American human rights activists from American Civil Liberties Union said that she has new facts of bullying prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, the newspaper reports . Ru, citing Le Monde. According to the testimony of one of the former detainees held in Tikrit’s prison, American guarders “beat him in the face, knocked out the shoulder joints, put a gun and kept it related for several days.” Later he was forced to sign a statement, which denied the application of "bad appeal" to him.

**What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events** In Moscow: A plenary meeting of the State Duma will take place. (10:00) It is planned, in particular, to discuss the issue of early termination of powers of six auditors of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. In addition, the Duma will consider in the second reading amendments to the law “On the Securities Market”, which establish a voluntary procedure for registration of a securities prospectus by a financial adviser.

At three oil refineries included in the Bashneft, an exit tax audit initiated by the Federal Tax Service and its interregional department for work with the largest taxpayers is held - the Kommersant newspaper regulates. Based on the results of the test of the results of 2000- 2001, the Supreme Arbitration Court ordered factories to pay 12 billion rubles. Thus, the Bashneft case came to the Yukos schedule, which was originally a demand to pay 97 billion rubles.

Military operations against Iran are not the first choice of the United States, but it can never be completely excluded, the US President George Bush said on Friday Belgian VRT, the newspaper reports. ru . “First of all, you will never want the president to say“ never, ”Bush said. “But the first choice of the president, or at least I have diplomacy. We have a common goal: Iran should not have nuclear weapons, ”he added.

17 citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan were sent from Moldova, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the administration of the President of Moldova. The administration reported that two more CIS countries were detained to clarify "additional circumstances." Citizens of which countries remain in Moldova in the administration did not say. According to updated data, the administration said, only 19 citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan were detained. Previously reported about 20.

Official confirmation of information about the launch of the completion of the Sangtudin Hydroelectric Power Plant was issued. The press service of the RAO UES reported that Inter RAO UES CJSC and the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Tajikistan signed an agreement on the creation of Sangtudinskaya HES-1 OJSC. The purpose of the contract is to joint participation of the parties in the completion of the Sangtudin HES-1.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid flowers on the grave of the Prime Minister of the Georgia Zurab, buried in the Didaubian pantheon, RIA Novosti reports. Visiting the grave of the rein was part of his personal plans in Tbilisi. Zurab Zhenya is “a man who has done a lot to peacefully resolve conflicts in Georgia,” the minister said. Lavrov arrived in Tbilisi from Yerevan, where he was also on an official visit.

The Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region approved the candidacy of Nikolai Vinogradov for the post of governor of the region, RIA Novosti reports. Nikolai Vinogradov is the current governor of the Vladimir region. His powers should have expired on March 25. For the first time, Vinogradov was elected the governor of the region in December 1996, and in 2000 he was re -elected to this post.

In the city of Poronaysk, a 55-year-old woman who attacked stray dogs died on Sakhalin, NEWSRU.com reports. The incident happened in the north-west of the city. A dog flock that lived among garages and household buildings attacked a woman when she walked along a deserted path. The dog was driven away by a man who accidentally heard the noise and screams for help. The woman has multiple bites of the chest, arms and legs.

Boris Dolgin The discussion of the topic of “color revolutions” and the possibilities of their reproduction in the next countries accidentally or did not really coincide with the forecasts growing from different sides by the approaching radical changes in Russia. Irina Khakamada says that a revolution is not a path that you can choose, but fate.

There will be no revision of “three thousand cases” to privatize property in Ukraine, the NTV reports the statement of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, which he made during an interview for the French media. “We do not set the goal of revising the entire privatization process. Three thousand enterprises, in my opinion, is too high as a figure, ”Yushchenko emphasized.

George Bush will raise Washington disturbing the situation in Russia before Vladimir Putin at the upcoming summit of two presidents in Bratislava, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced to reporters by the adviser to the US President for National Security, Stephen Hadley.

In Texas, a criminal who killed four people, including his mother, reports RBC with reference to the Associated Press. Dennis Wayne Bagwell introduced a deadly injection. In 1995, in a desert rural area under San Antonio, he committed his crime with particular cruelty. The motive was an acute need for money.

It is possible that a public organization will appear in Russia that will protect the interests of believers and churches. This was stated by Metropolitan of Kaliningrad and Smolensk Cyril; He did not specify what kind of believers are in question, but there is little doubt that the “traditional for Russia”, according to some, is the Orthodox Church.

In an accident on the road Vladimir-Yuryev-Polsky, the deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region, Natalya Koroleva, was divided, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The car in which she was driving carried out onto the oncoming lane, where a collision with a truck occurred. Some tabloids use coincidences to attract readers.