The American shuttle "Discovery" at 19:57 in Moscow successfully landed on the landing strip of the Kennedy Space Center Space Center, NASA reports. The commander Steve Lindsey, pilot Eric Boe, flight specialists Alvin Drew, Stephen Bowen, Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott (Nicole Stott) returned. Roscosmos press service . He started into space on February 25 of this year and moored to the Harmony module of the American segment of the International Space Station on February 26.

The number of corrupt officials in Ingushetia will increase, said the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov and called for understanding-"in all states there was this vice." In order to effectively fight corruption, Yevkurov believes, it is necessary not only to plant, but also to confiscate the loot. Then “they will still steal - but not so,” said the Ingush head in an interview with the New Gazeta , adding also that “we are trying to control”.

The export portfolio of weapons and military equipment in Russia at the beginning of 2011 is $ 38 billion. This was stated by the head of Rosoboronexport Anatoly Isaikin, RIA Novosti reports. He clarified that the order portfolio involves the included contracts, 90% of which have already entered into force. According to Isaikin, 60% of exports falls on India, Algeria and China.

The Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi, in an interview with the Turkish TRT TV channel, warned that he would have armed resistance in case of air space closed over Libya: “It will be even useful for Libya. The Libyan people will see the truth: they want to take control of Libya and steal our oil. ” Earlier, the aircraft of the Libyan Air Force began to bomb the oil port of Ras-Lanuf. Earlier, during the fighting, the oil storage caught fire in the neighboring port of ESS.

The process in the case of the former president of France Jacques Shirak was suspended at least until the end of June. Such a decision was made by the correctional court of Paris on March 8. Over this period, the Cassation Court, at the insistence of the ex-president, will check whether the principle of the statute of limitations is applicable to Shirak’s case, since we are talking about the events of the late 80s-early 90s, reports EURONEWS .

On March 8, a tree fell on the redzarmen and damaged the pipe. At the same time, the soil fell down 12 meters down. Where did the empty space underground come from? Masha Fedorenko talks with eyewitnesses of events and listens to their versions.

The transaction for the sale of the Kovyktinsky deposit "Gazprom" may break, " Kommersant " writes today. This is due to the fact that the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Energy consider the amount proposed by the gas giant overpriced. Gazprom bought the Kovyktinsky gas condensate field on March 1. The total transaction amount amounted to 22.3 billion rubles, and taking into account VAT-35-36 billion. The second applicant - Rosneftegaz - offered only 15.9 billion rubles.

In the southwest of Moscow, an explosion occurred at the bus stop. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. The explosion occurred at 16:30 on Michurinsky Prospekt. According to the Committee, there are no injuries, the cars parked near the stop were slightly damaged. At the scene, the operational-investigation group of the FSB of Russia is working.

The original way of combating falsifications will be tested in the upcoming elections in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug on March 13. The public organization "Your choice is fair" offered to pay 20,000 rubles to each voter who will reveal a violation during the vote, reports REGNUM . The State Duma deputy from the “EP” Tatyana Voronova responded to this: “These are very risky ideas.

Former head of the Syktyvkar branch of the Just Russia party, a former member of the Socialist Revolutionary Council of the Socialist Revolutionaries Valery Kozlov, published information on the sale of places in the party list in the State Council of the Komi Republic, which will be held on March 13, 2011.

Today, in Ukraine, according to Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, there is a “symbolic reconciliation” of the country's life with the “moral and intellectual authority” of the poet, prose writer and artist Taras Shevchenko. Azarov said this in connection with the 197th anniversary of Shevchenko, that for Ukraine, according to the head of government, a significant holiday, UNIAN reports.

The Moscow authorities did not extend the contract with the director of the Stanislavsky Drama Theater Ilya Kolosov, his replacement was named Sergei Sosnovsky, the former head of the Vakhtangov Theater. Kolosov said that the reasons for the non -transmission of the contract were not explained to him, they simply thanked for the work and said goodbye.

The An-148 aircraft crashed during the development of an element of emergency decrease. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the representative of Irkut, which includes the Voronezh aircraft industry. According to the representative of the company, the crew was to work out an emergency decline maneuver from nine thousand meters to five thousand meters. The flight mode is carried out on released flaps and brake shields.

The explosive device that detonated at Michurinsky Prospekt in Moscow was most likely equipped with an hourly mechanism, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti . “The forensic experts found parts at the scene of the explosion, which indicate that the bomb could be put into action using an hourly mechanism,” the agency’s interlocutor explained. However, the final decision on the type of explosive device will be made only after the examination.

During the Georgian-Russian negotiations on the issue of Russia's entry into the WTBI Tbilisi, no concessions of their national interests will be made. This was stated by the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament of Gigi Cereteli, ITAR-TASS reports. He noted that the Georgian authorities will never conclude agreements by concessions of their sovereignty.