Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the proposal of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, signed a decree on the appointment of Ilya Klebanov by the Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation, relieving him from the previously held position of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government. It is reported by ITAR-TASS.

On Sunday evening, the unidentified armed people stole four Georgian police officers who served at two blocks of police and internal troops near the village of Duisi Pankis gorge. This was reported by informed sources in law enforcement agencies, ITAR-TASS reports. Official representatives of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs have not yet commented on this information.

On February 18, in Tokyo, US President George Bush, who is here on an official visit, discussed Japanese Japanese economy with Japani Prime Minister Japan. At a press conference, after the meeting, Bush said that his partner was struggling with a crisis in the country's economy with all its determination, relying on the fight against irrevocable loans and devaluation. Journalists could not believe their ears.

On Monday, the press service of the Uin in the Novgorod region announced the arrest of a prisoner colony of maximum security colony of 22/7 Viktor Ivanov, Izvestia.Ru reports. Recall that the criminal left the colony on February 14 . On Thursday, at 9:10 pm Moscow time, a divorced prisoner, without permission to travel outside the territory of the colony, fled from the territory of the economic court on the MTZ-80 tractor.

At the Olympic hockey tournament, the Canadian team without Mario Lemier hardly managed to defeat the German team, which made it in the main qualification tournament √ 3: 2. The rivals began the game at a low pace, but in the second period, the Gretzky team looked noticeably stronger. Joe Sakik, Paul Caria and Adam Foot three times forced to surrender the German goalkeeper. Nevertheless, in the last third of the match, the Germans reduced the lag to a minimum and had a chance to equalize.

The Germans Christophe Langen and Marcus Tsimmermann won the “gold” in Bobslei competitions among the two-time crews at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The lower steps of the podium based on the results of the competition were occupied by the Swiss duets: Christian Reich and Steve Anderhub won the "silver", and Martin Annen and the bit heft √ "bronze". Russian crews failed to break through the top ten.

The Winter Olympiad 2002 in Salt Lake City is not distinguished by records, but with scandals. This is the opinion of German sports observers observing the competitions of the strongest athletes of the world, ITAR-TASS reports.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on Monday expressed surprise with a recent statement by the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, who on Friday in Paris did not exclude the possibility of the stay of the international terrorist of Osama Ben Laden in the Pankisian Gorge .

Amendments to the Federal Laws "On Military Duty and Military Service" and "On Education", which determine the new procedure for the students to defer from urgent military service, entered into force last Saturday, February 16, Interfax reports. Amendments to the laws on Saturday were officially published on the pages of the "Russian newspaper" , which is a condition for their entry into force.

For the first time since the beginning of the war, Ethiopia and Eritrea exchanged high -ranking religious delegations. According to ITAR-TASS, a group of Ethiopian clergy visited Asmar on Wednesday, a delegation of their Erytrey colleagues arrived on Friday to Addis Abubu on Friday.

US President Bush has not yet made any decisions about the military action against Baghdad . This was announced in a Sunday interview with CBS television company Assistant President for National Security of Condoliza Rice. However, according to Rice, the Iraqi regime is still a threat to the world community. "The president made it clear that Saddam Hussein, who was a problem before September 11, represents it now," she said.

Some of the founders of TV-VI CJSC claim that unknown people are forced to refuse to participate in the competition for the frequency of TV-6.

The offended artist, and amateur, is dangerous and capable of much, in some cases even for murder. So, in the Philippines, the man killed one of his offender and seriously wounded the other after they emphasized sarcastically arranged for him after the false performance of Frank Sinatra "My Way", Ananova.com reports. Jofre Valente was shot dead by three bullets near Karaoke Bara Honey Joy in Manila. At his friend, the attacker shot once, and he managed to survive.

Rescuers working at the site of the fall of the Tu-154 airline Iranian airline Iran Air Tours near the city of Horramabad found more than 80 bodies of the dead and the "black box" of this aircraft. According to the Spanish ambassador to Iran Leopoldo Istana, 29 previously discovered bodies were already identified, including one of the four Spanish citizens on board. 119 passengers and crew members were killed in the disaster.

Al-Qaeda terrorist organization was ready to strike a US president Bush in Genoa. This was told in an interview with the television program of Studio Aperto, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy Claudio Skyola. “He called the same source of the terrorist threat hanging over the Genoese summit, √ al -Qaeda,” writes La Repubblica , the translation of the article of which is published by Inopressa.ru .