The inflation rate in Russia amounted to 2 and 8 tenths of percent in March , the State Statistics Committee said today. In general, the inflation rate in the 1st quarter of this year reached 16 percent. Food products in the first three months of the year have risen in Russia more than 18 percent, non -food - by 14, paid services to the population - by 9 and a half percent.

Serbian troops are building up the pace of deportation of the Albanians from Kosovo , ”said the UN department for refugees. Echelons deliver deported to the border with Macedonia in two places. Near the second checkpoint, a column of refugees, waiting for permission to go to Macedonia, stretched 25 kilometers.

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About 10 percent of Russian hydraulic structures have never been repaired in recent years , more than 500 dams and dams are under threat of destruction, they said on Tuesday at the National Agency of Environmental Information. In connection with the upcoming spring flood on the Volga and Don rivers, about 230 thousand people will be temporarily evacuated from the flooded territories. The expected flood volume is 218 cubic kilometers of water.

Continuing to send food, medicines, clothes and tents for refugees from Kosovo to Albania and Macedonia, Germany simultaneously calculates the possibilities of placing refugees at home. The Humanitarian Air Bridge, thrown into the Balkans, one way or another, will not be able to provide such a mass of people for a long time with everything necessary. The experience of treating political asylum seekers has accumulated considerable. Last years, Germany adopted 350 thousand Bosnians alone.

Tennis. Russian woman Anna Kournikova, reaching the final of a large tournament in Hilton-Hed, where she lost the first racket of the world Switzerka Martine Hingis, has moved in the rating list of the World Women's Tennis Association from 20 to 16th place. Hingis is still leading, two representatives of the United States Lindsay Davenport and Monica Selesh follow it.

The number of Albanians forcibly deported from Kosovo by Serbian troops - according to NATO data - over the past 2 weeks exceeded 360 thousand people . US President Clinton said he would make every effort to stop "ethnic purges" in Kosovo. According to him, Washington began the program of large -scale humanitarian aid to the Albanian immigrants from Kosovo. Every day, 10 American aircraft deliver food and other essential items to Albania, where tens of thousands of Kosovo refugees are located.

The bombing of Serbia and Montenegro continues. The representative of the Yugoslav troops said in the morning that all their units and police forces adhere to the government’s decision on a truce in Kosovo, without taking any actions against the liberation army. Unofficial sources claim that the armed groups of Kosovo Albanians have already been defeated.

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Sergey Romanenko , Russian Balkans Specialist: Communist and national -patriotic circles talk about the threat of Russia, call for a complete breakdown of contacts with the West, at least, to the cold, at a maximum of hot war. More sober politicians and professional experts do not hide their disappointment that the West not only did not count with Russia, but also exchanged it for Kosovo.

According to the statements of the official representatives of NATO, good weather, which has established in Kosovo, now allows you to fully use the capabilities of aviation to expand the campaign against military facilities and units of the Yugoslav People’s Army and the Serbian police forces both inside Kosovo and in Serbia. The graphs of the air strikes provided by the NATO press service show that the operation is now as intensively as in the first days almost two weeks ago.

The Kosovo strategy of Russia is now an occasion for a variety of assumptions, interpretations and speculations. From Moscow, acting as a sincere defender of the Bratsk Slavic country to the Moscow Cynic, using the Kosovo crisis to serve various domestic political interests. In recent days, judging by American publications and statements of specialists, a slightly different image of Russia is crystallized.

The unprecedented growth of the information baggage of civilization, one of the symbols and symptoms of which is the Internet, threatens an institution that has long served as a repository of this information. Alexander Kostinsky will tell about how the library technologies are changing about how the library technologies are changing today. And then Oleg Rodin will present the Internet at the Easter holiday. Radio "Freedom", the program "Seventh Continent".

The rallies in Belgrade are very different. On Tuesday in Belgrade, representatives of the city authorities, the closest employees of Vuka Dozhkovich, laid a wreath, marking the 58th anniversary of the bombardment of the city by fascist aviation. Then on April 6, 1941, 2.5 thousand people died in Belgrade, about 5 thousand were injured.

Vladimir Dubinsky: According to the News HEC magazine, in the early 90s, the CIA headquarters in Leningli visited one of the political advisers of Slobodan Miloshevich, who stated that he and several other members of the Yugoslav elite with supporting the key positions of the generals of the Yugoslav army and the air forces were ready to overthrow the Slobodan Miloshevich, because they did not agree with the Slobodan, because they did not agree with His policy was considered an unpredictable