Today, the Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakli Distribvili demanded the closure of the Russian military base in the Abkhaz town of Gudauta, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Rustavi-2 television company. Earlier it was reported that on the night of March 25-26 in Abkhazia in the Gudauta district, an attack was attacked on the warehouse of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia. The minister said that, according to him, the Russian military inspired fire and wounded several Abkhazians.

National projects are stalled. This is the opinion of not only outside observers, but also of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, expressed by him at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects on February 28 of this year.

Today, at a meeting of the Simonovsky court, the prosecutor’s office repeatedly demanded to sentenced to nine years in prison with serving a sentence in a colony of general regime of the deputy head of the legal department of the company Yukos-Moscow Svetlana Bakhmin, RIA Novosti reports. The judicial investigation was resumed after representatives of the victim Sanheis Limited from Ireland filed a corresponding claim, which required compensation for more than 1 billion rubles.

The tough ideological censorship of the Soviet era created the phenomenon of independent historical knowledge that functioned in Samizdat and Tamizdat, from the historical and journalistic works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, etc.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** In Moscow: The first meeting of the Government Commission on the issues of the fuel and energy complex and the reproduction of the mineral resource base will be held. The commission will consider the issue of the state and prospects of the development of the domestic market of hydrocarbon raw materials and its processing products, including the petrochemical industry.

In the dispute around the stay of the Russian military bases on the territory of Georgia, it seems, a point has been set. The Commander -in -Chief of the Ground Forces of Russia Alexei Maslov and the first deputy minister of Georgian Defense Mamuk, Mamuk, was signed in Sochi on the procedure for the withdrawal of Russian bases located in Alkhalaki and Batumi. About three thousand military people are now serving there.

Vnukovo's capital airport resumed work as usual, RIA Novosti said on Friday. This morning it was reported that due to the strong fog in Moscow, the airports of the capital's Aeroine Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo were closed to 13.00 Moscow time, and Domodedovo Airport operates in normal mode. The 15 flights that followed in Sheremetyevo went to spare airfields, in particular to Nizhny Novgorod and Pulkovo.

Publishing house "New Literary Review" invites Mikhail Dolbilov and Alexey Miller to the presentation of the book "Western outskirts of the Russian Empire" April 6 at 18.00 club "Bilingua" (Krivokolenny lane, 10, building 5) The book by famous historians M. Dolbilov and A. Miller opens a new direction in the “Historia Rossica” series, a kind of microseries - “The Outskirts of the Russian Empire”, dedicated to the problem of alternative ways of forming nations.

From April 1, the law adopted by the city meeting will enter into force in Makhachkala, according to which all gambling establishments will be withdrawn outside the city, RIA Novosti reports. According to representatives of the city administration, only two casinos will continue to operate in the city, before the owners of which the condition is set - to coordinate the regime of their work with the city administration and remove all slot machines from their premises.

** Themes of the day ** The topic that fell on the first lanes of the central media is the government approval by the scandalous package of the recent amendments to the law "On Military Duty and Military Service" . The press notes that the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposals of the Ministry of Defense on the abolition of a number of deferrals from the draft (the military department came up with the initiative to cancel nine out of 25 current army deferrals).

On Thursday at night in the Persian Gulf, a vapor roller turned over, on board which, according to various information, was from 130 to 150 people. The ship was leased by a private Bahrain company for a corporate dinner. The catastrophe occurred about two kilometers from the coast of Bahrain, south of the Bridge of the Sheikh estate Caliph Ben Salman. The coast guard found out about what happened when a passenger of a drowning ship called them from a mobile phone.

The Board of Directors of the RAO UES of Russia determined the basic conditions for the participation of Hydogk OJSC in the corporate structure of the project of the Boguchansky Energy and Metallurgical Association (BEMO project), and also took into account information on the preparation of the partnership agreement between the RAO UES of Russia, OJSC Hydropol and OJSC RUSAL on the implementation of the project.

Today, the 60th is Arseniy Roginsky, one of the most striking independent historians of 1970-1980. Arseny Borisovich Roginsky was born on March 30, 1946 in the city of Velsk, Arkhangelsk Region, in exile. In 1956, the Roginsky family returned to Leningrad. In 1962-1968 Arseny Roginsky - student of the History and Philology Faculty of Tartu University, student of Yuri Lotman. Since 1965 he published articles and documents on the history of the Russian liberation movement of the 19th century.

The Estonian government approved the bill according to which fingerprints and the image of the owner’s face will be added to the passports, Gazeta.Ru reports. At the same time, it is planned to reduce the validity of personality certificates from the current ten to five years. Technically, this means that a microchip will appear in the documents, on which the image of the face and two fingerprints will be recorded.

The number of gas leakage from the area in the south-west of China today has reached 15 thousand people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Sinhua agency. At the same time, the Hong Kong media report that the increased content of hydrogen sulfide is observed within a radius of one kilometer from the mine where the leak occurred. Recall that on March 25, a gas leak was discovered at the gas field in the Kaysyan district.