The Tverskoy Court of Moscow on Thursday accepted for consideration new lawsuits filed on January 16 on behalf of the victims of the Dubrovka attack and their relatives. The total number of lawsuits filed against the Moscow government in this case has reached 61.

The newest anti-icing agent used in Moscow turned out to be ineffective, Kommersant reports. Last year, the city government tested 5 reagents: HKM (calcium chloride with the addition of urea), NKMM (calcium and magnesium nitrates with the addition of urea), Bishofit (magnesium chloride from the Volgograd deposit), Antisneg (ammonia salt of acetic acid) and "Nordix" (potassium acetate). The program for the introduction of reagents took 500 million rubles.

The Tverskoy Court of the capital, considering the claims of former hostages and relatives of those killed in the Dubrovka terrorist attack, found no grounds for transferring the case to the Moscow City Court. Thus, the court rejected the defense's motion to transfer the case on jurisdiction to the Moscow City Court.

The expiration of the lava of the Kilauea volcano. Photo from the site Ananova.com Geologists believe that the expiration of the lava of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, which began in May last year, was a consequence of the activity of the neighboring Mauna Loa volcano. New studies inhaled life into long -standing disputes about the connectedness of two volcanic systems.

30 years ago, on January 16, 1973, the Lunokhod-2 self-propelled vehicle was delivered to the Moon, in the region of the Sea of ​​Clarity, with the help of the Luna-21 automatic station. This space expedition was one of the most successful in the Lunar Program of the USSR. "Lunokhod-2" for 4 months of work traveled 37 km, transmitted to Earth 86 panoramas and more than 80 thousand images of the lunar surface.

The detention of the emissary of Chechen fighters Akhmed Zakayev in the UK is largely the merit of Interpol. Colonel Sergei Pismensky, acting head of the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Russia under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti about this.

The American spacecraft Columbia is sent into orbit on Thursday to conduct a set of scientific experiments, RIA Novosti reports. The launch of the shuttle from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida) will take place at 18:39 Moscow time. The Columbia crew includes seven astronauts, including the first Israeli astronaut, 48-year-old Colonel Ilan Ramon.

Filming NTV 17-year-old “Washington sniper”, a native of Jamaica John Lee Malvo will be judged as an adult, reports Reuters. This is the decision of the Court of Minor County Faerfax (Virginia). Thus, in his regard, the highest measure of punishment may be applied, which is implied by the new state of terrorism. According to the judge, the evidence is enough that Malvo was charged with deliberate murder and complicity of conspiracy to commit an attack.

About 30 ampoules allegedly containing bubonic plague have gone missing from a university lab in Texas. According to Reuters, the FBI is now investigating. University officials report that the missing ampoules cannot be used as weapons of mass destruction. According to them, one person can be killed with the bacteria contained in each ampoule, but not a group of people.

As part of the investigation into the loss of 30 ampoules with strains of bubonic plague, a professor at Texas Tech University was detained. AR reports. Dr. Thomas Butler of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine has been arrested on charges of giving false information to an FBI agent. He told the authorities that the ampoules had disappeared, when he should have remembered that he personally destroyed them.

The Australian Coast Guard recently found the Flying Dutchman, an Indonesian fishing boat that had been unexpectedly abandoned by its crew. Since then, the sailors have not been found, and another circumstance has appeared that has aggravated the mystery of the story, according to Reuters. Among the missing is the chief engineer. Even after his disappearance, his relatives in Taiwan received a bill for 80 calls from his mobile phone made in Bali. He had never called so many before.

On the night of January 13-14, in the seaside town of Arseniev, criminals stabbed to death four young people who were celebrating the old New Year. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the Department of Internal Affairs of Primorsky Krai. The killers are looking for. Their victim is two students of Primorye universities, a vocational school student and a technical school student. They died from multiple stab wounds.

A ship with at least 120 people on board capsized in the Strait of Aden, Reuters reports. Somalis who fled the country were sailing on a ship from Somalia to Yemen. 25 people, including 5 team members, were rescued. About 80 people are believed to be dead. The ship sank due to engine failure. The engine exploded, the passengers in a panic rushed to the bow of the ship, it lost its balance and turned over.

On January 15, the Center for Space Biology was inaugurated in Spain, located near the city of Torrejon de Ardoz, 20 km from Madrid. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The center will conduct research in robotics, planetary geology, molecular ecology, bioinformatics and other fields. It is housed in a modern building with a total area of ​​7,000 square meters.

Filming NTV Two major terrorist attacks were prevented in Moscow, law enforcement sources told Interfax on Thursday. According to them, two cars were found on Zvenigorodskaya Street of the capital, a total of 30 kg of explosives filled with a total of 30 kg of explosives. In one case, the explosives were placed in the fuel bank of the machine, and in the other the explosive device was in the trunk.