Central Bank. Photo from the site www.chronicle.ru "You wrote to us ..." The revision of the basic standards of banking in Russia and the Central Bank, and the market participants themselves have been talking for several years. By mid -2003, it became clear that from conversations, financiers began to get to the matter. True, closer to the end of the year, the process began to slow down: it seemed that the Duma of the third convocation would not deal with the insurance of bank deposits.

The number of victims of the explosion at the Sibirskaya mine in Kuzbass has risen to 6 people. As the director of the Kemerovo regional center for disaster medicine Ilgiz Galeev told RIA Novosti, another miner died in the burn center in Kemerovo on Friday. According to Galeev, this miner suffered burns over 40% of his skin and other injuries. "Doctors did everything possible to save his life," he stressed. This brings the death toll from the incident to six.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov does not rule out the possibility that by the summer of 2004 changes will be made to the tariffs for compulsory civil liability insurance of motor vehicle owners. According to Interfax, the Prime Minister told reporters about this on Friday. He stressed that the government plans to monitor not only the implementation of this document in recent months, but also the level of tariffs.

British record labels intend to sue p2p users if they do not stop making their music collections available for download by other users, writes Reuters. (BPI) CEO British Phonographic Industry Andrew Yeats said his organization intends to educate users on the legal implications of file sharing and introduce licensed online music services, and if that doesn't work, sue.

Britney Spears had to pay half a million dollars for 55 hours of her marriage to Jason Alexander, according to Metro. An informed source said that it was this amount that appeared on Alexander's account after the wedding. After the marriage was annulled, Britney wrote a check for $60,000 to her failed husband.

Closer to midnight on Friday, a heavy snowfall is expected in the capital, RIA Novosti reports. According to the metropolitan meteorological bureau, the snow in the capital will go until 9 am Saturday. On Saturday, as expected, up to 2 mm of precipitation may fall, the height of the snow cover by morning will be 5 cm on average in the city. The temperature will drop, 2-4 degrees of frost are expected by morning. Saturday will be rainless with fairly mild temperatures.

The website of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, which published data on the results of elections to the State Duma, unsuccessfully tried to hack more than 900 times, Alexander Veshnyakov said on Thursday. According to RIA Novosti, the head of the department said that "the CEC turned out to be too tough for hackers." According to Veshnyakov, hacker attacks were prepared not only by amateurs, but also by professionals, including those from other states.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow at a meeting on Friday refused to satisfy the complaint of Igor Smykov about the illegal actions of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy, which satisfied the petition for the merger of the Yukos and Sibneft companies. This was reported to Interfax in court.

Deputy Secretary of State for Border Security and Transportation at the US Department of Homeland Security, Aza Hutchinson, had to fly to Europe to convince EU countries of the need for the presence of armed agents on transatlantic flights. According to the AP, many airlines of the EU countries reacted very reservedly to the request of the Ministry of National Security to allow armed agents on their flights if necessary.

The head physician of the Krasnoturyinsky maternity hospital, Marat Salakhov, has been dismissed from his post, reports IA REGNUM . The order to remove it was signed on January 16 by the Minister of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region Mikhail Sklyar. By the same order, the minister issued a severe reprimand to the head of the Krasnoturinsk health department, Vladimir Zhukov. Meanwhile, new facts have become known around a mass outbreak in a local maternity hospital.

The British Home Office announced the possibility of deepening and reusing the graves so that up to 4 dead could be buried one above the other. According to the Guardian, this proposal, unthinkable for the British, was made due to the fact that cemeteries and crypts are overcrowded in the country, and there is nowhere to bury people. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has scheduled 6 months to work out a solution to this problem. More than 600 thousand people die in the country every year.

The signal of one of the "black boxes" of the Egyptian Boeing 737 that crashed into the sea off Sharm el-Sheikh is localized at a depth of 1023 meters, radio France-Info reports. The signal was localized by French specialists looking for the flight recorders of the airliner. The use of experimental equipment made it possible to establish with an accuracy of five meters the place from which the signal of one of the "boxes" comes.

Oleg Morozov. Photo from the site www.vesti.ru For the first time in Russia, the executive branch, legislative power and the president represent a single whole, said Oleg Morozov (United Russia) on Friday in an interview with journalists. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". “Today, for the first time in the latest political Russian history, we conduct a grandiose experiment, when the executive, legislative authorities and the president are a single political whole,” the vice speaker noted.

The Duma faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation refuses to participate in the voting on the issue of the chairmen of the State Duma committees. The faction issued a corresponding statement. "We will not take part in the vote," it says. The election of the heads of the Duma committees is on the agenda of today's plenary session of the lower house of parliament.

On Friday, an F-16 military plane crashed in Turkey, RIA Novosti reports. Details are not yet known. There is no data either about the place of the crash of the car, or about the fate of the pilots.