In Ulyanovsk, a Gazelle minibus crashed into an armored personnel carrier. As the press service of the traffic police of the Ulyanovsk region told Rosbalt, the accident occurred in the Zavolzhsky district of Ulyanovsk on the night of February 14. The Gazelle, driven by a drunk 25-year-old man, crashed into an armored personnel carrier belonging to the 31st Ulyanovsk airborne brigade standing on the side of the road. The driver and passenger of the Gazelle were injured in the accident.

The collapse of the dome of the water park in Moscow killed two citizens of Georgia - a father and a son. Their wife and mother are in the hospital, her legs have been amputated. Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Teimuraz Gamtsemlidze reported this to RIA Novosti. "The relatives have already been to our consulate, they have received all the necessary assistance," he stressed.

In Moscow, a major theft was committed from a hotel room in which a British citizen lived. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the capital's police department. "The day before, a 60-year-old foreigner contacted the Zamoskvorechye department of internal affairs and introduced himself as the general director of a private firm providing services in the field of education," the source said.

Starting February 20, the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks is making a number of changes to the rules for registering second-level domains in the .RU zone . The key change concerns the paragraph on the prohibition of the sale of domain names: now a domain name can be an object of sale. Previously, it was forbidden to sell domain names in the .RU zone. This, however, did not prevent cybersquatters from trying to sell them with varying success.

A seven-year-old girl died at the French ski resort in Albertville, reports AP. The tragedy occurred in front of the girl's parents in the presence of numerous witnesses. The child died after getting entangled in a ski lift. The girl's hand was caught between the cables, and she was pulled into the mechanism. The rescuers who arrived at the scene were unable to help the girl. A criminal case has been initiated.

English archaeologists have discovered the ship on which Charles Darwin made his famous expedition, which led to the creation of evolutionary theory. The Beagle was searched for over a century and found at a depth of 3.6 meters at the mouth of a river in the southeast of the UK, AFP reports. Darwin's expedition lasted from 1831 to 1836. The scientist traveled to the islands of the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, conducting numerous experiments and observations.

On Sunday evening, an unknown person reported to law enforcement agencies about a bomb allegedly planted in the building of the television center in Ostankino. According to RIA Novosti, the bomb threat turned out to be false. According to a source in the capital's police department, the inspection of the building ended at 23.45, no bomb was found in the television center. Employees of all operational services of the city went to the place.

German scientists from the Medical Center of the University of Hamburg for the first time begin to test on humans created their vaccine against AIDS, reports NEWSRU.com. Jan van Lunzen, the scientific director of the center, said on Monday that the first stage of testing will begin at the end of February and will last 13 months. Vaccinations will be given to 50 volunteers at clinics in Hamburg, Bonn, Brussels and Antwerp.

At the Kievsky railway station in Moscow, due to the threat of an explosion, an evacuation is being carried out, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the data of the capital's department of civil defense and emergency situations. "At about 21.15, information was received that a suspicious object resembling an explosive device was found on the railway tracks near the station building," the source said.

Elena Baturina. Photo from the site www.lujkov.ru The Moscow Entertainment Park "Transval", the collapse of the roof in the pool of which on Saturday claimed at least 28 people, control structures close to Inteko. This company is headed by the wife of Moscow Mayor Elena Baturina. This is written on Monday Russian newspapers Vedomosti and Kommersant. The owner of the Transval Park at the end of November last year was Terra Oil, which, according to Vedomosti, is controlled by Inteco.

On Monday, the Moscow City Court continued questioning witnesses in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov. In the first part of the meeting, three witnesses for the prosecution were questioned. Yuly Nisnevich, a former State Duma deputy, member of the Liberal Russia party and a friend of the Yushenkov family, was the main witness, who received the most attention both from the prosecution and the defense, according to Graney.ru correspondent.

Police officers in the seaside village of Romanovka, Shkotovsky District, seized about 112 kg of marijuana from a local resident. As RIA Novosti was informed on Monday by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, a large consignment of drugs was discovered during operational-search activities by criminal investigation officers in a private house with a previously convicted man.

In Rostov-on-Don, a company was exposed that produced slot machines with an extremely low percentage of winnings, down to zero. As Alexei Polyansky, deputy head of the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Southern Federal District, told RIA Novosti, the company came into the field of view of operatives about two months ago.

Participants of an emergency meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Monday recognized South Asia as a zone free from the avian influenza virus, Gazeta.ru reports citing ITAR-TASS. In a resolution adopted following the SAARC meeting in Delhi, it was also announced that the products of poultry farms today do not pose a danger to the population of this region.

Russia has detained Yusup Kasimakhunov, who, according to Uzbek law enforcement agencies, is one of the leaders of the Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Liberation Party) terrorist organization, Gazeta.Ru reports. In February 2000, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan put Kasimakhunov on the international wanted list for committing crimes. The Islamic Liberation Party is one of the most active religious and political parties of the Sunni persuasion.