The astronauts could not eject the side of the cosmic shuttle. According to RIA Novosti correspondent in NASA, the COLUMBIA shuttle is not exposed by the personal means of salvation of astronauts. According to the latest data, Shuttle fell apart a few minutes before landing. This is evidenced by personnel shown through American channels, which "tracked" the flight of the ship on the trajectory of its reduction over Texas.

On the ground, the first fragments of Columbia shuttle, which suffered a catastrophe during landing on Saturday, were discovered. This was reported by the NBC television company. The fragments were found in the small town of Nagodosh in the eastern part of Texas, not far from the border with Louisiana. They are found in a car parking of a commercial bank. In accordance with NASA, people are warned of the need not to approach the wreckage, since they can pose a threat to health.

US President George Bush is informed of the COLUMBIA shuttle accident. According to RIA Novosti , a high -ranking representative of the White House said that in the next hours the president was gathering an emergency meeting of the heads of military and political structures of the government.

Rosaviacosmos is ready to provide any technical and expert assistance in investigating the causes of the disaster of the American shuttle of Columbia, if such a request from NASA followed. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, the representative of Rosaviacosmos Vyacheslav Mikhailichenko said. However, in his opinion, the investigation of the causes of the disaster will be a very difficult matter.

In Khabarovsk, two men who committed the murder of a school watchman were detained. The correspondent of RIA Novosti was reported on Saturday by the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Khabarovsk Territory on Saturday. The tragedy, according to police officers, occurred on the night of Thursday to Friday. The criminals tried to remove products from non -ferrous and ferrous metal from the school N58 in order to pass them into scrap metal.

The giant fire destroyed part of the "old bazaar" in the center of the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the city of Abu Dhabi. According to RIA Novosti , a fire that broke out in the early morning on Saturday in the morning was stewed by dozens of fire engines, representatives of the city authorities and members of the nahayanov ruling in the emirate arrived at the scene. Thousands of citizens watched a giant flame, covering about 20 stores, mainly jewelry.

NASA unexpectedly postponed the press conference appointed at 11:30 in the morning local time. It is transferred for an indefinite time. American flags have been seen at the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral, although NASA still officially reports that there was a tragedy. Experts exclude the possibility that Colambia crew members could eject.

On Saturday, the American reusable spacecraft COLUMBIA was a disaster on Saturday. His first flight took place on April 12, 1981. As Interfax told Russian experts in the field of manned astronautics, the Chattles catastrophe raised two main questions - about the future fate of the captured cosmonautics of the United States and the future of the International Space Station.

A senior US official spoke at the Cape Kanverali cosmodrome that there was a disaster. Columbia fell apart at the entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere and all seven crew members died. It happened 16 minutes before landing. At exactly 9 in the morning the east coast of the United States, the connection with Columbia was lost. The national flag of the United States has been seen over the Capitol building in Washington.

Recovery work continues on the border of the Myasnikovsky and Aksai districts of the Rostov region, where the lamb was broken by the flood waters. The water from the lake next to the Kemernitsky state farm began to flood the outskirts of Rostov-on-Don. In the flooding zone there were 30 country houses, from which three people were evacuated, Interfax told the Rostov-on-Don COM and emergency department on Saturday.

The prospects for the resumption of the negotiation process between Tbilisi and Sukhumi on the basis of taking into account the legitimate interests of both parties were discussed by the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on the issues of the Georgian-Abkhaz settlement Valery Loshchinin and the Prime Minister of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Gennady Gaguli. The meeting took place on January 31, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

On February 1, Boris Yeltsin turned 72 years old. According to RIA Novosti, the chief of the protocol of the first president of Russia Vladimir Shevchenko, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, representatives of the Kremlin administration, as well as the assistants of Yeltsin from the "old guard", with whom he had been working since the mid-90s, was congratulated.

The representative of Georgia at the UN Revaz Adamiya accused Russia of an effort to annex to Abkhazia. According to him, this is evidenced by such facts as the creation of the Russian military base in the Abkhazian city of Gudauta and the active penetration of Russian capital into the economy of the self -proclaimed republic. Another representative of the Georgian leadership - the Minister for Special Affairs of Malkhaz Kakabadze - criticized the UN Security Council for Abkhazia on January 30.

In the world of the Portuguese, the Russian team won the Portuguese capital, the Russian team won the Iceland team with a score of 30:27 in the match of the "comforting tournament" for 5-8 places and thereby guaranteed a ticket to the Olympics in Greece. Recall that the Olympic tournament fall directly the seven best teams of the current championship. At the beginning of the meeting, the game of Russians did not work out. The Icelanders even managed to lead with a score of 6: 2.

More than 50 thousand tenge ($ 1/155.2), by a court decision, should be paid by a resident of Pavlodar (north of Kazakhstan) for a staging of his own abduction. "The court recognized the claims of the regional department of internal affairs to the specified woman, whose searches for 10 hours were fought by more than 500 personnel," the Interfax agency was told in the press service of the regional police.