Deputy Chairman of the Gengeshi (Council) for Religious Affairs under the President of Turkmenistan, Mufti of the Republic of Nasrullah Ibn Ibadullah was dismissed by the Decree of the President of Turkmenistan. According to RIA Novosti , the deputy head of the Council for Religion Affairs was appointed 35-year-old imam of the Mary Velayat of Kakageldy Vepaev. He also by the decision of the muftiita became the mufti of Turkmenistan.

Marat Safin remained the only representative of Russia at the Adidas International tennis tournament, which these days are held in the Australian Sydney. On Wednesday, a Russian in three sets outplayed the Finnish athlete bright Nyeminen - 3: 6.6: 1.6: 2. And for going out to the semifinals, he will now compete with the American Andy Roddik. As RIA Novosti notes, these days in Sydney are unbearable heat: the thermometer column shows plus 45 degrees.

In 20 settlements in 13 constituent entities of the Russian Federation due to accidents on heating mains without heat supply, 282 residential buildings remain, in which 22 thousand 986 people live, as well as 42 administrative buildings. In emergency recovery, 903 people and 168 units of equipment are involved, Interfax told the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry on Wednesday.

The Great British government ensures that Israel revises its decision to ban the departure of the Palestinian delegation to London to participate in the conference on the Middle East settlement scheduled for January 14.

A terrible crime was committed in a deaf village of Parshovo, Selivanovsky district of the Vladimir region. In one night, unknown criminals took their lives six people out of fourteen residents of the village: four men and two women. As ITAR-TASS said today by the regional prosecutor Alexander Shaikov, the crime was supposedly committed three to four days ago.

The 77-year-old German prostitute was robbed after she left the brothel after the end of the night shift. The robber inflicted light injuries to her, German police said on Wednesday. According to a representative of the German town of Bochum, perhaps this woman is the oldest prostitute in Germany. Prostitution is legalized in some parts of this country, reports Reuters. “This is a very unusual incident,” the policeman said.

At once, four nominee films at the American Golden Globe film award will soon appear on Russian screens, Russian distributors of paintings told Interfax. The Golden Globe is considered a kind of barometer of the future Oscar winners. One of its two main winners for several years has soon become “Oscar -winning”. On February 6, the film "Frida", which opened the last Venice festival, will be released in the Russian rental.

The president of the Kyiv football club Dynamo Igor Surkis told reporters that the club leadership is in correspondence with the French Olympic, where the former striker of the Moscow Spartak Dmitry Sychev is now. “The French behave very tactfully in this situation and perfectly understand that Sychev does not belong to them, nor us, or the“ Olympic ”.

The presidential election of Turkmenistan will be held in 2008-2010. This, as RIA Novosti reports, said the president of the country Saparmurat Niyazov the night before on national television. According to him, “serious work on the preparation of bills” is now underway, which will strengthen the role of the highest representative body in the republic - Hulk Maslahata (People’s Council), which will determine candidates for the post of lava of the state.

The RAP Legenda concert, the American group "Onyx", planned in Moscow on January 10 , was postponed at the end of winter or the beginning of spring. The organizers of the tour told Interfax on Wednesday that the transfer of the only concert of the group is due to the fact that in Russia it was not possible to reprint the last album of musicians by the time.

The Moscow government will finance the construction of an additional corps in the complex of government buildings in Grozny. This was reported to Interfax on Wednesday by the deputy mayor in the government of the capital Mikhail Men, who, on Sunday, January 5, at the head of the delegation of the Moscow government, visited the Chechen capital.

The lawyers of the relatives of the victims as a result of the terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka intend to file three more lawsuits in the Tver court. This was announced on Wednesday by the lawyer of the victims Igor Trunov. According to him, the claims will be filed before the start of preliminary hearings scheduled for January 9th. Thus, he continued, the total number of claims will be 48.

The movement along the Dmitrovskoye highway of the capital is now very limited: ice has formed here with a thickness of up to 15 centimeters. This morning, a fire in trading pavilions arose near the Timiryazevskaya metro station. 15 fire brigades took part in the extinguishing. Now the fire is eliminated, municipal services are called to clear the road. The fight against fire was complicated by a 25-degree frost. The water in the equipment of fire equipment froze in a matter of minutes.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II intends to visit Estonia. The visit will begin on February 7, 2003. About this, according to Interfax, said Metropolitan Tallinsk and All Estonia Cornelius in an interview with the newspaper Youth of Estonia, published today.

In the capital's region, frosts will subside today In the metropolitan region, weakening of frost is expected. As reported in the Moscow meteorus, on Wednesday, the weather in Moscow and the Moscow Region will also determine a frosty anticyclone that came from the Scandinavian peninsula, the capital will be in its northern part, the wind will change to the southwest, 3-8 m/s. In the morning, the temperature in Moscow dropped to minus 26-30 degrees, 26-34 in the region.