Today, representatives of the International Olympic Committee arrive in Moscow - IOC - to evaluate the capabilities of the city as a candidate for the right to accept the 2012 Olympics. The MOK delegation has already visited Paris, Madrid, London and New York, which also dispute the right to accept the Olympic Games. According to experts, the capital of France has the greatest chances.

In St. Petersburg, a protest is held against the new Housing Code, which entered into force on March 1. According to the RS correspondent, about 100 people participate in the rally. In their opinion, the Housing Code will lead to an increase in rent and tariffs for utilities. The organizer of the action is “St. Petersburg Civil Resistance”, the movement, which includes representatives of Yabloko, the Communist Party and National Bolsheviks.

In Tajikistan, in three districts today there is a re -vote for the parliamentary elections. During the first round on February 27, not one of the candidates ran here was able to recruit more than half of the votes of voters. The opposition sharply criticized voting on February 27 due to mass violations and threatens to block the work of the parliament. Most of the 63 seats in the lower house received candidates of the pro -presidential party.

Dmitry Volchek: On March 11, the 20th anniversary of the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev to the post of general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On Friday, in the Gorbachev -Fund building, the grand opening of the constant exposition "Mikhail Gorbachev - Life and Reforms" took place. The documents of the 80s and 90s are presented, photographs, newspapers and personal items of the first and only president of the USSR, including the Gorbachev party card.

Not far from the Black Sea resort of Anapa (Krasnodar Territory), an earthquake of about four points on the Richter scale occurred. The epicenter was at sea 10 kilometers from the coast. There are no victims and destruction. Superior shocks were felt in Anapa, Novorossiysk, Slavyansk and Krasnodar.

In the Georgian city of Akhalkalaki, the local Armenian population protested against the withdrawal of the Russian base. According to the RS correspondent, about six thousand people took part in the action, according to whom the withdrawal of the base means a social catastrophe for them, since hundreds of local residents work on the basis. The other day, the Georgian parliament demanded the elimination of Russian military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki.

“In Iraq, negotiations between the Kurdish and Shiite leaders on the formation of the coalition government ended to no avail,” high -ranking Iraqi representatives said. Kurdish and Shiite parties in the new Iraqi parliament belong to two -thirds of the mandates necessary for the approval of the government. The first meeting of the newly elected parliament will take place in three days.

The surviving participant in the capture of the school in Beslan Nurpashi Kulaev confirmed that 32 militants participated in the attack. After a meeting with Kulaev, the head of the parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances of the attack, Alexander Torshin, announced this at a press conference in Vladikavkaz. The bodies of 17 militants are already identified, ”he added.

During the vote in the second round of parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, human rights activists announced the first violations. The coalition "For Democracy and Civil Society" claims that in the First University District of Bishkek, its observers are not allowed to be present in some procedures - in particular, when checking personality certificates and issuing ballots. In this district, the daughter of President Askar Akayev - Bermet Akayev, representing the Aga Khan fund, is running.

The doctors allowed the Pope John Pavel the second to talk - after the operation of the tracheotomy. Approaching the window of the hospital ward, the pontiff thanked the people gathered at the clinic building in Rome. On February 24, John Pavel the Second, an operation was done in connection with the complication of breathing caused by the flu.

In Iraq, two American experts were killed who worked under a contract in a consulting company dealing with security issues. Another of their colleague was taken to the hospital with injuries. According to the representative of the US Embassy in Baghdad, unknown people attacked American citizens on Saturday. This happened on the road leading to the city of Hill, south of Baghdad.

Today, Orthodox Christians have forgiven Sunday. This is the last day before the great post, which begins on Monday and will last seven weeks before the festival of Easter, which this year fell on May 1. On forgiven Sunday, you should ask for forgiveness from loved ones for the insults and forgive them themselves. Tonight, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy the Second will make a special Vespers with the rank of forgiveness in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a large police officer ended. 36 people were detained, 12 of them were on the federal wanted list, - Radio Liberty correspondent reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. Large-scale checks in Nalchik and 4 districts of Kabardino-Balkaria began on March 10th. To search for militants and weapons, additional police from neighboring regions were pulled into the republic.

In the Sverdlovsk region, over four days of hunger strikes at the Tavdinsky microbiological plant, 18 participants were forced to terminate the promotion for health reasons. However, the number of starving remains the same - 57, since their colleagues replaced the eliminated, - said the representative of the trade union committee of the enterprise Lyudmila Solovyova. Bastulars require repayment of wage arrears and weekend benefits.

In Iraq, negotiations between the Kurdish and Shiite leaders on the formation of the coalition government ended to no avail. Kurdish representatives, however, announced their readiness to continue negotiations. Kurdish and Shiite parties in the new Iraqi parliament belong to two -thirds of the mandates necessary for the approval of the government. The first meeting of the newly elected parliament will take place in three days.