Today, at the administrative border with Adjaria near the bridge across the Choloki River, the operator of the Tbilisi television company Rustavi-2 was beaten. According to ITAR-TASS, the incident was posted as several hundred inhabitants of Ajaria did not miss the Central Election Commission of Georgia to the Republic of Georgia, Zuraba Chiabarashvili. Several men attacked the Rustavi-2 television operator and began to beat him. This captured the television camera.

The Russian Ministry of Emergencies evacuates from Iraq at least 175 citizens of Ukraine who work under contracts in Russian companies, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, 170 Ukrainians work in the Russian company Technopromesport, 5 citizens of Ukraine in Energomaskport. The employees of Interenergoservis are 20 Ukrainians, but they did not want to leave Iraq. The number of Ukrainians working in Iraq is specified.

Political in the country is folding. The management and determination of the strategy is concentrated in the presidential administration. The rest are informed about the fact of the decisions already made, hence the roosterness and one -sidedness of most Russian reforms. Political positions that are different from the presidential, pro -presidential and nearby, or not at all, or they are not represented where we are used to seeing them: in the party debate of the State Duma.

The vice-governor of Kamchatka Alexander Chistyakov was called to the prosecutor’s office to testify in the criminal case on the illegal distribution of quotas for fishing, the senior assistant to the region’s prosecutor Alexander Piskunov told RIA Novosti. The criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority by members of the Interdepartmental Commission was opened by the prosecutor’s office after checking the regional regulation to determine quotas for catching aquatic biological resources.

In the mountains in the south of Chechnya, the battles continue between the military personnel of the Vostok Special Forces and the gang of field commanders Rappani Khalilov and Ahmedov Akhmedov Assistant Akhmedov. According to Interfax, the commander of the East Sulim Yamadaev, according to 17:00 Moscow time, eight militants were killed. Two special forces died in a shootout.

Evgeny Yasin On April 13, a round table "Business and the state: the dynamics of repentance", organized by the Unity in the name of Russia. "We publish the report of Yevgeny Yasin, the scientific director of the Higher School of Economics , which served as the material of the discussion on this round table. Paradoxical situation: the economy is developing rapidly, breaking the records of pace. At the same time, there is a serious conflict between power and business, especially large business.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with M. Fradkov . The prime minister informed the president about the results of his visit to the Federation Council and about the dialogue with senators. It was also about preparing for the next meeting of the government, which will consider the issue of improving the effectiveness of budget expenditures and improving the budget process. In addition, M.

The leader of the Chechen militants Shamil Basayev removed Aslan Maskhadov’s people from the separatists' leadership. Instead of the proteges of Maskhadov, the so -called commander of the Dagestan front was appointed by the famous terrorist Rappani Khalilov, and the commander of the Ingush front, the leader of the gang nicknamed “Magas”. Such data was obtained by law enforcement agencies, RIA Novosti reports.

The Chertanovsk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow on Wednesday charged three arrested, who beat the citizen of Afghanistan Abdul Vasya Haji Abdul Kerim on March 24, Interfax reports. The beaten Afghan died in the hospital on March 31. He was officially registered in the Russian capital, had a-Russian wife and a three-month-old daughter.

The President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov proposed a reward for information about the whereabouts of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov. According to RIA Novosti, he stated this today at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don. At the same time, Kadyrov did not clarify the amount of remuneration. The President of Chechnya emphasized that he had no contacts with Maskhadov. Meanwhile, today it became known that Maskhadov’s positions among Chechen separatists have seriously weakened.

Dear friends! Greetings at the next meeting of the club of regional journalists. I think one of the discussion topics may be my article. I beg you not to make a discount on the conditions in which it was written. Rather, the prison gave me moral right to openly and publicly say what I used to discuss with my colleagues. After all, to me, like every person, the hardest thing is to say unpleasant things to friends, especially publicly.

The Yakut City Court today will consider a criminal case on the fact of the death of 22 students in a fire at the school of the village of Sydybil. According to RIA Novosti in the Yakut City Court, the exit meeting will be held in Sydybyl. The school director Stanislav Ivanov will appear before the court.

In Iraq, two more citizens of Japan were taken hostage, RIA Novosti reports. The message about this was received today by e -mail to one of the Japanese public organizations. Officially, this information has not yet been confirmed. According to preliminary data, two Japanese journalists were captured today in Baghdad around 14.00 local time, when they moved along the outskirts of the city in order to shoot an emergency landing of an American helicopter.

On Thursday, the Government of the Russian Federation will consider measures to increase the effectiveness of budget expenditures and reform the budget process in Russia, the Monitor reports. The report on this topic will be made by the Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin. The Ministry of Finance believes that the main task of reform is the transition “from the management of budget resources to the management of the results”.

Slobodan Miloshevich wants the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair, former US President Bill Clinton, former US Secretary of State Madeline Olbraite and other higher political and military leaders who was passing against him in the International Tribunal (MTBU). This was reported by the Dutch radio, reports RIA Novosti. Miloshevich presented a list in the Tribunal Secretariat, which includes 1631 surnames of people whom he intends to call as witnesses.