A member of the Spanish ruling Socialist Party was shot dead near his house in the city of Mondragon in the Basque Country, Reuters reports. The murder occurred two days before the general elections in Spain. According to the representative of the Basque police, the 42-year-old Isayas Carrasco was a former member of the city council. He was shot dead in his neck - this style characteristic of this militants. So far, no one has taken responsibility for the murder of a politician.

The RAO RAO Commission "UES of Russia" recommended the board of directors to approve on June 6, 2008 as the date of closure of the register of shareholders of the RAO "UES of Russia" to complete the reorganization. The board of RAO "UES of Russia" will submit this issue for consideration by the Council on March 28, 2008. The owners of the shares of RAO "UES of Russia" will receive shares of the allocated companies on this date.

According to Reuters , researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany (Max Planck Institute in Germany) and the National Center for Scientific For Scientific Research in France found the second largest satellite of Saturn Roi. The discovery was made using the Cassini apparatus, which fixed the flow of electrons around the Rea and found that it was blocked by something.

On March 6, 2008, the Polit.ru, as part of the “Public Lectures”, was performed by the famous Russian political scientist, candidate of political sciences, professor of the faculty of political sciences and sociology of the European University in St. Petersburg Vladimir Gelman. His report “Transformation of the Russian Party System” aroused great interest to the audience. At the end of his hour, V.

The Russian Union of the Turin industry claims that there are no obstacles to the departure of tourists from the Indian resort Goa, this was stated by the press secretary of the Union Irina Tyurina, Echo Moscow reports. About her words, the Indian authorities allowed the Russians to fly away by regular flights of other companies after Krasaire canceled charter flights due to unloading aircraft and all tour operators were notified in advance about this.

According to the Sinhua Agency, Chinese specialists from the Shenzhen Institute of Genomics "Huada", as well as scientists from Canada, Great Britain, the USA, Denmark and other countries officially began to implement the international project "General Panda Gene". The task of the project is to read the sequence of DNA of the Big Panda and deciphering the resulting genetic information. In total, according to experts, the Big Panda has about 20-30 thousand genes.

In Moscow, the third secretary of the Embassy of Bulgaria Attache on science and education was worth the cost, the newspaper reports. Today, at about 10:00 Moscow time, the diplomat fell out of the window of the eighth floor of a residential building at 68 Mosfilmovskaya Street, in which the families of the embassy live. From injuries he died on the spot.

The former mayor of the city Yuri Aksenenko was arrested in Saratov - he is suspected of a large bribe, the newspaper reports. By a court decision, he is placed in a pre -trial detention center. Investigators claim that four years ago, Aksenenko received from a certain entrepreneur two three -room apartments in the center of Saratov for maintaining the right to lease on a land plot.

Sinterra holding can sell the largest in Russia the main Internet provider Rtkom.ru. The 68-percent package of the company will buy OJSC Rostelecom. On Wednesday, the board of directors of the television operator approved such a decision. According to the estimates of the top managers of Rostelecom at the end of 2007, the purchase of RTKMOM.ru shares can cost $ 47-61 million. The CEO of Sinterra Vitaly Slizen believes that the cost of the provider has increased recently.

The Minister of Regional Development of Russia Dmitry Kozak said that the resources of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia can be involved in the construction of Olympic objects in Sochi, news agencies report. This was the direct application of the Russian Federation’s decision to get out of the regime of economic sanctions against Abkhazia imposed in 1996.

On March 6, in Makhachkala at the substations of 110 kV KOMPAS, Novy, Vostochny, Primorskaya, GPP, belonging to Dagenergo OJSC, at the same time, at the same time, unknown persons in the amount of 50-70 people per each.

The Chita Regional Court sentenced the case of the robbery of the Sberbank branch in May last year, news agencies report. Then three people died and money and values ​​were stolen in the amount of 38 million rubles. One of the defendants, the organizer of the robbery, 44-year-old Konstantin Gudkov, on the account of which three murders, according to the jury, do not deserve condescension. The rest received from 8 to 13 years in prison.

Analytical Center Yuri Levada Moscow, st. Chernyakhovsky, 16; Phone: (495) 229-38-10; fax: (495) 229-38-25; E-mail: [email protected] On February 8-11, 2008, the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) conducted a representative of 1,600 Russians representative for the adult population of the country. The distribution of answers to several questions of the study is given as a percentage of the number of surveys along with similar data from earlier surveys.

Egypt is building a new wall on the border with Palestinian territories. According to AR , the height of the wall will be 4 meters. Watchtower will be every 100 meters. According to the authorities, this wall is necessary to prevent attempts to violate the Palestinian-Egyptian border by the Hamas militants. In January 2008, we will remind, the Hamas militants blew up the reinforced concrete barrier wall on the Palestinian-Segiptic border.

Deputy Alexander Koval (United Russia) introduced a bill allowing foreign insurers to open their branches in the Russian Federation to the State Duma, the Committee on Financial Markets told Interfax. The bill is amended by the law "On the organization of insurance business in the Russian Federation" and "On Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation".