Kim Jong Ir. Shot of Chinese TV The United States promised to exclude the DPRK from the list of countries that support terrorism and cancel trade sanctions against Pyongyang. According to the terms of the agreement signed on Tuesday, Washington, in response to Pyongyang's steps to nuclear disarmament, will begin the process of excluding the DPRK from the list of "sponsors of terrorism". No specific terms for cancellation of sanctions are indicated, RIA Novosti reports.

Victor Sadovnichy. Photo from the site www.newart.ru Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichi can become the chief candidate of the president of the Academy. This was written on Tuesday "Kommersant" with reference to a source in the government.

Soldiers. Photo from the site www.farnas.ru In the Military Unit in the military unit #3492, as a result of the beating, the handicop soldier Andrei Baryshkin lost his spleen. According to Interfax, this was stated by lawyer of the Council of Soldiers' Mothers of the Vologda Oblast, Hatalya Dmitrieva. According to her, "a soldier from the Vologda region, his colleague hit a soldier." “The spekener’s gap occurred from the young man’s blow.

Robert Gates. Photo by ar Moscow asked Washington's explanations about the statements of US Minister of Defense Robert Gates, who compared Russia with Iran and North Korea. This was reported on Monday RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kaminin. "We requested explanations through the American ambassador in Moscow about the conformity of Robert Gates's statements by the official position of the US administration," he said.

Unfortunate Start "Zenit-3SL". Frame "Vesti" The most likely cause of the Zenit-3SL carrier missile is a factory marriage allowed in the production of a carrier in the NPO "Yuzhmash" in Dnepropetrovsk. This was written on Tuesday "Kommersant" with reference to the preliminary results of the interstate Russian-Ukrainian commission to investigate the accident that occurred on January 31.

Trucks. Photo from the site www.autoreView.ru In Moscow, on Ryabinova Street, an explosion occurred in a heavy truck cab at the Metro store. This was reported on Tuesday Interfax with reference to sources in law enforcement. The cause of the explosion was the gas cylinder on which the driver in the car and two of his acquaintances warmed their food. As a result of the explosion, all three were injured, receiving burns. The car was completely burned.

Bronze soldier in Tallinn. Photo from the site russkie.ee On Tuesday, the Estonian parliament adopted in the second reading the law on prohibited structures. If he enters into force, a monument to the Warrior-Liberator will need to be removed from Tallinn Square Tynismmyagi within 30 days. Deputies of the Right Party Union of the Fatherland and Res Publica made such amendments, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the press service of the Legislative Assembly of Estonia.

Nuclear object in Yonben. Photo AFP The DPRK delegations in six -way negotiations on a nuclear problem were obtained that compensation for a stopped reactor in Yonben is 1 million tons of energy carriers per year. This was reported on Tuesday Interfax with reference to the North Korean diplomatic source. As expected, on Tuesday will be signed an appropriate agreement.

Syringe. Photo from News.invictory.org In the UK, a 30-year-old incurably sick woman began the struggle for the right to die. Kelly Taylor from Bristol wants doctors to sleep with the help of drugs used for pain relief. We are talking about morphine, writes British Independent. Doctors refuse to fulfill her request, claiming that this is euthanasia, reports Echo of Moscow.

Sergey Arakcheev. Photo from the site Yoki.ru Sergei Arakcheev, accused of execution of civilians of Chechnya, demanded to appoint him lawyer Alexei Dulimov, who defended Colonel Yuri Budanov. According to RIA Novosti, Arakcheev said that the lawyer provided to him by the court is incompetent and uninitiated. The court agreed with the arguments of the accused, but left the former lawyer in the process.

Snowfall in Moscow. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The snowfall, which began on Tuesday in Moscow, will, as expected, will be the strongest in the whole winter. The snow will continue until the evening of Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the housing and communal services department and city improvement. Meteorologists warn that in the south-west of the city the first skids on the roads and the first traffic jams may occur.

Frame from the movie '' Pirates of the Caribbean '' In the event that Russia did not fulfill the obligations of intellectual property rights in 2006, the US government will have to apply trade sanctions to Russia. With such a statement, as RIA Novosti reports, the International Intellectual Property Alliance made.

The sculpture of the speaker on the phone on the facade of the first Moscow telephone station. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru MGTS set unreasonably high tariffs for telephone conversations, said Leonid Reyaman, the head of the mininformslavia. He stated this on Monday, RIA Novosti reports. "We support the position of Yuri Luzhkov, who opposed the 90 percent increase in payment for local telephone services in Moscow," he said.

Tu-134. Photo from the site www9.polets.ru The Tu-134 airline UTair made an emergency landing at Surgut Airport on Tuesday. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the information department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies, Viktor Beltsov. According to preliminary data, 34 passengers and seven crew members are on board the liner. He flew from Nadym to Surgut flight 9818.

Stanislav Sadalsky. Photo from the site ruskino.ru Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili presented to Russian actor Stanislav Sadalsky a Georgian passport and awarded him the Order of Honor "For Special Merit of Georgia", Interfax reports. Saakashvili thanked Sadalsky for his civil position and public statements about the inadmissibility of the persecution of Georgians in Russia.