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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The current chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov is considering a proposal to change work, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to Churov, the other day he received an offer to become the leader of one of the popular radio stations. “I will certainly think about this offer, especially since they pay much more there,” he said.

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.

The authorities of Ecuador said that they detained the five alleged militants of the Colombian armed group on their territory Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), BBC reports with reference to Gustav Larrea. According to him, all the alleged militants were detained while combing houses and farms located on the Ecuadal-Clombian border.

The Pentagon forbade the Google search engine to show three -dimensional images of national military bases. The incident occurred after Google Earth and Google Maps services, Fort Sam Houston database in Texas, appeared in the free access for users of the Google Maps. Using the Street View technology, any visitor could take a walk past the base in 3D mode and make out its gates, fences, entrances and outputs. The military department said that this threatens the country's national security.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Elections The CEC of Russia will summarize the official results of the presidential election. Israel-Palistine Pan Hi Moon resolutely condemned the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The UN Security Council could not condemn the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Russia regrets that the SB did not condemn the terrorist attack in Israel - Vitaly Churkin. The US President condemned the terrorist attack in the Judaist seminary.

In Brussels, an agreement was signed on the opening of the European Commission in Minsk, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Andrei Popov, from the Belarusian side the document was signed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Valery Voronetskiy, the agreement was signed by the European Commissioner Benit Ferherro-Waldner.