The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected the request of the parliament and the Government on the prohibition of the ultra -right of the National Democratic Party (NDP) - for the promotion of Nazism and racial hatred. The court decision notes that the materials represented by the German authorities are partially based on the testimonies of police agents and informants implemented in the VDP, and this contradicts the law.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan discussed today with representatives of the ruling party he headed by the possibility of deploying American troops in the country. It is expected that today at a meeting of the Turkish government it will be decided to again introduce a resolution to the parliament, allowing the deployment of 62 thousand US troops. Two weeks ago, the parliament with a small majority of votes rejected this resolution.

In Serbia, two more suspects were arrested in involvement in the recent murder of Prime Minister Zoran Dvinzhich. According to the Belgrade Police, Dragan Ninkovich and Zoran Vukoevich, detained last night, are among the leaders of the criminal group accused of organizing the murder of Dzhindzhich. However, the main suspect - the former special forces officer Milorad Lukovich - was still not discovered.

The energy of the Altai Territory introduced restrictions on electricity consumption for 378 objects, the total debt of which exceeded a billion rubles. Without electricity, production enterprises, social facilities and residential buildings were left. In Primorye, the energy supply of stations supplying water to the cities of Nakhodka and Spassk-Dalniy is limited. Their debts exceeded 13 million rubles.

Foreign ministers of the European Union have approved the decision - from March 31, to transfer the peacekeeping operation in Macedonia under the control of the EU. Now the operation is led by NATO. As expected, next year, a mission in Bosnia will go under the control of the European Union.

The Israeli soldier and militant of the Hamas group died this morning in a shootout in the city of Bethlehem on the west coast of Jordan. The Palestinian opened fire on the Israeli patrol, which led the search for terrorists, and was killed by return fire. In the clash, another Israeli soldier was injured. The military destroyed the house of the murdered action movie.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Participation: Radio Liberty correspondent in the North Caucasus of Musa Hasanov, RS observers Andrei Babitsky and Mikhail Sokolov, State Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Igor Artemyev, member of the Political Council of the Party of the ATP Alexei Kara-Murza.

Marina Timasheva , Moscow: the Russian film academy “Nika” announced a list of nominees in 2002, and also called the names of the laureates in the nomination “Cinema contribution”. They were the writer Boris Vasiliev and scientist Viktor Komar. The news in the life of "Nicky" was the inclusion of paintings in the CIS and Baltic countries in the competition. The films of Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Latvia were included in the list of nominees. They will compete with each other.

The sixth national exhibition-fair "Book of Russia" noted the worst books of the year the Award "A paragraph". The prize for bad editing went to the book Harry Potter and the Fire Cup, for the worst translation - the book of the French writer Pierre Siprio Balzac without a mask. The main antipruse was awarded to the publishing house "Olma Press" for the publication "Christ in life." The "Honorary Ilogram" was awarded to the authors of the Russian Law.

In Moscow, the police stopped the illegal deal to sell the unique Torah of the 16th century, written on the oxide skins. The 17-meter scroll was supposedly taken out of one of the CIS countries. Two immigrants from Tajikistan initially tried to sell him for a million two hundred thousand dollars, but then reduced the amount twice. The role of buyers was acted by disguised police. Sellers were detained, manuscript is seized.

Veronika Ostrinskaya , Prague: USA, Great Britain and Spain, abandoned attempts to enlist the support of the UN to start a military operation in Iraq.

In Russia, the number of citizens who are missing is increasing every year - representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported at a press conference in Moscow. Last year, more than 116 thousand people were on the wanted list. Law enforcement agencies managed to find or trace the circumstances of the disappearance of about 78 thousand of them. In the first months of 2003, more than 6.5 thousand criminal cases have been instituted on the fact of the disappearance of people.

The new Prime Minister of Serbia was Zoran Zhivkovich. The appointment approved the parliament - 128 deputies out of 250 deputies supported the candidacy of Zhivkovich. After the vote, the new prime minister said that the main goals of his government were to join the Council of Europe, participation in the program of partnership in the name of peace and then - joining the European Union.

Andrey Sharry: The Man of the Day of Radio Liberty March 18 is the new Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Zhivkovich. On Tuesday, he was approved to this position by the parliament of the republic, as head of government Zhivkovich will replace the murdered Zoran Dvinjich on March 13. Born in 1960 in the city of niches. Member of the Democratic Party of Serbia since its founding in 1991, from 93 - member of the party leadership.

Yuri Zhigalkin , New York: the United States prepared an unprecedented plan for the restoration of Iraq after the war. Over the year, Washington plans to restore the country's infrastructure, the banking system and the universal education system. Having allocated one hundred billion dollars for these purposes, the United States intends to lean mainly on American companies. The United States has not undertaken from the time of the Marshall plan.