On the facts of illegal construction on Karamyshevskaya embankment in Moscow, six criminal cases were instituted in a specially protected natural zone, a representative of the press service of the capital prosecutor’s office said.

The Sakhalin-2 project participants agreed that since 2010 they will pay significant annual dividends tied to the cost of oil to the Russian government, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal reports with reference to its sources. Their size is not reported, but it is known that it will depend on oil prices. An agreement on the payment of dividends is part of a new agreement on the conditions for the implementation of the project.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair has been postponing the US Higher Medal of Honor for almost four years for almost four years, which the US Congress received it only four months after a joint invasion of Iraq, writes The Times on Thursday (the full text on the website inopressa.ru ). The British prime minister does not want him to be called the "poodle of Bush" in his homeland.

By ignoring the threat of US President George Bush to apply the right of Veto, the House of Representatives of the US Congress at a meeting on Wednesday approved a bill on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq no later than April 2008. The bill was supported by 218 congressmen, 208 members of the chamber voted "against." The White House is dissatisfied with the decision of the House of Representatives of the United States.

In Tallinn on the night of Thursday, preparations began for the transfer of a "bronze soldier" and excavations of the mass grave of Soviet soldiers. In particular, activists of the "Night Watch" movement are trying to interfere with this. The police pushed them from the monument, lined up in a chain across the street for the quarter, not letting down the car or people. In the evening on Thursday, at the square, where the burial is located, clashes occurred.

In the city of Kovrov, the Vladimir region, the second month, the trial of the local forum Dmitry Tashlykov, who is accused of insulting the governor of the region Nikolai Vinogradov , continues for the second month.

The American road safety organization published its study based on the State Department data regarding the cause of the deaths of Americans traveling abroad in 2004-2006. It turned out that most often US citizens die outside the country due to an accident? One of three tourists. According to The AutoChannel , in an accident, abroad, twice as many Americans die than at the hands of the killers? The number of violent deaths follow the second in the list. As one of the experts said Dr.

In the second match of the 1/8 finals of the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, Dallas outplayed Golden State on its site with a score of 112: 99 and equalized the score in the series to four victories. In a tense ending, the guests lost two of their leaders - Byron Davis and Stefan Jackson, who were seated on a bench for the overkill of the fouls. The most effective in the Maveriks was Jason Terry, who scored 28 points.

People magazine called the star "Charlie angels" actress Drew Barrimor with the most beautiful celebrity of 2007. The 32-year-old Barrymore, who was fame after the role in Stephen Spielberg's film “An alien” in 1982, was ahead of such worldwide recognized beauties as Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts.

On Wednesday, April 25, Russia said goodbye to its first president. The body of Boris Yeltsin, who died on Monday at the 77th year of his life, was devoted to the earth on the central alley of the Novodevichy cemetery. On Thursday morning, the cemetery is already open to free visit to citizens from 9:00 to 18:00. There are no restrictions on the passage to the grave of Boris Yeltsin, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, announcing his last message to the Federal Assembly on Thursday in Moscow, suggested discussing plans for the placement of elements of American strategic weapons in Europe, Interfax reports. "For the first time in Europe, elements of American strategic weapons may appear. It is obvious that such US plans for the placement of a missile defense system in Europe are not an exclusively Russian -American relationship," the president said.

The United States is ready for direct negotiations with Iran if this country stops working on the enrichment of Uranus, said US Secretary of State of Condoliza Rice to reporters in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, where she participates in the Summit of the NATO Council (SRN), Interfax reports.

In the village of Grushevo, the Tileyevsky district of Transcarpathia, they dig a monastery of the X century. Listeners of the Theological Seminary found part of the stone foundation, took out the relics of the monks who died during the Mongol invasion in the eighteenth century, Orthodoxy.ru reports with reference to the RISU website. “There are ancient frescoes here,” says the abbot of the monastery Archimandrite Stratonik, “brown wreckage of the walls.

Forecasters promise warm weather on Thursday in Moscow and the Moscow Region. As reported today in Roshydromet, in the morning in the capital it is expected 2-4 degrees above zero, in the center of the metropolis - about 7 degrees, in the area the range of temperatures will be from zero to plus 5 degrees. During the day in Moscow, it will warm up to 16-18 degrees, in the suburbs-up to 14-19 degrees. The variable cloudy, without precipitation, is predicted, the wind is weak.

In his annual message to the Federal Assembly on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid great attention to a pain point - housing construction, dilapidated housing, and the resettlement of emergency houses. Citizens are not able to solve these problems themselves, the state must intervene, especially since there is money, Putin emphasized.