The Moscow City Court on Wednesday will begin to re -examine the criminal case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov. According to court, the process will begin with the stage of selection of jurors. Earlier, the meeting was postponed in connection with the non -appearance of the two defendants. According to their lawyers, the accused did not appear in court for good reason.

The leader of the Opposition Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai, arrested last Sunday on charges of planning a mass demonstration in the capital of the country Harara against the current president of Robert Mugaba, was taken to a local clinic. Doctors stated a fracture of the base of the bones of the skull. As BBC reports, he has already done blood transfusion.

The volume of the Russian passenger car market by 2011 may reach about 4 million cars. According to Western experts, in just a couple of years foreign cars will surpass traditional Russian automobile brands in growth rates. In turn, analysts from Russia agree with this opinion and note that the domestic auto industry in its current form has little life left, they assure.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on suspicion of double murder, a 25-year-old resident of the city was detained and placed in a temporary detention center. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the eve of the city of Elizovo, the bodies of a 27-year-old girl and her 30-year-old brother were discovered in the house on Khabarovsk Street. As established, young people rented a room with an elderly woman, to whom a 25-year-old grandson with a friend came.

In Dagestan Khasavyurt, an unknown on Wednesday evening shot two special services employees who were in the VAZ-2115 car, law enforcement sources said. Another employee was wounded. The attendant part of the city department of the Khasavyurt GOVD confirms this information. RIA Novosti , citing the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports that the attack was committed on employees of the FSB in the Republic of Dagestan.

The head of the Moscow metro Dmitry Gaev spoke out against the construction of the metro in Zhulebino. "The construction of the metro in Zhulebino will only aggravate the difficult situation with the load of the southern site on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line," Gaev said at a press conference on Wednesday.

The police of the American city of Chicago (Illinois) announced the arrest of a 29-year-old student of the engineering faculty of local university Michael Petrelli. During the search, the detainee found a grenade launcher, machine gun and gun, as well as cartridges for weapons, NBC television company reports. The student, after the appearance on Tuesday in the Chicago court, where he was charged, was released on bail of 250 thousand dollars.

Vladimir Putin defended judges from the Ministry of Economic Development and other reformers from the part: from now on legislative initiatives aimed at improving justice should receive an expert opinion of the commission under the head of state, which included influential representatives of the judicial community, and the assistant to the president Viktor Ivanov will oversee the new direction, writes the newspaper Vedomosti .

In the Mexican capital on Tuesday, clashes occurred between the police and demonstrators protesting against the visit to the Latin American country of George Bush. Manifestants gathered at the US Embassy building, chanting anti -imperialist and anti -American slogans. Some of them tried to break through the police barriers, which led to fierce skirmishes, which resulted in the wounded. The police used to disperse the demonstration of the club and tear gas.

Together with the Italians, Vnesheconombank will sponsor the construction of a large logistics center in the Ramensky and plant of Italian household appliances in Orsk. Also, as part of the visit of Vladimir Putin to Italy, it is planned to sign a number of major agreements on cooperation in the energy, investment sector, military-technical region, and aircraft industry.

The United States "is ready and agreed to cooperate Russia with Iran in the field of nuclear energy in the event that Russia will supply fuel to Iran, the spent fuel will return to the Russian Federation, and the cooperation itself will be based solely on peaceful energy." This was stated in Moscow by the First Deputy Head of the US Ministry of Energy Kleiton Sell. “Russia has agreements with Iran for cooperation, the construction of nuclear power plants in Bushera,” Sell said.

Immigration reform will be the key to solving problems on the southern borders of the United States. Such a statement, as reported by AR, was made by President George Bush, who spent two days in Mexico, meeting, including with the president of this country, Felipe Calderon.

The new historical drama "300" about the exploits of the ancient Spartans, despite the tremendous success in the March box office, has a number of inaccuracies and historical errors, said the associate professor of the ancient Greek history of the University of Toronto Efraim Little. In the review of Toronto Star, he analyzes the details of the new film from a historical point of view. “The battle of farmopils was real, but how realistic the number of Spartans is 300?

The militants of the Afghan radical movement "Taliban", who abducted the Italian journalist on March 4, handed over the video with his appeal to one of the humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan. This is the first video with the image of the reporter of the newspaper Repubblica Daniele Mastrojakomo after its abduction. It begins with the words: "I, Daniela Mastrojakomo. Today is March 12.

Olympic watches installed in the center of Vancouver became the object of vandalism. Across the pedestal of the clock, counting days, hours and minutes until the opening of the 2010 winter games, someone left the inscription with bright paint "Free Betty".