Moscow Region Prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk received a warning about incomplete official compliance. His deputies Vyacheslav Shulga and Valery Kuznetsov received a severe reprimand and a reprimand, respectively, Podolsk prosecutor Alexey Titov was dismissed from the prosecutor's office, and a number of prosecutors in cities and districts of the Moscow region were subject to disciplinary liability.

The former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, General Yuri Kravchenko, was found dead at his dacha, Korrespondent.net reports . The causes and circumstances of death are still unknown. On Friday, Kravchenko was supposed to be interrogated at the Prosecutor General's Office in connection with the case of Georgy Gongadze.

Lenkom Theater artist Nikolai Karachentsov, who was involved in a car accident, had serious damage to the right hemisphere of his brain. news agency Russian North The head of the neuro-reanimation department of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, Sergei Vasilievich Tsarenko, told the over the phone. In his opinion, the likelihood that the actor will die is not great, but his intelligence may suffer.

In North Tyneside, UK, forty schoolchildren were expelled from school for two weeks for playing in the snow, BBC reports. Pupils from St Mary's Catholic School in Longbenton have been sent home following ongoing complaints from drivers. Motorists said that they became afraid to drive along this section of the highway because schoolchildren were specifically aiming at cars passing by.

President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin does not believe that the Russian government will agree to the proposal of State Duma deputies and will introduce economic sanctions against his republic. “I will never believe that the Russian government will take economic sanctions against Moldova,” the RIA Novosti agency quotes the president .

Media mogul Martha Stewart's five-month prison sentence ended on Friday night, AP reports. Stewart left the women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia, around 0:30 Friday local time (08:30 Moscow time). She took a private jet to her $16 million estate near New York, where she will spend another 5 months under house arrest. At the same time, Stewart must devote 48 hours a week to community service.

American congressmen are demanding a reduction of $800 million in unforeseen military spending, The Washington Times reports. As US President George W. Bush suggested, they should have amounted to $82 billion, but representatives of the Republican Party believe that the costs of humanitarian aid and foreign projects for the restoration of areas affected by military operations should be reduced.

Scientists from the Max Born Institute in Germany and the Seoul National University of Korea have jointly developed a “light trap,” reports PhysOrg.com. A metal surface with a special nanostructure, after irradiation with a 10-femtosecond laser pulse, “held” photons for 300 femtoseconds. The interaction of light with metal generates special electromagnetic waves in the latter - surface plasmon polaritons.

President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday fired the head of the state company Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko, the Vremya Novostey newspaper wrote on Friday. Yuri Boyko, writes Vremya Novostei, was considered by Russia as a technical guarantor of stable transit of energy resources to European countries through the territory of Ukraine.

On March 3, the first concert and press conference of the American jazz-rock band Earth, Wind and Fire took place in Moscow. The musicians arrived in the capital on Tuesday, but, according to them, they were afraid of the local frosts and practically did not go out into the city. As one of the founders of the group, Verdine White, admitted, the road to Moscow took the group more than 30 years.

The editor-in-chief of the weekly "Moscow News" Evgeny Kiselyov has been appointed general director of the publishing house of the same name, reports the radio station "Echo of Moscow" . In this position he replaced Cyril Legat. The post of editor-in-chief was offered to the famous journalist in 2003 by the regional public organization Open Russia, created by YUKOS shareholders, which owns the Moscow News publishing house.

The Russian government has decided to liquidate the Federal Fund for Support of Small Business, reports RIA Novosti . According to the decree signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, the Federal Agency for Management of Federal Property is ordered to carry out liquidation measures in relation to the fund in the prescribed manner.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko said that she will not run for president in the next presidential elections. As the head of government stated in an interview with Kommersant , she “firmly agreed” on this with current President Viktor Yushchenko. “As a woman politician, I want to prove that I keep my word,” the prime minister emphasized. At the same time, the Yushchenko party and the Tymoshenko bloc will go to the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2006 together.

The former head of Gosatomnadzor, Yuri Vishnevsky, has been charged with theft on an especially large scale. news agency about this Vishnevsky’s lawyer Boris Kuznetsov told the RIA Novosti . The investigation believes that his client embezzled more than 46 million rubles, using his official position and by prior conspiracy with other persons. Vishnevsky worked as head of the Federal Supervision for Nuclear and Radiation Safety from November 1992 to June 2003.

Nazi Germany, earlier than its allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, created an atomic bomb, which, however, turned out to be too bulky for delivery by air. Therefore, Hitler refused to use it. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, German historian Rainer Karlsch writes about this in his new book, “Hitler's Bomb,” which will be published in March.