Russian President Vladimir Putin promised that the support of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Russia "will be not declarative, but a subject character." This is stated in Putin’s response to these two unrecognized republics, Sergei Bagapsha and Eduard Kokoita, who received at him from the presidents, said the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday.

For some inexplicable reasons, Phil Neville, a former Manchester United footballer and England national team, which has now played for the Liverpool Everton, has not been able to sell its luxurious mansion for three months now, the price of which is 4 million pounds (about $ 8 million).

The Rossvyazhzhsthkh security culture promises to prevent the export of four paintings from Russia by Nikolai Roerich, which were stolen from the memorial museum-apartment of his son, the scientist-vestist Yuri Roerich, ITAR-TASS reports.

The investigation claims that the signs of the pervert and the circumstances of what happened in the Chelyabinsk region have already been established. However, in the interests of the investigation, information about mass rape and murder of children is kept secret.

The leader of the Myanmar Opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Su Ji called on his supporters to vote against the Constitution proposed by the military authorities at a universal referendum in May of this year.

Former Societe Generale French Bank trader Jerome Kerwell, accused of fraud , because of which the bank lost 4.9 billion euros, filed a lawsuit against a former employer for an unjust dismissal, British Times writes today. Societe Generale announced at the end of 2007 that he suffered serious losses due to fraud of the trader, who conducted fictitious operations in the stock market.

The only representative of Russia remaining in the European competition is the Petersburg Zenit - on Thursday in a match with Bayer from Leverkuzen practically solved the problem of going to the semifinals of the UEFA Cup, defeating the Germans on their field with a account of 4: 1. Zenit, opening an account in the first half, even before the break allowed the opponent to align the result. But then in the second half he sent discouraged hosts to the knockout, scoring three goals in 12 minutes.

Until the end of the year, France will decide on its return to the military structure of the North Atlantic Alliance, about this on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Bucharest was stated by the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy. France left NATO more than 40 years ago, but participates in the work of the political structures of the alliance, for example, in the NATO Council, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters.

The anniversary of the presidency of Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny will be celebrated with a massive race. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the representative of the Chechen Government Committee on Youth Affairs. In Grozny on April 5, a massive race will take place - a marathon at a distance of 6.5 kilometers. Everyone will take part in it from the age of 15 to 50 years.

The day before, Yuri Belous filed a resignation from the post of president of the Moscow football club. This information was confirmed by the specialist himself in an interview with the Sport TV channel. Who will become his successor at this post, has not yet been reported. “By mutual agreement with the leadership of the club, I must work for two weeks for which I will transfer the case,” Belous said in an interview with Sports.

{Pic_1 C} The elected President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev discovered 630 Dmitriev Medvedevs on the website "Odnoklassniki.Ru" . He himself stated this at the opening of the 12th Russian Internet forum (RIF) in the Moscow Region, Interfax reports. "I rummaged into" classmates "yesterday, found about 630 Dmitriev Medvedevs. Some of them are very similar to me, just one face. And this is good," Medvedev said.

According to information on the results of the sales of the Nissan Japanese concern in the Russian market, in total this year, 15,588 cars of this brand were sold, which was almost twice as much as last year: in March 2007, 8,234 Japanese cars were sold in Russia. So, according to the results of the first spring month, the sales leader was the more popular Qashqai crossover - the Russians acquired 3,703 such cars.

Ex -Prime Minister Kasyanov offers to think about Russia's accession to NATO - on the principle of "if you cannot defeat the enemy, make friends with him." Speaking in Bucharest at the International Conference "Transatlantic Forum 2008", the opposition said: the desire of Ukraine and Georgia in NATO is a consequence of the incorrect policy of Russia in the post-Soviet space, and Moscow should think about membership in the alliance.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced to the State Duma "Convention on mutual recognition and execution of decisions on administrative violations of the Rules of the Road." According to her, Russian motorists, having committed serious traffic violations in a number of CIS countries, will no longer be able to avoid punishment in their homeland.

The auction house Sotheby's held in New York the sale of works of post-war and contemporary art, the first day brought 12 million 580 thousand dollars, the results of the auction are posted on the official website of Sotheby's . Opening the season, Sotheby's attracted the public attention not with price records, but a variety of genres of contemporary art: from cubism, abstractionism and conceptualism - to photography and graffiti, RIA Novosti reports.