Four mini-eruptions of the Popocatepetl volcano have occurred in Mexico, AP reports. Ash and hot gas are erupting from the crater, but according to local authorities, there is no danger to people living nearby. Experts believe the mini-eruptions are caused by a lava dome that formed inside the volcano about a month ago. According to their calculations, mini-eruptions will continue for the next few weeks.

A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe headed by Lord Judd is arriving in Moscow today, Ekho Moskvy reports. It is expected that tomorrow its representatives will hold meetings at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB, and will also discuss the situation in Chechnya with the presidential representative in the republic, Abdul-Khakim Sultygov.

Demonstration in Washington. Photo by ar In the United States, mass protests were held against a possible war in Iraq. According to CNN, the largest protests took place in Washington and San Francisco. At least tens of thousands of people participated in the American capital in the march of protest. About the same amount gathered in San Francisco. According to the organizers, about 200 thousand people participated in anti -war demonstrations in the United States.

Fifteen Thai women competed in the final round of the Miss Drunkard contest this week at one of Bangkok's largest supermarkets. According to RIA Novosti, the winner is 36-year-old Shriaran, who managed to drink 5 glasses of Thai wine in 7 seconds and walk along a zigzag path of wine bottles without knocking down any of them.

In the Moscow metro on the stretch between the stations "Avtozavodskaya" and "Kolomenskaya" four teenagers beat a citizen of Nigeria. According to RIA Novosti, it happened on Saturday evening. The teenagers approached 34-year-old Okaro Davidson Cibo and started beating him without any explanation. At the station, Cibo turned to the police department for the protection of the subway. The police officers arrested the hooligans.

On Sunday, a tractor collapsed from the Luzhnetsky metro bridge into the Moscow River, Interfax reports. It happened at about ten o'clock in the morning. The tractor driver, clearing the metro bridge from snow, lost control. The tractor broke through the fence and fell into the river. Rescuers arrived at the scene and pulled out the tractor along with the tractor driver. The tractor driver was practically unharmed. He has several bruises and severe shock.

On Sunday, a demonstration was held in the United States in support of President Bush and the military operation in Iraq, Euronews reports. Participants of the "rally of patriots for America" ​​marched through the streets of Washington under American flags and banners with slogans in support of the armed forces and America. At one of the intersections, they were next to anti-war pacifists, but the police managed to prevent clashes.

Lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the interests of the former Nord-Ost hostages and their relatives, cannot be interrogated as a witness on issues related to his professional activities. This is reported by "Ekho Moskvy" with reference to the president of the law firm "Barshchevsky and partners" Mikhail Barshchevsky. According to Barshchevsky, the new law on the Bar has a direct ban on such actions.

Former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich was injured in a fight with the Social Democrat Ales Bely. This happened on Sunday at the city congress of the intelligentsia in Minsk, Interfax reports. The former leader of Belarus has a broken nose. According to eyewitnesses, the clash occurred on the basis of old hostile relations.

The infamous Hungarian publisher Aron Modus has filed a lawsuit against the writer Imre Kertész, a Nobel Prize winner in literature. According to RIA Novosti, the publisher believes that Imre Kertész's statements about the state of the Hungarian Jewish community in the period before 1945, published in one of the Hungarian magazines, are capable of inciting ethnic strife in society.

The fire that broke out on Sunday in a hostel in the center of Moscow was eliminated at 18.45. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the capital's UGPS. According to the interlocutor of the agency, there were no victims or injured as a result of the fire. The fire in the dormitory, located in house #69 on Bolshaya Pochtovaya Street, occurred around 18.00. The hostel residents were evacuated. 10 fire brigades took part in extinguishing the fire. The fire covered more than 100 square meters.

In the area of ​​the Ingush village of Arshty, a serviceman of the 58th Army was detained while trying to leave the post, Interfax reports. "Private Yevgeny Smirnov, who was serving as a guard at a field camp near Arshty, tried to arbitrarily leave the post with a weapon at about 12 noon on Sunday. During the detention of the fugitive, he opened fire on the capture group.

3,000 documents of interest to UN inspectors have been found in the home of Iraqi scientist Faleh Hasan, BBC reports. The documents are related to nuclear development and focus mainly on laser enrichment, a method of modifying uranium that can be used to create nuclear weapons. However, the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, said that "one cannot say that a smoking gun has been found," that is, these documents are not direct evidence that Iraq is hiding its nuclear developments.

The Belarusian opposition held an anti-Russian rally in Minsk on Sunday, timed to coincide with the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the union state. According to Interfax, the protesters were holding a poster with the inscription "Hands off Belarus." The symbolic trampling of the Russian flag and the destruction of Russian money also took place.

An Iraqi spy arrested in Kuwait was preparing a mass poisoning of American soldiers. It is reported by AP with reference to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan. According to the newspaper, Sergeant Mohammed Hamad al-Juwayed also helped Iraqi agents in the preparation of assassination attempts on a number of leading politicians in Kuwait. He gave them information about the movements of high-ranking officials.