The criminal case on the theft of a large batch of weapons in Vladivostok was opened by the prosecutor's office of the Far Eastern Military District. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory, 17 machine guns, 61 machine guns and one sniper rifle disappeared from the unit, Interfax reports. The interlocutor of the agency noted that the weapon was supposedly stolen through the hole made in the ceiling of the warehouse.

The chairman of the State Duma, the leader of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov, said that he was satisfied with the structure of the new government. According to him, the new cabinet was formed with the participation of United Russia. Gryzlov emphasized that the government included both party members (Alexander Zhukov, Sergey Shoigu, Alexei Gordeev), as well as its supporters (Sergey Ivanov, Dmitry Kozak, Rashid Nurgaliev, Yuri Chaika and Viktor Khristenko).

According to Reuters, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan hopes that negotiations between Syria, Lebanon and Israel will resume. True, there is no new developed plan for the settlement of the Middle Eastern conflict yet, although Annan discussed the possibilities of negotiations with a special messenger of the UN in the Middle East.

Vitaly Leibin, the executive director of the Expert Institute of the Russian Federation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs , Andrei Neshchidina , questioned about the immediate actions of the office of Mikhail Fradkov and on the social roots of the new prime minister of Polit.ru. Today we publish the first part of this conversation. I offer two topics for conversation. The first is tax changes (reduction in UST, changes in the calculation of VAT) that the government planned.

Today, on Tuesday, March 9, the government appeared in Russia. President Vladimir Putin announced the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers, reports RBC. As expected, the government will be one Deputy Prime Minister. The number of ministries from 30 decreased to 17. Alexander Zhukov was appointed to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation. Rashid Nurgaliev was appointed to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

On Tuesday, the former First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak was recalled from vacation in connection with the appointment of the head of the government apparatus. On vacation, Kozak was engaged in the leadership of the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. To continue his activities in this field, already in a new quality, Kozak wrote a vacation application. The application was satisfied.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian , the new Iraqi Constitution promises to be the most liberal of all that ever existed in the east. Weeks after protracted, constantly interrupted negotiations, backstage intrigues, sleepless nights and intensive political trading, the Iraqi ruling council finally announced the draft temporary constitution, calling this event “a decisive moment in the history of the New Iraq”.

Over the past few days, about 20 families returned from the Tent Camps of Sacitus and Sputnik, located on the territory of Ingushetia. They claim that they left the camp under pressure from the authorities, the regional public organization “Human Rights Right Information” reports. Meanwhile, on March 6, these tent camps were visited by the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia Ella Pamfilova.

Today, a Spanish military base in Iraq came under mortar fire. Three mines fell on the territory of the España base in the city of Diwaniya. There are no casualties or destruction. According to RIA Novosti, servicemen of the Plus Ultra brigade immediately moved to the place where the shelling came from, but there was no one there. This is not the first attack on Spanish troops in Iraq. On February 11, 11 soldiers were wounded in a bomb explosion in Diwaniyah.

Putin deprived him of political influence to Dmitry Kozak to the post of head of the government. So believes the expert of the Carnegie Center Andrei Ryabov. “I have no accurate 100% information about whether Kozak retained his post in the presidential administration, but for the one that he acts, he most likely left the Kremlin. And this definitely means his decrease. There he was a political figure in which all the reforms were closed.

Israel removed the full blockage of the gas sector and the western bank of the Jordan River, introduced on March 4. About this with reference to Edicom reports RBC . The blockade of the territories of the Palestinian autonomy was introduced to prevent terrorist attacks during the Jewish holiday Purim on March 7 and 8: the extremist organization “Hamas” threatened to avenge the murder of its leaders with the Israelis.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela could stop supplying oil to the United States, and if the United States has invaded Venezuela, then a war that will last 100 years, Fox News reports. Chavez claims that after the United States contributed to the overthrow of President Haiti Aristide, they strive to do something similar in Venezuela. Recall that the opposition seeks to achieve Chavez by a referendum.

In Serbia, the trial of six Serbs accused of the murder of more than 200 civilians in the Croatian city of Vukovar in 1991 begins, the Air Force reports. The accused are considered members of a militarized formation who committed one of the worst massacres during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. The suspects are accused of capturing Croatian patients in the Vukovar hospital, after the Yugoslav forces after many months of fighting entered the city in November 1991.

On March 7, “Lukoil” signed a contract for gas production at a deposit in the northern part of the Rub-El Khali desert in the Saudi Aramco Ministry of Oil and the Saudi Aramco Ministry. Under the terms of the Agreement, Lukoil will sell almost all Saudi Aramco raw materials extracted, but it is forbidden to extract oil at the field, even if the Tax Code finds it.

Five of the nine British submitted on the American military base on Guantanamo will be delivered to their homeland today. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Great Britain David Blanket, reports Reuters. Upon returning to their homeland, all of which are released, most of which will be caused by the interrogation of anti -terrorist intelligence services. The affairs of the other four British remaining on Guantanamo will be considered by the American authorities.