The 2006 plane crash is a consequence of errors in choosing the goals and priorities of civil aviation development over the past 15 years. Such conclusions were voiced by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin during the first meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for Civil Aviation Flights, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine invites President Viktor Yushchenko to cancel the decree on the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada, since it contradicts the constitution. According to the control department, by this decree the president exceeded his authority.

The Apostles Administrator of the Minsk-Mogilev diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, Bishop Anthony Demyanko, believes that a great work should be done to organize a visit to Belarus of the Roman Benedict XVI . "The visit of the Roman GAPA to any country requires a lot of work," A. Demyanko said today, answering the question of the Interfax agency.

Officials of the Federal Agency for Culture and Mass Communications (Roskultura) of Russia were brought to disciplinary liability for numerous violations in the work identified during the audit of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia. In Roskulture, they began to eliminate them. As noted in the report of the Prosecutor General’s Office, during the audit of the execution of budget legislation, numerous violations were “identified” at the Federal Agency.

The widow and relatives of Alexander Litvinenko established the Litvinenko Justice Foundation fund in London, which will seek the investigation of the murder of the ex-lieutenant colonel of the FSB and help the victims of Polonium-210. The presentation of the new fund took place on Tuesday in the building of the prestigious London Public Institute Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), RIA Novosti reports.

According to the instructions of the Government Commission on religious associations, which is headed by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev, the Ministry of Justice of Russia prepared and introduced a simplified form of reporting for religious organizations for approval of the government, Kommersant reports today. As you know, at the end of 2005, amendments to the Law on NPOs were adopted, which require them to be a detailed report on their activities.

According to the latest studies, such ordinary adverse effects as polluted by emissions and exhaust gases air or smoke from other people's cigarettes are potentially more dangerous to health than contact with radioactive precipitation after a nuclear explosion. If we take into account that such disasters are rather an exception than the rule, then the undesirable effect of contaminated air or smoking becomes even more obvious.

In Buenos Aires on the central square of the republics, the world's largest color-colored digital photograph is presented. This is a panoramic picture of the Valley of the Moon, located in the National Park of the province of San Juan. The sizes of the photograph are 60 meters in length and 18 meters in height, RIA Novosti reports. The manufacture of a metal frame on which the photograph is placed has gone seven kilometers of steel pipes.

The Supreme Representative for Foreign Policy and Security of the European Union Javier Solan carefully monitors the development of events in Ukraine , his press secretary Christina Gallalak said on Tuesday. “Mr. Solan is in constant contact with the ambassadors of the EU countries in Kyiv and receives information from them,” she told Interfax.

In the Arkhangelsk region, a criminal case was sent to the court against the assistant driver of the railway depot, who attacked ten -year -old girls. The prosecutor's office completed a preliminary investigation in a criminal case against a 25-year-old man who is accused of a series of rape.

In Moscow, they are not ready to seriously discuss the issue of the placement of Russian radar stations (radar) in Abkhazia. Recall that the other day, the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh made such a proposal. Commenting on this issue, the first deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Denisov said that Russia did not need radar intelligence. "Let's leave this issue for the heading of the curios of a newspaper," Andrei Denisov said to reporters.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko met on Tuesday with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The main issue that was discussed during the last 4.5 hours of conversation is ensuring the steady execution of the decree on the early elections of the parliament. The prime minister left the president’s residence without communicating with journalists. Yushchenko also does not comment on the meeting. Some details were reported by the presidential press service.

On Tuesday, the new Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov begins to study at the Academy of the General Staff. Within a month, he will have to listen to a special course and pass an exam on the basics of state security. The new Minister of Defense personally asked the head of the General Staff Yuri Baluevsky. According to the curriculum of Serdyukov, it will be 2-3 hours to study two or three times every week, the Izvestia newspaper writes.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine temporarily forbade the country's national bank to take part in financing the measures provided for by the presidential decree on the dissolution of the parliament and the conduct of early parliamentary elections - before the decision on the legality of this document adoption by the Constitutional Court . The corresponding resolution was supported on Tuesday 252 out of 255 255 deputies of the Ukrainian parliament, Interfax reports.

Last weekend in the capital of Belgium, not far from the buildings of the NATO and the EU headquarters, there were mass clashes between representatives of the Kurdish and Turkish communities, the reason for which was a fire in the building, which was located as the center of the Kurdish community. The fire occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday. None of the inhabitants of the apartments located above the cafe were injured, but the first floor was completely burned out.