Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is negotiating with the leaders of India today. The program of the visit - Putin's meeting with India President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The signing of agreements on economic cooperation for a total of more than $ 10 billion is expected.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to India, said that it was time to expand bilateral relations beyond the borders of weapons trade - to such, for example, areas as energy, banking sector, information technology. Putin noted that Russia sets the task by 2015 to increase the volume of trade with India from eight to $ 20 billion. During the visit, it is planned to coordinate the development plan for cooperation in the nuclear energy.

In the Gulf of Mordvinov off the coast of Sakhalin, an operation was launched to save five fishermen, whom he takes to the sea on a torn ice flock. According to the regional Ministry of Emergencies, the fishermen went to the underwater clearance of smelt, despite the warning of weather forecasters about the destruction of coastal ice. 12 rescue service employees and 5 units of equipment participate in the operation to save fishermen.

In the Altai Territory, the head of the health department, Valery Yelkomov, was dismissed in connection with the tragedy in the Klyuchevsky maternity hospital, where four women in labor suffered from the effects of drugs, one of them, as well as a newborn child of another woman died.

A visit to Warsaw, the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen said that this organization "is not a threat to Russia." According to our correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky, Anders Fog Fog Rasmussen discussed with Polish politicians - president, ministers of defense and foreign affairs - a new strategic concept of NATO on the eve of the summit in Lisbon, issues related to the course of the military mission in Afghanistan, as well as NATO relations with Russia.

As a result of a series of explosions in the Pakistani city of Lahor, 48 people were killed, according to the latest data, about a hundred wounded. All the dead are victims of the first two explosions that occurred on the way of the military column. The bombs worked near the busy quarter, where in addition to numerous shops and residential buildings, there are army facilities and law enforcement agencies. Later, five more explosions of smaller power occurred in the city.

Soon, the election commission will once again calculate the votes of voters. The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party appealed to the Supreme Court of Russia with a request to cancel the decision of the regional election commission, which did not allow the party to elections to the Legislative Assembly of the region on March 14. Today this complaint will be considered.

Will Sapsan master new territories? Since April, Russian Railways has been increasing the number of Sapsan trains in the direction of Moscow-Sank-Petersburg. This year, high-speed expresses will begin to run along the route Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod. Meanwhile, Russian media write that high -speed Sapsans are attacked by local residents. The Sapsan high-speed train began to ply Mazh Moscow and St. Petersburg in December last year, after undermining the Nevsky Express.

Cycling. Multi-day race "Tyrren-adriatico" (Italy) 3rd stage 1. Daniele Bennati (Italy) 2. Alessandro Petakki (Italy) 3. Bernhard Isel (Austria) In the overall standings, Daniele Bennati became the leader

In Georgia, a number of convicts will serve the final part of their prison term in monasteries. The relevant agreement was concluded between law enforcement agencies and the Georgian Orthodox Church. As noted, the decision corresponds to the policy of the liberalization of the system of execution of sentences and the desire to master new methods of social adaptation of former prisoners.

Albums "Russian Eros" Boris Grigoryev in the world there was a few The next exhibition from the series "Forbidden Art of the twentieth century" has opened in the Gallery "S. Arart". The exhibition presents very rare engravings of Boris Grigoryev from the album created by him in Germany under the name "Russian Eros". Most of the copies were destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Boris Grigoriev was never unrecognized. However, there are not too much his works in Russian museums.

The case of Khodorkovsky. The first anniversary of the second process. About the Khamovniki court in Moscow, about the hearings in the European Court in Strasbourg, about the exhibition “Draw Khodorkovsky” in Paris, we are talking in the program “Vosti of Guests” on Friday March 12 at 19 o’clock with the ex -chairman of the board of directors of Yukos, journalist Natalia Gevorkyyan , with the head of the Internet Content Competition Sergey Kuznetsov . Presenter - Anna Kachkaeva.