The state company Avtodor estimated the total cost of building a new highway Moscow-Petersburg, which will pass through the Khimki forest, at 500-550 billion rubles. This was announced on Friday to journalists by the first deputy chairman of the company's board, Sergei Kelbakh. He noted that the construction of the first section of the motorway is planned to begin before May.

In the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan on Friday evening, two alleged militants and their accomplice were killed during the shootout. As Interfax was told in the National Anti -Terrorism Committee, law enforcement officials tried to stop the car for verification. The car in the car opened shooting. The attackers were killed with return fire. According to preliminary data, two dead are identified as participants in illegal armed groups. The investigation team works on the spot.

The court of the city of the city of Zhukovsky sentenced the journalist Anatoly Adamchuk to two years in prison, finding him guilty of a deliberately false denunciation of attack. This is reported today by the official website of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia. The criminal case against Adamchuk was opened in November last year after the journalist wrote a statement to the police that unknown people were beaten on the street.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced the emergency meeting of the Governors of the Department of the Office Emergency Premier on Monday. The head of the IAEA Yukio Amano, as reported, will tell about the results of his trip to Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami in this country. His visit was caused by a critical situation at the Japanese NPP Fukushima-Dayichi, which suffered from a natural disaster.

Donald Ramsfeld Irina Lagunina: We already said in the release of the program on Thursday that the former US Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld in an exclusive interview with Radio Liberty/Free Europe said that he was fully supported by the US policy in relation to Libya at the moment.

In Bahrain, thousands of supporters of the Shiite opposition gathered today at protest in the cities of the sitr and demons - contrary to the ban on holding public assemblies introduced by the authorities. Demonstrators who continue to demand political reforms and restrictions on the power of the Sunni royal dynasty chanted anti -government slogans. Today, the funeral of an oppositionist, who was killed by employees of security services, was held in Sitre, one of the manifestation.

In the Higher School of Economics, the public debate of the famous blogger Alexei Navalny and the rector of this university Yaroslav Kuzminov will be held today. It will be about corruption, in particular, about the draft new law on public procurement. On Tuesday, Navalny in his blog criticized a document developed at the Higher School of Economics by order of the Ministry of Economic Development.

Do you understand something in billions? Recently, Vladimir Putin approved the concept of the federal targeted education program for 2011-2015, and the expected amount of its financing will be 54.2 billion rubles. Is it a lot or little? Oleg Smolin from the State Duma committee by education usually compares the percentage of GDP, foreign and Russian, not in favor of the latter, of course. So it is with scholarships. Can the amount of a thousand rubles support the student?

US President Barack Obama US President Barack Obama, in connection with an accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant caused by an earthquake and tsunami, announced the beginning of a comprehensive verification of safety conditions at American atomic facilities. According to Obama, it is necessary to extract all possible lessons from what is happening in Japan in order to warn such events in their country and protect their own citizens.

Perm is still cold. And much colder near the fence with barbed wire around the perimeter and evil barking of guard dogs. I froze on the street, waited for Shukhrat and thought why entrepreneurs were breaking so quickly and necessarily put in prison. Why their active civic position becomes dangerous for officials. Those who really care about the state become his worst enemies. Why? Everything went ordinary.

Skiing. World Cup. Falun, Sweden Women. Prologue. 2.5 km (classic style) 1. Marit Bjorgen (Norway) 2. Justin Kovalchik (Poland) 3. Teresa Johaug (Norway)

The Moscow authorities once again refused the opposition policy to Eduard Limonov in holding a rally in defense of freedom of assembly on the triumphal square on March 31. This was announced on Friday by a member of the Executive Committee of the Party "Another Russia" Alexander Averin. According to him, in return, the Moscow government proposed holding a rally in Bolotnaya Square or a procession and a rally on the embankment of Taras Shevchenko.