The Olympic Committee of Russia intends to offer the government to use part of the excise taxes on wine and tobacco products to implement a sports development program, including the Olympic movement. This was announced by the President of the OKR Leonid Tyagachev, speaking on Monday at a meeting of the Commission of the Council of the Federation for Youth and Sports, which considered the results of the 19 Winter Olympic Games and the tasks of sports development in the Russian Federation.

In the United States, memorial ceremonies began in memory of those who died in explosions in New York and Washington exactly six months ago - September 11, 2001, CNN reports. In New York, workers of the World Trade Center gathered, who survived the crash of the towers, relatives of the dead and firefighters who lost their colleagues in this disaster. The mayor of the city, Michael Bloomberg, made a short speech next to the temporary memorial at the scene of the twin towers.

The corpses of two newborn children were found in Moscow over the past day, Interfax reports. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, one of the girls was found in a square on Timiryazevskaya Street 10 meters from the railway track of the Riga Railway. The body was found on the Cosmodamian embankment. There were no signs of violent death on the bodies. According to these facts, criminal cases have been instituted, the search for women in labor is underway.

Czech customs officers detained a drug dealer who tried to give out ecstasy pills for Viagra, RIA Novosti reports. At the Czech -Austrian border crossing of Gate - Klein Haugsdorf during the customs inspection, a Czech citizen was detained, who was 1.5 kg of ecstasy tablets worth about 2 million Czech Croons (56 thousand US dollars). According to the director of the Customs Service of South Moravia Frantishek Novak, the MDMA tablets were recognized by a specially trained German shepherd.

A gang of vampire-tineegers killed one of the leading American experts in the field of DNA Robert Schwartz. The judges of Lisburg after the interrogation of one of the four suspects in the murder - 18 -year -old Kyle Halbert named Demon, came to such an unexpected conclusion, AP reports. Robert Schwartz was chopped by a 60-centimeter sword in his country house in December 2001.

In Germany, a scandal is growing related to doctors who are suspected of receiving bribes and various types of “gifts”, including paid foreign travel trips, from the pharmacological concern of the British pharmaceutical giant GLAXOSMITHLINE. According to RIA Novosti , bribes and “gifts” were awarded to doctors for prescribing medications produced by this company to their patients.

In Los Angeles, the day before, the winners of the competition of the American guild of film actors were announced at the ceremony. As RIA Novosti reports, this is the only competition in which the actors themselves choose the most worthy of their ranks. The competition is held in five categories for feature films and eight categories - for television.

Pokher Vincenzo Montella in the Roman derby "Lazio" - "Roma" brought the ward Fabio Capello victory and filled the club fans with optimism that their beloved club could win the title of champion this season. The victory allowed Roma to lead the standings again, but the Romans in the back “Inter”, having an equal number of points and Turin “Juventus” with them, giving way to the duet of leaders.

Vice President of Iraq Takh Yasin Ramadan confirmed the refusal of his country to resolve the return of the UN inspectors to its territory in the field of disarmament, RIA Novosti reports. "The position of Iraq regarding the return of these spies has not changed at all, since nothing justifies their arrival," the vice president said. Ramadan actually repeated the statement of the Vice President of Iraq Tarik Aziz, made a few days ago.

A deserter was detained, who escaped on March 5 from a military unit in a suburbs of St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. According to Nikolai Ivanov, the assistant to the military prosecutor of the Leningrad Military District for Public Relations, Roman Yatskevich was detained on the night of March 8 to 9 in the house where his mother lives. During the detention, he did not show resistance.

In Moscow, when trying to commit a robbery, the investigator of the Zyusino police department was detained. According to RIA Novosti , senior lieutenant Mikhalchik with four accomplices attacked the director of one of the Moscow car services. During the search, the detainees took a combat grenade.

On Tuesday, in Moscow, the presentation of the television movie "Entities on Russia", the shooting of which was organized by entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, should be held at the Museum of Andrei Sakharov. This was announced by the State Duma deputy, co -chair of the Liberal Russia movement, Sergei Yushenkov, Interfax reports. The film was shown in London on March 5.

On Monday, the head of the interim administration of Afghanistan , Hamid Karzai , arrives in Moscow. According to RIA Novosti , in the Russian capital, President Vladimir Putin √ their conversation will be held on March 12. Carzai’s negotiations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov are also planned, meetings with the Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov and the State Duma speaker Gennady Seleznev.

The American pop singer Britney Spears announced the breakdown of relations with her boyfriend Justin Timberlake from the N▓Sync group. According to her, their friendship, which lasted more than one year, ended a week ago. Friends of Britney and Justin confirm that the couple has completely stopped communicating. They say that the cause of the gap was a very intense schedule of both. Earlier, Britney denied rumors that they were going to play a wedding on Valentine's Day.

In Yekaterinburg, during the detention operation, the recidivist Alexander Tereshchenko was killed, who shot two guide police officers on March 2, the newspaper reports. On March 2, two robbers raid the unison store . Threatening the merchants with a TT pistol, they took 20 thousand rubles and alcohol and disappeared on Audi-80. After the signal of the incident in Yekaterinburg, the Siren Planus Plank was introduced.