Greece television authorities intend to close two versions of the Dutch program "Big Brother", which represent Greek TV channels. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, the chairman of the National Council on Radio and Television Greece Vasilis Lamfridis made such a statement.

From today, the United States temporarily closed its embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, RIA Novosti reports. According to representatives of the American diplomatic mission, the reason for this was constant threats of terrorist attacks against both the embassy and individual diplomats. Currently, the protection of the embassy building has been strengthened, as well as the places of residence of American diplomats and other representatives of the representative office.

The Kursk Premier League, awaiting Roslyakovo Doc, will not be destroyed to the end - some of its mechanisms and assemblies will be reinstalled to other submarines of the Russian Navy, Izvestia.Ru reports .. As the deputy general director of Sevmash enterprise Vladimir Chuvakin (Kursk was built precisely on Sevmash), the corresponding proposal came from the central Design Bureau of Marine equipment (Central Design Bureau) "Rubin".

The star of the television series "VIP" Pamela Anderson is sick with hepatitis "C." As AR reports, the film actress herself confirmed this information on Wednesday. “This is true, I have hepatitis“ C ”and now I am undergoing an outpatient course at the Medecinsky Center at the University of California in Los Angeles,” said the former star of the television series “Rescuers Malibu” in her statement widespread by her press agent Marlikh Leslie.

The rehabilitation of the former SS men in Ukraine "would be perceived not only by the Russians, but also by the majority of the population of Ukraine only as a shameful act of betrayal in relation to the memory of millions of civilians, including Russians and Ukrainians, soldiers of the Soviet Army," who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. This is stated in the message of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

On the night of Thursday, a strong fire occurred in the trading port of the find (Primorsky Territory). According to the press center of the regional fire service, late at night in the covered warehouse in the second district of the Nakhodkinsky shopping port, where lumber were stored, a fire broke out, Interfax reports. The watchman noticed late, so the flame managed to flare up. The fire area was 320 square meters. meters.

The serial killer, operating in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, moved to the north-eastern district of the capital. Now in Moscow about 250 police officers who were dressed in civilian clothes are looking for a killer. Over the past few days in the northeast of Moscow, three crimes have been committed, similar in handwriting in attacks in the Northern District, Interfax reports.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a bill on Wednesday, which significantly expands the capabilities of Americans to work at home and maintain their company in touch over the Internet. Until now, any federal institution of the United States could refuse to provide a private company with state contracts only on the grounds that some of its employees performed all or part of their work on the Internet.

The Pentagon asks the Pakistan authorities to allow combat operations against Al-Qaeda and Taliban in the country, reports The New York Times with reference to a high-ranking source in the Pakistani government. The Commander of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, General Tommy Franks made such an initiative during negotiations with Pakistan President Peresa Musharraf.

The head of the government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov found a way out of the situation at the Moskvich Automobile Plant. According to the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov in an interview with the General Newspaper , during one of his last conversations with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Kasyanov “found a formula” how to transfer the Moskvich to the city, at the same time freeing the plant from the debt.

Russia and Ukraine, in accordance with the decision of the Government of Egypt, are included in the list of countries whose citizens do not need to preliminary design entry Egyptian visas. This was reported by the Office for the Development of Tourism at the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Moscow. This means that the permission for entry will be issued to tourists directly upon arrival in the country.

In Dresden, in the east of Germany, 5 Germans were detained, who are accused of illegal crossing across the German border more than four thousand Ukrainians. This was reported by the Federal Office for the protection of the borders of Germany, the illegal vange reports from 10 to 80 euros for the German Wave .

In Slovakia, over 160 locks, krely and other objects representing historical and architectural value are put up for sale, RIA Novosti reports. Now they belong to the state or are in municipal property, and meager allocations from Goskasia or the city budget do not allow maintaining in proper order or reconstructing these cultural monuments. In the list of national treasure, for example, a castle in Galich with the adjacent to it 22 hectares of lands.

Vladimir Plyushchev, who will lead the Russian team at the traditional tournament "Big Prize of St. Petersburg", is the coach of Ak Bars, as well as a mentor of the Russian "Youth". Therefore, as it became known to the Internet vision of the entire hockey , the basis of all the participating teams will be players from the new call of the youth team, with the ability to "dilute" the composition of six older hockey players.

The United States officially announced the radical Palestinian group "Brigades of the Moicenters of Al-Axsa" by a terrorist organization. The administration of George Bush made such a statement today, AP reports. According to the press secretary of the US State Department, Philip Ricker, Secretary of State Paulin Powell on Tuesday began the al-axa recognition procedure with a terrorist organization, and on Wednesday, Congress informed about this.