To him, the cadre reshuffling which surfaced on March 28 has nothing to do with government reorganisation. Vladimir Putin discharged some ministers and appointed others instead of them. Former Defence Minister became presidential aide for strategic stability. Our position is the same. A Zhiguli car exploded in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow today at about 9am.
Police say it was a car bomb.
It went off in front of an apartment block on Borisovskiye Prudy Street. Later today, the presidium of the Moscow Region s court is to consider a surprise protest by Russia s Supreme Court which has found Tamara Rokhlina s indictment unlawful and groundless, and her guilt unproved. The programme was banned by the Moscow Region s vice-governor Mikhail Men, son of the late Father Aleksandr Men who had suffered a lot from censorship in his time. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, has praised Skopje for its handling of the incursion by Albanian extremists, in an address to the British Parliament this afternoon. The Portuguese ex-Chief of Joint Staff, General Gabriel Espirito Santo and Italian General Marco Albino were overlooked in favour of Finnish General Gustav Haglund.