Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov handed the FSB director to Nikolai Patrushev a symbolic key to the new building of the FSB department in Moscow and the Moscow Region, reports “ Newsru.com ” with reference to Interfax.

As a result of a collision of a tourist bus with a truck in the south-west of Iran, 27 people died last night, news agencies report. The incident occurred on the road connecting the city of Dehdez and Iza 450 kilometers southwest of the capital of Tehran. According to eyewitnesses, a group of school workers who examined the places of battles during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 was on the bus. The tourist bus crashed into a truck, and then turned over and caught fire.

By 24 years of imprisonment, an American citizen of Chinese origin for espionage in favor of the PRC was sentenced, NEWSRU reports. This decision was made by the US Federal District Court in the city of Santa-Ana (California), without healing the calls of the 67-year-old defendant Chi Mac to show condescension.

Tatyana Kosinova On March 21, 2008, the European University in St. Petersburg was able to resume its activities. On this day, the Federal Judge of the Dzerzhinsky Court of St.

The head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Alexei Fedorov, for the first time officially recognized the possible delay in the supply of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ) -a high -profile project of the Russian Civil Aviation Protection worth $ 1.4 billion. The delay periods are not called, but, according to Kommersant experts, it can be a year and a half.

The new Governor of New York, the blind African American David Paterson admitted that he used drugs several times in his youth. The 53-year-old governor said in an interview that at the age of 22-23 he tried cocaine, and at the age of 20-marijuana. Since then, according to Paterson, he did not take drugs, reports the Associated Press. This is the second “bomb” from Paterson.

On March 24 at 19:30, at a turn in the village of Bammatbecurt in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, unknown people fired a car with the traffic police department of the police department in the Khasavyurt district, REGNUM reports. “Firing at police officers was conducted from automatic weapons, presumably two unknown. As a result, the ensign of the police died. Major of the police and another warrant officer was wounded. They were taken to the city hospital in Khasavyurt.

The leadership of the Belarusian KGB does not confirm the information about the existence of a spy network in the republic widespread by the first national television channel in Belarus. As the head of the Center for Public Relations and Information of the KGB Valery Nadtochaev stated, he does not know anything about the existence of such a network, Telegraph reports.

Since the summer of 2008, it will be possible to replenish the contactless card for travel by public transport in Moscow using round -the -clock terminals in which the services of mobile communications and the Internet are paid, Lenta.ru reports.

The Ministry of Industry and School approved in mid -March the schedule for the first stage of the VSU in the IV quarter of 2009, a source in the Ministry of Industry and Trade told Vedomosti . Transneft asked to transfer the deadline for the completion of the VSO from December 2008 to the IV quarter of 2009 at the end of last year, when it became obvious that the construction was lagging behind the schedule.

Twelve years ago at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Lomonosov for the first time was held by the International Scientific Conference on the Culture of the XVIII century, organized by the professor of the Department of History of Foreign Literature N.T. Pakhsaryan .

The murder of five -year Polina Malkova, which caused a wide public resonance, which occurred in Krasnoyarsk a year ago, was disclosed. As the head of the Investigative Department of the IC at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Volkov, yesterday, on suspicion of murder, a 35-year-old man, who also resides in the Kirovsky district, was detained, Siberian Agency of News reports.

The 100th years today marks the oldest counterintelligence of Russia, a resident of Ulyanovsk Maria Levina, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to the Federal Security Service of the UFSB in the Ulyanovsk Region. Maria Timofeevna Levina is a veteran of the state security organs, a participant in the defense of Leningrad. When the war began, she was called up to serve in counterintelligence in a special set.

The National Army of the Development of the Comor Islands, led by the President of the Comorian Union, Ahmed Abdalla Mohamed Sambi and the military personnel of the African Union, seized the capital and airport of the rebellious island of Njuani during the morning armed conflict, reports Gazeta.Ru . Recall that the president of the Union of Comor Islands Ahmed Abdalla Mohammed Samba gave the army an order to remove the “illegal regime” of Colonel Mohammed Bakar.

The Belarusian opposition today will hold a mass action dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Belarusian People's Republic, reports Echo of Moscow . The leading Belarusian politicians and public representatives confirmed their participation in the action, which will begin at 18 o’clock on Yakub Kolas Square. All the leaders of the existing opposition parties and the movements of Belarus plan to come to the action "Volya Day".