The head of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov believes that an accident involving the vice president of Anatoly Barkov did not affect the company's image. According to him, this is a tragedy, "which could happen to everyone." Alekperov also emphasized that the company brought condolences to the relatives of the dead and hopes for an objective investigation.

Four more suspects were detained in the case of an attack on police officers in Moscow. Such a statement “ Rossiy Gazeta ” was made by the chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office, Alexander Bastrykin. Four people are suspected of covering the crime. Recall that yesterday in the suburbs they detained a native of Dagestanaykuba Kartakaev, who is suspected of attacking police officers last weekend.

The updated macroeconomic forecast of the Ministry of Economy should be published in April 2010, but yesterday the deputy head of the ministry Andrei Klepach reported a number of parameters that may be its basis, Kommersant writes. According to the official forecast, GDP growth in 2010 will be 3-3.5%, however, Klepach did not rule out that it could be about 6%if the growth that was observed in the third and especially in the fourth quarter of 2009 continues.

The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee for the Kursk Region opened a criminal case on the fact of an attack on the guards, as a result of which two of them were killed and one was wounded, the press service of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office reports.

On March 17, the State Corporation “Rosatom” represented by the Director General of Sergei Kiriyenko and the Ministry of Education and training of the personnel of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, represented by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Vietnam Government, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam, Nguen Nyan, signed the memorandum of the training of specialists for the atomic industry Vietnamese.

Inflation in Russia for the period from March 10 to March 15 of this year amounted to 0.2%, from the beginning of the month - 0.4%, from the beginning of the year - 2.9%, the Federal Statistics Service reports. So far, this fits into the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development. Eggs rose - by 2.3%, buckwheat and cheese - by 1% and 0.6%, respectively. Rice, chickens, sugar-sands-by 0.2-0.5%fell. The increase in prices for fruit and vegetable products on average amounted to 0.8%.

The Moscow advertising and design committee condemned the anti -tobacco poster, which depicts a child about the back of which the cigarette butt is attached. Representatives of the department turned to the FAS with a request to figure it out, Infox reports. Recently, a series of posters appeared in the capital. In the picture about the back of the baby, a cigarette cigarette butt is attached.

The date of the online interview of Gryzlov on the website of Gazeta.ru will become known in the coming hours, Timur Prokopenko, spokeswoman for the State Duma Speaker, told the Russian Service Service . “The interview was scheduled for an hour of the day, and it was a meeting of the Security Council for an hour. The transfer is connected with this. There can be no talk of any refusal, just the event will take place on some other day. We are talking about the date now.

The demonstrative unwillingness of increasing the Moscow City Duma - contrary to the covenants of Medvedev - seems to indicate a strict confrontation of the Moscow authorities with the presidential administration. The complete victory of the latter that sounds unusual is impossible and apparently “will not notice” the Demarch MSD. Meanwhile, according to our representation, there is a dilemma - either the Luzhkov regime or Medvedev’s President in 2012.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin believes that it is necessary to work to gradually increase the tax burden on citizens receiving high income. As he said today, within the framework of the “government hour” in the Federation Council, stratification in the level of income in Russian society “higher than accepted”, and this is a potential risk, including from the point of view of social tension, Finmarket reports.

Alexander Myznikov With Tonino Guerra, I met once in my life. It was in 2001 in Tarusa at the animated cinema festival. Animators are usually closed people, the specifics of the work are a small team or complete loneliness. Sometimes a small animation film has been made for years, in breaks between making money by advertising. But then once a year the best animators gathered in this small town on the banks of the Oka - to chat, to see each other's new works, to hang out and drink.

The production of cars in Russia in 2009 fell by almost 60%. This follows from the data published by the Avtostat analytical agency. According to analysts, in 2009, 722.4 thousand pieces of cars were produced in Russia. This is the lowest production volume over the past 38 years, Kommersant notes. Less in the USSR was produced only until 1972.

Polit.ru represents the next program “Neutral territory. Position 201 ” with Mikhail Kukin. The conversation is led by Leonid Kostyukov . Moscow, Cafe "Neutral Territory" K.: Good afternoon, today we have a magnificent poet Mikhail Kukin. Good afternoon, Michael. M.: Good afternoon, Leonid. K.: Michael, usually I have standard questions. For some reason, it turned out that you are absolutely non-standard. So, the first one is: have you had any useless experience in your whole life?

In the Central Executive Committee of Georgia from the agency of the civilian register of the Ministry of Justice, updated data on the electoral lists were received, which are specified on the eve of the elections to local governments planned at the end of May. Earlier, the CEC reported that 3,587,425 voters live in Georgia. The civil registry agency notified 6,773 people about the death, another 345 people left Georgian citizenship, 600 people withdrew from registration.

In Bishkek today is the opposition congress. At least 7 thousand people were planned to collect it. According to the estimates of the Ferghana.ru correspondent on the site, there were over 4,000 participants. According to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs, the opposition managed to attract no more than 1,500 people, some of whom are “ordinary onlookers”. Oppositionists themselves say that over 5,000 delegates from all regions of the republic participate in the action.