The Libyan government sends the residents of the country of SMS messages to call them to terminate the protest and return to work, Interfax reports with reference to the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. According to one of the inhabitants of the Libyan capital, "the authorities sent SMS messages to the Libyans, which say the need to return to jobs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke out against external pressure on the development of events in Arab countries. According to the foreign policy posted on his website , on Wednesday, the minister held a telephone conversation with the general secretary of the League of the Arab states Amrom Musa.

During a fierce battle with the bandit group a few kilometers from the village by the past (Kabardino-Balkaria), one special forces fighter died, six more were injured. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to law enforcement agencies of the KBR.

King of Saudi Arabia 86-year-old Abdalla Ben Abdel Aziz al-Saud returned to his homeland after three months of treatment abroad from the intervertebral hernia. This happened against the backdrop of mass unrest that covered the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, which in Tunisia and Egypt have already led to the change of authorities.

The mining area in the Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria, where the bandit group of up to seven people is hidden, was fired by mortars, air strikes are also applied on it, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the power structures of the republic. "After the bombing strikes, the special forces of the internal troops began to comb the area in order to identify and destroy the bandit group. Currently, the bodies of the militants were not discovered, as previously reported.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke with the most gloomy comments on uprisings in the Arab countries at the moment, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal believes. The American publication quotes Inopressa.ru . According to the newspaper, the Kremlin’s cold reaction to demonstrators in the Arab countries and their calls to overthrow leaders with great experience contrasts with a much more approving reaction of the United States and Europe.

The ruling circles of Tripoli reported new plans trying to preserve his power to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. According to Time magazine, he ordered loyal troops to begin the destruction of oil facilities, reports Newsru Israel . First of all, it is planned to blow up pipelines along which oil enters the ports of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Libya Air Force plane crashed on Wednesday near the second largest city in the country of Benghazi, the pilots were bought up, Reuters reports, referring to the local newspaper Kurein. She, in turn, quotes a high -ranking army source - an unnamed colonel on the basis of the Air Force near Benghazi. A deliberate crash suffered a Russian-made Su-22 aircraft, two officers who were on board, safely went down in parachutes.

Another resonant trial over a drug dealer ends in the Urals. The city court of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region on Thursday will announce the sentence to Grigory Goryunov, a police officer suspected of beating two detainees. According to the City without drugs, the victims of police arbitrariness - drug addicts with experience, and previously were convicted of theft, robberies and drug crime. The state prosecution asks Goryunov for three years conditionally.

200-300 thousand refugees can get to Europe from Libya, while Italy will become a point of arrival. Such a warning sounded during an emergency meeting of the Italian government dedicated to a crisis in North African countries. This was reported by Ansa Agency with reference to government sources. Over the past week, the Italian island of Lampeduza, south of Sicily, was filled with refugees from Tunisia.

In Voronezh, according to updated data, nine people were injured in an explosion and a fire in the Garage Cooperative "Soyuz". Two are in extremely serious condition, two more were refused from hospitalization, the representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region told RIA Novosti . As it became known, the gas cylinder exploded, and this happened during the repair of the car.

Not only Russia , but also many other countries evacuate its citizens from Libya. As the representative of the European Commission Olivier Baya announced on Wednesday, the EU countries have yet to take out 10 thousand of their citizens from this country. The day before, France sent a plane to Tripoli, who took out citizens of different countries to Paris. Bulgaria evacuated the first group of her citizens from Libya.

In Libya, the victims of clashes and riots as a result of the opposition’s uprising against the ruling regime became 300 people, including 189 civilians and 111 military and security forces. The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Jamahiria said at a press conference in Tripoli about this, as ITAR-TASS. These are the first official data made in the country's authorities after the start of the unrest that broke out last week.

Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova said that the Primorsky branch of the VGTRK abolished the interview planned with her. She calls this fact a continuation of the history with the removal of programs from her participation by the First Channel and NTV after a scandalous exit from United Russia. "... we arrived in Vladivostok, the capital of the Primorsky Territory. It was surprised that the story with the abolition of my television broadcasts did not end! And moreover, she affected the regions!

Iran joined the club of countries capable of creating supercomputers. Today in Tehran the presentation of the first two supercomputers created by scientists of the capital University Amir Kabir and the Isfahan Technological University was held. The ceremony was attended by the President of the Islamic Republic of Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad, who stated that "Iran should turn to the rest of the world into a source of scientific knowledge," ITAR-TASS reports.