In the east of Moscow, two police officers were injured during the detention of the alleged criminal, Gazeta.Ru reports. “In 1.30, the police officer at the house 91 on the Shchelkovo highway stopped to check the documents of two men. Suddenly, one of them grabbed the gun and fired several shots at the police. Two policemen were injured and were hospitalized, ”the source said.

Today, the Voronezh Regional Court convicted nine gang members, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. According to the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Mikhail Usov, in the period from 1998 to 2004 the gang committed more than 80 belonging to the category of serious and especially serious crimes, including 11 murders, over 15 robberies and 15 robberies, as well as thefts, theft of cars and damage to other people's property.

The signing of an agreement on the abolition of the visa regime between Russia and Israel is planned at 22.00 Moscow time, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. According to the General Director of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel, Shaul Tsemakh, today at 22.00 Moscow time in Israel, the agreement on the abolition of the visa regime between Russia and Israel should take place.

Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko himself could be poisoned by Polonia - this version is put forward by the correspondent of the American newspaper The New York Sun Edward Epstine. This is written by "News". Litvinenko participated in smuggling with this extremely dangerous substance. Earlier, among other assumptions about his death, such a version was already nominated. The newspaper correspondent decided to investigate the mysterious death of Litvinenko on November 23, 2006.

Vladimir Potanin was appointed General Director of HC Interros, the company's press service reports. In connection with the appointment of Andrei Klishas, ​​the general director of KM-Invest, Potanin took the position of General Director of Interros. The position of president of the company is abolished.

According to the Computer , Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosova, Institute of Software Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences and T-platforms company announced the completion of the construction of the Skif MSU supercomputer. To date, the Scythian MSU has become the most powerful supercomputer in Russia, the CIS countries and Eastern Europe. Its peak performance was 60 trillion operations per second (60 teraflops).

A fourth station will appear near the area of ​​three stations in Moscow, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Russian Railways and Transigups will cost more than $ 1 billion. The idea of ​​the project is to build a new transport hub on the basis of the Kalanchevskaya station in the area of ​​three stations, connecting it with all three airports in Moscow. From the new station, passengers will be able to get to the three largest airport in the capital: Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo.

Employees of Nestle confectionery in Perm will enter the rally on March 22 with a demand to raise their salary by 21.5%. They will also demand “conducting real, conscientious negotiations with the trade union and compliance with the rights of the trade union guaranteed by Russian and international law,” ITAR-TASS reports. If the requirements are not heard, the trade union intends to picket the headquarters of Nestle in Moscow. This is the second protest on Nestle over the past three months.

** Themes of the day ** One of the main topics covered in today's issue of central newspapers is the meeting of the elected president D. Medvedev with the leadership of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the eve of the Kremlin . The media note that D. Medvedev’s conversation with OP members lasted more than two hours. At the same time, the stated topic on the long -term development strategy of the country until 2020 was safely forgotten. D.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained the son of high -ranking officials, who is suspected of a series of rape of children, news agencies report. 19-year-old suspect Sergey S. was detained by employees of the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod on Tuesday. The detainee is a student of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. R.E. Alekseeva (NSTU).

The Frenchwoman suffering from an incurable and progressive disease on Wednesday evening was found dead at home in the city of Slombier-Le-Digon. The reasons for the death of the 52-year-old Shantal Sebir, who asked the French authorities to allow her euthanasia, will become, known on Thursday after the necessary tests, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing the France-Info radio station.

The police officer of the Ust-Kamchatka District was detained on suspicion of shelling the car of the deputy prosecutor of the inter-district prosecutor and arson of the patrol machine, Gazeta.Ru reports. On the night of Sunday to Monday, the Ust-Kamchatsk district center, the building of the district administration and the prosecutor’s office, parked near the Ust-Kamchatka Prosecutor, was fired from the gun.

The mayor of Elista Radiy Burulov is accused of abuse of authority, a criminal case was brought against him, Echo of Moscow reports. The Investigative Department of Russia at the Kalmykia prosecutor’s office claims that Burulov violated the law when concluding a municipal contract for the supply of goods to the city, thereby damage to him 698 thousand rubles.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Thursday included a bill on the agenda regarding the restriction of deputy inviolability and appealed to the Constitutional Court for the examination of this document, RBC-Ukraine reports. All deputies from the coalition voted for this decision: 156 from the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and 70 parliamentarians from the pro -presidential block "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense". The deputies from the opposition did not vote under this bill.

Serbian President Boris Tadic, at the proposal of the government of the republic, dissolved the assembly (parliament) and scheduled early parliamentary elections for May 11, which will be held simultaneously with the elections to regional and local authorities scheduled in December 2007. In connection with the dissolution of the Assembly, the mandate of the government formed by it, which did not last even a year, also ends.