In the capital of Bahrain Manama, the police prevented the opposition today gathering on the central pearl square to hold a mass action on the occasion of the first anniversary of the beginning of anti -government performances in the country. It is reported that today the opposition activists tried to go to the city center several times, but the security forces stopped their efforts.

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Tatyana Velikanova Ivan Tolstoy: Tatyana Mikhailovna Velikanova. At first there are several of the most general words. Tatyana Velikanova stood at the origins of the human rights movement and was "among the brightest, most daring and most uncompromising human rights activists." In 1968, she was present on Red Square when her husband, Konstantin Babitsky, and six more people protested against the occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Representatives of Gazprom-Media, the chief shareholder of Echo of Moscow, explained their demand for early resignation of the board of directors of the radio station "Intra-corporate procedures". The holding states that the update of the composition of the board of directors will not affect the editorial policy of Echo of Moscow. Earlier it became known that Echo journalists are taking response - initiate changes in the charter of the radio station.

Ivan Tolstoy: Tatyana Mikhailovna Velikanova. At first there are several of the most general words. Tatyana Velikanova stood at the origins of the human rights movement and was "among the brightest, most daring and most uncompromising human rights activists." In 1968, she was present on Red Square when her husband, Konstantin Babitsky, and six more people protested against the occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Football. Champions League. 1/8 finals. The first matches "Lyon" - Apoel 1: 0 "Bayer" - "Barcelona" 1: 3

Hockey. NHL. Regular championship "Washington"-"San Jose" 3: 5. Dmitry Orlov ("San Jose") 1 washer "Vancouver" - "Phoers" 2: 1 (in a series of shootouts) "Montreal" - "Carolina" 3: 5

The American space agency NASA intends to refuse to participate in the joint expedition to Mars - for financial reasons with Europeans. Two probes should go in 2016 and 2018 - to take soil samples and deliver them to Earth. Now these plans can be violated. In the Martian project of the European Space Agency, it was the United States that are the main partner. The NASA budget for the next year is reduced by almost 18 billion dollars.

Senior representatives of the EU and China today are found in Beijing to discuss economic issues, in particular, the problems of the debt crisis in the Eurozone countries. The Prime Minister of the State Council of the PRC Wen Jiabao will accept the head of the European Council Herman Van Rompey and the chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroza.

Evgeny Yasin The independent director of Echo of Moscow, economist Yevgeny Yasin, believes that the change in the board of directors of the radio station is carried out with the aim of establishing state control over independent media. The famous journalist Leonid Parfyonov told Interfax that changes in the Council of Directors of the radio station are politically motivated.

In Sochi, as a result of the explosion, one person died, three more were injured. According to Interfax, citing law enforcement agencies, on Monday afternoon in one of the garages, when four friends were removed garbage, an unknown metal object exploded in the hands of one of them. The circumstances of the incident are established.

In the Karabudykent district of Dagestan, one of the leaders of the militants Ibrahim Khalil Daudov was found on Tuesday. According to law enforcement agencies, according to preliminary data, he was wounded during a special operation that took place last week in the village of Gurbuki. Then four militants were killed, including the son of Daudov. For unidentified reasons, the leader of the extremists managed to go through the surroundings of the special forces fighters.