The Constitutional Court will examine the legality of ending the privatization of housing The new Housing Code, or more precisely the law on its implementation, has finally become the subject of consideration in the Constitutional Court. Judges will have to decide whether the ban on the privatization of social housing provided after March 1, 2005, as well as a complete ban on the privatization of previously received apartments since January 2007, is consistent with the Basic Law.

Russia intends to strengthen its presence in warring Iraq. According to Vremya Novostey, discussions are underway about opening Russian consulates this year in the safest areas of the country - in the north in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and in the south in Basra, where Shiite Arabs live. A high-ranking delegation from the Russian Foreign Ministry, led by Ambassador-at-Large Sergei Kirpichenko, has already met with the Kurdish leadership this week.

Gazprom admitted to gas shortage Gazprom openly admitted yesterday that it has little gas and that in a few years Russia will not be able to satisfy the growing demand for this type of fuel in all consuming countries. According to the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexander Ryazanov, most likely it will be necessary to limit supplies to those who pay non-market prices, that is, domestic Russian consumers.

Eleven workers burned alive at a construction site near Moscow Eleven people were killed and another 15 were burned as a result of a fire that occurred yesterday morning at a construction site in the village of Pavshinskaya Poima, Krasnogorsk district, Moscow region. All the victims were visitors from other regions who were recruited for the construction of a new residential area and lived in cabins there.

The Moscow Easter Festival opens on Sunday Headed by Valery Gergiev, the fifth anniversary Moscow Easter Festival will open on a festive Sunday evening at 21.00.

Russian politicians and political scientists - about the present and future of Russian roads "When good enlightenment Let's push more boundaries, Over time (according to calculation Philosophical tables Five hundred years later) the roads, right, Ours will change immensely: The Russian highway is here and here, Having connected, they will cross." Alexander PUSHKIN.

Angela Merkel destroyed the paparazzi with contempt For the first time since taking office as Federal Chancellor of Germany in November 2005, Angela Merkel became the target of a paparazzi attack. The head of the cabinet spent her short vacation with her husband (pictured with Merkel) in the southern part of Italy on the island of Ischia. Italy has long been a pan-German health resort: former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in recent years called this country his favorite holiday destination.

Berlusconi does not accept his defeat Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 69, intends to challenge the verdict of the Court of Cassation announced on Wednesday, which confirmed the victory of the center-left Union coalition led by 66-year-old Romano Prodi in the parliamentary elections on April 9-10. Premiere party “Forward, Italy!” is preparing a claim to the administrative tribunal of the metropolitan region of Lazio.

Canada refused to refuel the Belarusian Prime Minister The visit of the newly appointed Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky to Cuba was marred by an unpleasant incident. Ottawa denied the government plane a technical landing. “We are not ready to facilitate the entry of high-ranking representatives of the Belarusian regime into Canada,” Matthew Mayer, a spokesman for the Canadian Embassy in Russia and Belarus, said in an interview with Interfax.

Khimki received a ticket to the ULEB Cup Today in Khimki, the basketball club of the same name and the capital’s army team will play the Russian Cup in a head-to-head meeting. In the semi-finals, the hosts of the arena won with a minimal advantage over Dynamo near Moscow - 81:80, CSKA prevailed over UNICS Kazan - 77:63. The Final Four was opened by the current trophy holders and a club from the capital of Tatarstan.

The idea of ​​consolidating Russian regions has not yet taken hold in the Caucasus The referendum that took place last Sunday on the issue of unifying the Irkutsk region and the Buryat Ust-Orda Autonomous Okrug coincided with a political crisis in the westernmost of the North Caucasus republics - Adygea, which until now was seen as one of the most likely sites for a federal experiment (or even strategic line) for further consolidation of regions.

In St. Petersburg they tried to kill another foreign student On Wednesday evening, another attack was committed on a foreign student in St. Petersburg. This time, 23-year-old Indian citizen Anjangi Kishori Kumar suffered at the hands of local Nazis, who again provided his hometown with the informal title of the criminal capital of Russia.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season. Cleveland - Atlanta - 100:99, Charlotte - Philadelphia - 96:86, Detroit - Washington - 80:96, Dallas - Clippers -- 71:85, “Houston” – “San Antonio” – 87:89, “Utah” – “Golden” – “State” – 105:102, “Lakers” – “New Orleans” -- 115:95, Indiana -- Orlando -- 89:83, New Jersey -- New York -- 83:90, Boston -- Miami -- 85: 78, Minnesota -- Memphis -- 92:102 (2OT), Chicago -- Toronto -- 127:106, Portland -- Phoenix -- 96:106, Seattle -- Denver -- 109:89.

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Even Easter did not reconcile the patriarchs in Jerusalem One of the main pre-Easter ceremonies of the Orthodox world - the descent of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher - may be overshadowed by the ongoing confrontation between two hierarchs fighting for the right to be called the head of the Jerusalem Church.