In several Russian cities today, protests are held against raising tariffs for housing and communal services. In Vladivostok, 3 thousand people gathered for a rally, about a thousand in Omsk. During the manifestation, 10 activists of the National Bolshevik Party were detained in the city of Pavlovsky Pavlovsk Pavlovsky, ”said Alexander Averin, spokesman for NBP.

Dmitry Volchek: The most unexpected event of the week without a doubt can be called “salt fever”, which covered several Russian regions at once. The panic was caused by rumors that in revenge for increasing gas prices, Ukraine stops supplying salt to Russia, or that the war with Ukraine begins, and the first necessities would disappear from the sale. As a result, the prices for table salt, a pack of which cost 4-5 rubles, increased sharply and now reach 40-60 rubles.

The prosecutor's office of the Vologda region opened a criminal case against the editor of the local newspaper "Our Region" Anna Smirnova. The reason was the publication in the newspaper of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed, ”the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Caricatures were reprinted from the same Danish newspaper where they appeared for the first time and called a wave of protests of Muslims around the world.

About a hundred supporters of the opposition were arrested in Minsk while trying to publicly note the registration of the Central Election Commission of Belarus of their presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich. This was reported by the agency France Press. Registration of candidates is completed on Friday.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez threatens to stop export of oil in the United States, accusing Washington of trying to destabilize the Venezuelan government. A day earlier, US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice said that the Chavez government is one of the biggest problems in Latin America. Venezuela - the 5th oil exporter in the world - supplies the USA daily one and a half million barrels of fuel.

In Vladivostok, about Tipi thousand people held a rally of protest against raising tariffs for housing and communal services. According to Interfax, the protesters also demanded the abolition of the Housing Code, the resignation of the governor of Primorye Sergey Darkin and the mayor of Vladivostok Vladimir Nikolaev.

Vladimir Tolts: This week, anniversary commemoration of the XX Congress of the CPSU, which had opened half a century ago, began in Russia. This was already 10 years ago, and 5. And every time since 1986, when these anniversaries were not accepted in the still existing Soviet Union, and the mention of the XX Congress was listed as some kind of intra-party front, or even depending on the context-and anti-party seducte, I made a program about this. And 10 years ago I released the “XX Congress.

Christina Gorelik: XX Congress. Half a century later. A round table at the Gorbachev Fund, a round table in the human rights center "Memorial". Politicians, historians, public figures, human rights activists are gathering ... Gorbachev, Aksyutin, Pomerantz, Serebryakov, Nerpikelov, Divers, Sheinis, Daniel ... All that had to be said about the role of the XX Congress said.

There is a battle in North Ossetia in the village of Sunzha, ”Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. Unknown people opened fire on police officers who neutrally neutralized a mini-prayer. There were no data on victims.

In the north of Iraq, a small passenger plane crashed. On board were four Germany and Iraquets. It is still unknown about their fate. The disaster occurred on Thursday, but the message about it came only on Friday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called for resigning one of the government members due to the fact that he appeared in public in a T-shirt with caricatures on the Prophet Mohammed. Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli - a member of the North League Nationalist Party - put on a shirt under his jacket and appeared in this form on state television. Berlusconi said that the minister’s behavior does not correspond to the position of the office.

US President George Bush said that to resolve the armed conflict in the Sudanese province of Darfur, it may be necessary to double the number of the international peacekeeping contingent. Now in the region 7 thousand observers and military personnel from the countries of the African Union are deployed. However, they are unable to put an end to bloodshed. In Darfur, Arab armed formations subject the local black population to mass repressions.

In Italy, the Minister of Government Roberto Calderoli, who recently appeared in public in a T -shirt with caricatures on the Prophet Mohammed, resigned. Calderoli was severely criticized after mass performances by the Italian consulate occurred in Libya in his actions, and at least 10 people killed at least 10 people during the dispersal of the demonstration. In Paxistan, there were new protests against the publication of cartoons in Europe on the Prophet Mohammed.

In North Ossetia, unknown people fired at police officers, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. There are no dead and wounded. The attack occurred when police officers neutralized Min and Pan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia, however, denies that the police had been attacked.

France is preparing for a possible outbreak of "bird flu". Preliminary tests showed that the dead wild duck found in the east of the country may have died from the Eich-5-EN-1 virus. This may be the first case of "bird flu" in France, which is the largest poultry meat manufacturer in Europe. On Friday, Egypt confirmed that the first cases of the disease were recorded on its territory, which began to spread in 2003 from Asian countries.