Russia advocates the removal of any restrictions on the air traffic with Belarus, which will result in a decrease in the cost of air tickets for passengers, the Federal Air Transport Agency said. The department commented on the conflict for the sky between Moscow and Minsk, which entailed the temporary cessation of flights.

Inspired by a fresh scandal with an annoying leakage of the content of the personal conversation of the US and the Russian presidents due to the microphone, which Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev mistakenly considered the turned off, the Foreign Policy magazine compiled a rating of the eight of the worst such punctures of politicians, Inopressa reports.

According to the results of inspections on the suppression of illegal financial transactions and the fight against corruption, illegal activities in 30 large companies and one bank have recently been identified, the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, RIA Novosti reports, "Over the past few days, operational -search measures have been held in 30 large companies, and there were also a lot of documents confirming

In the Moscow apartment of the former head of the St. Petersburg Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Mikhail Sukhodolsky, the employees of the metropolitan investigative department were searched as part of a criminal case instituted on the fact of fraud, Rosbalt reports.

In the open-air service, which the Pope Benedict XVI , who arrived the day before to the island of Freedom , led about 200 thousand pilgrims on Antonio Maseo Square in Santiago de Cuba. Mass was committed on the occasion of the 400-year anniversary of gaining the image of the Virgin Mercy del-Cobra, who was revered by the Catholics of the Virgin, the patroness of Cuba. The service was attended by the head of the Cuban state, Raul Castro, Radio Vatican reports.

The Agency for promising defense research developments of the United States DARPA is preparing a competition to search for dummmer criminals, reports Securitylab . The Tag Challenge contest will be held within 12 hours in two cities of the United States - Washington and New York, and in three cities of Europe - Stockholm, London and Bratislava. The competition is designed to study the assistance opportunities that citizens can provide law enforcement agencies and special services.

The Presnensky District Court of the capital sentenced the defendant of a resonant criminal case about the brutal group rape of the girl. The perverts were high -ranking civil servants, as well as a lawyer. The 35-year-old former deputy head of the Inspectorate of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, Ilya Vakhonin, was sentenced to eleven years in prison.

Activists of the “Breakthrough” movement, who were not allowed to surround the Kremlin with the “White Ring” after the presidential election, came up with a new action. This time they plans to hold on March 31 on the Triumphal Square in Moscow an event entitled "DDOS ATAK Autosak". On this day, they plan to create lines from the autozaks and ask the police to be detained and draw up a case of an administrative offense.

A year after the destructive tsunami , which hit Japan, on the other edge of the Pacific Ocean, a trawler ghost was discovered, which worshiped the Pacific Ocean from last March. The Japanese ship was noticed drifting along the western coast of Canada, reports Reuters. The empty fishing vessel covered with rust was noticed in the area of ​​Queen Charlotte Islands about 222 kilometers from the shore by the British Colombia province of the province.

The World Bank evaluates the pre-election promises of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at 0.5-1.5% of GDP for six years. The WB notes that Putin’s election initiatives are not taken into account in the medium-term federal budget for 2012-2014, which will entail an inevitable increase in expenses. According to RIA Novosti , additional expenses may be associated with the modernization of the armed forces, increased monetary allowance and pension provision to the military.

The first Soviet meteorological satellite "Meteor-1", launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in March 1969, went on Tuesday from a near-Earth orbit, testifies data from the monitoring systems of the US Armed Forces strategic command.

The leadership of the Katar television channel Al-Juzira decided not to show the video of the murders made by Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad and sent to the Paris Bureau of the television channel by one of his accomplices.

The British bank Coutts, in which the English Queen Elizabeth II stores the money, was fined by 8.75 million pounds for not ensuring proper control of the transactions of his customers and theoretically could provide aiding in money laundering, the newspaper Vedomosti writes with reference to the publication in the foreign business press. The reason for the fine was a suspicion that the bank was working with "dirty" money.

Users downloaded the fourth game from the Angry Birds series more than 10 million times in the first three days after its launch on March 22. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, the company’s official microblog said. In their message, the developers of the game from the Finnish company Rovio thank fans of "evil birds" and urge to monitor updates. Rovio released the game Angry Birds Space, which takes place in space for the four most popular platforms - Android, iOS, PC and Mac.

Ford GT from the Hennessey Performance tuning studio with a 5.4-liter racing engine equipped with twin turbocharging set a speed record, accelerating to 414 km/h and being 7.4 km/h faster than the fastest rival, reports AutoNews.ru . The record was set last Sunday early in the morning, in fairly cool weather. The races began on Friday with speeds of 347 km/h and 366 km/h, by the end of the day the team managed to overcome the mark of 371 km/h.