Lama Ole Nidal, who is currently on a visit to Moscow today, commented on REGNUM to the Dalai Lama agency raised by the Chinese authorities in organizing the riots in Tibet with the aim of disrupting the Olympic Games in Beijing “It is completely wrong that the Dalai Lama could organize riots in Tibet,” said the Buddhist leader representing the Karma-Kagyu school. "I do not think that the Dalai Lama is aggressive. He wants everyone to be happy," Ole Nidal said.

The political forces of Ukraine continue to express their opinion on the degree elections in Kiev, which this week by the decision of the Verkhovna Rada was left without a mayor and city council. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose promise before being elected to the post of prime minister was the dismissal of Leonid Chernovetsky, states that But will nominate his candidate. Tymoshenko hopes that coalition partners will support him, reports Newsru.ua .

Toshiba expects that losses from coagulation of the new generation DVD project will be $ 666 million for the financial year, which will end in March. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . Toshiba announced on Wednesday to reduce the predicted income, calling one of the reasons for this failure of the HD DVD format project. Already at the beginning of next week, Toshiba may announce the refusal to produce a new generation of own DVD.

The leadership of the State Tretyakov Gallery and Confederations of Artists, disposing of the central house of artists in Moscow, are concerned about the plans of the construction company Elena Baturina "Inteco" to build a new British architect Norman Foster on the site of the CDC on the Crimean Val, RIA Novosti reports.

The leadership of the Pension Fund of Russia is accused of embezzlement of 43.5 million rubles. According to the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the employees of the Fund purchased 9 apartments for state money and, contrary to the law, issued them to the property, the press service of the department reports.

The champion of the 2004 Olympics in Athens in Semiborye Swede Carolina Caroline will not defend her title in this discipline at Games in Beijing. According to Reuters, the athlete said on Wednesday in an interview with the Swedish media. “I understand that many people will not accept my choice, but the seven -sister requires 1000 percent of the return, and the last two years I have not enough competitive motivation,” Carolina admitted.

On March 19, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved an agreement on the development of relations in the gas sector, signed by the chairman of the board of Gazprom OJSC Alexei Miller and the head of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Oleg Dubina in Moscow on March 12, 2008.

Nvidia has officially unveiled the GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, calling it "the fastest in the world" currently. The new product should compete with the Radeon HD 3870 X2 from AMD. PC World reports this. GeForce 9800 GX2 has 256 stream processors, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit interface, a core frequency of 600 MHz, a shader unit of 1500 MHz, and a memory of 2000 MHz. The GeForce 9800 GX2 requires a 580 W power supply, and when installing two such cards (Quad SLI) - 850 W.

On March 18, at a meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin with the President of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation (FHR) Vladislav Tretyaku and the ideological inspirer of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), Alexander Medvedev, could not again agree on disputed issues. And above all, to transfer the new league from the hockey federation the rights to hold the Russian Championship, the Sport -Express newspaper reports.

Russian parliamentarians initiative to accept Serbia in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty. Thus, Moscow offers Belgrade an alternative to entry into the European Union, for which the pro -Western president of the country Boris Tadich acts.

The United States allocates financial assistance to the Palestinian National Administration in the amount of $ 150 million. The corresponding agreement, according to ITAR-TASS, is signed on Wednesday Prime Minister of PNU Salyam Fayda and US Consul General Jake Walls in Ramallach, on the western coast of Jordan.

The government decided to raise the cargo tariff of Russian Railways by 1%, said Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. For three years, due to this indexation of Russian Railways, he will receive 25 billion rubles, which will be aimed at financing three Olympic projects: the construction of six kilometers on the Tuapse -Adler section, four special scrames for non -metallic materials and the organization of intermodal transportation of passengers from Sochi Airport to Olympic objects.

An open letter was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate to the Patriarch Alexy II . The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is called to assist in the burial of the second president of the so -called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov in accordance with religious rites and Vainakh national traditions, as well as to promote the cancellation of the barbaric medieval norm of the law "On burial and funeral work", introducing the secret funeral of suspects in terrorism.

Russia has never given foreigners political asylum. “Why, it’s hard to say, we have no right to disclose any information about applicants,” said Konstantin Poltoranin, spokesman for the Federal Migration Service in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta . A conversation with a half appeared in the publication simultaneously with the publication of the Rules of the FMS to provide asylum in Russia to foreign citizens and stateless persons.

American journalists and editors called the main problem of modern journalism financial difficulties. 55% of the media employees of the national level, and 52% of representatives of the local mass media, are evaluated in this way, the survey of the research center PUJ and the Project to Support for Professional Journalism testifies. At the same time, respondents consider the quality of the published information only the second most important problem, the website Washington Profile reports.