The first national television channel of Belarus showed a plot on Sunday evening, which stated that the US Embassy in Minsk organized a spy network of citizens of the country under cover of the fight against terrorism. The plot said that the recruited Belarusians had to collect and transfer information to the FBI to use it to the detriment of the republic, reports Telegraph .

The publication of a mass of photographs taken at a meeting of Dmitry Medvedev with the leadership of the Public Chamber, again forced to think about some strange optionality of new Kremlin rule. Moreover, such optionality, which is almost specially directed by the current owner of the Kremlin, who is moving to the White House.

As a result of the explosions on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, 25 fuel trucks were destroyed, Gazeta.Ru reports. Cars were supposed to deliver fuel to American troops in Afghanistan. Explosions occurred at the customs post of Torkham. Trucks are completely destroyed. According to the local authorities, at least 50 people were injured as a result of the incident. The cause of the explosions is considered a version of the attack.

The Norwegian authorities detained the Russian fishing trawler of Coralness on suspicion of violation of the Rybolas Rules, the Russian BBC service reports. The Russian vessel was detained on the night of Sunday to Monday by the Ship of the Coast Guard of Norway and passed to the port of the city of Buda. “Coralnes” fished out in the Norwegian economic zone in the Restbankan area.

On the Kurils today there was an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale, reports Gazeta.ru . The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Pacific Ocean 90 km southeast of Kurilsk at a depth of 50 km. There is no information about victims and destruction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin planned the creation of a grand cemetery for statesmen. Last week, the bulldozers began to loosen the earth in the wasteland in one of the areas in the north of Moscow, where in the future Putin can be buried next to Stalin, writes The Daily Telegraph. The creators of the cemetery argue that the "Federal Military Memorial Cemetery" will be a Russian response to the American Arlington.

On March 20, the Russian State Holding Atomenergoprom and the Japanese Toshiba Corporation signed an agreement on the development of cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy, providing, in particular, preparation for cooperation in the design of nuclear power plants, the production and services of a nuclear fuel cycle. As Polit.ru already reported, in the future companies are counting on strategic partnership.

The population of France speaks out in favor of the political boycott of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This is evidenced by the results of polls published on Monday in Liberal and L'Equipe newspapers. According to the French Institute of Public Opinion, 54 percent of the French surveyed believe that "French sports leaders must boycott the opening ceremony." 60 percent of respondents spoke out against the idea of ​​a sports boycott of games.

By May 9, 2010, a grandiose cemetery for statesmen - the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery will be created in Mytishchi near Moscow. According to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph (full translation on infressa.ru ), this is perhaps the most ambitious architectural project since the collapse of the USSR. The creators of the cemetery say that this will be a Russian response to American Arlington.

In St. Petersburg, a European University should resume work today, reports Fontanka.ru . The rector Nikolai Vakhtin curled up about this at a meeting of the university listeners. On March 28, open -door day will take place. As Vakhtin noted, despite the closure of the university due to the instructions of the firefighters, classes in it were nevertheless conducted “over a cup of tea”, so according to him, the educational process goes almost on schedule.

Sergey Markedonov Over the past one and a half weeks, the prospects of political self -determination of three of the four existing unrecognized republics of Eurasia were in the focus of the attention of deputies of the Russian State Duma.

The Ministry of Economic Development increased the inflation forecast by 2008 from 8.5% to 9.5%, Prime-Tass reports. This was stated by the director of the combined department of macroeconomic forecasting of the Ministry of Economic Development Gennady Kuranov. The ministry also increased the assessment of the country's GDP growth by 2008 from 6.7% to 7.1%. The incomes of the population, according to the same estimates, will grow even more noticeable.

The State Duma officially identified the list of strategic industries. At the end of last week, the deputies adopted in the second reading the bill “On the procedure for implementing foreign investments in business companies, which are of strategic importance for ensuring the defense of the country and the security of the state”.

Sergey Mitrofanov The publication of a mass of photographs taken at a meeting of Dmitry Medvedev with the leadership of the Public Chamber, again forced to think about some strange optionality of new Kremlin rule. Moreover, such optionality, which is almost specially directed by the current owner of the Kremlin, who is moving to the White House.

According to the new bill of the Duma, the divisions of the Ministry of Defense are now allowed to track any movements of the draftees, which practically legalizes the practice of “capture” of the age -age guys, “New Izvestia” write. Young people of 18-27 years old will have to come to the military registration and enlistment office themselves and report on their departure from the place of residence for more than 15 days. If they do not do this, administrative measures will be applied to them.