More than half of Muscovites are afraid of violence from police officers The name of the Bashkir town of Blagoveshchensk, where “hundreds of citizens” were injured during a police sweep last December, seems to have already become a household name in the public consciousness. In any case, this is evidenced by the results of a recent survey by the Public Opinion Foundation, conducted in 100 settlements in 44 regions of the country.

Dozens of religious festival participants killed in terrorist attack in Pakistan A bloody terrorist attack in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan claimed the lives of about three dozen people. The explosion occurred late on Saturday during a religious festival near the village of Fatehpur, located 350 km south of the main provincial city of Quetta. About 20 thousand people gathered at the grave of the revered Shiite saint.

Without a new car, the Scuderia looks helpless The second stage of the 56th Formula 1 World Championship, the Malaysian Grand Prix, took place in Kuala Lumpur at the Sepang circuit. Once again, like two weeks earlier, the Renault driver celebrated the victory. Only this time it was not Giancarlo Fisichella who climbed to the top step of the podium, but Fernando Alonso. But seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher and his Ferrari just can’t gain momentum.

Altai Governor Mikhail Evdokimov gathered a full house against him within a year A year ago, pop entertainer and regular on the “Full House” program Mikhail Evdokimov won the gubernatorial elections in the Altai Territory. Even during the election campaign, Mikhail Evdokimov admitted that he did not have the knowledge necessary to govern the region. And he promised that he would bring with him a team of professional managers.

Scandalous charges brought against Parmalat case The loudest and largest financial scandal in Europe - the bankruptcy of the Italian concern Parmalat Finanziaria SpA - is flaring up with renewed vigor.

The scandal with Leonid Desyatnikov’s opera based on the libretto by Vladimir Sorokin “Children of Rosenthal” is taking on completely anecdotal forms. On March 4, the State Duma voted almost entirely to check information about the pornographic content of the opera.

The State Duma adopted amendments to pension laws in the first reading The State Duma on Friday approved in the first reading a draft amending the laws “On investing funds to finance the funded part of a labor pension,” “On non-state pension funds,” and “On individual (personalized) accounting in the compulsory pension insurance system.” After its approval in all readings, the period in which citizens have the right to make a choice between government agencies or private funds and management

Last month, the State Council decided to sharply accelerate the process of unifying the Russian aircraft industry. According to the schedule, which was announced at that meeting by the Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, consolidation is planned to be carried out over the next two years. Nevertheless, there are leaders in the industry who find this period too long and the plan itself unrealistic.

A suicide bomber, an Egyptian citizen, blew himself up on Saturday in a suburb of Doha, the capital of Qatar. The explosion of a car bomb killed one British citizen and injured 12 citizens of Arab and Asian countries. The terrorist attack occurred at a British school, next to the premises where that evening a performance of Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night" was taking place.

The Kyrgyz authorities used troops against the opposition Over the past 24 hours, the situation in Kyrgyzstan has dangerously worsened. According to reports received from there over the past two days, the republican authorities decided to use force to suppress spontaneous protests in the south, in the Jalal-Abad and Osh regions.

German Gref began to select a location for a Moscow technology park A new economic amusement on a national scale has appeared in Russia - technology parks. The President personally asked for the law “On Special Economic Zones” to be adopted in an accelerated manner, declaring the need to transfer the domestic economy from a raw material economy to an innovation economy. And the process began...

Two years ago America invaded Iraq Exactly two years ago, on the night of March 20, America began bombing Iraq. Three weeks later, Saddam Hussein's regime fell. On May 1, 2003, US President George W. Bush announced the victorious end of the operation. But the war did not end. Over the course of two years, 1,513 American troops died in Iraq. Most of them - 1,374 people - after Bush's declared victory.

Cold War architect George Kennan dies Late last week, the patriarch of American diplomacy and historian of American-Russian relations, George Frost Kennan, died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was one hundred and two years old. Kennan is the only American ambassador in Moscow in history to be declared persona non grata. Joseph Stalin personally demanded his expulsion in 1952. After only a few months in office, Kennan aloud compared living conditions in Moscow to those in Nazi Germany.

Europe hopes for Russian energy resources Vladimir Putin's working visit to Paris last Friday turned out to be a double premiere for him. Firstly, a new format, the so-called, debuted. "European Four" - a summit of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Spain. And secondly, Putin flew on the new presidential airliner for the first time.

MDF exhibitions as part of the “Fashion and Style in Photography” festival The director of the Moscow House of Photography, Olga Sviblova, chose “cinema” as the password word for this year’s festival. This is very wise. The trouble with all previous fashion photography festivals was that the onslaught of photographic products became a real natural disaster for the viewer's eye. After the fourth, fifth, tenth exhibition, my mind went beyond my mind.