The authorities of Saudi Arabia demanded from Syria to withdraw their troops from Lebanon. Such information was announced today by the Associated Press to an anonymous source in the Kingdom government. The source noted that Er-Riyad insists on the complete withdrawal of all Syrian military units and secret employees from Lebanon in the shortest possible time. There are no official comments on the position of the leadership of Saudi Arabia by the Syria authorities yet.

On Thursday, the Simonovsky court of Moscow partially satisfied the lawsuit of the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov to protect honor and dignity, RIA Novosti was told in court. “The court ordered the Russia channel to refute the information widespread in the Vesti+program on March 15, 2004,” the court said.

Former army commander of the Bosnian Muslims, General Rasim Delich, who surrendered the day before the tribunal in The Hague, refused to find himself guilty of committing war crimes, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Reiters. Delich is accused of violations of laws and rules for warfare, murders and mockery of Serbs and Croats in 1992-1995.

The Minister of Energy Viktor Khristenko said that the management of Gazprom and Rosneft has not yet submitted the necessary documents that could be approved on the advice of the directors of these companies. Such was the minister’s answer to the question of the state of the preparation of directives for voting by state representatives according to the merger scheme.

Viktor Melnikov, the son of the famous architect Konstantin Melnikov, announced yesterday that he plans to bequeath the house of the architect, as well as the entire collection of his works and works of Konstantin Melnikov, the Kommersant newspaper reports today. He announced this at a press conference collected yesterday in the famous house of his father in Krivoarbatsky Lane.

Dushanbe, February 28, 2005. This brief conclusion was prepared according to the results of the mission of monitoring elections in Majlisi Namyandagon of the Republic of Tajikistan in all major cities of Tajikistan, as well as in the Sogdian and Khatlon regions. 1. Activities of election commissions for the preparation and conduct of elections.

On Thursday, six months from the date of the tragedy in Beslan have been performed, as a result of which, according to official figures, more than 330 people died. A group of Russian citizens intends to hold pickets on this day in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Pickets initiated by a group of citizens will be few in both cities - 20-30 people. In Moscow, a picket is planned to be held near the Republic of North Ossetia in support of the Public Committee of Mother Beslan.

Alexander Kozlov was appointed deputy chairman of Gazprom. The order of the appointment was signed by the chairman of the company's board, Alexei Miller, the Gazprom press service said in RIA Novosti . Kozlov will oversee issues related to economic activities, medical support and agriculture. Prior to his appointment at Gazprom, Kozlov served as deputy manager of the President of the Russian Federation.

The four -part documentary of Vasily Pichula and Savik Schuster called "Passion for Gorbachev" will show the NTV channel from March 14 to 16. The film consists of four episodes - "The Great Principle", "Great Love", "Great Hate" and "Great Liberation". The first series will tell the documentary history of the career of Gorbachev, the Secretary General of the CPSU, "which, starting from eighteen years old, received an" increase "once every four years.

At the construction site of the GTS "Luch", the first control soda was scored under the foundation of the main building of the new heat-electrocentral, reports Bel.ru. The construction of the GTS "Luch" is the first investment project in the RAO "UES of Russia", the implementation of which is carried out completely at the expense of borrowed funds. The project is based on the combined production of electric and thermal energy.

The State Duma intends to consider a request to the Government of the Russian Federation on Friday at a plenary session in connection with the statement of the State Duma "On the recommended response measures of the Russian Federation in relation to Moldova in connection with the held Moldavian authorities to exacerbate the situation around the attraction." This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the CIS committee and relations with compatriots Andrei Kokoshin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "on amendments to the list of information classified as state secret, approved by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 30, 1995 N1203," reports RBC . According to the press service of the head of state, according to the document, information on the volume of reserves, production, transfer and consumption of platinum, metals of platinum groups and natural diamonds is excluded from this list.

The Indonesian Court recognized the radical Muslim spiritual leader Abu Bashir involved in the organization of the attack on the island of Bali in October 2002, which died 202 people, and sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Reiters. At the same time, the court considered the accusations against Bashir the unproven organization of organizing a terrorist attack at the Marriot Hotel in Jakarta.

After an independent investigation of events in Blagoveshchensk, Russian human rights activists intend to monitor violations of citizens' rights by the police in all regions of the country, the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG) Lyudmila Alekseeva told Interfax, Gazeta.ru reports. "We want to find out how acute this problem is in all regions and, apparently, we will conduct all -Russian monitoring.

Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Volga Federal District (FFO) Sergey Kiriyenko on Thursday will present Pavel Ipatov for approval to the position of Governor of the Saratov Region to deputies of the regional legislative assembly . This was reported in the press service of the regional Duma.