Former leaders of Aeroflot are found guilty of abuse of power and defense of foreign exchange funds from abroad, but are exempted from punishment. The court limited the term for the conclusion of the former deputy general director of the airline Nikolai Glushkov for three years and three months, which he had already served in prison in anticipation of the court. Other accused - Anatoly Krasnenker, Lidia Kryzhevskaya and Roman Sheinin - are released according to amnesty.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko began the campaign to strengthen public security and discipline.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The correspondent of Radio Liberty Karen Agamirov takes part. Andrei Shary: “Mikhail Trepashkin is a political prisoner of Putin’s Russia” - under this name, a meeting with the press in Moscow of the human rights activists and lawyers of this person who had hit the bars, in their opinion, for the challenge to special services.

In Spain - three -day mourning. The number of victims of yesterday's terrorist attacks in Madrid reached 198 -i, wounded - a thousand six hundred people. The authorities do not exclude that the organizer of the attacks can be al-Qaeda. The Arab newspaper published in London received a letter on the Internet in which the alleged ally of al -Qaeda, the Abu Hafs Al -Masri Brigade, took responsibility for explosions in suburban trains.

NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia celebrated the birthday of a war criminal Ratko Mladich, laying the posters depicting him in handcuffs. On the posters, the inscription is "Mladic, we have not forgotten about you." Ratko Mladich, the former commander of the army of the Bosnian Serbs and the nearest ally, is pleased with Karadzhich, for 8 years manage to avoid arrest. Today he was 61 years old.

The new government of Russia and the expectations of investors - oil and gas, energy and telecommunication companies. Mortgage loan and borrower. The man bought an apartment ... But what if, after a few years, he cannot pay for it? Plans - in Russia and the practice of other countries - in the section "Panorama". Changing world: countries and markets. Overview of publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist".

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The economic observer Radio Freedom Ivan Trefilov and the RS correspondents - Elena Rogacheva and Sergey Gogin participate. Andrei Sharogradsky: The new Russian government on Thursday at its first meeting was going to discuss the state of the country's housing and communal services. However, at the last moment, the consideration of the issue was postponed.

The head of the US -British administration in Iraq - Paul Bremer - again stated that terrorist activity in the country would intensify on the eve of the transfer of power to Iraqi on June 30. On Thursday, the commander of the American troops in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez said that the US military presence would remain in the country after June 30. Yesterday, 2 American troops died in Iraq when their car was blown up by a mine.

In Baghdad, about 2 thousand Iraqi Shiites conducted a manifestation of protest against the temporary constitution of the country adopted this week. The radical religious leaders of Shiites consider the document incomplete and declare that the constitution should be based on Islamic law. The ruling advice of Iraq approved the Constitution after long approvals. The document will enter into force on June 30 after the formation of the Iraqi government.

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In Novorossiysk, about 16 thousand people are left without gas supply. Last night, a spontaneous disconnection of the gas pipeline in a number of city regions took place. The liquidation of the consequences of the accident is complicated by the fact that in order to restore gas supply, repairmen must go around all the apartment without exception and make sure that gas devices are in good condition.

The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will not observe the progress of the elections of the President of Russia in Chechnya on March 14. According to the head of the delegation of Rudolf Bindig, the republic retains an “extremely difficult situation”. Bindig noted that during the presidential election, members of his delegation will work only in Moscow and in St. Petersburg.

The US Department of Defense has chosen American and British companies to conclude two largest contracts for the restoration of Iraq infrastructure. The total amount of contracts is a billion hundred million dollars. American and British companies will have to restore the energy network and water supply systems in Iraq.

The day after tomorrow, March 14, the election of the president of the country should be held in Russia. Already, many political scientists and journalists have no doubt who will win in these elections. For more than four years of the reign of Vladimir Putin, very large changes have occurred in Russia.

Ayia Kuga , Belgrade: On March 12, 2003, the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dvinzhich was killed. After the murder of the prime minister, Serbia survived a serious crisis, and the new authorities today do not really want to keep Ginjich in memory. It seems that he and the dead remains their opponent. Meanwhile, in the building of a specially equipped court in Belgrade there is a trial of the killers of Zoran Dvinzhich. Of the 13 defendants in the dock, 5 people. The rest are still wanted.