The Slivvenko family, whose claim for illegal expulsion from Latvia accepted for consideration the European Court of Human Rights, is ready to negotiate the conclusion of a settlement with the Latvian side, ITAR-TASS reports. Tatyana Slyvenko said this on Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow.

In the north of Moscow, an explosion thundered in a residential building, RIA Novosti was told in the Office for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Capital. The incident occurred at 11:40 in the house on Onega Street. As it turned out, repairs were carried out in one of the apartments, during which gasoline was used. Due to smoking in the room, a pair of gasoline exploded. Earlier it was assumed that the cause of the explosion was a leak of household gas.

A meeting of the international tribunal on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia resumed in the Hague, which examines the case of the ex-president of the country of Slobodan Milosevich. As expected, in the near future, Milosevich will make an official appeal to the court. In the meantime, the members of the tribunal continue to hear the arguments of the prosecutors, the Air Force reports. How long the performance of the prosecutors will last is still unclear.

Japan in March-April prophesies a banking crisis. According to RIA Novosti , this is associated with the fact that from April 1, the Japanese government will cease to guarantee the safety of urgent deposits in private banks worth more than 10 million yen (about 77 thousand dollars). The warranty system was enforced in 1996, after seven large credit companies suddenly went bankrupt.

In the capital, 4 threats of the explosion in schools are registered. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Wednesday in the press service of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies. Messages about the inherent explosive devices began to arrive on the on -duty remote from 9:00 Moscow time. In two schools of the Southeast District and one southwest, explosive devices were not found. Currently, there is a check of school premises in the Eastern District.

Bush plans to shift Hussein from the post of Iraqi leader, as he believes that he poses a too serious threat to ignore her. According to the newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer , the Pentagon, as well as the FBI and other special services have already received the task to develop the corresponding complex of political and military steps aimed at achieving this goal. “To get rid of Saddam Hussein or to leave him is no longer a question.

Russian Alexei Yagudin made a great gift to his coach Tatyana Tarasova, who has a birthday today - he leads after the execution of a short program at the skaters Olympic tournament. His composition "Winter" included such a complex element as a cascade - a four -turn jump. For the technique, Yagudin received: 5.8; 5.8; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.8; 5.8; 5.8; 5.8. For artistry: 5.8; 5.8; 5.8; 5.9; 5.8; 5.9; 5.9; 5.8; 5.9.

The leaders of the warring groups of Christians and Muslims in the Indonesian province of Malyuk signed an agreement that should put an end to the bloody inter -religious conflict, for three years for a destabilizing position in the Molucca Islands. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, an agreement consisting of 11 points, became the main result of representatives of the warring parties that ended on Tuesday.

The issue of introducing in Moscow time in the middle of the summer of 2002 has already been practically resolved. The departments can only coordinate the tariff that will be established for the use of local telephone connection. The other day, the MGTS first sent to the Ministry of the Russian Federation for antitrust policy and support for entrepreneurship (MAP) its proposals to introduce a long payment for local phone calls. Within six months, MAP should approve new tariffs.

In the city of Elizovo in the Far East, a suspect of a large theft of money from the treasury of the Orthodox Church was detained, Interfax reports. According to the regional Internal Affairs Directorate, arrested for 22 years. He will be accused of at night on January 31, he penetrated the accounting of the temple of the Holy Life -Giving Trinity. The robber hacked the safe there and stole 250 thousand rubles. This money was intended to pay salaries to the builders of the temple.

The Ren-TV television company has entered into agreements with 14 former network partners of TV-6, Boris Mints, Director General of the Ren-TV media holding media holding, told Interfax. According to him, agreements were signed for broadcasting in Nizhny Tagil, Pyatigorsk, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk.

A curious incident occurred in South Africa. An employee of the local police with her own tights connected three violators and delivered them to the station. According to the German press today, together with her partner, she pursued four people suspected of committing a crime. Her colleague, a policeman man, was able to detain one attacker. It was she who neutralized the other three. But she had no handcuffs with her.

It was decided to install the largest review wheel with a diameter of 170 m in Moscow in the Vorobyevs Mountains, near the children's music theater, Interfax reports. The project was approved on Wednesday at a meeting of the Public Town Planning Council, which was chaired by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The wheel may be installed for 1.5-2 years.

After three days, the authorities of Saudi Arabia close the air borders for pilgrims from Russia, and those who are late for Hajj will be fine. According to Interfax in a separate Dagestan checkpoint of the North Caucasus Regional Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, those who are late for Hajj without a good reason will be up to 100 thousand Saudi rials (about $ 27 thousand).

For a friendly match of the football teams of Ireland and Russia, which will be held on Wednesday at the Lancesdown Road stadium in Dublin, 40 thousand tickets were sold. Typically, the audience at the games of the Irish team does not exceed 25 thousand. The Ireland team, which fell into one selection group of Euro 2004 with the Russian team, does not know defeats in Dublin since May 2000 - six victories and two draws.