Suspect in shooting of Moscow police officers detained In the Moscow region, on Tuesday night, a native of Dagestan, Yakub Kartakaev, was detained, who is suspected of attacking a police squad in the west of the capital last Saturday. Then one policeman was killed and another was seriously wounded. Yesterday, unexpected details of this crime became known. As it turned out, there were not three criminals at all, as previously reported.

On the eve of an important meeting of the quartet of Middle Eastern mediators scheduled for March 19 in Moscow, the situation in the region has worsened. Riots organized by Arab youth broke out in Jerusalem. Palestinians supported the call of the radical Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to hold a “day of rage” and protect the Temple Mount, on which Muslim shrines are located: the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, from Jews.

Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sidorsky discussed the transfer of the union state from paper to real The head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin, spent yesterday in Belarus, where a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the union state was held. This time the event was held not in the Belarusian capital Minsk, but in the regional center of Brest. Thanks to this, Mr.

The “Final Four” of the Russian Basketball Cup will be held for the first time at USC CSKA Tomorrow the “Final Four” of the Russian Basketball Cup among men's teams starts at the capital's CSKA universal sports complex. The semifinal pairs were CSKA - Spartak (St. Petersburg) and Khimki - UNICS (Kazan). On Friday there will be a match for third place and a battle directly for the honorary trophy.

Road builders received state guarantees Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on state guarantees to investors who, together with the state, participate in projects to develop transport infrastructure. The Prime Minister personally informed Transport Minister Igor Levitin about this yesterday. “We are talking about roads, railways, seaports, airports, airstrips,” the prime minister clarified.

The rules for registering domains in Runet are brought into line with international standards On October 1, 2009, new rules for registering domain names in Russia came into force. Now everyone who wants to acquire their own domain must not only provide information about themselves, but also provide a document confirming the accuracy of the information. Domain name owners were given six months to get their registration data in order, which expires on April 1.

They are trying to predict the weather in the capital using folk signs. An alternative to the traditional city weather service, the Ecometeorological Bureau, which began work in early March in the Kuzminki-Lublino park, published the first official forecast. Based on observations of the behavior of animals living in the natural park and various natural phenomena, eco-meteorologists predict the imminent onset of climatic spring and dry summer for Muscovites.

CONCERTS Cesaria Evora. Evora, as has long been known not only to music lovers, but also to the general public, is the queen and founder of the morna vocal style, “the black Edith Piaf,” as many call her. Drawing African-Brazilian ballads will be played today in the Kremlin Palace , 19.00. Alexey Aigi and “4'33”. CC "Dom" , 20.00. Trio of Evgeny Borts (piano), Andrey Makarevich (guitar, vocals), Irina Rodiles (vocals). Jazz Town , 20.30.

A new head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia has been appointed President Medvedev yesterday appointed a new Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia by decree. He became Major General Viktor Pogolov, who previously held the post of first deputy chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Saratov Region. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia worked for more than six months without a full-fledged leader.

In Kyrgyzstan, they demand the resignation of the president and his son The Kyrgyz authorities continue to fight the Internet and Western radio voices. The other day, the state television and radio company (NTRK) unexpectedly did not air the BBC evening program, which had been regularly broadcast for many years. Days earlier, Azattyk, the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty, stopped broadcasting in the country.

Venezuela and Belarus entered into an agreement on oil supplies While the head of the Russian government , Vladimir Putin, was in Brest at a meeting of the Union State Council of Ministers , Alexander Lukashenko was working on the problem of energy security in Caracas. During negotiations with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, he agreed on the supply of oil from the Bolivarian republic to Belarusian refineries.

A scandal surrounding the development of green areas is breaking out in St. Petersburg In a famous place in St. Petersburg, the Lopukhinsky Garden, a mass protest rally of citizens took place against the sale of a garden plot to a private investor for high-rise development. The rally against the construction of a multi-storey hotel here was organized by activists of the “Living City” and “Green Wave” movements, and the ECOM Center of Expertise.

Geithner is being asked not to stand on ceremony with China As soon as the annual session of the National People's Congress (Parliament) ended in Beijing, after which Prime Minister Wen Jiabao confirmed the correctness of the currency policy, the political campaign to put pressure on the yuan intensified in the United States. Lawmakers literally attacked the Barack Obama administration with demands to punish China.

Former deputy head of Mosleskhoz sentenced The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow recently issued a verdict in the case of the 59-year-old former deputy head of the forestry department for the Moscow region and Moscow (Mosleskhoz) of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) Vladimir Lysenko and the 49-year-old ex-head of the department of waste management and land restoration Federal State Institution "Central Laboratory of Analytical and Technical Measurements" under "Rostechnadzor" Yakov

EU promises Greece 'coordinated efforts when the time is right' Following a meeting yesterday in Brussels, EU finance ministers agreed on a plan to save Greece. Its details have not been disclosed; it is only known that it will come into force “if particularly necessary” and at the request of Greece itself. Against this background, the European currency exchange rate showed good growth yesterday.