In the St. Petersburg Hotel "Angletter" begins the conference of the opposition liberal orientation forces "New agenda of the democratic movement." “Of course, today the conference will not unite democratic forces. But it will be good if the platform for democratic forces is adopted and the organizing committee of the“ real ”Congress on the unification of democratic parties and movements is created. Such a congress can take place in the fall,” said politician Boris Nemtsov before the conference.

Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" on its ice defeated the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv in the second match of the final series of the Russian Championship with a score of 2: 0. Now, in the decisive confrontation for the "gold" of the hockey super -league equality - 1: 1. The meeting was held with the advantage of the owners, who, however, for a long time could not break through, as always the reliable seeds of Varlamov.

Former US President Bill Clinton, after his departure from the White House in 2000 and in 2007, inclusive for his public performances and lecture, received a total of 51 million 855 thousand 599 dollars, said the election headquarters of the US presidential candidate and the wife of ex-president, Senator Hillary Clinton.

The Chinese road police stopped a heavily overloaded truck on one of the highways. What was the surprise of the inspectors when, looking into the cabin, they saw that the driver had no both hands. At the same time, his vehicle was absolutely not adapted to such a "feature" of the driver. However, a detainee by the name of Jiang told a defeated policeman that his hands did not interfere with the control of the car.

Specialists of the French Renault Automobile Concert began to study the production of cars at AvtoVAZ, and they really liked the domestic Lada 2107. In their opinion, the main advantage of the "seven" is a combination of a full -size body, a simple functional structure and a low price - 4,000 euros. This was written by the newspaper "New Izvestia" . Renault, interested in the Russian car, intends to extend the life cycle of VAZ classics.

Nikolai Davydenko for the first time in his career beat the American Andy Roddik and reached the finals of the tennis tournament in Miami. Recall that the prize fund of this "Masters" is 3 million 770 thousand dollars. In the semifinal match, Davydenko (4th sowing number) defeated Roddik (6) in two sets with a score of 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 2. This is the first victory of the Russian over the native of Texas in six fights at the Asia -Pacific Tournaments.

Ramzan Kadyrov called the association of the people of Chechnya by his main victory and the achievement of the president of the republic. “The most important achievement in the president’s post I believe that it was possible to unite the whole people of the Chechen Republic around the idea of ​​revival, around the idea of ​​unity, to rally it into one, to turn it into force that can solve the most difficult tasks,” Kadyrov told reporters in connection with the first anniversary of the president.

The American B-1 American bomber caught fire when landing at the US Air Force in Qatar, reports Reuters. The incident occurred on the basis of Al-Udeid, located south of the capital of the country of Dochi and is the main strategic bridgehead of the American Air Force in the Middle East. Representatives of the American military command confirmed the fact of the accident. According to their information, all four crew members are successfully evacuated from the bombing after landing.

Robert Kubitsa at the BMW-ZUBER sensationally interrupted the hegemony of Felipe Massa at the Bahrain Grand Prix, winning his first in the career of Pole. The Brazilian pilot "Ferrari" was content with the second place, and Lewis Hamilton on McLaren was the third.

The speech of Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was constructive, frank and the Russian president graduated from it "very first-class", said a senior representative of the White House, who talked with reporters aboard the presidential Boeing, which Bush followed from Bucharest to Zagreb.

The command of the mixed forces to maintain peace in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone was regarded as the “information provocation” of the media reports with reference to the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili about the involvement of Russian peacekeepers to undermine the employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on April 3.

The opposition Republican Party of Georgia requires the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze.

The conference of representatives of the liberal opposition "Thenual agenda of the Democratic Movement" will be held on Saturday at the Angletter hotel in St. Petersburg, the organizers said. The main goal of the conference, according to the report, is “finding general approaches and forms of cooperation between Russian democrats”.

US President George Bush arrived in Sochi. "Board number one Air Force" landed at Adler Airport. From the airport, the American president went to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. George Bush and the acting and elected presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev will try to find a compromise in disputes about the missile defense, the contract on ordinary armed forces in Europe and on the control of nuclear weapons at the end of the START-1 agreement.

The French side admits that up to 20 citizens of Ukraine could be on the luxury class captured by the pirates of the Lux Lux class. According to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Saturday, the Minister of Defense of France, Erve Moren, announced a statement according to which until now there is no connection with the crew members, and there is also no contact with the pirates.