intense, and Moscow visited a number of high-ranking representatives of the Vatican.

The Austrian Harry Egger really hopes that the latest ski costume based on space technology will allow him to break the world description of the descent speed. To become the fastest skier on the planet, he needs to exceed a record mark of 250.79 km/h. This achievement in April 2002 was established by the Frenchman Philip Getchl, while Egger himself has not yet flew on the slope faster than 248.28 km/h.

On Thursday, a foreign press commented on yesterday’s accusations of Russian President Vladimir Putin against the American side , which, according to Putin, creates additional obstacles to promoting the negotiation process to join Russia to the WTO. Putin made this statement at an annual meeting with Russian businessmen - and this was the only statement on foreign policy.

The Golden Mask -2006 festival, during which the laureates of the theater award of the same name will be determined, opened on the eve of Moscow. It will last until April 16, 2006. As the organizers of the festival previously reported, the nominees for the prize - performances, actors, directors - are selected by professional critics and other specialists who are part of expert councils for various types of stage art.

In 2007, residents of more than two thousand houses in Moscow will have to survive a lot of repairs. Owners of apartments will not have to fork out separately for upcoming work. Since there is no methodology for calculating such payment. But after 2009, they will most likely be offered to pay for the overhaul of their houses. Housing overhaul planning until 2009 was discussed on Wednesday at a meeting of the metropolitan government.

The Moscow Basketball Club CSKA suffered the first and last defeat in the TOP-16 of the Basketball Euroleague of this season. In the final round, the army team lost to the Spanish Vitoria to the local Taugers with a score of 63:70 (14:12, 20:20, 19:21, 10:17). “Over the first three quarters, we played quite well. Only in the last period, the opponent managed to crush us with the help of pressure,” the army mentor Ettore Messin said after the game.

In the American town of Feirfield, Connecticut, a cat was arrested for an aggressive graying, hunting not on mice, but for people. About half a dozen people became the victims of the extravagant animal. Some of them even had to seek medical help, reports Ar. By imitating his well -known animated relative, who tried to catch Jerry’s named mouse again, Lewis - that’s the name of the cat, invented dozens of tricks to outwit prey.

Law enforcement officers detained three citizens of Azerbaijan who are suspected of killing their compatriot. According to Interfax, the detainees committed murder on the basis of blood feud for the fact that their compatriot had previously killed one of their relatives. On September 22, 2005, the body of a 35-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan was discovered at the 22nd km of MKAD with a gunshot wound.

Russian Sergei Rozhkov won the persecution race at the Grand Prix of the International Biathlon Union (IBU), which takes place in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the struggle for medals, Rozhkov, the only one of all participants did not allow a single miss on four firing borders bypassed Ivan Cherezov (2 misses), who took second place. Pavel Rostovtsev (2 misses), lagging behind the leader for one and a half minutes, became the third.

In the Gostiny Dvor, the Fashion Week in Moscow is closing. From March 25 to 30, 50 collections were presented to the Autumn-Zima 2006/07 season. This week of fashion in Moscow is quite different from all previous ones. She, as usual, went under the auspices of the High Fashion Association, and the PRE-AD, with the support of the Moscow Government, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia disputes the right of lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky to meet with the client during working hours. The Prosecutor General’s Office introduced a cassation submission to the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which satisfied the lawsuit of the ex-head of the Yukos NK Mikhail Khodorkovsky on recognizing the current date of the dates of convicts with lawyers, Interfax reports.

On the morning of March 30, a strong explosion occurred in the Israeli city of Haifa in a residential building. The explosion thundered in an apartment on the sixth floor of an eight -story building on Nisanbaum Street. As a result of the explosion, ceilings on the sixth and seventh floors collapsed, reports Newsru Israel . One person received severe injuries and was hospitalized, another 12 people received mild injuries or are in a state of psychological shock.

The past year has not improved the state of affairs with freedom of speech and media in the world. This conclusion is contained in the annual report of the International Press Institute (MIP), which is common on Thursday. According to the report, last year, 65 journalists were killed in the performance of official duties: 26 in the Middle East and North Africa (23 of them were killed in Iraq), in Asia - 20, in North and South, 11 and 4 in Africa and Europe, ITAR -TASS reports.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II called for further efforts to reunite the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCS). "We highly appreciate the arrival of Metropolitan Lavra (ROCZ ROCIZ. - Ed. ), Which was present at the whole number of patriarchal services. I think prayer communication was thereby restored," the Patriarch said the day before at a meeting with journalists in Moscow, Interfax reports.