At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the first Kazakhstani telecommunication satellite KazSAT, assembled at the Russian State Space Center named after M.V. Khrunicheva. Containers with the device were delivered by an airplane from the Moscow Region, where the satellite tests were tested and tested.

The only accused in the case of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Tyzarias Musai, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thus, the requirement of the prosecution representatives who achieved for the defendant of the death penalty was rejected. Before making such a decision, the jury of the Federal Court of Alexandria (Virginia) - nine men and three women - conferred 40 hours within seven days.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Samara ordered the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation to pay a resident of the city of Galina Elovsky compensation for non -pecuniary damage in the amount of five thousand rubles. Elovsky’s lawsuit was partially satisfied, the originally claimed amount of the claim was ten thousand rubles. Today's court decision will be appealed.

In St. Petersburg today, the VII International Theater Festival "Rainbow" starts on the stage of the Bryantsev Young Spectator (TSUZ). He will open his performance, the winner of the " Golden Mask " - " Between the dog and the wolf" by A. Sokolov, who was staged in the formal theater, director Andrei Mogelny, RIA Novosti reports. Three Moscow teams will take part in the festival program.

The adviser to the head of the RAO UES of Russia Valery Pasata is charged today in the framework of the second criminal case, RIA Novosti reports. The Prosecutor General of Moldova on February 14, 2006 opened a criminal case against him under the articles “seizure of state power” and “preparing a deliberate murder in order to promote another crime”. Such accusations provide for a punishment from 25 years to life imprisonment.

A fire in a warehouse of paintwork in Moscow is extinguished, RIA Novosti was told in the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the city. The fire arose at about 9:35 in the building at the Skotoprogonnaya street, house 35. According to preliminary data, the premises belongs to the Moscow factory Mostrazmash. About 15 fire combustions took part in the extinguishing. The total fire area was about 50 square meters. There are no victims.

The famous KVN, Arthur Tumasyan, was killed in a plane crash , the KVN for all website reports. This is a member of the famous KVN team "New Armenians", one of the authors of the popular Comedy Club show. Arthur is very famous among KVNSHANS and show business. The Krasnoyarsk “Left Bank” also worked with him. According to the Krasnoyarsk KVN, Arthur was a cheerful cheerful person and a talented screenwriter.

Today, at a meeting of the Tallinn City Board, the National Radical Party faction of the Union of the Fatherland demanded to remove a monument to the Soviet warrior-liberator from the center of Tallinn and the ashes of the dead soldiers there, RIA Novosti reports. The faction of the Union of the Fatherland has introduced a bill to dismantle the monument, and the remains there are reburied in other cemeteries.

Last night, at the 74th year of his life, a prominent Russian scientist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dean of the Mechanical and Mathematics faculty of Moscow State University, Oleg Borisovich Lupanov, died, Echo of Moscow reports. Lupanov led the faculty for the past 26 years. The scientist died at a working post - in his office in the main building of Moscow State University.

Specialists from France working in the A-320 airliner falling area found a weak radio beacon signal, possibly emanating from one of the aircraft devices, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies told RIA Novosti. Radio beacons are usually equipped with on -board recorders - “black boxes”. Specialists of the French group began to look for “black boxes” with the help of the special equipment brought from this morning.

The Bank of Russia withdrew a license to carry out banking operations by LLC KB Neftyanaya. As stated in today's report, the Central Bank considered it impossible to satisfy the petition of the Oil Bank to cancel the license in the order of voluntary liquidation due to the presence of grounds for recalling a license.

Anatoly gypsy In May, Russia will celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. However, so far there are many white spots in the public consciousness in the history of the war, and there is still a circle of problems that they try not to remember. This is the topic of mass political, emigrant and religious collaboration, not characteristic of the Russian people. This page of our history is not sufficiently studied, and myths should still be debunk about this.

The family of each A-320 Armenian Airlines died in the disaster of about $ 20 thousand, said the head of Armavia Armavia Mikhail Bagdasarov. “The plane and passengers were insured by the Armenian company, which, in turn, reinsured her risks in London. The family of each of the dead will be paid about $ 20 thousand, ”Bagdasarov said in an interview with the first channel of Armenian television.

In Moscow , Russian-Ukrainian negotiations began on the functioning of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The Russian part of the subcommission is headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin, Ukrainian - the first deputy head of the Foreign Ministry Vladimir Ogryzko. According to Karasin, on the revision of the lease and the amount of the rent of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, “there can be no question”.

Masha Allen, adopted in 1998 in Russia, told the American Congress how in the USA it became a victim of a rapist. Masha outlined this story in written testimony before the Congress and Trade Congress Committee, RIA Novosti reports. As they say on the Masha website on the Internet, her real name is Maria Yasenkova. At three years old, she got into the orphanage after her mother tried to kill her.