Former American astronauts told the Air Force about their indignation in connection with the decision of US President Barack Obama to moth the Moon program of NASA. Jim Laul, miraculously surviving the commander of the unsuccessful lunar expedition of the Apollo-13 ship, said that the rejection of the lunar program would have "catastrophic consequences" for the entire complex of American space research.

The bodies of six natives of Penza were found in one of the apartments on the fifth floor of a multi -storey residential building in the city of Astrakhan. “Six men aged 25 to 45 were killed, who worked legally under an employment contract,” said Igor Kuznetsov, head of the investigation department in the Kirovsky district of Astrakhan.

About 30 workers leading the construction of houses for immigrants in Sochi continue the strike, despite the threats of the ACHO MOSCOW radio station, one of the participants in the action of Ascorbius Tseev told about this radio station. According to him, the chief engineer of Olympstroy the day before demanded that the builders free the wagons they occupy. Some workers were frightened that they would be evicted and as a result began to work.

Russian Vitaly Petrov first took part in the qualifications of the Formula 1 Grand Prix. As part of the qualification of the Grand Prix of Bahrain, our compatriot, playing for the Renault team, left after the second segment and occupied a 17-month. It is from this position that he starts on Sunday in the main race of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The best time of the circle showed by Petrov is 1: 56.619.

Former US Secretary of State 87-year-old Henry Kissinger was hospitalized in the capital of South Korea Seoul. He was taken to the hospital of the University of Yonsey at night with complaints of pain in the stomach. According to one of the members of the medical staff of the hospital, the life of Kissinger is out of danger, his condition is stable and does not cause serious fears

In the south of Moscow, the communal service workers staged a fight. About 40 people participated in the battle. Shovels and scraps were used, Life News reports. Despite the use of the weapons of labor as weapons, the publication notes. The causes of the conflict are not reported.

Today, on the eve of a single voting day, any political agitation is prohibited. The "Day of Silence" is given so that voters can once again consider their decision without any influence or pressure from the outside. On Sunday, in 76 regions of the country, more than six thousand elections of different levels and referenda will be held.

If the Russian language is introduced in Ukraine as a second state, then it can supplant Ukrainian, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vladimir Litvin believes. According to him, the Russian language is more competitive, reports the Air Force . "I am against the oppression of the Russian language, but I am against the fact that we calmly look at the decline of the Ukrainian.

Russian Roman Pavlyuchenko distinguished himself in the next match for Tottenham. In the meeting of the 30th round of the championship of England against Blackburn, the forward of the Russian national team held two goals, although he could have arranged three-after one of Pavlyuchenko’s strikes, the defender of Blackburn knocked out the ball from the gate line. The match ended with the score of 3: 1 against Tottenham.

March 19, 2010 in the central house of a writer at the address: st. B. Nikitskaya D.53 will be held the evening of the memory of Yegor Gaidar and the exhibition dedicated to his birthday. At the evening of the memory, A. Auzan, N. Boltyanskaya, A. Herber, L. Gozman, Yu. Gusman, V. Dashkevich, V. Rofeev, I. Irteniev, Yu. Kim, B. Snemtsov, N.Swanidze, E. Sidorov, E. Yasin and other public and political figures. The beginning is at 19.00. Free admission

The Russian biathletist Olga Zaitseva took second place in the sprint race at the seventh stage of the World Cup. The stage takes place in Contiolati (Finland). Our compatriot did not allow a single miss, but she overcame the distance of 7.5 kilometers in the loss of Belarusian Daria Domracheva, who took first place. The loss was 8.4 seconds. The bronze medal was won by German Katya Wilhelm, who lost 13.5 seconds. None of the winners allowed a single miss.

Somali pirates tried to capture the German containers "Lubeck" with Russian citizens on board in the Indian Ocean. According to Gazeta.Ru, the incident occurred 450 miles from the Seychelles. The ship walked from East Africa to the Oman port of Salah, when the bandits began to pursue it in high -speed motor boats. - The pirates fired at the containers, but they could not capture it because of the high speed of the vessel exceeding 20 knots, that is, about 37 km per hour.

On March 13, a rally was held in Togliatti with a request to change the management of the AvtoVAZ enterprise. The initiator of the event was the Volya party. Representatives of Volya told reporters that, under the threat of bankruptcy, AvtoVAZ, who has existed in the last months, actually due to multibillion-dollar state subsidies, was due to the transfer of the enterprise to private hands. The organizers of the protest rally demanded that the AvtoVAZ control the people again.

Former editor -in -chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper Mikhail Beketov was awarded the Award of the Union of Journalists of Russia "For Courage and Professionalism." The medal and diploma were awarded to Mikhail at the Central Hospital of the Ministry of Defense, where he undergoes treatment. This is the second award of Beketov, City-FM notes. In December 2009, he was awarded a special prize of the competition of television films and the programs "Media against corruption".

In the match of the first round of the Russian Football Championship, St. Petersburg Zenit in Samara defeated the local “Wings of the Soviets” with a score of 1: 0. The fate of the meeting decided an accurate blow performed by Portuguese Danny, after which the ball crossed the gate line in the 66th minute. This was the second match as part of the starting championship. The day before, CSKA won with a similar score over Amkar.