The facade of one of the residential buildings on Prejozhzhinskaya Street in the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg formed a crack. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg, the crack was formed due to construction work near the building.

Few have paid attention to one interesting event in our economic life. The Aviation Company Atlant-Soiuz, which is engaged in the transportation of goods and passengers, mainly by orders of the Moscow government, applied to the leadership of the Russian Air Force to transfer 5 An-124 (Ruslan) aircraft, which are now in the mobilization reserve of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A decrease in the unified social tax (UST) and value added tax (VAT) tax reform in Russia will end in general terms. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Alexander Zhukov, RIA Novosti reports. Zhukov recalled that the UST is “the highest and most harmful in terms of legalization of salaries” - it is planned to reduce from the current 36 to 26%since 2005. VAT is supposed to be reduced since 2006 - from 18 to at least 16%.

Repair of the TMA-3 spacecraft, on which on April 30 it will be to be returned to the Earth to astronauts, will be carried out directly in orbit “Interfax”. As the representative of the flight management center explained, one of the fans of the refrigerated-drying unit, supporting the ship’s necessary level on board the ship, refused last October during the Union of Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao did not accept the invitation of the Japanese Foreign Ministry to pay an official visit to the country, citing the fact that he is waiting for a more friendly atmosphere in the relations of the two countries. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". At the moment, the relations between the eastern states are complicated by the flash of the polemic around the controversial archipelago Sancaku, which Japan, China and Taiwan claims.

The United States considers the possibility of sending additional forces to Iraq if the situation gets out of control, the unnamed representative of the Central Command of the US Army said. According to him, the commanders were instructed to prepare the relevant plans, but the army leadership is confident that they will not be needed, the Air Force reports. Today in Iraq there are about 134 thousand US military, they are part of the 155,000th coalition forces.

Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia Vano Mebishvili called today's explosion in Tbilisi, as a result of which the commander of the Russian troops in Transcaucasia (GRVZ), Major General Alexander Studenikin, "political provocation", RIA Novosti was wounded. Merabishvili, in particular, said: "This is an extraordinary fact for us.

After sending the President of Lithuania Rolandos Paxas, the temporarily acting head of state became the chairman of the Sejm Arturo Paulausskas. The work of the Sejm, in turn, will temporarily lead the First Deputy Paulausskas Cheslovas Yurschenas. Most deputies of the Lithuanian parliament voted for making this decision, RIA Novosti reports. The government will still work in the previous composition. The Diet will announce the date of extraordinary presidential elections within 10 days.

The accusation demands from the court to be sentenced to Zarem Medikhoev to 24 years in a maximum security colony for trying to commit an attack. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the mother of an FSB officer who died during the clearance of an explosive device. On the eve of the jury in the Moscow City Court unanimously decided that Mujakhoeva was guilty of terrorism, preparation for crime and illegal storage and transportation of explosives.

In a residential building in Tbilisi, where officers of the group of Russian troops in Transcaucasia (GRVZ) live, an explosion occurred. According to RIA Novosti, as a result, General Alexander Studenikin commander was wounded. He was taken to a military hospital. According to preliminary data, the explosive device installed in the wall of the house was driven by the clock mechanism.

In Vladivostok, the sailor defender and his accomplices who committed a brutal murder were convicted. According to the Deutta.Ru information agency in the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Pacific Fleet, the sailor Nikolai Nechistovsky, who received a conditional term for theft of the car, deserted from the unit, having served less than six months.

The verdict in the “Muzhikhoeva case” posed two important questions. The first - as a verdict will affect the preparation of new “living bombs”. The second is whether it is possible in such cases to make a sentence, guided only by common sense, without thinking about the consequences. This opinion was expressed in an interview with “Polit.ru” a member of the board of the human rights international society “Memorial” Alexander Cherkasov.

Grigory Gritsenko Few have paid attention to one interesting event in our economic life. The Aviation Company Atlant-Soiuz, which is engaged in the transportation of goods and passengers, mainly by orders of the Moscow government, applied to the leadership of the Russian Air Force to transfer 5 An-124 (Ruslan) aircraft, which are now in the mobilization reserve of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On this day in 1793, the Committee of Public Salvation was created in France, which marked the further radicalization of the revolution. At first, moderate Jacobins entered there, but gradually this organ became a stronghold of supporters of Robespierre.

Surveys of the analytical center of Yuri Levada do not confirm the publications that have appeared in recent days that over the past two years the number of Russians who considered it necessary to maintain the military military service and the number of supporters of the contract service has decreased. The table contains the results of studies of different years on this issue, obtained by a team of sociologists under the leadership of Yu. Levada. Statistical error of such surveys within 3.4%.