* A RIA Novosti correspondent reported that the initiator of a brawl that occurred near in the Kyrgyz capital during a 5,000-strong opposition rally has confessed he supported the authorities for money
* A law enforcement source said police detained about 250 participants of the banned opposition March of Dissent in downtown Moscow, including the leader of the United Civil Front opposition organization, Garry Kasparov
* Over 30 people were killed and more than 20 injured in Turkey as a bus carrying schoolchildren from Izmir to tourist spot Cappadocia collided with a truck
* The British foreign secretary condemned Russian fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky's Friday statements in a major British newspaper on a coup attempt in Russia
* Russia's People's Party decided to dissolve itself and merge with Just Russia
