The State Duma received a bill of "United Russia" on the transfer of a number of powers of the mayors of cities. The document allows you to circumvent constitutional guarantees of the independence of local authorities from state authorities. Guest - Valery Zubov, State Duma deputy, former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Oil companies in Russia should regularly inform the country's government about a possible increase in prices for their gasoline. According to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andrei Belousov, such proposals will be contained in the package of measures to contain inflation, which his department will submit to the government by April 17.

The pop star Madonna announced the terms of her world tour called Confession's Tour. The first concert will take place in Los Angeles. Then there will be performances in the cities of the United States and in Montreal, then in Europe - in Cardiff, London, Paris, Rome, Dusseldorf, Hannover. Two concerts will be held in Japan - in Tokyo and Osaka. Costumes for the tour are prepared by the famous designer Jean-Pol Gauthier.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not support the draft resolution on the recount of votes filed in the recent parliamentary elections. Review of voting results require a party that failed to overcome the three percent barrier in the election. Several thousands of their supporters will picket the building of the Verkhovna Rada.

The ideological crisis in the political arena of Russia Askar Akayev: an incomprehensible reformer or authoritarian leader of the day of the day - English photographer Jane Baun

In Baku, the Turkish President Akhmet Zhizer arrives on a two -day visit. In negotiations with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, he will discuss, in particular, issues related to the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Turkish Port Jaikhan oil pipeline.

Two foreigners detained in Chukotka - citizens of the USA and Great Britain - were delivered to the village of Lavrenty. The border violators claim that they are travelers, and adverse weather conditions prevented them from passing a border control. Foreigners, whose names are not called, were detained on April 1 in the area of the village of Wellen. They had with them passports with commercial visas, satellite communications, a pistol and a video camera.

Astrophysicists from the universities of Ecster and Bremen first simulated on the computer the process of colliding two neutron stars. Neutron stars are clots of a substance that has a density of an atomic nucleus with a diameter of about 20 kilometers. They are formed at the end of the evolution of ordinary massive stars. If two neutron stars are part of a cramped double system, then they gradually lose energy to radiation of gravitational waves, come closer and, in the end, encounter.

The next operation, which was currently upcoming to the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, is delayed-due to infection in the respiratory tract. The 78 -year -old Sharon since January has been in a coma - after an extensive stroke. Formally, Sharon remains the head of the Israeli office. His duties are performed by Ehud Olmert, who headed the Kadim party created by Sharon, which won the recent parliamentary elections.

Trucks of Musaui, accused of involvement in the attacks on September 11, 2001, may be sentenced to death. Such a decision was made on Monday by a court in the American city of Alexandria (Virginia). The court considered proven that Musai's actions entailed the death of people. According to American laws, this means that the defendant can be sentenced to death. Now the jury should make a verdict - to execute Moussaui or limit himself to a lifelong conclusion for him.

The Irish company Element Six, the leading world supplier of industrial diamonds, announced the purchase of a control package of shares of the Poltava Diamond Plant, the largest in the CIS of the manufacturer of synthetic diamond powders and instruments from synthetic diamonds. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed. According to the plans, the Element Six will supply the products of the Poltava plant to Ireland for further processing and exports to other countries.

In Voronezh today, hearing in the case of the murder of the Peruvian student, Anhelis Urtado Enrique, begins. On the bench of the defendants - 13 young people. One of them is accused of murder, three more - in robbery, all the rest - in hooliganism. In addition, all participants in the attack are accused of acting, driven by racial hatred.

Lithuania covers her information space from the Belarusian propaganda machine. How great is the power of this machine? Why did the newspapers of Belarus and Russia diametrically opposite the 10th anniversary of the allied agreements between both countries? The first deputy chief editor of the newspaper Lietuvos Rytas is discussed by Rimvidas Valatka, Belarusian journalist Sergey Vaganov, special correspondent of Izvestia newspaper Dmitry Filimonov

Synterra begins to provide corporate customers in Moscow with WIMAX-access services on the Internet. WiMax is a wireless broadband connection at large distances. All Synterra WiMax base stations are connected to the own fiber -optic network of the company. The length of the network in Moscow exceeds two thousand kilometers. The company plans to cover the entire territory of the city in the near future and spread WIMAX to the Moscow Region.