** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin met with ... NATO Secretary General Japa de Joop Scheffer . During the meeting, security problems in Europe and the expansion of the alliance were discussed. ... with the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation R. Nurgaliev . The president listened to the minister’s report on the general condition with offenses in Russia. ...

The government as a whole approved a package of tax bills, today Alexei Kudrin, Minister of Finance of Russia, told reporters today. In addition, the government solved personnel issues today. The head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, suggested that the Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov appoint Tatyana Golikov and Sergei Shatalov as deputy Minister of Finance.

The auditors of the Accounts Chamber are checking all large Russian oil companies, the head of the department Sergey Stepashin said on Wednesday. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". “We have a comprehensive verification for taxes paying.

75 years ago, in a suburb of Brussels in the family of the owner of the cardboard factory, the future French chansonnier and actor Jacques Romen George Brel was born. He makes his debut as a singer back in Belgium, then in 1953 he moves to France. In early 1954, he recorded the first disc. In the mid-1950s, from songs under the guitar it goes on to performances, accompanied by professional musicians. In 1966 he gives the last concerts, deliberately leaving a song. In 1967 he debuted a movie.

600 million dollars will be required to implement the first stage of mastering the new Kovyktinsky gas field. This figure was approved at the first meeting of the board of directors of the East Siberian Gas Company, which will develop the field. It is reported by the Finmarket with reference to ITAR-TASS . The East Siberian Gas Company was created a month ago, its founders were the TNK-BP holding and the administration of the Irkutsk region on a parity basis.

The authorities of North Korea canceled the system of compulsory state distribution of food in cards among the country's population. According to Prime-Tass , this decision was made within the framework of economic reforms conducted in the country. Recently, in the DPRK, 50% were cut to daily survey standards for the main products, including rice, meat, milk. Now the authorities generally decided to completely lay the care of food on citizens.

Russian aluminum JSC will acquire 65% of the shares of the Jamaican company Alpart for $ 215 million, which owns a buxite mine and an enrichment factory, the Monitor reports. Seller of shares - the American company Kaiser Aluminum, located in the process of bankruptcy. The shares were submitted to the auction carried out by order of the bankruptcy court of the American state of Delaware.

CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Robert Müller will give a co -examination of the Commission on September 11 terrorist attacks at a meeting, which will begin on Tuesday April 13. According to RIA "News" the press service of the commission, the new, the tenth in the account of the commission will take place within two days.

In Abkhazia, residents of the village of Zemo Bargebi Galsky district, captured the night before, were liberated, Interfax reports. This was told today by the head of the representative office of Georgian peacekeeping forces in the conflict zone in Abkhazia Valery Japaridze. The authorities of Abkhazia said that men in the village of Zemo Barghev were detained by Abkhazian police on the basis of a violation of their passport regime.

Today, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Iraq Nuri Badran announced his intention to resign, reports mignews.com with reference to the AP agency. According to him, this is due to the fact that the interim administration of the United States expressed dissatisfaction with his work. In addition, according to Badran, representatives of the American command did not want the posts of the Minister of Defense and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to occupy Shiites.

General Roman Dumbadze, recently removed by President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, from the post of commander of the Batumi brigade of the country's Ministry of Defense, threatened to go into submission to the head of Adjara Aslan Abazhidze, ITAR-TASS reports. “All the time I fulfilled orders only by the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, so I don’t feel guilty.

The Egyptian family demands from the Israeli government to pay compensation in the amount of $ 1 billion for the loss of real estate and moral damage. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has already sent the relevant documents to Israel. According to Newsru.com , in 1937 the AZ-Zarbaui brothers bought 530 hectares of land in the area of ​​the Palestinian village of Bir Sebaa. They built there at home. In 1948, when the state of Israel was formed, they were expelled from this territory.

Much in the future fate of the alternative civil service depends on the first call-up. The law on AGS was adopted on January 1, 2004, but this practice has existed since the time of Catherine the Great, who provided Mennonites (members of one of the branches of the Protestant Church) with the opportunity to serve in forestry teams, fire brigades, and maritime department workshops. Thus, Russia was the first state in which an alternative service arose.

The price of May futures contracts for WTI brand oil during trading in the electronic system of the New York Model Exchange (NYMEX) on Thursday morning is $ 36.30 per barrel, which is $ 0.15 above the final value of the environment, Bloomberg reports. Yesterday, May's futures on WTI on NYMEX went up by $ 1.18 - up to $ 36.15 per barrel. The growth of the quotation was 3.4%.

Julia Fabritskaya Yesterday, the national domain RU turned 10 years old, and today, April 8, the birthday of one of the founders of Runet and our Internet channel “Polit.ru” Dmitry Itskovich. The so -called Runet officially has existed since April 7, 1994 - from this moment in the international database of national domains, supported by the authorized organization for the distribution of numbering on the Internet ( IANA ), it contains an appropriate entry.