The accident at the Japanese nuclear power plants , which threaten a nuclear disaster, caused a revision of nuclear programs in a number of European countries and even in China, which decided to double -check the safety of nuclear facilities. Against this background, the West is perplexed by the self -confidence of the Russian leadership, which insists that the Japanese scenario in Russia is impossible, and actively export my technologies abroad - to the same Europe and China.

After the most powerful earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, the world continues with increasing anxiety to monitor the events around the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. There, recall, there was a series of serious accidents, and the level of radiation increased. At nuclear power plants, work and night is underway to eliminate the consequences of what happened, and the workers have actually turned into Kamikadze , since they are dangerous of high doses of irradiation.

Photos of the son of a member of the United Russia party, the vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory Yevgeny Gromyko, in the form of an officer of SS dispersed over the network after they were published by the New Gazeta . Judging by the buttonholes on the collar and epaulettes, the form of Vadim Gromyko corresponds to the title of SS Obersturmbannführer.

The two -time Olympic champion in Biathlon Russian woman Olga Zaitseva, after the end of this season, can continue her sports career. The illustrious athlete reported this in contacting the fans posted on her official website. On March 13, after an unsuccessful relay race at the world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Zaitseva announced that at the end of this season she would complete her career .

The spiritual department of the Muslims of North Ossetia (Dumso) at the extraordinary congress that had passed on Thursday elected a new mufti of the republic, which became Hadzhimurat Gatsalov. Participants in the extraordinary congress unanimously voted for the proposed candidate. The last six months of Gatsalov was the acting mufti.

The film by journalist Andrei Karaulov "Khodorkovsky. Pipe (P) s", in which the ex-head of the Yukos is trying to convict in the organization of a series of murders, appeared on the Web. Karaulov, who previously declared that he was making a film with his money and funds of sponsors, now claims that there was no need for sponsors, since the picture was crumpled from old stories, and all Khodorkovsky exposits starred in it for free.

Thousands of supporters of the Armenian opposition, having overcome the police barrier, are rallying on Freedom Square in Yerevan, Echo Moscow reports. It is possible that the rally will last all night. The police do not intervene in what is happening. The audience demand the resignation of the current leadership of the country and the return to power of the first president of the Republic of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who resigned in 1997. Ter-Petrosyan himself already spoke to the audience.

The National Agency for Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Georgia (NazKN) has spread information about serious damage to the ancient temple of all saints in the village of Vachnadze. According to the head of the legal service Nicoloz Antadze, the restoration of the temple built in the 9th century will begin in the near future. "In 2009, we created a project for the full rehabilitation of the church. A tender was recently announced.

Against Airbus on Thursday, the judicial bodies of France have charged the unintentional murder in connection with the catastrophe of the A-330 aircraft, which followed the flight "Rio dezaneiro- Paris" in June 2009. About this, reports ITAR-TASS, said Airbus chairman Thomas enders. As a result of the fall of the aircraft, all 229 people who were on board were killed into the ocean.

The famous rapper and producer Nate Dogg, whose real name Nathaniel Hale, died in his house in the city of Long-Beach (California), BBC reports. The cause of the death of a musician, who had previously suffered several strokes in 2007 and 2008, is unknown. Nate Dogg began his career in the late 1980s, along with the then little-known, but soon famous rapper Snup Dogg and Warren Ji, creating a trio "213". He gained fame in the mid-90s, released his own debut album in 1998.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a sentence was sentenced to an elderly woman who found a combat cartridge. The pensioner picked him up at the training training ground and kept the "souvenir" at home. As a result, she was brought to criminal liability. The Magnitogorsk court sentenced the 75-year-old citizen to two months in prison with a probationary period of 6 months. The verdict has already entered into legal force, reports "New Region" .

The players of the St. Petersburg Zenit in connection with the death of the goalkeeper’s wife Vyacheslav Malafeev will be released on Thursday for the match of the Europa League with the Dutch Twente on mourning bandages, the club’s official website reports. Meanwhile, the rival has already expressed condolences to Malafeev. Twente expresses its deep condolences to the Malafeev family and the Zenit football club (St. Petersburg), ”the Dutch club, which is quoted by Interfax , said.

The rescue tug from Vladivostok arrived in the Japanese port of Ofunato, where there is a chrysolite with a crew thrown out by the Russian ship. "Now the ship is standing at the entrance to the port of Ofunato. A decision is made on further actions," Interfax reports with reference to the Rimsko company, which has a tugboat. At the same time, ITAR-TASS reports that the Griff vessel is not allowed to the port of Ofunato for security reasons. The Griff belongs to the same navigable company Rimsko.

The most profitable way to deliver gas to southern Europe, according to preliminary estimates, is the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG), said Minister of Energy Sergey Shmatko. "The construction of the LNG plant on the Black Sea basin with delivery only within the Black Sea basin is the most costly option.

The deposits of the population in Russian banks may exceed 10 trillion rubles already in April this year, the director of the Department of Licensing and Financial Recovery of credit organizations of the Central Bank Mikhail Sukhov said on March 16. "Perhaps from April 1 we will see the eleventh trillion in bank deposits. In the balance sheet structure, the share of deposits will soon exceed 30%," he said.