Russian President Vladimir Putin, after negotiations in Vienna, arrived at the Innsbruck ski resort. Here, his conversation with the Federal Chancellor of Austria Wolfgang Schussel will be held here today, after which the President of Russia and the federal chancellor will answer questions from journalists. On Saturday, Vladimir Putin will visit the final stage of the world championship in the slalom among men and will take part in the closing ceremony of the championship.

The authorities of Moscow officially asked for several next days "as little as possible to go to the city center so as not to interfere with the cleaning of snow that has accumulated there." Gennady Degtev, the prefect of the Central District, said today, will need three days, and all this time "without a break day and night 112 dump trucks, 53 snow lift and 40 hand -cleaning brigades will work on the streets." “In a few days, we had snow more than usual in a month, and this prevents cars and

This time the Swede confidently won the race 12.5 km from the general start. After the second fire line, the advantage of Forsberg grew to 30 seconds, and in the future it only increased it. Forsberg missed only once and eventually won the Martina of the Tlags, which became the second, for more than a minute - 38 minutes. 38.6 sec. Norwegian Liv-Grete Shelbraid, missing 5 times, could not catch up with the verbs, and, having lost a second for a second, received a bronze medal.

The chairman of the Palestinian National Administration (PNU) Yasir Arafat called on Friday the chosen prime minister of Israel Ariel Sharon and congratulated him on the victory in the elections. Further, the conversation came about the possibility of resuming peace negotiations.

According to information agencies, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Mari-El Yuri Petrov was arrested in Yoshkar-Ola today.

Austrian Minister of Defense Herbert Shaibner believes that the acquisition of Russian MIGs can not be discussed. He expressed this point of view to the Vienna newspaper Press. Herbert Shaibner substantiated his position by the fact that Austrian experts still established at the stage of preliminary negotiations that, although the cost of Russian aircraft and lower than that of Western competitors, operating expenses are much higher.

Today it became known that the Israeli ex-prime miners, the leaders of the working party Ehud Barak and Shimon Perez will negotiate with the newly elected head of state on the creation of the Government of National Unity. Ariel Sharon began consultations on the creation of the coalition office the day before, but in the first meeting the Barak and Perez did not take part.

The details of the recent intra -church scandal around three Orthodox clergymen accused of retreat from the canons of Orthodoxy became known. Priests Vasily Teleutov from the Kazan Cathedral of Alma-Ata, Serafim Kenesarin from the village of Fabrichny and Evgeny Melnik from the village of Chapaevo were removed from worship and withdrawn beyond the staff of the diocese. They were subjected to this punishment for "renovation" and participation in Protestant events.

Greece promised to recognize the autonomy of the unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church (MPC), if the Republic of Macedonia changes its name to the "Republic of North Macedonia", RIA Novosti reports. Athens are offered by the MPC, which more than 30 years ago, arbitrarily separated from the Serbian Orthodox Church, to be considered an autonomous for four years, and then recognize it as an autocephalous (self-governing) church with the name "Okhrid-Macedonian".

The conflict between Brazil and Canada can develop into a trade war if the Canadian government within two weeks does not cancel its decision to ban the import of the Brazilian beef. Such a warning was made by Brazilian President Fernande Enrique Cardoza.

The scheme proposed by the Russian government to offset the debt of the USSR in exchange for shares of Russian enterprises is attracting increasing interest from Western private business, ITAR-TASS reports. The initially cautious attitude towards mutual settlement has given way to an optimistic one, the agency's correspondent adds, citing some sources in the City of London who are involved in the consultation process.

The leaders of the Taliban movement are ready to ensure that the Afghanistan Ben Laden, accused by Washington of terrorism, appeared before the Islamic court, possibly in the third country. This was stated on Thursday by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Pakistan Moinuddin Hyder, who returned from a two -day trip to Afghanistan, the Associated Press Agency reports.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky today announced that he has "his own option for solving the problem of Russia's external debt: for this it is necessary to dissolve the country and create a new state in its place." "What prevents us from ceasing the existence of the Russian Federation and creating, for example, together with Belarus and Armenia a state called the Euro -Asian Confederation, which will abandon all the obligations of Russia?" - Zhirinovsky asked at parliamentary hearings in the State Duma.

Today, the Presidential Presidential Representative in the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko will hold in Kaluga the first meeting of the District Council, which was created in December last year to develop economic programs for the development of 18 constituent entities of the Federation included in this district.

Representatives of religious organizations operating in the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation were included in the working group for the implementation of the Eternal Truths project, reports the Blagovest-info agency.