Warm air, along with the Atlantic cyclone, came to Moscow and Moscow Region. At night, a warm atmospheric front passed through the capital, which brought snow and snowstorms. In Moscow, 5 mm rainfall fell over the night, in the suburbs - from 2 to 5 mm, the height of the snow cover increased by 3-5 cm, in the VDNH area - up to 32 cm. In the afternoon, the metropolitan region will be in the Atlantic cyclone zone, cloudy weather is expected, at times low wet snow, ice is possible.

The famous American group working in the style of anarchist punk - rock - Dead Kennedys ("Dead Kennedy") will soon come to Russia. The concerts of musicians will be held on March 7 in the DC named after Gorbunov in Moscow and March 8 in the Leningrad Youth Palace in St. Petersburg. The group of "kings of the punk" arose in the eighties.

The ampoules with the pathogens of a bubonous plague were found in the United States. This was stated on Wednesday at a press conference by a representative of the FBI department in the city of Dallas Lupa Gonzales. According to him, there is no threat to public security. He also said that no arrests in this case were carried out.

The United States turned on Wednesday with an official request to the NATO European allies regarding the provision of limited assistance in the event of a military operation against Iraq. According to informed sources here, proposals submitted by the First Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States Paul Wolfovitsa were made to discuss representatives of all countries of the Alliance.

The famous French writer Maurice Dryon came to the Russian capital. The main purpose of the author of popular historical novels is to participate in the presentation of the three-volume of his works recently published in Russia, Interfax was told in the Olma Press publishing house, which released a three-volume and organized the arrival of the writer. Dryon arrived in Moscow on Tuesday evening, and his visit, as expected, will last three days.

Employees of Lithuanian law enforcement agencies detained members of an organized criminal group in Vilnius, who for several years supplying prostitutes in public houses of foreign countries - in particular, Germany and Italy. A spokesman for the Lithuanian Police Department told BNS on Tuesday that the detainees are suspected of organizing the sale of several hundred women in European brothels.

In Russia, due to accidents in energy supply systems without heat, 24 thousand 569 people are left. This was reported to "Interfax" on Wednesday in the information management of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The largest number of people who are not provided with warmth are in the northwestern region (more than 22 thousand people). Only in the Leningrad Region, heat supply was not restored in 98 houses, as a result of which about 19 thousand people suffer.

In Portugal, an investigation is underway in the case of a criminal group engaged in smuggling minors to the UK. Police detained Portugal Angolian citizen Pedro Dam, who is suspected of involvement in the criminal business. While the dam is under investigation on charges of falsification of documents, but, according to the investigation, there is every reason to assume that new circumstances will be opened. Dam was arrested in the Southern Portuguese city of Farah.

3 thousand 700 religious buildings returned the Ukrainian state to the ownership of churches and religious organizations over the years of its independence. As the day before was informed by RIA Novosti in the church-Holder Center (Central Military Center) of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Encyclopedia, these data were cited by the Chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine for Religious Affairs Viktor Bondarenko.

The Kyiv prosecutor’s office checks the application of football player Vladislav Vashchuk on a fake contract with Dynamo Kiev. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, on Wednesday, at a press conference, the prosecutor of Kyiv Vasily Prisyazhnyuk stated. According to him, during the audit, the prosecutor's office will determine if there are grounds for initiating a criminal case.

The prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk Region seeks a court decision to prohibit air traffic controllers hold hunger strikes. The corresponding claim of the prosecutor’s office sent to the court of the city of Ob, the Novosibirsk Region, at the location of the Novosibirsk International Airport Tolmachevo. On Wednesday, a pre -trial hearing took place with the participation of the defendant and the plaintiffs. The first court hearing in this claim is scheduled for January 28.

The building of the 30th Women's Colony, located in the city of Kungur, Perm region, will be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2003. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the church-Holder Center of the Moscow Patriarchate "Orthodox Encyclopedia", referring to the statement of the vice-governor of the region Valery Schukin. Earlier on the territory of the colony was a convent.

The State Duma on Wednesday voted for consideration in the second reading of the package of bills on the electric power industry on January 22. This decision was made by 251 votes (with the necessary minimum in 226) when approving the calendar consideration of issues from January 15 to 24. Earlier, we recall that in a number of media there were assumptions that deputies could not engage in the electric power industry reform before February.

The US readiness message to provide the DPRK guarantee of non -aggression is not true.

The unique expedition of the European Sunda Sunda Rosetta to Comet Virtanen will not take place due to the fact that the satellite cannot be launched in the necessary time. This was announced today in Paris by the European Space Agency (ECA), ITAR-TASS reports. According to representatives of the agency, this project will have to be abandoned and look for another comet for research.