The biggest problem in all forecasting in the country is the lack of plans for Gazprom gas production. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, speaking at a government meeting with a report on the main parameters of the forecast of socio-economic development for 2008-2010, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the minister, “we still have no Gazprom natural gas production programs.

Direct negotiations between Belgrade and Protina about the future status of Kosovo ended to no avail. As the special envoy of the UN Secretary General Marty Akhtisaari told reporters, the parties failed to bring their diametrically opposite positions and reach an agreement during the negotiation process, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS.

On Friday in Kemerovo, Tatyana Zimfer and Lyubov Svirkov, shot down on the night of February 24 on the beach of the Pattaya resort (Thailand) were buried. The expenses for the funeral were taken by the administration of the Kemerovo region, RIA Novosti reports. In the ritual hall of the Kemerovo railway hospital, the abbot of the temple of the Icon of the Mother of God “Srown my sorrows” Archpriest Lyubomir Krokhtyak made the funeral of the dead.

** Joker "United Russia" ** The struggle between the clones of the "Party of Power" - "United Russia" and "Fair Russia" - is becoming more and more merciless. Last week, the press together commented on the creation of a single opposition front, headed by the Socialist -Revolutionaries in the Stavropol Territory, the purpose of which is the removal of the governor of the region Alexander Chernogorov, of course, a member of United Russia.

Today, the lower house of parliament has issued a vote of trust in the government and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, reports Reuters . The government crisis in Italy broke out after the country's parliament refused to support the foreign policy course of the government. It was about the participation of Italy in a military operation in Afghanistan.

The Parliament of Chechnya on Friday approved the vesting of Ramzan Kadyrov with the powers of the President of the Republic. 56 deputies out of 58 deputies spoke out for this decision. Two ballots were recognized as spoiled. Being young, ambitious and active, Ramzan Kadyrov can put Vladimir Putin in a very difficult situation, said the expert of the Moscow branch of the Carnegie Foundation Alexei Malashenko. “Putin understands that if not Ramzan, then everything can happen there (in Chechnya).

Representatives of the Islamist extremist group related to the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Network published a statement today claim that they stole 18 Iraqi civil servants, Associated Press reports. The statement of the group says that the abduction was a response to the rape of a police officer, Shiite on religion, a female guide that occurred last month. Other details have not yet been reported.

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The representative of the Legal Security team and activist of the thunderstorm (civilian united green alternative) Ivan Ninenko said that last night the police stopped and beat Dmitry Makarov (a member of the Legal Team - legal security team - youth human rights movement and the left anti -fascist front). The police "asked him to show his passport. He presented a document, but refused to show a residence permit, since only the district police officer has the right to do this.

The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case against the head of the administration of the Sosnovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region Alexander Malov in the fact of receiving a bribe, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports. In December 2006, a representative of a commercial company addressed Malov on the construction of a shopping center in the village of Sosnovsky.

Elections in Russia are always interesting, especially in Siberia, especially in some of its regions. So far, against the general background, the Omsk region is especially distinguished, there the election struggle unfolded in earnest: about the latest facts of bribery of voters, said the chairman of the Omsk Oblazbirkom - Alexander Kushnarev.

Today, at about 17.00, under unknown circumstances, the correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov was killed, RIA Novosti reports. Investigators suggest that the tragedy occurred as a result of an accident. “The investigation has the information that Safronov fell out of the window of the fifth floor of the house number 9, located on Nizhny Novgorod Street in the Central District of the capital,” the representative of the prosecutor's office said.

Mohammed al-Faid, Father Dodi al-Faida, who died with Princess Diana in a car accident in Paris, won a judicial dispute regarding the 1997 tragic investigation procedure, the BBC Russian service reports. Al-Faid, the owner of the Harrods London department store, protested the decision of the deputy royal coroner (special judge, whose duty is to clarify the causes of death under unusual or suspicious circumstances) of the Batler-Sloss baroness that she will conduct one hearing in this case.

Anatoly gypsy The past castling in the Russian government caused a lively discussion in society and the media. Naturally, the main attention was drawn to the two persons participating in the castling: Sergey Ivanov, the colonel general, the old-timer and the government veteran, and his shiftman, Anatoly Serdyukov, the reserve lieutenant, who took place at the prime minister’s table for the first time in the rank of Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The court of the Nizhny Novgorod district of Nizhny Novgorod issued an arrest of the deputy head of the regional branch of the Russian federal property (RFFI) Alexander Gorshkov, which was detained for receiving a bribe. This was reported by RBC with reference to law enforcement agencies. By a court decision, Gorshkov will stay under arrest until March 4.