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Maxim Yaroshevsky , Moscow: In Russia, the number of crimes related to people's trafficking is increasing every year. In 92 cases out of 100, we are talking about the sale of women and minor girls abroad, where they are forced to engage in prostitution. People trafficking is considered the third most profitable type of criminal activity, ahead of the drug business and the sale of weapons. All over the world in only one year, it brings about $ 7 billion profit.

The Israeli units, with the support of tanks, entered the refugee camp of the Rafach this morning - in the southern part of the Gaza sector. Eyewitnesses report shootings, no data on victims have been received. The Israeli command said that the purpose of the operation is to eliminate underground tunnels, through which weapons are transferred from neighboring Egypt.

In Iraq, one of the four citizens of Italy was killed, captured hostage. According to Arab journalists, the life of the other three Italian hostages is under threat. The kidnappers demand the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan reported that it is checking the information according to which two Japanese were stolen in Iraq. Yesterday, French journalist Alexander Zordanov, taken hostage a few days ago, was released in Iraq.

In the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, the court begins in the case of one of the largest shareholders of the company "Yukos" Platon Lebedev, accused of large fraud and tax failure. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office believes that in 1994, Lebedev illegally took possession of the 20th percent of the shares of the Apatit joint-stock company, causing the state damage worth several tens of millions of dollars.

The US authorities deprived the citizenship of 81-year-old Andrew Kuras, who served during the Second World War as a guard in Nazi concentration camps. The US Department of Justice found that in 1961, Kurasa received citizenship on fake documents, which said that during the war he lived in Poland and was a farmer.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. A radio observer Marina Timasheva worked on the topic. Andrei Shary: The opera center of Galina Vishnevskaya announced the beginning of his first Russian tour - from June 11 to 18, the Vocalists of the Center and scholarships of the Foundation of Mstislav Rostropovich, together with Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, will go on the ship "Mikhail Frunze" on four Volga cities.

Leonid Gergei prepared: on April 15, 1877, surgeon Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky was born in Kerch, and the archbishop of Luke in the spiritual dignity. A native of an old princely family, Voino-Yasenetsky during the Russo-Japanese war served as a military doctor, later worked in zemstvo hospitals. In the early 20s, under the name of Luke, he cut his hair in monks, was ordained a bishop. He was repeatedly subjected to arrests and links, spent a total of 18 years in exiles.

European countries have rejected the proposal about the truce contained in the audio recordings - presumably, bin Laden's shrinkage. The countries of the European Union, including France, Germany and Spain, said that under any circumstances they would not enter the deal with terrorists.

After it was confirmed that in the past there was liquid water on Mars, the question arises of whether life existed on a red planet. To answer this question, Professor Richard Maties from the Laboratory of Astrobiology of the Berklev University proposed to investigate the orientation of Martian amino acids. Only left-oriented molecules participate in biological processes on Earth. However, with non -biological synthesis, the same number of right and left molecules are formed.

In the Meshchansky Court of Moscow - during the preliminary hearings in the case of Plato Lebedev - the defense today filed a petition for his immediate release. According to the lawyer Lebedev Elena Lipzer, the state prosecutor opposed the release of the head of Menatep, accused of fraud and tax failure, has been in the investigative insulator since July last year.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia today began to evacuate from the Iraqi citizens of Russia and the CIS, working in this country under contracts with Russian companies. Three planes flew out of the Ramenskoye airport near Moscow. The first of them should return to Moscow tonight. In total, more than five hundred Russian citizens and more than two hundred citizens of the CIS countries are supposed to be evacuated from Iraq.

Tatyana Voltskaya , St. Petersburg: the Dmitry Likhachev International Charity Fund, together with the St. Petersburg Center for the Development of Non-Profit Organizations, is preparing for the publication the collection "Charity in Russia: Historical and Socio-Economic Research". In the collection, among other materials - polls, from which it follows that 90 percent of the respondents welcome charity. Even 15 years ago, most people were suspicious of her.

In Macedonia, the second round of the presidential election was reached - the current Prime Minister Branko Tsrvenkovsky and candidate of the opposition bloc Sashko Kedev. The premiere who received 43 percent of the vote (with the necessary for victory is 50). Early elections are held in connection with the death of a plane crash at the end of February of the President of the Republic of Boris Treikovsky.

The United States intends to allocate 400 million dollars, if both communities - Greek and Turkish - will support the UN plan to unite the island at the referendum. This was announced at the conference of the Sponsor countries of the plan in Brussels. The referendum is scheduled for April 24. If one of the communities does not support the UN proposals, only the international recognized Greek Republic of Cyprus will become a member of the European Union on May 1.