According to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Arkady Dvorkovich, after four months of stagnation in Russia, economic growth resumed: a revival of production and lending was observed. The economy in Russia is holding on large business, Dvorkovich recalled, which indicates a low level of economic development. Therefore, Dvorkovich considers it necessary to actively change tax and financial conditions for small business enterprises.

Zimbabwe's membership in the British Commonwealth is suspended for a year. This means that the controversial President Robert Mugaba will not be allowed for the organization’s summits, and his country will be deprived of the right to vote and will not be able to influence any decision of the Commonwealth. The suicide bomber blew himself up this morning in a crowded bus in the north of Israel. Four soldiers and three peaceful passengers were killed.

A meeting of Vladimir Putin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense took place. Speaking at the meeting, the president said that Russia should quickly respond to serious geopolitical changes in the world. In addition, Putin stated that "from a long period of conversations, we moved to specific affairs": the military construction program for 2001-2005 and the state arms program were adopted until 2010.

The daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, a student of MGIMO Ksenia, who, from the Moscow apartment, as you know, brought jewelry in the amount of $ 600,000, said in an interview with Kommersant: “I guess that they will write about this theft tomorrow in the newspapers, there will probably be information offended for my family. I will go through my familiar. But I am calm. Jewelry was presented to me by the father, mother and young people.

As already reported , it became known yesterday that the Minister of Energy Igor Yusufov proposed to dismiss his deputy Viktor Kudryavoy, although the representative of the ministry could not answer the question of the specific reasons for the possible resignation. As Kommersant reports today, Yusufov addressed Kasyanov on this occasion on March 15, ten days after the Kudryvy was not re -elected to the board of directors of RAO UES, who would begin to work in June.

Four Russian peacekeepers, captured on Monday in Abkhazia, were released last night, ”Paata Gomlauri, head of the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, told Interfax. According to him, about an hour before the liberation of peacekeepers to the Georgian authorities, two residents of the Zugdid district, captured by the "Abkhazian separatists" were transferred.

The Duma deprived her communist chairman of the law of a decisive vote at meetings of the Council of the Duma. The corresponding amendment to the regulations was supported by 245 deputies, there were 159 against 159, two abstained. As you know, the amendment was initiated by the proceedings and their representatives in the regulation committee.

The Presidium of the State Council and the Security Council at a joint meeting are discussing the Fundamentals of the Policy of the Russian Federation in the field of the development of science and technology for the period until 2010 and the prospect. " First of all, they talk about the financing of science.

Agencies publish excerpts from the speech of the new head of the Central Bank Ignatiev to the deputies of the Duma. There is nothing new in them compared to his earlier interviews and a performance at a joint meeting of the budget and banking committees. Priority tasks - the implementation of the international mechanism of financial reporting of banks.

The conflict has taken the conflict between the Prosecutor General and the Customs seemed to flare up again. Sources of Interfax report that Ustinov’s department opened a new criminal case against the leadership of the GTK under Article 285 of the Criminal Code (abuse of official position). Yesterday, searches have already begun in the customs terminals of the Moscow region and related commercial structures.

Georgian law enforcement agencies recognized that the Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelaev is located in the republic. As I.O. Akhmetsky district head of the Akhmetsky District Avtandil Turkiashvili, the department has operational information that Gelaev sometimes happens in the Pankisi Gorge. Recall that in January, Georgian special services officially took up the search for Gelaev in response to the persistent requests of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office.

In an interview with RIA Novosti, the Russian diplomat noted “unambiguously positive dynamics” in assessing the UN Politics of the Russian Federation on the normalization of the situation in Chechnya.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that the country was looming the threat of political terrorism, and called the struggle with him one of the main tasks of his office. The statement of Berlusconi was made in connection with the murder of a prominent economist-reformer, government adviser Marco Biaji. After the "Enron case" in the global audit market, the real crisis of trust began - namely, on trust, the entire business of the auditors is built.

The Duma has not limited itself to depriving Seleznev of a decisive vote in the Council of the Chamber and is already raising the question of replacing him as speaker. The Rules Committee has been tasked with working out the feasibility of such a step. Oddly enough, the initiator of the order was Nikolai Kharitonov, and not the centrists.

Interior Minister Temirbek Akmataliev told reporters this morning that the situation in southern Kyrgyzstan, where riots occurred in recent days that led to the death of four people and the injury of fifty, has returned to normal. The minister noted that 29 participants in the unrest were released from custody. They were released on their own recognizance or after paying administrative fines.