The most important event of the month in the CIS will be the election of the President of Belarus on March 19. The election of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, with all the change in the alignment of political forces in Ukraine, is unlikely to change something. The campaign in Ukraine is noisy and bright, unlike Belarus, but it will not be able to change the vector of development of the country.

The largest American radio conglomerate Entercom Communications took money for playing songs on the radio from recording studios, New York prosecutor Eliot Spitzer claims. He launched an official investigation into bribes from record labels (called payola - pay for play) to employees of Entercom Communications, which operates more than 105 American radio stations. The cost of playing the song once on the radio was about $1,000 (£575), the prosecutor said.

Measures are being taken in Bashkiria to prevent the ingress of more than 8 hectares of oil products into water bodies, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. As reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Bashkiria, in the Tuymazinsky district of Bashkiria, where on March 8, a breakthrough of the main oil pipeline occurred, part of the oil product fell into the Bishinsky River, on which there are no water intakes.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** The presidents of the Russian Federation and Algeria V. Putin and A. Butheflik held negotiations, during which regional problems, issues of military-technical cooperation, as well as the problem of Algerian duty to the Russian Federation were discussed. ** Government of the Russian Federation ** The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation , M.

**March 13, Monday** The main events: As part of the meeting of energy ministers of the G8 countries (to be held on March 16), a two-day International Conference on Energy Security will open.

In two prefectures of Japan, a group of six and three people committed collective suicide, RIA Novosti reports. According to the chief police department, this morning passers -by a small town in the prefecture in sites in the center of the main island of Honsu discovered a minibus with sealed windows and closed doors. Arriving at 09.15 local time (03.15 Moscow time), the police officer opened the car and found five men and one woman, suffocating from exhaust gases.

Today it became known that the resolution of the Mayor Yuri Luzhkov approved the composition of the special commission to combat bird influenza and the plan for preparing for the possible Pandemia and Panzooty of the influenza in Moscow, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

In Denmark on Friday, a conference will be held dedicated to the resolution of the crisis around the publication of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad, published by the Danish newspaper Yullands-Posten and reprinted by some European newspapers. The direct organizer of the conference is the Danish Institute of International Studies with the support of the Denmark of Denmark.

** The next triumph of mediation ** The federal media with great excitement “grabbed” for the development of the situation around the debts of the Russian state of the Swiss company Noga, which was made by the French edition of Russia Intellegence: Russian banker Vladimir Kogan bought the debt obligations of Russia with a total of about 70 million dollars. True, the details that appeared later painted a different picture. It turned out that, firstly, the former head of the St.

Today in RIA Novosti a press conference was held on the creation of a new media holding - the European media group (EMG). President of EMG Georges Polinski (representative of the French media Lagarder group), who founded the Retro Plus and Retro FM radio stations 17 years ago, announced the purchase of four new radio stations. Now the new holding, in addition to Europe Plus and Retro FM, will include Moscow stations Radio 7 and Melody and two stations in St.

At the weekend, the Atlantic atmospheric Front will replace frosty sunny weather in the capital, which will bring warm air with it. If March 10 is still clear and quite cold - up to –5 degrees during the day and –11 degrees at night, then by the morning of March 11 it will warm up to 0 degrees Celsius, it will be cloudy and precipitation will fall. On Sunday night, it will be relatively warm - not lower than –4 degrees, and during the day the temperature will rise to +2.

According to the results of the All -Ukrainian survey of the population, to take part in the elections to the Supreme Council of Ukraine, which should be held in March 2006, 66 percent of respondents gather. “Most likely, yes,” 22, 6%answered, it found it difficult to answer - 2.6%, “most likely no” - 4.1%, 4, 6%are not going to participate.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, answering a question on the air of Russia Today about measures to prevent hazard in the army, said that he did not consider the military police a "magical medicine" from hazing. "As for the military police, first of all, the military police are not a magical medicine to solve this problem. It is not about whether we will create a military police or not.

Employees of the department for combating the extremism of the ATB of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Yaroslavl region detained the ex-head of the regional department of the Russian National Unity movement Vyacheslav Morozov on the street in Yaroslavl, who had two combat grenades in the bag. “We have long tracked the activities of Vyacheslav Morozov, who tried to buy weapons and ammunition more than once. When this happened, he was detained and sent to the pre -trial detention center.

An independent examination conducted by the order of Nature magazine again confirmed that the Afghan Borza Snappy, created by Korean scientist Khun at the juice and his group, is indeed a clone. As we reported, at the end of last year, during the investigation undertaken by the administration of the National University of Seoul (Seoul National University), Professor Khvan was convicted of tapping the results of his sensational experiments to cloning human stem cells.