US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld "presents a risk catalog of 5 typewritten pages", with which Americans, according to generals and scouts, may encounter during the war against Iraq. About this on Tuesday is written by the American newspaper New York Times . According to the publication, until recently in Washington, the theme of American human and other losses was banned.

The Russian football champion is Moscow Lokomotiv on Wednesday opening the season. The first game of wards Yuri Semin will be the meeting of the Champions League with the Italian Milan. There is no doubt that Milan will be the favorite of this meeting. In composition, the club looks very menacing. In addition, in Italy, the football season is in full swing, and in Russia, the teams, on the contrary, only enter it.

The Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Navy Vladimir Kuroyedov agreed to transfer the submarine to the government of the Vologda region. This was announced by the assistant to the governor of the Vologda region, Alexander Sturmanov. Now the diesel submarine is located in Kronstadt in the reserve of the Baltic Fleet, reports regions.ru .

These days, Israel easily and calmly prepares for the impact of retaliation from Iraq . The people are used to war, to sirens and code words (if, for example, the inscription "Iron Wall" appears on the TV screens, this means that the audience has three minutes to get to asylum).

The biographies of all 15 patriarchs of the Russian Church will first be included in the Great Russian Encyclopedia (BRE). This is a traditionally secular publication, unlike its predecessor - a large Soviet encyclopedia, will contain a large number of religious articles. This was reported today by ITAR-TASS in the information service of BRE, commenting on the results of the scientific and editorial council on the preparation of this fundamental work.

Representatives of the Nobel Committee on Tuesday February 18 published a list of nominees for the Nobel Prize of the World . Among the applications received before February 1, there are 129 individual nominees and 21 organizations, and new applications are expected. The head of the Yunmovik Hans Blix and Muhammad al-Baradei, the head of the Magate, are put forward for the Nobel Prize of the World.

The 44-year-old Muscovite was detained for the corruption of young people on the eve of Plekhanov Street. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, a non -working citizen has been exposed in the fact that since 2000, using home phones and e -mail, he periodically contacted minor girls and talked with them on sexual topics. A criminal case has been opened.

Perhaps the only thing that unites the irreconcilable antagonists George Bush and Saddam Hussein are shoes. Both the head of the American administration and the Iraqi president prefer to wear the most elegant and expensive shoes in the world that the famous Italian company Artioli sews to order. Her head of Vito Artily, according to the Al-Wasat, the Mezharab weekly weekly, admitted that both order the same classic model on the laces from him.

With a call to all believers to pray that the Middle Eastern region does not have bloodshed so that the children do not remain orphans, and the widows of the Russian union of Christians of the Gospel (Pentecostal), the Blagoverst -info reports. “We are against all violence and ascend the prayers to God for the prevention of the conflict,” the statement signed by the chairman of the Union, Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky.

The international team of astronomers from the Netherlands discovered using the William Hershel telescope that a large star in the constellation Cassiopeia can explode in the near future. As reported on Tuesday in the Observatory of the city of Utrecht, the star of Ri, one of the seven "yellow supergiants" of our Galaxy and the brightest star of the Milky Way, in the summer of 2000 suddenly and rapidly cooled - from 7 thousand to 4 thousand degrees.

The dollar continues to fall with an unprecedented pace. According to the results of a single trading session at the MICEX on Tuesday, the American currency fell into 9 kopecks. 31.55 rubles were given per ruble. The official CB of the Russian Federation of the US dollar for February 19 is 31.5503 rubles per dollar. During the auction, 838 transactions were concluded totaling over $ 392 million - this is an indicator of extremely high activity.

The Minister of the Interior Livan Ilyas Murr made last Monday with a tough statement to Israel. In his opinion, in the event of a war in Iraq, Israel may take advantage of the situation to expel thousands of Palestinians from the country. This will be equivalent to the declaration of war with Lebanon, said Ilyas Murr.

The ship’s ship cable of Christopher Columbus "Santa Maria", which sounded in 1492 at the moment when the sailors saw the land that turned out to be new light, was confiscated to the Spanish police on Monday. Meanwhile, the historical relic was previously auction in Madrid, its initial price was $ 1 million. "Santa Maria" sank off the coast of Haiti in December 1492.

The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, announced the dismissal of the Director General of Interregiongaz LLC Nikolai Gornovsky, who worked in this position for a little more than a year. Together with the ex-head of the Interregiongaz, almost all top managers are dismissed, with the exception of the appointed acting general director Anatoly Khripunov. Miller announced the termination of the employment contract with Nikolai Gornovsky at yesterday's operational meeting.

The spiritual leader of the Palestinian Extremist group Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, issued Feveta last Monday - a religious decree, according to which, if the Americans began against the war against Iraq, it was ordered to commit a series of terrorist terrorist terrorist terrorists in Israel. Yasin emphasized that the Palestinians should support Iraq by "all the means available to them." Over the past week, Hamas suffered tangible losses.