In the eternal twilight that reign in the outer part of the solar system, the Kassini ( Cassini ) spacecraft, which recently got rid of its European “partner” “Huigenes”, continues to wind the turns around Saturn and take photos of its amazing moon. This time his gaze fell on Enceladus. This small ice world is presented on a full-color (even if it seems black and white) photography only with a narrow crescent.

Nuclear explosion. Photo from the site www.vokruuginfo.ru North Korea officially admitted that she has nuclear weapons. As AR reports, this is stated in the statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry published on Thursday. Korean authorities also reported that the republic is leaving six -sided negotiations under its nuclear program. Earlier, North Korean diplomats spoke about the presence of nuclear weapons only in unofficial conversations. Today's statement is the first public recognition.

President of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov accused the media of disinformation when covering the police operation in Blagoveshchensk. Speaking on the air of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, he suggested that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic sue for insulting honor and dignity. In addition, Rakhimov said that the operation in Blagoveshchensk was justified, but was carried out with violation of authority.

Chechen war. Photo from the site http://rocich.ru Several veterans of the Chechen war - members of the NBP - wrote an open letter to President Putin. They demand to stop the war and "sit down at the negotiating table with all the participants." “The war in Chechnya has come to a dead end,” the letter that came to the editorial office of the Grani.ru says. “It is perceived by the majority of the people today as a war for your (Putin.

The building of the Kamchatka administration. Frame "Vesti" Investigators of the Kamchatka prosecutor’s office on Thursday conducted the seizure of documents in the regional administration. As Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax, this is happening in the framework of the criminal case against the leadership of the Moscow company "Kamchatka Bear" on the facts of abuse of powers (and illegal cutting of the forest).

"The president's decision to raise former military personnel were not named pensions for 240 rubles in any way is consistent with the current regulatory legal acts. " Such a statement, according to the parliamentary correspondent of Graney.Ru, was made on Thursday by the State Duma Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Two-thirds of Russians are ready to take active steps to protect their rights. This conclusion was made on the basis of an all-Russian survey conducted by ROMIR Monitoring in January this year, Newsru.com reports. The reason for the survey was a wave of mass protests of beneficiaries and pensioners against the law on the monetization of benefits that came into force.

The magistrate of the Oktyabrsky district of Kirov found Yuri Akusba, chairman of the Trudovoy Kirov movement, guilty of organizing an unauthorized rally and fined him 1,000 rubles. This was reported to Interfax on Thursday by the city administration, Gazeta.Ru reports.

Control scales. Photo from the site gazeta.sebastopol.ua Imagine, one of the leaders of the Moscow “EDRA” Igor Verigin shares, “I recently found out that some institutes have special hairdressers for blacks. To cut them, you need some special devices. He talks about what can be done for the "guests of the capital." Including, he says, it is necessary to arrange national holidays, develop crafts of various peoples, hairdressers are the same ... In general, the party has how much plans - how much.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan declared undesirable the entry of Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky into the country, RIA Novosti reports. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan notifies of the decision to declare undesirable the entry of Vladimir Zhirinovsky into the territory of our state," the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday.

In St. Petersburg, a teacher of the Mining Institute was brutally murdered, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. As reported on Thursday in the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, on Tuesday at 21.15 the police received information that a group of young people at house 87 on the 16th line of Vasilyevsky Island was beating a man with axes.

On Friday, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will present the new composition of the government to the country's parliament for approval. This was announced by the parliamentary secretary of the government Gia Khuroshvili. "The candidate for the post of prime minister, Zurab Noghaideli, has already presented the new composition of the cabinet of ministers to the president for approval," Khuroshvili said.

Citroen removed the veil of secrecy from the new flagship of his model range - the C6 limousine. The official premiere of the Citroen C6 model will be held in the spring of 2005 at the Auto Show in Geneva. C6 will be replaced by the withdrawn from production in 2000 Citroen XM. Citroen C6 will be built on a new elongated platform from the C5 model (PEUGEOT 608 will also be made on it later).

Tow trucks will return to the capital's roads in the spring, according to the Transport Server of Moscow. The next coming of tow trucks to the capital will be large-scale. All prefectures will have to allocate additional land for special parking. By April 1, each district of the metropolis will have to be ready to receive at least 500 evacuated cars at the same time.

Deputy Valery Gartung. Photo from the site chinovnik.uapa.ru The Bureau of the Presidium of the United Russia faction recommended excluding deputy Valery Kartung from the faction. Such a decision, as told RIA Novosti, the head of the press service of the faction Igor Demin, was adopted on Thursday at a bureau meeting. As expected, the final decision will be made on Friday at a meeting of the faction.