Abkhazia is not going to abandon the idea of ​​independence and seeks to become a full -fledged member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, said the president of the unrecognized Republic Sergey Bagapsh. This statement was made after Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in Vilnius announced that his country would consider the possibility of leaving the CIS .

On board the A-320 of the Spanish Airline "Iberia" on Wednesday evening, a fire occurred. As a result of the incident, the plane landed in emergency conditions in the capital of Ireland Dublin. The emergency occurred on the same day when the same A-320 aircraft fell into the sea near Sochi . Three independent investigations have begun on the fact of the fire. This was announced by the press secretary of the Dublin airport Vincent Wall.

In the Naro-Fominsky district of the Moscow region, a triple murder was committed. According to law enforcement agencies, on Thursday at about 17:00 a message was received on the fire department that in the Naro-Fominsky district in the cottage village, located near the village of Kuznetsovo, one of the houses caught fire. After the fire department arrived at the scene of the incident put out the fire, the bodies of three people were discovered in the burned house.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Cuba Fidel Castro organization "Reporters without borders" refers to 37 sworn enemies of freedom of speech.

The prominent representative of Russian emigration, Prince Alexander Trubetskoy, said that the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Western Europe is not considered Russian parishioners. So he commented on the recent statements by the secretary of the exarchate of Russian parishes in Western Europe ( Patriarchate of Constantinople ) Mikhail Sollogub regarding the Russian temple in Biarrice.

The movement of trains on the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro on Thursday evening was temporarily stopped due to the fall of a person under the train. As Interfax reported on Thursday in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, an accident occurred on the platform of the Kantemirovskaya station. According to preliminary information, a man who died from injuries fell under the train. Currently, trains of trains are completely restored. Links on the topic

By the decision of the Federal Court of Alexandria (Virginia), where the process was held over the only defendant in the case of terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, Zakarias Musai was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment, Reuters reported. The process in the Musaui case, the only detainee on charges of preparing the September attacks in the United States, began on March 6 .

The relevant Committee for the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the draft defense budget made by the administration of George Bush for 2007 in the amount of $ 562.9 billion. Another $ 50 billion will be spent on conducting hostilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other regions of the world, the Global War with terrorism.

Employees of the Office of the FSB of Russia in the Chechen Republic conducted an operation to detain groups of people engaged in the trade in children in Chechnya. This was announced on Thursday by the representative of the FSB Yuri Rossinsky. According to him, the FSB officers, together with the prosecutor's office, implemented a set of operational-search and emergency investigative measures, during which people who traded newborn children were identified, Interfax reports.

The retired Colonel Amos Jaron, who was a former general director of the Ministry of Defense, was appointed by a special consultant to the Russian Gas Gazprom, which wants to sell natural gas to Israel. Amos Yaron will help promote negotiations with the Israeli government aimed at turning Gazprom into one of the gas suppliers into Israel in the coming years, Newsru ISRAEL reports.

In Cairo on Thursday, a woman died who had previously diagnosed Bird flu. 27-year-old Samah Abdel Aziz Muhammad became the fifth victim of a deadly disease in Egypt, ITAR-TASS reports. In total, in Egypt, thirteen cases of human disease were recorded with bird flu. Eight Egyptians, who were diagnosed in a timely manner, were ultimately cured. All five dead are women. Samah Abdel Aziz Muhammad was hospitalized at the beginning of this week with suspicion of pneumonia.

At the XIV festival "Vivat Cinema Russia!", Opened on Wednesday in St. Petersburg , the first prizes were awarded. The Honorary Prize "Lighting Viewing Love" was awarded five masters of domestic cinematography: the oldest directors of Lenfilm Sergey Mikaelyan and Vitaly Melnikov and their Moscow colleagues Alla Surikova, Svetlana Druzhinina and Vladimir Motyl.

Oil prices in London continue to decline. During the current trading session on the London International Oil Exchange, futures contracts for Black Gold, the mixture of Brent with delivery in June, were today at a price of $ 71.59. Thus, the barrel of oil fell in price over the session more than 1 dollar, ITAR-TASS reports. On Wednesday, when closing the auction, this indicator stopped at 72.65 dollars.

For more than 20 days, a column of heavy vehicles containing 25 trucks is on the Russian-Georgian border at the Verkhny Lars checkpoint. Drivers, Russian citizens said that they were delivering greens and fruits from Azerbaijan and Georgia for companies in North Ossetia. According to them, Georgian customs officers missed the load, and at the Russian control point at the entrance it was refused. At the same time, employees of the Georgian customs also do not miss the column of cars back.

The court of the American city of Alexandria sentenced Musaui, the only accused of involvement in the attacks on September 11, 2001, on Thursday, the prison imprisonment of Zakarias, in the United States. Thus, the court approved the verdict of the jury on Wednesday, who refused to condemn the 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin to the death penalty. “You are sentenced to life imprisonment without the right to early release,” said federal judge Leoni Brinkem.