The number of starving workers of the former "Rostovugol" in the city of Shakhty has grown to 41 people, Ekho Moskvy reports. All these people worked at auxiliary enterprises, now these production facilities are idle. People have neither jobs nor money. The parent company is now under bankruptcy proceedings and therefore will not be able to fulfill the requirements of the starving in time.

High school students of school # 27 of Magadan poisoned a girl who had just finished first grade with phenazepam, reports REGNUM . The teenagers told the child that the pills they gave her were healthy vitamins. The girl was sent to the intensive care unit in critical condition. She was diagnosed with acute drug poisoning. The child's parents contacted the police.

http://challenger.hop.ru/img/girl.jpg The "advanced" technologies, now offered on a commercial basis for the Russian consumer, the largest mobile operators do not work due to malfunctions and malfunctions in the operation of equipment.

George Yartsev. Photo from the site http://versiasovsek.ru The fact that the chief coach of our team would have to be difficult, was not in doubt. When Georgy Yartsev read out the application of our team to participate in Euro 2004, he knew that the leading defenders Viktor Onopko and Sergey Ignashevich would definitely not go to Portugal. However, the saddest thing is that these players turned out to be indispensable, even despite their inexpressive game recently.

Russian Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said on Thursday that the police and supervisory authorities will be deprived of the right to suspend the work of enterprises without a court order. According to RIA Novosti, this ban is contained in the amendments submitted for the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) and a number of other laws.

Jodge Tenet. Photo by ar US Central Intelligence Directorate George Tenete resigned from his post, BBC reports. In his statement, he indicated that the desire to leave the post of head of the special services was caused by "personal reasons." US President George Bush accepted the resignation of Tenet. The president told reporters that he had met with the director of the CIA. “I told him: I am sorry that he is leaving,” the president said.

The plot of the program "The Other Day", part of which consisted of an interview with the widow of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, was supposed to be shown immediately after the completion of the trial of the Russians in Qatar. Alexander Gerasimov, deputy general director of the NTV channel, stated this live on the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

Istanbul customs seized two containers of weapons from a cargo ship heading to Egypt through the Bosphorus. According to ITAR-TASS, the Turkish media claim that the vessel sailed under the flag of Ukraine. The containers contained grenade launchers, warheads, artillery shells, automatic small arms and a large amount of ammunition. Turkish State Minister Kurshat Tuzmen praised the work of customs officers and police and said that the relevant authorities had opened a criminal case.

The Supreme Court upheld the verdict in the case of a pogrom in the capital's market in Yasenevo, rejecting the appeal of the prosecutor's office, RIA Novosti reports. On February 27, the Moscow City Court found Valery Rusakov, Andrey Pochukaev and Yevgeny Serzhantov guilty under Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code.

The Year of Kazakhstan in Russia and the Year of Russia in Kazakhstan, which coincided with the new presidential elections in the Russian Federation, prompted Professor Zharkyn Khaidarov to create a sculptural composition designed to decorate the desk of the presidential office, REGNUM reports with reference to the Kazakh newspaper Liter . "The work is called 'Two Presidents of Eurasia'.

The former director of the private mine "Yeniseiskaya" Ten Yong Tak was sentenced to a fine of 80 thousand rubles and deprived of the right to hold leadership positions for three years. According to RIA Novosti, such a verdict was issued by Judge Nikolai Firsov. The trial took place in the city of Chernogorsk, Republic of Khakassia. Ten Yong Tak was found guilty of deliberately delaying wages for many months to workers of the mine. He can appeal the sentence within 10 days.

On Thursday, the Russian company Wimm-Bill-Dann announced that Francesco Giuffredi, a former member of the board of directors of the bankrupt company Parmalat, has been appointed production director. According to the BBC, Giuffredi will work in Moscow, but has already warned the Russian side that he will travel to Italy to testify in the Parmalat case. Giuffredi should face charges of violating securities regulations. Parmalat went bankrupt in December 2003.

Georgia and South Ossetia have agreed not to exert force or economic pressure on each other, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. This agreement was reached on Wednesday at the talks of the co-chairs of the Joint Control Commission on the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.

About 60 shells were found on the territory of the Fishing Port of Vladivostok during the unloading of a batch of scrap metal. As the news agency Data.Ru was told in the press service of the regional police department, the sappers took the shells to the territory of the arsenal for destruction. How long the shells were on the territory of the fishing port has not yet been established, as well as the source of the dangerous find. An investigation is underway into the discovery of ammunition.

There was a fire in the Ministry of Economy of Georgia. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax, the fire started on the third floor of the building in the afternoon. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but the damage caused by the fire has not yet been assessed. In the morning, the ministry hosted a meeting between the new Minister of Economy Kakha Bendukidze and staff members.