Sport Stacey beat Cheryl Oleg Efimov The British men's magazine The Nuts has published a list of the most beautiful wives and girlfriends of football players. The fiancee of Manchester United and Wales national team midfielder Ryan Giggs, Stacey Cook, topped the ranking of beauties of the world of football. In second place is the girlfriend of Lincoln (England) player Ryan Semple, Carly Kent.

17 February 2007, 13:23 Onishchenko: not a single person fell ill with bird flu The situation with bird flu in the Moscow region does not cause alarm; there are no sick people. This was stated today by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko . “All people are healthy, medical and veterinary services are responding adequately,” he said.

17 February 2007, 13:32 MAK: the Tu-154 crew was poorly prepared The main cause of the Tu-154 plane crash near Donetsk was the actions of the crew - the plane was in good working order, and the weather and the actions of the dispatchers did not affect the work of the crew. The co-pilot was in the cockpit, but did not take part in the controls; the co-pilot-trainee did all the work for him, Deputy Chairman of the IAC Alexey Morozov told reporters .

February 17, 2007, 00:47 The Russian national team will not play a friendly match on March 28 took place at the RFU A two-hour meeting between RFU President Vitaly Mutko and Russian national team head coach Guus Hiddink office on Friday . SE reports this. The plans of the national team for 2007 were clarified and approved there. The national team's friendly match, scheduled for March 28, has been finally cancelled.

Uzbeks fell under drunken knives Text: Marina Lemutkina Photo: pafnet.de In Pushkin, a group of drunken teenagers stabbed two Uzbeks to death in a mass brawl. One of them ended up in the morgue, the other is in intensive care. On Friday evening in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg, local residents stabbed to death two citizens of Uzbekistan in a fight. The fight occurred near house No. 48 on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, Fontanka.Ru clarifies.

17 February 2007, 12:03 300 drunk drivers detained in Moscow overnight On Saturday night in Moscow, 276 drivers were detained for driving while intoxicated, the traffic police reports. 153 of them refused to undergo a medical examination for intoxication. In addition, on Saturday night, State Traffic Inspectorate officers identified 5,296 violations of traffic rules, and documents of questionable authenticity were confiscated from 11 drivers.

17 February 2007, 11:53 A meeting of the Tu-154 commission is underway in Smolny A meeting of the government commission is taking place in Smolny to provide assistance to the families of the victims and to assist in eliminating the consequences of the Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154 plane crash, in which 170 people died on August 22, 2006.

17 February 2007, 16:04 Moscow region authorities have opened a hotline for bird flu The authorities of the Moscow region have opened a hotline for residents of the region who, since February 1 of this year, have purchased any birds at the Bird Market in Moscow. This was announced by the acting governor of the Moscow region, Alexey Panteleev. “All those who have purchased domestic or any other poultry from February 1 at the Poultry Market in the south-east of Moscow should call (495) 699-91-02.

17 February 2007, 22:16 Calls to the bird flu hotline are received every minute The bird flu hotline receives not only reports about birds purchased at the Moscow Poultry Market, but also complaints about people’s well-being. This was announced by the chief sanitary doctor of the Moscow region Valery Sitnikov. “Calls come to two landlines, one mobile phone and even a fax every minute,” Sitnikov said. Operators even stopped keeping detailed records of them.

17 February 2007, 10:36 Two small planes crash-landed in Moscow Over the past 24 hours, incidents involving two more small aircraft occurred at Moscow airports. As a source in the Ministry of Transport reported on Saturday, on Friday at 16:05 at Sheremetyevo airport after takeoff of the Adriaairways RJ-200 aircraft, the crew reported a malfunction in the flap retraction system and the decision to land at the departure airfield. At 16:14 the landing took place safely.

17 February 2007, 08:46 Rosavtodor: the number of toll roads in Russia will not exceed 0.1% Rosavtodor estimates the potential for the construction of toll roads in Russia at less than 0.1% of the total length of the transport network, said the head of the Federal Agency Oleg Belozerov during the IV Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum on Saturday.

03:01 (February 17) CSKA can play with “Wings” in a snowstorm On Friday, the Moscow army team prepared for the cup match with Krylya Sovetov without their head coach Valery Gazaev. SS reports this. The mentor returned to Moscow for the day, but today he will rejoin his team. In his absence, the classes, which took place at FC Alania, were conducted by Nikolai Latysh. As the stadium staff reported, they expect no more than 15 thousand spectators at the match that day.

17 February 2007, 12:25 Trunov: IAC findings about the guilt of the Tu-154 crew will not affect the claims of the victims’ families The findings of the commission to investigate the causes of the crash of the Pulkovo Airlines plane near Donetsk will not in any way affect the progress of the consideration of the claim of the relatives of the victims, said the victims’ lawyer Igor Trunov .

Actress Scarlett Johansson was awarded the most prestigious of the informal film awards, the Harvard Hasty Pudding, presented by the Harvard University Theater Society. During the ceremony at Harvard University, she took part in a comic competition and bravely endured ridicule for her famous candid photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine. 22-year-old Johansson played in such films as “Lost in Translation”, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, “Match Point”, “Black Orchid”, “Sensation”.

17 February 2007, 17:15 Bird flu hotline overloaded The hotline of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Moscow Region, opened in connection with the discovery of bird flu in the Moscow region, is working under heavy load. “We have 2 landline and 2 mobile phones, there are three people at the headquarters, and we don’t have time to answer calls,” said Valery Sitnikov, chief veterinary inspector of the Moscow region, on the Ekho Moskvy radio station. call the hotline .