The head of the International Red Cross Committee arrived in Damascus in an attempt to achieve a daily announcement of a two -hour truce in order to take out the wounded and deliver humanitarian aid. On Monday, the UN envoy and the League of the Arab states in Syria Kofi Annan said that the Syrian President Bashar Assad promised to withdraw troops from cities until April 10 and stop fire from the 12th.

In Ingushetia, in a car in which five militants were traveling, killed on Tuesday evening in a shootout with the police, a powerful home -made explosive device was found and neutralized. Earlier it was reported that not five, but four militants were killed in a shootout in Nazran. The police stopped them to verify documents, but fire was opened from the car. The identities of the dead are established. No one was injured from the police.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to approve the Governor of Viktor Nazarov, G. Gazprom Interregiongaz Omsk, by the Governor of the Omsk Region by the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region. The next term of powers of the current governor Leonid Polezhaev, heading the region since 1991, has been expired this year.

Russian Facebook group "We were on Bolotnaya and we will still" became the finalist of the international competition The jury of the international contest of blogs and network communities of The Bobs , which is conducted by the German television and radio company Deutsche Welle, published a list of finalists, among which there are Russian -speaking projects.

In Moscow, the owner of the building in the Kachalovsky market was detained, where 17 people were killed as a result of a fire. This is the general director of the Start-2 enterprise Vladimir Lykov. According to a representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, investigators interrogate him as a suspect under an article on violation of fire safety rules. The issue of his arrest is being resolved.

In Cheboksary on Tuesday, about 200 representatives of the Communist Party, LDPR, Fair Russia and Yabloko, as well as the non -systemic opposition, held a protest against the government. The audience opposed the political pressure in the State Council of Chuvashia, the seizure of power by one party and the deprivation of the right of voting oppositionists.

In San Francisco on Monday, the police detained about 80 OCCupy activists who occupied an empty building and, according to the authorities who were about to stay there for a long time. According to the local press, the police took the building by storm, breaking through the barricade erected by activists at the entrance. According to representatives of the police, there are no victims. The building of the former music school, owned by the Catholic diocese, was busy protesters on Sunday.

The United States offer a reward of $ 10 million for information that would lead to the detention of Hafiz Mohammad Said, one of the founders of the radical Islamic group "Lashkar-E-Taiba". The group based in Pakistan is suspected of organizing a terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai at the end of 2008. Both Lashkar-E-Taiba and another group-“Jamaaat-Uda-Dawa”, which is considered its political wing, is included in Washington in the list of terrorist organizations.

7 people were killed and 3 were injured during shooting at the University of Christian in the American city of Auckland, California. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov, the witnesses of the tragedy say that during classes, a former medical student who said: “Build, I’ll kill you all now.” He shot at the nearest student point -blank. Then he opened random shooting at the rest.

President Dmitry Medvedev As expected, on April 3, the next meeting of the current president Dmitry Medvedev with representatives of the opposition will be held. She had to pass on April 2, but due to the tragedy under Tyumen, Medvedev changed his work schedule. The president’s leaders “for honest elections” were invited to the president.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko today during a meeting in Minsk with the General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yuki Amano said that Belarus is ready for the construction of a second nuclear power plant - despite the fact that the first was not even begun. Lukashenko is convinced that nuclear energy is the safest way to get cheap energy.

Over the next two days, Damascus is expected to arrive at UN representatives to discuss the placement of observers of this international organization in Syria in order to monitor the ceasefire. One of the points of the plan to resolve the conflict in Syria of the special envoy of the UN and the League of the Arab states of Kofi Annan provides for the placement of 250 UN observers in the country. However, its implementation requires the approval of the UN Security Council.