On Thursday, on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Russian Viktor Boot performed, who is suspected in the smuggling of weapons and the supply of weapons of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban Afghan movement. In an interview, the Russian announced on the international wanted list said that he denies his involvement in the sale of weapons to terrorists.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi leaves the post of president of the legendary football club Milan, reports Sports.ru . This obliges him to make a law on the so -called conflict of interests adopted by the Italian parliament.

Washington "does not build any plans to deploy American combat units in Georgia," said Alexander Vershbou, ambassador to the US ambassador to Russia on Thursday. According to him, "it remains only to regret that the theme of the American presence in Georgia has recently been spinning too much, and with a huge amount of exaggeration and distortion, " Interfax reports.

The French judge Marie-Odley Bertella-Zheffruis ordered to arrest the documents of the French government as part of the investigation of the circumstances of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, Reuters reports citing an informed source. The judicial authorities are thus going to establish whether the French government tried to hide the fact of the presence of a threat to the health of the population due to the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl.

The group of tax inspectors Manhattan is accused of "the largest fraud in the history of New York," reports The Times . As the investigation suggests, for 35 years they received bribes from the largest property owners, providing them with illegal benefits. Two buildings of the UN, real estate of the current mayor of Michael Bloomberg, as well as McDonald's restaurants, were in the benefits zone.

It is necessary to win so that no one has doubts about the victory, the deputy minister of Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Kalyuzhny, summing up the results of the XIX XIX Olympic Games, said. According to Kalyuzhny, to change the situation in Russian sports, "you need to change the entire system, and not look for scapegoats" for the failure of the athletes.

Boris Berezovsky intends to hold a press conference on March 5 in London, during which a film will be demonstrated about explosions of residential buildings in the Russian Federation in 1999. This is stated in the press service of the Liberal Russia movement in Moscow, which was widespread in Moscow, whose co-chair is Berezovsky.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Rytaro Hasimoto went to the hospital with pneumonia and worsening heart activity. According to Japan's media, the hospitalization of the former prime minister will last about a month. According to Reuters, Hasimoto is now in the intensive care unit and is connected to the artificial respiration apparatus. Japanese reporters report that doctors treating Hasimoto do not exclude the possibility of conducting heart surgery.

The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Rogozin said that he had information about the intention of Georgian leadership "to agree with Chechen fighters." According to Rogozin on Thursday, “there are facts directly speaking: Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze flirts with Chechen militants and tries to conduct a separate game with them,” RIA Novosti reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, established the Order "For Sea Merit". According to RIA Novosti in the presidential press service, the order was established "in order to encourage citizens who were especially distinguished in the implementation of marine activities." The Order for Sea Merit will be worn on the right side of the chest, on a five -pointed block. As the State Heraldsmaster of Russia Georgy Vilinbakhov specified, anchor is present at the new Russian state award.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said on Thursday that the arrival of the US military in the former Soviet Republic to ensure border security was designed for a long period, reports Reuters. “We developed this plan step by step for eight years. All this time we rejected US assistance, trying to stop time,” the Georgian president said, speaking to journalists.

From Thursday, the passage to the Pankisian Gorge, located in the northern part of the Akhmetsky district, has been tightened. Tbilisi television company Rustavi-2 reported tonight that at the checkpoints of the police and the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia located in the southern part of the Pankis gorge, control and inspection of those persons who are sent to the villages of the Pankisian gorge are tightened.

The first public organization of unemployed bankers in Russia was created on the Don. The unique community has been registered in Rostov more recently, but about 50 banking specialists who were on the street have already turned there. It turns out that employing a bank employee is much more difficult than a locksmith or a driver. As the head of the organization Viktor Mikhailov told the News News newspaper, big social problems are hiding behind the seemingly well -being of banking workers.

In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Estonia on Thursday, a meeting with lawyers and representatives of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (EPC MP) will be held. The parties will discuss the problems of registering this church on the basis of its charter.

The British media continue to discuss the data of the last counting of practicing members of the Church of England, which turned out to be much more than previously expected. According to some observers, in the past years, Vicarians deliberately underestimated the number of parishioners to pay less taxes to the church treasury, the Blagovers-Info .