The player of the past week in the National Hockey League is named the center of the Dallas Starz club Mike Modano. On his account, seven out of ten goals abandoned by the team for the period from 7 to 13 January. In three games, he struck the gates of his rivals twice, and in the matches with Tampa and Minnesota his pucks turned out to be victorious. This season, the leader of the Star and a member of the US Olympic team scored 26 goals and made 16 assists.

On Monday, the press service of the Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction of Moscow (KASRR) distributed information on changes in the construction project of the Moscow International Business Center Moscow-City.

In the Krasnodar Territory, an emergency was introduced in connection with the flood. This was reported today by ITAR-TASS in the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The flood zone is 85 square kilometers, 292 households are flooded. Of the dangerous zones, 1320 people are evacuated, including 100 children. People are settled in sanatoriums, holiday houses, boarding houses. 630 people returned to their homes.

In Yakutia, the former judge of the Supreme Court is accused of deliberate murder and serious bodily harm, reports.ru reports. Based on the case file, the retired judge Valery Reshetnyak in March 1999 shot two people from the service pistol of Makarov and crippled another. The investigation lasted two years, according to its results on January 15, 2002, a hearing was scheduled in the Supreme Court of the Republic.

Today, 15 schools for girls will open in Kabul. For more than five years, women's schools in Afghanistan were prohibited by the Taliban regime. In recent months, the restoration of school education for girls has become possible thanks to the active financial assistance of the German government. On March 15, on the first day of the school year in Afghanistan, more than 10 thousand students will go to new schools.

The Constitutional Court of Russia recognized as a number of provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 64 of the Federal Law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation", as well as paragraph 3 of Article 92 of the Federal Law "On the election of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation".

Americans must share their wealth with others if they want to prevent the spread of international terrorism. This statement was made by former US President Bill Clinton. As the text of his lecture, read on Monday in Los Angeles, is evident today, terrorism is the "dark side" of globalization.

In the Antarctica, in the area of ​​the Belingshausen Russian station, a temple will be built according to the project of Altai architects, RIA Novosti reports. At the place of construction of the temple, the flag of the Altai Territory will be hoisted. On Monday, the head of the regional administration, Alexander Surikov, handed the flag to the chairman of the Altai Union of architects Peter Anisiforov, in the creative workshop of which the project of this temple was developed.

Today in Cuba, an operation to dismantle and export equipment to Russia of the Russian radio electronic center for tracking and interception, which is located in the city of Lourdes, as well as specialists working there, but this will not happen. Closing the base is postponed indefinitely. The reason that is called in the Russian General Staff is a delay in paying for the operation. In other words, the pilots simply did not pay for these flights.

The decision to restore the Council of Alexander Nevsky in Simferopol, destroyed in the 20s of the last century, was finally adopted after six years of wires. This was stated, speaking at the reception in honor of the birth of Christ, Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazarus (Shvets) , ITAR-TASS reports.

More than one and a half thousand schoolchildren of the Alapaevsky district of the Sverdlovsk region did not start the third quarter: pedagogical groups announced a strike. The main requirement of teachers is to pay off salary debts, ITAR -TASS reports. The last time the municipal budget was able to find money for a salary in October last year. According to the regional committee of trade unions of education workers, the striking do not intend to start work until the debts are fully repayment.

The wives of the six Belarusian dissidents, who disappeared, arrested or killed under unknown circumstances, asked a letter to the Polish President Alexander Kvasinevsky, which contained a request for Kvasinevsky to ask the Kremlin master Vladimir Putin to clarify the fate of their husbands, the Bavarian newspaper SueedDeutsche . Tomorrow, on Wednesday, Putin is expected in Poland on a state visit.

Until now, it is not possible to completely eliminate the fire at the Vorkutinskaya mine. Despite the fact that on the eve of the firefighters were able to localize the fire on the emergency site, they failed to completely cope with the fire. Now about two dozen mining rescuers, according to RIA Novosti , continue to fight fire and install special insulating partitions. On Sunday, at the Vorkutinskaya mine in the Pechora coal basin (Komi Republic) there was an explosion of methane.

The State Inspectorate of the city of Moscow checks the television company AST, part of Gazprom-Media CJSC. According to ITAR-TASS, the audit is inspired by the appeal of television companies in the Ministry of Labor and the Ostankino court regarding salary arrears in four months. We are talking about 10 million rubles.

The new procedure for drawing up visas for entry to the United States will be introduced in Russia from the beginning of February, the newspaper reports. Now, in addition to the traditional visa questionnaire in the form of the S-156, each man aged 16 to 45 is obliged to fill out a new form of the DS-157 visa application questionnaire. The same procedure will be forced to pass the persons who aroused suspicion among the agency’s employees.