The economic crisis can leave 46 million people around the world in 2009. As ITAR-TASS reports, these are the data of the new report of the World Bank, about which the newspaper The Washington Post writes. The main reasons leading to the poverty of the population, the bank’s experts call a reduction in jobs and a decrease in salaries. In addition, experts talk about reducing private investment volumes in developing markets. Compared to 2007, they fell by 17%.

In connection with the large -scale military exercises of the United States and South Korea, which began in the south of the Korean Peninsula, the DPRK authorities declared full combat readiness of the Armed Forces. At the same time, the only straight line of communication with the military of South Korea was interrupted. Pyongyang regarded the teachings as a preparation for the invasion of the country, explains Echo of Moscow .

Anzor Maskhadov, the son of the late president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, is threatened and offers to return to Chechnya. Anzor himself, who lives in Norway, said on the air of Radio "Freedom" . “I am worried about my family, for my relatives, who are in Chechnya today. Because they exerted all kinds of pressure on them several times (even many times),” said Anzor Maskhadov.

Former Georgian Ambassador to Russia Erosi Kitsmarishvili demands to initiate a criminal case against the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Irakli Kodua. According to the diplomat, the general and his relatives last weekend beat him at the Gudauri ski resort in the presence of dozens of vacationers. Immediately after the incident, Kitsmarishvili turned to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but there was no reaction, Interfax reports according to the Georgian media.

Sudan will declare war on any country that will try to detain or issue President Omar al-Bashira to the International Criminal Court (MUS) in the Hague. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the authoritative Mezharab newspaper "ASh-Shark Al-Ausat", said the vice speaker of the Sudanese parliament Muhammad al-Hasan al-Amin.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia criticized the Russian Embassy for the desire to teach the Baltic state in the Ton of the Elder Brother. The reason for the next diplomatic "exchange of courtesies" was the notorious march of veterans of the Latvian legion of the Latvian legion Waffen SS. Criticism of Russia was voiced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Maris Rixtins, Interfax reports.

About 12 thousand American troops will leave Iraq by September 2009, and by the end of March, the United States will transfer 74 of their facilities into the hands of the local government. By September, Iraq should leave all the British military - 4 thousand people. Nevertheless, the total number of US troops in the country will remain significant: more than 120 thousand soldiers, the Associated Press agency notes.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a contract of a border station, a border station, shot two colleagues, and then committed suicide. Another army drama was played in the area of ​​responsibility of the Sretensky border detachment in the Trans -Baikal Territory. Three contract service military personnel died on the night of March 8 to 9, Interfax reports with reference to the operational attendant ATS of the Nerchinsk-Zavodsky district.

In Thailand, court hearings were held in the case of Russian Viktor But, accused of illegal weapons and nicknamed the "death merchant" in the press. Based on the results of the meeting, the National Criminal Court decided to consult a country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ITAR-TASS reports. On Monday, the court considered the issue "about the illegal arrest and detention of" a Russian businessman.

Four people died in a fire in a residential building of the country village near the city of Angarsk Irkutsk Region, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the region. The tragedy happened on Monday immediately after midnight in the private country house of gardening Topolk-2. The fire was noticed by the neighbors and called the firefighters. However, by the time the first unit arrived, the roof of the house had already collapsed.

The Ingush community begins to collect signatures in support of the ex-head of "Russenft" Mikhail Gutseriev , whom the Russian law enforcement agencies put on the international wanted list. The site of Ingushetia.org gives an appropriate application on behalf of the public organization "Fair Ingushetia", the leader of which is Magomed Khazbiev. Congratulations to Gutseriev on his birthday are also given here.

Kenyan troops entered the territory of Somalia. Such a statement was made by radical Islamists from the Ash Shabab group, which control the southern part of the country, ITAR-TASS reports. The radicals consider this step aiming to overthrow them themselves and help the transitional government of Somalia. “The actions of the Armed Forces of Kenya can seriously affect the situation with safety and stability in the region,” they emphasized.

The supply of electricity was interrupted in the morning in South Ossetia on Monday due to an accident on the power line, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the EMERCOM of North Ossetia. Sveta was not in the whole republic, the independence of which only Russia recognized so far. From there, by the way, electricity enters South Ossetia. The Ministry of Emergency Situations assured that there was no damage to the power lines from North Ossetia.

During the crisis, it is better for women not to saw husbands who have lost their jobs, but to support them, claims the chief psychiatrist of the Russian Federation Tatyana Dmitrieva, director of the Serbian Social and Judicial Psychiatry Scientific and Judicial Psychiatry. To preserve the family, it is better for his wife to “show tact and female wisdom” and go to earn money, gives her advice “Interfax” .

The Belarusian human rights activist Yana Polyakova committed suicide after she was sentenced to 2.5 years of the so -called "chemistry" (house arrest). The woman was accused of perjury against a policeman who allegedly beat her. The tragedy was played on the night of Saturday last Saturday in the house of the 33-year-old human rights activist Yana Polyakova, located in the city of Soligorsk, Khartya'97 reports. The woman hanged herself right in the hallway.