The US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice, who visited Baghdad, asked the Iraqi authorities to postpone the trial of Saddam Hussein, RIA Novosti reports. Rice believes that holding a trial over the former Iraqi leader will now lead to an increase in tension in the country, will negatively affect the situation in the field of security.

Recent events in Uzbekistan have shown that there will be no peaceful scenario for a change of power in this post-Soviet republic. Moreover, now, after armed clashes in which hundreds of people became victims, it has become clear that the “Kyrgyz option” will not work here either.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin will instruct the Ministry of Economic Development to develop proposals for the protection of the rights of minority shareholders affected by privatization. The head of state said this, completing a working trip to the Chelyabinsk region. ** Scandals and incidents. Rumors ** The announcement of the sentence to M. Khorkovsky and P. Lebedev will continue on May 18.

The American Mark Railway Opportunity, tied in the sand two weeks ago, gradually overcomes this obstacle, the newspaper reports. Ru , citing Associated Press. The representative of NASA Mark Maymon said that over the weekend, the Mars -Road overcame 4.6 cm, which is considered "great progress". The Opportunity and Spirit Mars -Roads have been working on Mars since January 2004. They conduct geological research in order to find evidence that there was once water on Mars.

Grigory Gritsenko Hot events in Uzbekistan forced to take a closer look at the economic side of the issue. This state is one of the few in the post -Soviet space, in which the project of separation from the Great Empire and the creation of an independent state more or less turned out. As a rule, when it comes to the republics of the former USSR, the concepts of “national minorities” and “economic devastation” immediately pop up.

The most valuable collection of microfilms of the newspapers of the Russian abroad will be transferred by television agent Alexander Eidelman as a gift to the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg), Radio Culture reports. The Eidelman collection is a collection of microfilms of Russian newspapers from the Funds of the National Library of France.

We publish a complete transcript of the lecture of the 13th world chess champion, politics, chairman of the “Committee-2008” Harry Kasparov , read on May 12, 2005 in the club-the literary cafe Bingua as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru. Harry Kasparov recently announced the completion of his chess career and that he was going into politics.

On May 17, Tuesday - in the bookstore of the Bilingual club, Dmitry Bykov will present his new book “The tow truck” (Vagrius, 2005). Start at 19:00. On the "other stage" of the theater, a contemporary in the framework of the " cherry forest " festival will show the performance "Autumn of our spring" of the Puppet Theater Rezo Gabriadze. Start at 20:30.

In the United States, the trial of Sabrina Harman has been completed - a jury found her guilty of violating the rights of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison, Ekho Moskvy reports. The girl was accused of abusing prisoners. Harman faces a sentence of 5.5 years in prison. She is charged with conspiracy, dereliction of duty and mistreatment of subordinates.

Holding Interros is negotiating with the German concern Siemens on the sale of a blocking package (25%) of the shares of the Russian Energy Machine -Building Company Power Machines. For the leadership of power machines, cooperation with Siemens is the possibility of a technological breakthrough, while with power engineers and, moreover, aluminists, the search for a common language will be difficult, the analytical department of IGS "STM" believes.

The Prime Minister of Latvia Aigar Kalvitis said in an interview with SWH radio about the need to verify the conditions in which the border with Russia was developed by the former governments. According to the Prime Minister, the contract does not comply with the Constitution of Latvia, RIA Novosti reports. "I do not understand why the contract was parafated, although it did not meet the Constitution of Latvia," Kalvitis said.

The authorities decided to strengthen security measures taken to the Beshchansky Court building, where the sentence of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MFI Menatep Plato Lebedev, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax, is being announced. 10 buses arrived with riot police. Only police officers near the court of the court are about 500 people. Metal fences are exhibited on both sides of the court building.

In Ukraine, there is no list of enterprises that are subject to reprivatization, said Minister of Economics of Ukraine Sergey Terekhin, RIA Novosti reports. He said this on Tuesday, answering the question of journalists about the so-called "list of Kinakh", in which, according to the First Deputy Prime Minister, 29 enterprises are included, the legitimacy of the privatization of which the government questioned.

“Not the Maidan, but the Maidan. Dytyachny,” I sent SMS to my Kyiv friend. And the truth is a picket near the philistine court in support of the arrested Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, somewhat reminiscent of Kyiv events. Not meaning, not by the result, and of course not by the number of people, but exclusively by drive and enthusiasm. This was probably the most fun and interesting rally for all the years of Putin's rule. There was little people in truth, 900 people from the strength.

"The Yukos oil company again protest against the ongoing unreasonable accusations against corporate management and management procedures, the RU newspaper reports with reference to Interfax. In addition, the company again confirms that its employees, many of whom are abroad due to false accusations or imprisoned in Russian prisons, have never violated the law in the performance of their duties in Yukos, the Yukos official statement said.