The American company Ford Motor, the third car manufacturer in the world, announced the sale of British automobile companies Jaguar and Land Rover for $ 2.3 billion of the Tata Motors Indian company. It is the largest manufacturer in India by a manufacturer of trucks and buses and the third - in the segment of cars. In January of this year, Tata Motors introduced the world's first passenger car worth 2.5 thousand dollars.

The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Penza Natalya Kotova takes part. Arslan Saidov: Oleg Kochkin, the chairman of the local regional organization of the Yabloko party, a well -known journalist, editor -in -chief of the Penza Regional Opposition Gazeta, an active critic of the current government and a former deputy of the regional legislative assembly, was detained in Penza.

In the Moscow House of Journalists, a round table was held under the name "Our protest against raider seizures of the houses of creativity" On March 25, Russia first celebrated the Day of Culture Workers.

Regular NBA Championship “Utah” - “Charlotte” 128: 106. Andrey Kirilenko (Utah) scored 16 points "Orlando" - "San Antonio" 97: 107 Indiana - New Orleans 106: 114 "Dallas" - "Los Angeles Clippers" 103: 90 "Chicago" - "Atlanta" 103: 94 "Portland" - "Washington" 102: 82 Places in the playoffs secured themselves Boston, Detroit and Orlando

Vladimir Gelman The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Petersburg political scientist from the European University Vladimir Gelman takes part . Andrei Sharry : On the live air of the Freedom Time program on the phone from St. Petersburg, the famous St. Petersburg political scientist from the European University Vladimir Gelman. Vladimir, good evening!

Joseph Stalin's problem of the “successor” and the unity of the investigation did not bother at all. USSR Prosecutor General Andrei Vyshinsky Russian media reports to intensify work on the creation of a single investigative body. Some observers associate the uncertainty of his format with the struggle for control of the security forces, which is conducted by President Vladimir Putin and his shiftman Dmitry Medvedev.

In Miami, the men's tournament "Masters" and the female - the first category began. In the first circle, the lots brought some Russian tennis players with each other: women Elena Vesnina - Elena Likhovtseva - 6: 4, 6: 4 men Dmitry Tursunov - Evgeny Korolev - 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2

The population is paid by inflation for the Central Bank buying dollars at an overstated rate and prints too much rubles High inflation in Russia is the price for the country's belonging to the club of leading economic powers. This opinion on Tuesday was expressed in an interview with Financial Times, future president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. However, according to experts, not all developed economic countries suffer from the consequences of inflation as Russia.

From Russia to Georgia, the post will begin to go again for two to three weeks. This was reported by the leadership of the Russian Post enterprise. On Monday, direct air message from Tbilisi was restored. On Thursday, sea transportation will be carried out again between Sochi and Batumi. Relations with Georgia were interrupted in the fall of 2006 after Russian troops were detained in Tbilisi on charges of espionage.

In Penza, journalist Oleg Kochkin, chairman of the regional organization of the Yabloko party, is detained

Macedonia said that she would refuse to continue negotiations with Greece on a change in its official name - if Athens will prevent Macedonia’s entry into NATO. It is expected that Macedonia will be offered to join the Sevroatlantic Union at his summit in Bucharest in early April. However, Greece threatens to impose a “veto” on this decision, ensuring that Macedonia changes its official name - it has a common to the former Yugoslav Republic with the northern province of Greece.

In the south of Iraq, at least 30 people died in battles between military security forces and militants of the radical Shiite leader of the Moktada of AS-Sadra. Thousands of Iraqi military are involved in the combat operation in the Basra. In Baghdad, in the area of Sadr City there are also clashes of Shiite militants with Iraqi and American troops. At least one US soldier is killed.

US President George Bush said that at the invitation of Russian leader Vladimir Putin he would visit Russia after the NATO summit in Bucharest. Bush expressed the hope that he would reach important agreements with Putin. According to Interfax, negotiations will be held in Sochi on April 6.

The Tretyakov Gallery requested materials on errors made by the museum experts in the examination of the authenticity of some paintings from the Rossvyazkhosthkulture. The leadership of the museum has already received such evidence. The Tretyakov Gallery, in turn, at the end of last week announced the beginning of an internal audit on this issue.

In Baghdad, two US troops died on Wednesday during combat operations. According to the American command, one of the soldiers fell under fire, while on a combat duty. The other was killed a few hours later in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital. Over the 5 years of the US military operation in Iraq, more than four thousand American troops have already died.