The date of the possible meeting of the Presidents of the United States and Russia "has not yet been determined." This was announced in an interview with CNN by the assistant to the US President for National Security of Condoliza Rice. The heads of the two states "are looking for opportunities to meet when such a meeting will contribute to the real business." In the meantime, according to Rice, even no indicative dates are scheduled.

At the Cape Kanveral cosmodrome in Florida, the estimated countdown of the time before the flight to the international space station Atlantis. "Shuttle" with a crew of 5 astronauts should go on a 11-day trip on February 7. According to ITAR-TASS, representatives of NASA will take place at 18:11 local time.

Tonight in Moscow was not without emergency. In the morning in the very center of the capital, the Research Institute of Latin America caught fire on the Big Horde. It is located in an old mansion, which is an architectural monument and is protected by the state. That is why almost immediately after the signal about the fire to the scene of the incident, about 10 fire engines were pulled away. The fire of the fire was in one of the offices on the second floor.

The entrepreneur from Florida Vincent James Zenga, on whose behalf, Pavel Borodin was sent to Washington to the inauguration of the new US president, said that he intended to discuss business projects with Borodin. After the detention in New York on January 17, the Secretary of State of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Zenga immediately expressed a complete bewilderment about how the letter for his signature could be directed to Borodin.

The Brazilian football player spent several unpleasant minutes, faced with the criminal world of Rio de Janeiro. Three unknown people stopped the Ronaldo car, landed it and disappeared. The football player was forced to stop the passing car to get to the nearest police station. According to the named signs, the criminals were detained and soon should appear before the court. About Ronaldo’s reaction to this incident nothing is reported.

Agricultural production in Russia has become profitable, this news was announced today by the Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev, who spoke at parliamentary hearings in the State Duma. According to the minister, in 2000 the agricultural industry received about 14 billion rubles in profit, and its profitability was 7.4%. Just two years ago, agriculture generated up to 37 billion rubles in losses, and its profitability was expressed in a double-digit negative number (up to √30%).

The Turkish police detained a man who fired on the Saturday of the France consulate in Istanbul. He shot a building from a pistol 6 times, not hitting any of the consulate employees, Echo Moscow reports with reference to Interfax. Around the same time, another person who had a revolver was stopped by the police guarding the consulate. During the search made by him, 3 grenades were discovered, as well as documents of one of the Islamic youth organizations.

About 600 people died since the beginning of last week from strong colds in several refugees camps in the Western Province of Herat, ITAR-TASS reports. Most victims are women, children and old people. Refugees are forced to live in the open air at air temperature to minus 25 degrees Celsius. The camps lack food and drinking water, there is no light, heating sources and warm clothes.

Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev states that in the event of a unilateral exit of the United States from a missile defense agreement, Russia will take measures to maintain a strategic balance. According to him, Moscow may return to frozen Soviet military-space programs, NTV reports with reference to Interfax.

The searches of two fishermen, who were carried away to the sea on an ice floe, were successful on Sakhalin. On the eve of the internal affairs department, Nikolai Afanasenko and Alexei Larionov, went fishing, despite the categorical ban on various services about the ice. During the day, no information was received about officers. Six mobile groups on snowmobiles were formed, which combed the southeastern coast of Sakhalin. Even at night, the searches did not stop.

In the Samara region in the village of Mehzavod, the heating main was repaired. So far, however, it cannot be said that soon in the houses 16 thousand inhabitants of the village will again be warm. Now the filling of the heating system has already begun with hot water, but at the same time the repairmen check whether the heating system is in order. Before that, they had to eliminate 3 breakthroughs on the heating main, and it is unclear whether their work will end there.

The energy supply of the Yakut village of deputy was restored in full. Today, the second backup gas turbine installation is re -consecuted and put into effect. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Department for working with the media of the RAO UES of Russia. Currently, the village power station carries a load even slightly more than before the fire, as a result of which it was disabled on February 2.

The head of the Media Most Vladimir Gusinsky confirmed that the American businessman Ted Turner wants to buy a share of NTV shares and other holding assets. Vladimir Gusinsky said this in an interview with Kommersant. "Turner wants guarantees that, firstly, the state will not interfere in the company's policy, that is, that there will be no nationalization. Today it is the same.

The exchange rate of the single European currency against the dollar is growing for the fourth day in a row. Investors expect statistics to be published this week will confirm that economic growth in the eurozone is falling more slowly than in the United States. The euro rose to 94.30 cents per euro, while on Friday the European currency was selling for 93.58 cents. Over the past three months, the euro has risen 8.5% against the dollar.

Ariel Sharon was born in 1928 in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Malale in a family of immigrants from Russia who came to Palestine in 1921. Parents were engaged in farming. In his youth, he joined the underground Jewish army of Hagan. He studied at the agronomist. He interrupted his studies in 1948 after the proclamation of the state of Israel, when the first Arab-Israeli war began. He went to the front. In 1949-1950 he served in intelligence.