Today, the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy will discuss the progress of the national project “Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex”. According to First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, the main issue at the council will be the formation of a state program for the development of agriculture, RIA Novosti reports .

Indian troops shot dead militant Abu Shaheen in the forests of Kashmir, Reuters reports . Police believe he led the Kashmiri Islamist group Harakat-um-Mujahideen. Abu Shaheen was killed in a shootout with police and military in the Kupwara district, 90 kilometers north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, police said. Another militant was also killed in the shootout, and three soldiers were wounded. Abu Shaheen is the third senior separatist killed in Kashmir in recent weeks.

Yesterday, a working meeting was held by the chairman of the board of Gazprom OJSC Alexei Miller and the chairman of the board of OJSC RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, the press release of energy holding said.

In recent years, member of the Public Chamber Kamilzhan Kalandarov has become more and more vocal about his human rights work, especially in the Muslim community. Before joining the OP, Kalandarov positioned himself for a long time as a champion of freedoms. He proclaims himself the director of the so-called Institute of Human Rights, then the head of the human rights organization Al-Haq (Justice), then the head of the all-Russian movement “Our Russia”.

During an explosion in a cafe in 70 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, the city of Blad-Ruz of the Iraqi province of Dihyal died at least 30 people, AP reports with reference to a source in the Iraqi special services. The explosive device was driven by a suicide bomber. Dozens of people were injured. At the same time, according to the head of the city of the city of Faris El -Umayri, 26 people were killed, 25 were injured.

Sergey Markedonov Against the background of personnel permutations in the highest echelons of the Russian authorities, as well as numerous discussions about the geopolitical consequences of the “Munich speech” by Vladimir Putin in the relative shadow, the so -called “Russian project” of “United Russia” remained. Such inattention to the next ideological initiative of the Party of Power can be explained by a number of reasons.

In Paris, the famous French philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard, died in Paris. He was sick for a long time and seriously, he was 76 years old. The worldview of Bodriyar was formed during the student unrest of May 1968. The main topics of the philosopher’s research were issues of the ratio of reality and its symbolic reflection. In his works, Bodrian often turned to the analysis and criticism of the modern media.

The company "Komstar-United Teleessystems" will build a Wi-Fi wireless access network in the Moscow metro. Having invested $ 300 thousand at the first stage of the project, the operator will be able to earn on it up to $ 200 thousand per year. Analysts say that the Komstara project meets global trends: Wi-Fi networks are now being built in many European metro. Competitors consider the construction of Wi-Fi networks underground unpromising.

The militants killed 112 Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbela on Tuesday, reports Reuters with reference to police sources. Not far from the city of El Hill, two suicide fighters entered the roadside tent, killing 77 and injuring 125 people, the police said. The pilgrims gathered inside the tent to eat and relax in their way to Karbel. According to the police, 237 pilgrims were injured in total.

In St. Petersburg, five teenagers were detained, threatening to blow up the McDonald's cafe, in which six people were injured about two weeks ago during the explosion. This was stated in the press service of the UVO at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, RIA Novosti reports.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** A meeting of the Presidential Council on the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy was held in the Kremlin. Opening the meeting, V. Putin said that there are two most important topics on the agenda of the meeting. These are urgent tasks in the field of demography, as well as in many respects the question of improving life in the village, improving its quality and developing the rural economy.

Tatarstan refuses to send draftees to dysfunctional units, reports Echo of Moscow . Local human rights activists sent Tatarstan to the military commissar of Tatarstan Sergey Pogodin a list of military units in which military personnel were injured. It includes, in particular, the Totsky military garrison of the Orenburg region, Kronstadt of the Leningrad Region, the military unit "Sosnovy Bor", the village of Star Perm Territory.

Near the Iraqi city of Alastan, a helicopter of the Georgian airline Tusheti fell. On board the helicopter were three crew members and passengers - residents of Iraq, reports News -Georgia . Type and spaciousness of the helicopter is not reported. According to preliminary data, passengers were not injured, only pilots who are citizens of Ukraine received light bodily harm. Both pilots and passengers are currently in the American military hospital.

Analytical Center Yuri Levada Moscow, st. Chernyakhovsky, 16; Phone: (495) 229-38-10; fax: (495) 229-38-25; E-mail: [email protected] On February 16-20, 2007, the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) conducted a representative survey of 1600 Russians at the age of 18 years and older than 128 settlements of 46 regions of the country. The statistical error of such polls does not exceed 3%. Could you say, March 8 for you - this ...?

Emil Dabagyan "The United States forgot about their southern neighbors." This thought became clicked, it does not leave the pages of the press. Indeed, involved in Iraq and Afghanistan, focused on the fight against international terrorism, they have recently paid little attention to Latin America. This does not mean that the current owner of the White House has not been there.