The military prosecutor's office believed the words of Sergeant Glukhov The main military prosecutor's office of Russia opened a criminal case against Sergeant Alexander Glukhov, who voluntarily left a military unit in South Ossetia and ended up in Georgia. “A criminal case has been opened against junior sergeant Glukhov under the article ‘desertion’, and Russia will demand that Georgia extradite him,” Russia’s chief military prosecutor, Sergei Fridinsky, said yesterday.

These days, committees of the Georgian parliament are discussing the legal subtleties of Georgia’s exit from the CIS. The decision to leave the Commonwealth, which Georgia was the last to join in 1994, was made in August last year after the conflict over South Ossetia. Georgia considered that the CIS did not properly condemn the “Russian intervention.” According to the Commonwealth charter, the final “divorce” will take place in August of this year.

As it became known from a message posted on the official website of the founder of the Innovation award in the field of contemporary art, the State Center for Contemporary Art, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov withdrew their project from the Innovation 2008 competition. On the portal page www.ncca.ru there is a letter from the director of the NCCA, deputy chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Innovation competition, Mikhail Mindlin, addressed to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

For the first time, a “third force” has appeared in disputes over cultural monuments in Moscow. In disputes between city officials and the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) about the ownership of cultural monuments, a third party has appeared, interfering with the legal registration and restoration of historical real estate objects.

Watch from March 19 on Moscow screens “Monsters vs. Aliens” (USA, 2009, Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon).

Through a loophole in the constitution Yesterday, France took the last decisive step towards returning to NATO military structures, from where the country was withdrawn by Charles de Gaulle 43 years ago. Members of the National Assembly (Parliament) overwhelmingly supported the plans of the president and government to fully return the country to the North Atlantic Alliance.

In the north-west on Wednesday the weather will be under the influence of a cyclone, due to which there will be sleet, the daytime temperature will be -4...+1oC. On Thursday, as the cyclone moves away, there will be only light precipitation in places, and -2...+3оС.

The President of Azerbaijan is ready to serve for life Today a constitutional referendum is being held in Azerbaijan. Voters, and according to the Central Election Commission, there are 4.8 million of them, are called upon to approve the introduction of 41 amendments to 29 articles of the country's basic law.

Our athletes solve unusual problems Tomorrow the penultimate stage of the World Cup starts in Trondheim, Norway. In just over a week, the international season will finish in Khanty-Mansiysk. Unlike a number of other sports in biathlon, after the World Championships, interest in the start of the cup program does not fade.

America will share the latest technologies with Germany From now on, Germany and the United States will closely cooperate in matters of ensuring civil security, including through the exchange of classified information and mutual access of experts to equally secret facilities. The bilateral agreement concluded recently in Berlin became the first real contribution of the new US President Barack Obama to strengthening trust between Washington and Berlin.

Sergei Ivanov called for tougher licensing of universities There is an overabundance of higher education institutions in Russia, and the quality of education in some of these universities “clearly does not meet modern standards.” Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov stated this, speaking at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Education and Science on Tuesday.

CLUBS Vanessa May. Kremlin Palace , 19.00. Alejandra Torres Trio . Latin American show. KZ "Mir" , 19.00. Dog Korolenko. Project O.G.I. , 22.00. CONCERTS Ensemble Nostri temporis (Ukraine). M. Kolomiets, J. Scelsi, B.-A. Zimmermann, G. Dorokhov, A. Shmurak. The ensemble consists of S. Suldin (violin), A. Boyko (clarinet), M. Kolomiets (oboe), A. Shmurak (piano). Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music under the direction of Y. Kasparov. Conductor F. Lednev.

Hugo Chavez is ready to host Russian strategic aviation in Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed using the airfield on Archila Island for the temporary basing of long-range aircraft of the Russian Air Force. This was stated by the Chief of Staff of the DA, Major General Anatoly Zhikharev. “There is such a proposal from the President of Venezuela. Chavez offered us an entire island with an airfield that we can use for the temporary basing of strategic bombers,” the general said.

Kozlov repeated the Woodpeckers record Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Atlanta" - "Washington" - 5:1 - Vyach. Kozlov “A” (1+1), “Los Angeles” - “Nashville” - 3:4 - Frolov “LA” (0+1). Atlanta forward Vyacheslav Kozlov worthily noted his record - the veteran, who will turn 37 in May, repeated Bobby Hollick's club achievement in the number of matches played in a row in the form of the Woodpeckers. Both the Czech and the Russian played 190 games in a row for Atlanta.

Lehman Brothers negotiates the sale of two of its banks Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., a bank undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. is negotiating the sale of two of its divisions. According to Reuters, the companies in question are Lehman Brothers Bank FSB, a savings bank based in Delaware, and Woodlands Commercial Bank, an industrial lender based in Utah. "We are committed to realizing asset value whenever that happens," Lehman spokeswoman Kimberly McLeod said.