Russia is ready to help NATO transport not only water and stationery The Russian armed forces are ready to join in the transportation of contingents and military cargo for the NATO contingent in Afghanistan. This was announced yesterday by the head of the Central Directorate of Military Communications (VOSO) of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Boris Svistkov. Formally, the general's statement can hardly be considered a sensation.

The national airline "Turkmenhowayollary" published an announcement in the media of Turkmenistan about an international tender for the sale of aircraft manufactured in 1965-1995, including airplanes, helicopters, aircraft engines and components. The list of aircraft offered for sale includes exclusively Soviet-designed aircraft, mainly their relatively early, outdated modifications: An-2, An-24 and An-26 aircraft, Tu-154B, Yak-40, Yak-42, Mi helicopters -8 and Mi-2.

Gazprom withdrew from the shareholders of the North-West CHPP Gazprom, which for many years tried to establish control over one of the most modern power plants in Russia - the gas turbine North-Western Thermal Power Plant , actually admitted defeat in the fight for this asset and left the game. The gas concern, as it became known yesterday, sold its small stake in the station.

Russian scientists spoke out in defense of the CFE Treaty A group of Russian scientists and public figures distributed yesterday in Moscow at the International Federation of Peace and Harmony the text of an appeal calling for “ restoring the viability of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe .” At a press conference, they said that the appeal was a response to a statement in November 2007 by a large group of prominent scientists and former diplomats from Europe and North America.

The state is unable to control food prices There is a lot of grain in the country, but bread costs more and more. What is the reason for such a paradoxical rise in bread prices in the regions in recent days, Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev was unable to answer the delegates of the congress of the Association of Peasant Farms last Wednesday. He only stated his confidence that bread prices should be stable throughout the year, increasing at most within the limits of inflation.

CLUBS "Ocean Elzy" (Ukraine). "B1 Maximum" March 21, 21.00. Alexander Laertsky (vocals, guitar) in the “FM-club” , March 22, 21.00. "Pakava It" in Gogol' , March 22, 21.30. “Leningrad” at “B1 Maximum” , March 22, 21.00. "Ship" in The Chinese Pilot Zhao Da , March 23, 22.00. MOVIE "Spiderwick Chronicles" (USA, 2008). Directed by Mark Waters. Starring: Sarah Bolger, Freddie Highmore, David Strathairn, Mary Louise Parker, Martin Short, Joan Plowright, Todd Fennell, Andrew McCarthy, Isabella Maiko.

From March 24 to March 30, 2008 Monday, March 24 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 0.30 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 "DEATHING FORCE". Series 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 20 Understand. Forgive 15 . 20 “Wolf Messing. "I see people's thoughts." Doc. movie 16 . 00 “FIRE OF LOVE”. Series 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "NEXT". Series(S) 20 . 00 "CIRCUS PRINCESS". Series(S) 21 .

Music of Vienna at the Dedication Festival The international music festival “Dedication”, organized annually in the Vrubel Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery by Alexander Rudin and his orchestra Musica Viva, almost never happens without a theme that puts the obligatory rarities and transcriptions, premieres and transcriptions, textbook or forgotten masterpieces and the quiet rustle of musical time into an exquisite conceptual software designs.

The current president is still more popular than the elected one The first public opinion polls in Russia after the presidential elections showed that the current head of state, Vladimir Putin, is still more popular than the elected Dmitry Medvedev . But Medvedev's ratings are rapidly approaching Putin's. So, judging by the ratings, Vladimir Putin is still far from achieving “lame duck” status.

In TNK-BP and the British Council, security officers found traders of secrets The case of the visit on Wednesday by representatives of the special services to the offices of TNK-BP and the Moscow representative office of BP (British Petroleum) was continued yesterday.

New suspects are being sought in the murder of the leader of the Dagestan Yabloko party The scandalous case of the murder of the leader of the Dagestan branch of the Yabloko party Farid Babaev, the disclosure of which local security forces recently reported, as Vremya Novostei learned, received an unexpected continuation.

Su-25 exploded in Primorye On Thursday, the first crash of a Russian military aircraft this year occurred in Primorye. During a training flight in the area of ​​Lake Khanka, Spassky District, Primorsky Territory, a Su-25 attack aircraft crashed, the pilot was unable to eject and died. The plane, which took off from a military airfield in Chernigovka, was piloted by 39-year-old lieutenant colonel of the 187th attack air regiment Sergei Yakovenko.

Its further fate depends on the Fed and ECB rates The dollar, having risen in price by 12 kopecks yesterday to 23.67 rubles, partially recovered the positions lost at the beginning of the week . The main reason for this was the fall in commodity prices. As analysts note, the current growth of the dollar is more like a technical correction, and it will become more expensive when interest rates in the eurozone begin to decline.

The Prime Minister called for stopping the rise in prices using market methods At yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov actually agreed with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin that the policy of freezing prices is harmful. And he admitted that the rise in prices in the country cannot be stopped using such methods. It would seem that Mr.

The Russians were left without medals in pair skating At the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, the second set of awards was awarded yesterday. In the women's tournament, our country was represented by only one athlete, 17-year-old Ksenia Doronina, who initially had no chance to participate in the medal “redistribution”. In January, at the European Championships in Zagreb, Alla Pyatova’s student came ninth.