At a press conference in the capital of Japan Tokyo, where the Tibetan spiritual leader made an intermediate stop on the way to the United States, the Dalai Lama said that he supports the Olympic Games in Beijing, ITAR-TASS reports. It is not planned to have any official meetings with the Dalai Lama during his brief stop in Japan, the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers Nobutak Matimura told reporters.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a verdict was sentenced to members of the gang of pimps who raped and killed their victims, forcing them to prostitution. On Thursday, a permanent session of the College of Criminal Cases of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Nizhny Tagil passed the verdict on Thursday, Interfax reports. The defendant Eduard Chudinov was sentenced to life imprisonment in the colony of special regime, and his brother Dmitry - by 21 in prison.

About 10-15% of school graduates will be able to enter Russian universities annually according to the results of the Olympiads - without passing a single state exam (USE), the rector of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosova Viktor Sadovnichi at a press conference at RIA Novosti . He recalled that the law, according to which the results of the exam will be obliged to count all universities of the country will enter into force in 2009.

Residents of the villages of the Khasansky district of the Primorsky Territory turned to the local authorities with a request to protect them from the Amur tiger, who enters the courtyard and attacks pets, RIA Novosti said on Thursday the deputy head of the Tiger Special Inspection Vitaly Starostin.

Before the new historical minimum, the exchange rate of the US dollar in relation to the euro fell on April 10. In the European Union for one euros, $ 1.5913 were given. This is the highest exchange rate of the euro in relation to the American dollar for the entire existence of a single European currency - since 1999. The euro positions were strengthened today as a result of the market confidence that the European Central Bank will maintain the size of the banking rate in European currency.

In Nepal, on Thursday , the parliamentary elections are held, which are called "historical" and consider the "key element" of violent political processes in the country. They must put the final point on the civil war, ITAR-TASS reports. Selected parliamentarians have to adopt a new constitution, which will be abolished for more than two centuries of the monarchy, and the country is proclaimed by the republic.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the British television and radio company of the Air Force said on Thursday with reference to the relevant statement of the press service of Daunning Street. However, this does not mean that Brown intends to boycott the Chinese Olympics. The prime minister plans to take part in the closing ceremony when Beijing will transfer the Olympic relay race to London.

Monetary transfers from migrants make up a third of the Kyrgyzstan GDP, an independent newspaper said. In 2007, working outside the country, mainly in Russia, the Kyrgyz transferred to home more than $ 1 billion. This spring, the outflow of labor force continued.

The Australian company Andrew Maynard Architects, led by Andrew Meinard, created a project of the CV08 supermachine, the world's first robot eating suburbs. About this writes Mambrana.ru . First of all, it must be said that Meinard and his colleagues are extremely concerned about the destruction of nature in the creeping Australian suburbs. Moreover, the future of these territories is seen by Andrew completely gloomy.

If Russia tries to pick up Crimea from Ukraine, official Kyiv may initiate the return to Ukraine of the regions of the Russian Federation that previously included in the Ukrainian SSR. This was announced today by the deputy head of the pro-presidential faction "Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense" in the Verkhovna Rada ex-minister of foreign affairs Boris Tarasyuk.

The romantic comedy with Matthew McConahi and Kate Hudson “Gold of Fools” became the leader in the rolling fee at the last weekend, reports “Film Protector’s Bulletin”. The film started on the 401 screen and earned 41.89 million rubles or $ 1.75 million.

The investigation of the most resonant case of violations in the election of the President of Russia on March 2 - to put the ballots in Ufa, mentioned by the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, did not reveal violators. In total, six criminal cases were instituted following the election results, one is already closed, Vedomosti write. During the presidential election campaign, 261 complaints were received in the CEC, said the CEC member Gennady Raikov.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion asked the Russians how they evaluate inflation. It is expected to be 74% of respondents (the absolute record of surveys of recent years) believes that inflation in the country this year is already “very high” . But 43% of them believe that they are partly to blame for this increase in prices themselves. Therefore, we agree to sacrifice their income in favor of holding prices.

The dramatic events associated with the community of the Penza recluse , founded by Peter Kuznetsov, are overgrown with new details and speculations. As already reported , the ruling bishop of the Penza and Kuznetsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Filaret, did not exclude today that the situation with these people who had hidden in the cave was a planned action, possibly from abroad. “It can be some foreign organizations.

The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Yuri Baluevsky once again denied media reports that he wrote a resignation report . It was even reported that there were several these reports. "I can’t imagine myself. It would be foolish to leave if I did not see the real fruits of what we would like to have for Russia," Baluevsky said in an interview with RIA Novosti .