In August 2005, the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia signed an agreement, marking the beginning of the formation of the Commonwealth of Democratic Choice, which would unite the countries of the Baltic-Black Sea-Caspian region. At the same time, the first joint military exercises between Russia and China in modern history were held.

The day after the KGB of Belarus announced the disclosure of the opposition’s conspiracy against Alexander Lukashenko, Alexander Kozulin candidate was beaten and detained in Minsk. This happened when he appeared with his five single -party people in the Palace of Culture of the railway workers to register as a delegate of the All -Belorussian People’s Assembly. The delegate of the meeting of Kozulin was nominated by the Belarusian Social Democratic Party of the Gramada.

First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, by the will of nature, seems to become the curator of another national project. Created on the initiative of Vladimir Putin to the Government Headquarters to counteract the bird flu, which Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, hesitantly instructed his deputy, would have to work hard to protect the lines of the Fatherland from the hordes of migratory birds that carry the H5N1 virus in the coming months.

In Jordan, two Iraqis and one Libyan were arrested on suspicion of preparing the terrorist attack, representatives of the country's power structures reported the day before. According to reports, militants, who are members of one of the cells of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Group, planned to commit a terrorist attack on one of the “important civil objects” in the capital of the country of Ampman, reports RBC with reference to the Associated Press.

The continuation of the negotiations of the convergence of Serbia and Montenegro with the European Union, scheduled for April 5, will not take place if Belgrade does not fulfill his obligations to the Hague tribunal to issue Ratko Mladic before this period. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro Vuk Drashkovich after a meeting with the head of the diplomatic department of the Federal Republic of Germany Francom-Valter Steinmeier, on a visit to Serbia.

In Latvia, a court hearing was held on the claim of the Russian -speaking citizen Ruslan Pankratov, who asked him to allow him to official his surname without the distortions accepted according to the norms of the Latvian language. The lawsuit Pankratov was refused, the Echo of Moscow reports. According to the rules of the Latvian language, the letter “C” is added to the masculine names at the end, and to the female “A” or “E”.

The Government of Estonia on Thursday approved the amendment to the law "On holidays and commemorative dates", which announces on September 22 "Day of memory of the deprivation of the period of occupation." According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the government, all three ruling parties came up with the law: the Center, reformist and People’s Union.

Yesterday, a press conference was held in Murmansk, which was held by Governor Yuri Evdokimov. The topic of the conversation announced in advance “On the role of Apatit OJSC” in the socio-economic life of the region, about the importance of interaction with the enterprise of the Government of the Murmansk Region, as well as in connection with numerous publications about Apatit OJSC in the local and central press, ”many reporters of the region’s media journalists. Read more about this

The chairman of the KGB of Belarus Stepan Sukhorenko yesterday said that his department revealed the conspiracy of the radical opposition, which aimed at the force of power seizure of power in the country after the presidential election on March 19. This statement confirmed the suspicions expressed by representatives of the Belarusian opposition: the detection of the fake protocols of Exit Polls was conceived precisely in order to charges her of preparing the "Orange Revolution".

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation today recognized as invalid the rules of the internal routine of correctional institutions that determine the procedure for the date of lawyers with convicts. Thus, the court satisfied the complaint of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who insisted on recognizing this norm illegal and invalid.

In the Ligurian city of San Remo, opposite the Ariston Theater, where the Italian Song Festival is taking place, journalists hold a protest demonstration.

The British Police brought three detainees to involvement in one of the largest robberies in the history of the country. According to Skynews, 57-year-old John Foster is charged with a conspiracy to rob and abduct people. 47-year-old John Royley is also accused of conspiracy to rob. The detained 39-year-old Kim Shakelon is accused of storing the stolen one, writes Gazeta.ru .

The Parliament of Latvia once again rejected the proposal of the left opposition on the recognition of March 8 by an official holiday, RIA Novosti reports. The vote failed due to the lack of a quorum - 36 deputies voted for "for", against 23, and another 22 abstained. To make a decision, it was necessary that a positive decision of at least 50 deputies.

Marat Sultanov was elected new chairman of the Kyrgyzstan parliament, RIA Novosti reports. For his candidacy, 45 deputies out of 59 parliament at the meeting voted. On Tuesday, February 28, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan, according to the results of three rounds of voting, could not choose a new speaker. The deputy Kubatbek Baybolov gained on the third tour gained 34 votes out of 62 possible, before he was elected four votes.

"The prosecutor’s office qualifies the actions of Kozulin in the Palace of Culture of the Railway Workers in Minsk as a gross violation of administrative legislation, and it will be held administratively liable," Andrei Swede, the head of the legal support, information and public relations department of the prosecutor's office, told Interfax .