As the most likely cause of the AN-24 aircraft disaster in the Nenets AO, the unsatisfactory interaction of the crew and errors made during the flight along the route are considered, the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation reports.

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the police detained about two dozen participants in the unauthorized opposition rally on the Square of the Revolution Fighters. According to RIA Novosti , police officers did not use force during the detention of the protesters - they were correctly taken by the arms and took them to the bus. The crowd attacked the calls of the detainees from the bus about support. The area was cordoned off by riot police. They, holding hands, replaced the demonstrators from her.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine may charge at least two members of the Central Election Commission, Ukrainian news agencies report. This was announced on Wednesday by Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin. According to him, "the prosecutor's office collected all the necessary evidence of their guilt." The surnames of the CEC members were not named, but the deputy prosecutor general made it clear that the ex-chairman of the CEC Sergey Kivalov could also be in the dock.

Margarita Udovichenko In the coming years, the reform of the Russian higher education system is planned. However, now there is an opinion that most universities may become victims of this transformation. First of all, we are talking about medical, pedagogical, agricultural and universities of culture, if the main criterion when changing the education system, as is now expected, will be the salary of graduates of a particular educational institution.

In Moscow, a "telephone terrorist", reporting the mining of the Belarusian station, was detained, RIA Novosti reports. As a source in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate said, the detainee is suspected of having repeatedly reported on Wednesday about an explosive device allegedly laid down on the territory of the Belarusian station.

Despite the brief appearance of the Pope John Paul II on Wednesday in the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, the health status of an 84-year-old pontiff, according to news agencies, continues to cause concern. Dad currently does not eat hard food, because due to Parkinson's illness it is difficult for him to swallow it.

The parliament of the Autonomous Territory Kosovo approved as the prime minister of the former activist of the student movement Bayram Kosumi, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Reuters. The 45-year-old Kosumi was replaced by Ramusha Haradinina, who resigned and went to the process on charges of war crimes, which is in the Hague Tribunal.

"The League of the Arab states is so far from some influence on the events taking place in the Arab East, not to mention the global scale, that the question of what the renewal of the" Arabic peaceful initiative "means only one response question can cause: why not?" Such an opinion following the results of the summit in Algeria Interview "Polit.ru" was expressed by the director of the Institute for the Study of Israel and the Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky.

In the near future, a bill will be submitted to the State Duma under which all autumn elections in Russia will be postponed to March. This was in an interview with the "independent newspaper" said the head of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov. All autumn elections in Russia will be moved to March next year. The head of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov is sure of this “90 percent”.

In the course of work in open space planned on March 28, the ISS salizhan Salizhan Sharipov will manually launched the Nanosat microsnutnik.

In Chechnya, the federal forces destroyed the leader from the closest encirclement of Basayev Rizvan Chitigov. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the representative of the regional operational headquarters for the management of the counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus. The special operation was carried out by employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Chitigov was liquidated in the Shali district of Chechnya.

During the break of the match of the Basketball Euroleague, the former captain of the Army football club Sergei Semak was awarded the fan prize - the Golden Podkova, RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti , RIA Novosti was awarded. This award goes to the best, based on the results of a survey of fans, the player of the CSKA football club for 2004. Semak, accepting the award, thanked the fans, saying that in his soul he would always remain an army.

On Wednesday, the Riga District Court decided to finish the organizers of the rally of the rally against school reform on March 5, RIA Novosti reports. According to the headquarters of the protection of Russian schools, the amount of the fine amounted to 50 lats ($ 100).

The scandal around the famous artist and illustrator Gerhardt Hiderer, who depicted Jimmy Hendricks friend, who had tipsy and indifferent to marijuana, the Guardian newspaper, who depicted in his recent series of illustrations of Jimmy Hendrian, is brewing. The multiplier is justified that he wanted to make a satire on religious performances.

The site "Cult.ru" today has begun the broadcast of the performance of George Tovstonogov "bourgeois" . In the format of the real format, the drama of the heroes of the Gorky play about the economic Vasily Besmenov and his unsettled children will be possible throughout the environment. The broadcast, which is conducted on the ground and satellite channels of the Internet, began at 10 am in Moscow. The site has been announced on the site for the beginning of each next show.