State Duma deputies expressed dissatisfaction with their German colleagues in connection with the reception of Zakayev in the German parliament, RIA Novosti reports. Yuli Kvitsinsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, met on Wednesday with German Foreign Ministry coordinator for public relations with Russia, Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary faction Gernot Erler.

State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov has been elected captain of the football team of the lower house of parliament, RBC reports. Gryzlov himself told journalists about this. He noted that so far 20 parliamentarians have expressed a desire to play for the State Duma. "We have the opportunity to create a good football team," Gryzlov said.

A resident of the Ulyanovsk region was hospitalized in the central district hospital of the city of Sengilei with suspected cutaneous anthrax, ITAR-TASS reports. Nikolai Gerasimov, assistant head of the Volga-Ural Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, announced this. The Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Ulyanovsk Region organized laboratory diagnostics to confirm the diagnosis. The end date of the study is not specified.

Houses of Muscovites, who will participate more actively than others in the program of separate waste collection, will be repaired in the first place. Pyotr Aksenov, the first deputy mayor in the capital's government, announced this form of encouragement to citizens, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax. According to him, part of the money received by the city budget due to savings from separate waste collection will be used to repair entrances, pay for concierges, etc.

Three people suspected of involvement in the explosion in Vladikavkaz on Tuesday have been identified, RIA Novosti was told at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia. "Three people involved in the explosion have been identified, their identikit images have been compiled," Ismel Shaov, head of the ministry's press center, said. According to him, these people are residents of North Ossetia, and they are currently being searched for.

Instead of the Expedition 9 crew, which includes American Leroy Chiao and Russian Valery Tokarev, members of the Expedition 10 crew Gennady Padalko and Michael Fink will fly to the International Space Station. ITAR-TASS was informed about this in Star City. There are 2.5 months left before the start of the expedition to the ISS. Why the main crew on the ISS was replaced almost at the very last moment is not explained in Star City.

GDP. From the site www.sandp.ru More optimistic than previously assumed, the State Statistics Committee on GDP growth for 2003 and the level of inflation for the first month of the current year may be the result of changes in the methodology for calculating macroeconomic indicators. At least so the analysts interviewed by Reuters agency think. "This problem is interested in many, different opinions are expressed ...

Vladislav Lukanin. Photo by ar The Russian Brozen Brobled Vladislav Lukanin is disqualified for two years for the use of doping. He is also deprived of the silver medal of the November World Cup in the Canadian Vancouver. In addition, the US Territory of Russia (FTAR) Federation was fined for a thousand US dollars. Such a decision of the International Athletics Federation was announced on Wednesday by ITAR-TASS, General Secretary of the FTAR Yuri Lossyev.

On Tuesday, the Google search engine was once again named Global Brand of the Year, according to Reuters. The corresponding study was conducted by Interbrand, which surveyed more than four thousand users from 85 countries on the brandchannel.com website. The list of the ten most popular brands according to the results of the survey looks like this (in descending order of popularity): Google, Apple, Mini, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Ikea, Nokia, Nike, Sony, Starbucks. Reuters

Roman Abramovich is ready to invest in the construction of an indoor bandy stadium in London, businessman Edgar Malman said in Stockholm. It is reported by "Sport-Express". If this project is implemented, the capital of England will host the Bandy World Championship in 2012. In addition, an agreement was reached that the Arkhangelsk "Vodnik" on March 26 and 27 will play two demonstration matches in London with the Swedish "Edsbyn".

In Dresden, a man was hospitalized with suspected bird flu, RIA Novosti reports. According to local media, we are talking about a Vietnamese citizen working in Germany. A few days ago he came from Vietnam to Dresden, where he showed all the signs of bird flu. The brother of the hospitalized is the owner of a bird farm in Vietnam. The patient is now in the infectious diseases department of a hospital in Dresden. The test results will not be known until Wednesday morning.

The singer of the opera choir of the Finnish city of Savonlinna died during the tour. According to the Finnish newspaper Ilta Sanomat, cited by Rosbalt, on Wednesday, the choir touring Finland managed to move from Kuopio to Helsinki and give two concerts when a message came from the Kuopio hotel that the 40-year-old singer was found dead in his room. The artist's body was found by a cleaner 2 days after his death.

Herman Gref. Grani.ru collage The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, German Gref, spoke out for providing guarantees to business in order to disclose the structure of companies, RIA Novosti reports. “At the new stage, guarantees of business should be created so that the business can reveal the structure of companies as much as possible,” Gref said, speaking on Wednesday at the fifth annual investment conference held by the American Commercial Chamber in Russia.

The car "VAZ" of the 12th model was pressed to the side of the road by the jeep "Grand Cherokee", which was driven by a 38-year-old Muscovite. As .

On Thursday morning, the famous traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, who plans to set at least three new world records, will set sail from the Canary island of La Gomera. As project coordinator Alexander Kochkin told Interfax, this time Konyukhov is going to cross the Atlantic, first from east to west, and then from west to east. After that (approximately in November - early December), Konyukhov's solo trip around the world will begin on the same ship without calling at ports.