Yelena Burban, a former Nord-Ost hostage who lost her husband on Dubrovka, filed a lawsuit against the RF Ministry of Finance. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Elena's lawyer Igor Trunov. The lawsuit was filed for compensation for material and moral damage to the Basmanny Court. "As a result of the terrorist attack, she lost her husband, became disabled and completely lost her ability to work," the lawyer said.

Central "Children's World" will be reconstructed, reports "Echo of Moscow" with reference to Interfax. The department store on Lubyanka should turn into a modern shopping center of the European level. Its retail space should also increase. The final project of reconstruction, however, is not yet available. "Children's World" on Lubyanka has been operating since 1957.

On Thursday, the Central Election Commission of Georgia completed the acceptance of party lists of political parties and blocs that were registered to participate in the March 28 parliamentary elections. According to RIA Novosti, on Thursday, by 18:00, 14 parties and five blocs submitted their party lists to the CEC.

The largest Russian book forum - the VII National Exhibition-Fair "Books of Russia" - will be held from 10 to 15 March in Moscow on the territory of the All-Russian Exhibition Center. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Press, more than a thousand leading publishing houses from different regions of the country, as well as leading book distribution organizations, will take part in the fair.

Rescuers will continue to search Thursday for the missing snowboarder on Cheget, RIA Novosti was told at the Russian Emergencies Ministry. Seven snowboarders from Moscow on February 10 left the village of Terskol (Kabardino-Balkaria) for a ski trip and did not return to the camp site. The bodies of six were found under the snow on the northern slope of the mountain. They probably fell under one of the three artificially launched avalanches.

The murder of an African student in Voronezh is of a domestic nature. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in contact with the authorities of Voronezh, where an incident occurred that resulted in the death of a foreign student, the ministry said in a statement.

The next court hearing in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova in the city court of St. Petersburg will be held on Thursday, February 26. The questioning of witnesses will continue at the meeting.

On Thursday morning, two armed Palestinians attacked the Erez checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip. This, as the BBC reports, was reported in the Israeli army. One Israeli was killed in the attack and several others were injured. Two attackers were also killed. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the raid. In January, a Palestinian kamikaze blew herself up at this checkpoint, killing four Israelis in the process.

A humanitarian organization was attacked in Afghanistan on Wednesday. As a result, 5 people died and two more were injured. One of the employees of the non-governmental Serai Foundation has still not been found, Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali told the BBC. The attack happened on the road near Kabul. Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is currently on a working visit to Afghanistan.

An anti-Putin rally of the National Bolshevik Party is taking place in St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island. According to Graney.Ru's correspondent, about 50 members of the NBP, several dozen journalists and at least 20 policemen gathered in front of the building of the Mining Institute on Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment. The rally participants chanted the slogans "Russia without Putin", "Down with the autocracy", "Nation or freedom" and called for a boycott of the presidential election.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the term of detention of Vladimir Ganeyev, head of the Security Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, until June 23, 2004, RIA Novosti reports. Lieutenant General Ganeev is charged in the case of abuses in law enforcement agencies. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation applied to the court to extend his client's terms of detention. Vladimir Ganeev was detained on June 23, 2003.

Sergei Bezrukov was robbed of money, documents and a book from his car, the 7 days newspaper reports. The robbers broke the glass of the actor's car and took a backpack bag that was in the cabin. The actor most of all regrets the loss of a collection of memories of Yesenin. "After all, I'm getting ready to shoot in a series about a great poet, and there were a lot of important notes and notes for me.

The State Committee of the Russian Federation for Control over the Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances will continue checking Russian nightclubs. This was reported to Interfax by the deputy chairman of the State Drug Control Service, Lieutenant-General Alexander Mikhailov. "Criminal gangs in some cases use nightclubs as a base for the sale of drugs. We consider the cleansing of clubs from drugs as our highest goal," Mikhailov said.

There is an opinion that the company from which the affected customers of the Moscow water park filed a claim for damages does not exist in nature. The victims of the tragedy in the water park "Transvaal" filed lawsuits in the Cheryomushkinsky District Court against CJSC "Transvaal-Park" and CJSC "Terra Oil" on the basis of Art. 1095 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (“grounds for compensation for damage caused due to defects in goods, work or services”), as well as Art.

It is possible that the Duma will consider a candidate for the post of prime minister as early as Wednesday, March 3, at least on Friday," a high-ranking Kremlin official told Ekho Moskvy radio station. "The calendar is approximately as follows: on Sunday evening, after consultations with the leaders of will announce a candidate for prime minister. The Duma will consider this candidacy at the next meeting, on March 3 or 5," the source of the radio station said.