The German ship "Magdalena Oldoddorf", captured for the delivery of goods that ensure the life of Russian research stations in the Antarctic, fell into ice captivity on the approach to the Antarctic. About this, according to RIA Novosti , reported on Friday the German information agency DPA with reference to the shipping company Egon Oldodorf in Lubeck. According to the shipping company, 107 Russian scientists who are on board feel normally.

The movement of trains along the Sokolnichesky metro line towards the South-West station was temporarily discontinued. According to RIA Novosti , every second train landed passengers at the Park of Culture station and followed the depot. At the Sportivnaya station, the post office on the platform announced to passengers that the trains in the direction of the southwest would not follow anymore.

In the suburbs, an attempt was committed on the first deputy head of the administration of the Podolsky district, who acted as the head of this region, Pyotr Robrodin, Interfax reports. According to sources in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region, about 1:15 Moscow time Friday on the outskirts of the village of Salkovo, local residents heard shooting.

What happened to our team at the World Cup - 2002 - sad. Initially, there is a victory over Tunisia, and then a loss in a match with Japan, then the pogroms associated with this in the center of Moscow, and today - the loss of the Belgian team. And the goodbye of the World Cup. But laughter heals. - Do you think our team will reach the 1/8 finals? - If it reaches to Japan, this will already be an achievement. Russia - Japan: The episode is the second.

The project of a new list of strategic enterprises, the privatization of which is possible only by decision of the President of Russia, was approved by the government and was sent for consideration to the administration of the President of Russia, Interfax reports. According to the agency, the list of strategic societies, which previously consisted of 700 enterprises, was reduced in the new version by two -thirds. In particular, the largest Russian Aeroflot airline is excluded from the list.

The Stavropol Regional Court sentenced the three Chechen terrorists on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. Aslan Shepiev was sentenced to 17 years in prison, Idris Batalov - to 15, Ari Tashaev - by 13 years. All of them will serve the sentence in correctional institutions of a maximum security regime. The court found Shepiev, Batalov and Tashaev guilty of a number of terrorist attacks in Chechnya, including mining roads and railway tracks.

An elderly woman living in the south of England with her family and underwent a course of cancer treatment in one of London hospitals was raped by an unknown employee of King's College Hospital, BBC reports. Attacked on the 71-year-old old woman in the toilet, the criminal threw her to the floor and abused an elderly woman. This happened on April 30, but it became known about the incident only now.

The world stands on the threshold of a real explosion of AIDS. In the near future, the number of HIV-infected people on the planet can grow from 40 million to 100 million people, becoming an excessive burden for humanity. This warning was made in New York by former US President Bill Clinton on the forum, in which more than 500 prominent politicians, businessmen and celebrities took part, concerned about the problem of the spread of deadly disease.

On Thursday, the government considered the draft budget for 2003 and took it as a basis . Key ministers (Kudrin and Gref) call him balanced and real - even if his indicators are not as “ambitious” as Putin insisted on this. With criticism for the project, as usual, Andrei Illarionov, adviser to the president on economic issues. He immediately stated that such low economic indicators are the fault of the government itself.

A route passenger bus rolled over in the Nastransky district of the Primorsky Territory. As a result of the accident, three people were injured, reports Interfax. According to the press service of the traffic police department of the region, on Thursday the driver of the bus of the municipal enterprise "VPAAT" at the 6th kilometer from the rain of the road leading to the Solovy-Klokich summer village, as a result of which the bus moved to the ditch and turned over.

Detroit won the Stanley Cup for the tenth time in his story. For the mentor of the “wings” Scotti Bownean, this is the ninth trophy. For the famous Dominic Gashek, who was recognized six times as the best goalkeeper of the league, the first. In the fifth match of the final series, the Czech goalkeeper was again on top, although few people doubted the outcome of this match in victorious for the regular season.

For Russia, the problem of "brain leaks" remains relevant. As announced today, more than 50 percent of graduates of Moscow universities receive offers to work in the West, and half of them agree. “Everything is built in us so that a person has the opportunity to gain knowledge, but a approach to how to use it is not formed for the country and for himself,” said the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy.

The PACE delegation considers the conditions for the detention of prisoners in correctional institutions of the Saratov region to the relevant world requirements. To this conclusion, the members of the delegation of the Commission on Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE came after visiting the Saratov Investigative District N 1 and the correctional labor colony in the city of Engels of the Saratov region, RIA Novosti reports.

On Friday morning, Israeli Radio reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on the eve of the upcoming regional peace conference is negotiating with senior representatives of PNU. According to journalists, these negotiations are underway with the permission of the Israeli Prime Minister. However, Sharon set one condition: neither Perez nor anyone else should contact the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat.

People magazine has been publishing a list of the most famous US bachelors for the third year in a row. In search of the Free from the Uz of Himen Americans, the editors of the magazine rummaged the mountains of information. The marital status of the famous representatives of the strong half of humanity throughout America was carefully studied, NTV-International reports.