On Friday, the champion of the car racers in the Formula 1 'Formula 1' Ferrari, representing the new car, warned its rivals in the 2003 championship that their new car was even better than the record holder of last season. The presentation was held at the prestigious headquarters of the team near Bologna for a narrow circle of sponsors, pilots, journalists and elected fans.

The Beta Athenian agency claims that the Deputy Chairman of the United States Council for International Relations David Phillips suggested paying $ 2.5 billion on Friday in exchange for his independence of Kosovo.

The name of Alexander Lebed is assigned to one of the nameless peaks of Sayan. According to RIA Novosti , the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory approved the proposal of the administration of the Ermakovsky district to appropriate the name "The peak of Alexander Lebeda" and "The peak of Nadezhda Kolba" by the nameless peaks of the Range of the West Sayan.

The Ocean transport "Marin Rilaence" under the flag of the Marshall Islands endures in the Bering Sea. On board there is a team of twenty -five people. The engine refused at the ship, its crew was given by the SOS distress signal, ITAR-TASS reports. A rescue vessel "Fair", assigned to the port of Vladivostok, was sent to the area of ​​the incident. Now two vessels are at a distance of 360 miles from each other. "Fair" may approach ocean transport on February 10.

The name of the new chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic may become known today. As the Minister of the Russian Federation for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov said in an interview with ITAR-TASS, on Saturday in the House of the Government of the Russian Federation he will meet with the head of the administration of the Republic Akhmat Kadyrov. Candidates for the post of prime minister will be discussed.

The Palestinian leader Jasir Arafat welcomed today the resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue. "The Palestinian leadership decided to continue peace negotiations with the Israelis, we are ready to lead them until the results are achieved," Arafat said in his residence in Ramallach.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Ivanov calls on to abandon the use of "double standards" in the fight against terrorism. This "is able to discredit the very idea of ​​international cooperation in this area," Ivanov said at the International Conference on Security and Defense in Munich.

The chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Mikhail Babich resigned. "I wrote a statement with a request to dismiss me from this position in connection with the transition to another job," Babich said in an interview with Interfax on Saturday. At the same time, he refused to report his new place of work. In addition, Mikhail Babich noted that he did not offer any candidates to replace his position. “I think this decision will be made by competent people,” he said.

The first deputy mayor in the Moscow government, the head of the construction complex of the capital, Vladimir Resin, denied rumors on Saturday about his possible struggle for the post of mayor of Moscow in the upcoming elections.

On February 8, actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov turns 75 years old. His childhood passed in the hungry post -war years in the Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. And although from a young age Tikhonov cherished the dream of becoming an actor, he went to Moscow to go to the auto -mechanical, and suddenly understood on the train - now or never. In 1950, Tikhonov graduated from VGIK, worked in the theater-studio of the film actor. His first role in the cinema was Volodya Osmukhin from the "Young Guard".

According to updated data, as a result of the explosion in Makhachkala, the deputy director of the republican anti -fitting station suffered three secondary school students. According to RIA Novosti on Saturday in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, an unidentified explosive device worked on the eve of 18.30 Moscow time in the courtyard of a residential building, where the Volga was parked. The owner of the car, fortunately, was not nearby.

The famous film director George Danelia made his debut as a writer with the book "Stone Passenger". Her presentation will take place on February 15 in Moscow in the Central House of Writers, ITAR-TASS reports. According to George Danelia, he devoted his first literary composition to the famous Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerr and his wife Laure. It was Guerra who prompted the idea of ​​creating this book to our famous director.

The Austrian Michael Valhofer won the competition in the high-speed descent at the world skiing championship in Swiss St. Moritz. This season, Walhofer took second places four times in this discipline and, finally, he fell to the top. Its result is 1 minute 43.54 seconds. The bronze medalist in the combination of Norwegian Keetl-Andre Aamondt lost to Valshofer 0.5 seconds, Bruno Kerner took the third place, who brought Switzerland the first medal at the current world championship.

At the fourth, final stage of the hockey Eurotour passing in Stockholm, the Russian team defeated the owners of the site with a score of 4: 2 in its penultimate match at the Swedish hockey games. This success allowed the team of Vladimir Plushchev ahead of schedule to become the winner of this tournament. The main contribution to the victory of our team was made by the 20-year-old striker of the Togliatti Lada Igor Grigorenko. He three times forced the capital of the Finnish goalkeeper.

The number of victims of the attack committed in the north of the Columbia capital of Bogota increased to 20 people. The number of wounded exceeded 100 people, reports CNN. The Colombian authorities do not exclude that the number of dead and victims can still increase. The explosion occurred near the building of the apparatus of the Russian sales adviser in Colombia. Fortunately, none of the Russian citizens were injured.