The scandal with Olga Danilova and Larisa Lazutina, who were disqualified and deprived of all medals over the past year, is transferred to Russia. The lawyer of the skiers accused the okr. Anatoly Kucheren, who defends the interests of Danilova and Lazutina, said that the doping scandal at winter games in the United States in 2002 is a provocation from the International Olympic Committee with the participation of the OKR.

The DPRK released a missile "Earth-More" of a small radius of action in the Japanese Sea, in the area located between the Japanese islands and the Korean peninsula. The launch of the rocket occurred on Tuesday night. Official Pyongyang has already stated that this is just a test of weapons, which is exclusively defensive. Japan, the USA and South Korea require an explanation At the moment, Japan, the USA and South Korea require an explanation.

American laws adopted in a hurry from terrorist risks do not work, insurers found out. Most customers refuse to pay for “terrorist insurance” - due to the high price and numerous restrictions, it simply does not in demand. For owners of ownership, the allowance for the cost of the policy can reach 150%, and very few are ready for this. According to insurance companies - no more than 10-15% of customers.

In Yekaterinburg, the first case of a fatal outcome from complications after a flu was registered: a 62-year-old resident of the Ordzhonikidze district died. This was announced by the press secretary of the Center for GossanepidaDzor Marina Kalinchuk. She emphasized that the dead woman was not vaccinated against influenza. The number of sick ARIs and influenza in Yekaterinburg in a week increased by 12%. In total, 18 thousand 431 people were registered in a week, 48.5% of them are children.

In Riga, a serial killer was detained, whose victims were 10 elderly women. According to the head of the criminal police of the Latvian capital, Imants Kyuzis, the 26-year-old criminal planned two more murders at the time of detention. As the investigation managed to establish, the killer found his victims in the church and other public places. Then he penetrated their apartments under the guise of a representative of the gas company and strangled women.

All restored telephone numbers were connected on the afternoon of February 24, however, due to commissioning of equipment in the coming days in the capital, some restrictions on the incoming relationship may be observed. On Monday, OJSC "Moscow City Telephone Network" completely completed the restoration of 40 thousand telephone numbers damaged as a result of a fire on the APC on Schepkin Street, the company said.

The second largest Switzerland Bank Credit Suisse Group is going to dismiss another 1250 people after the announcement of the records among all European banks in 2002. Credit Suisse finished last year with a record -highly pure loss of 3.3 billion Swiss francs ($ 2.44 billion), this significantly exceeded the expectations of economists.

In Jerusalem and the northern regions of Israel, including at the Golan heights, powerful snowfalls were held on Monday night. According to weather forecasters, the snow in these areas will take more than a day. Jerusalem is shrouded in dense white cover. In this regard, classes in schools have been canceled, public transport does not work in the city, ITAR-TASS reports.

The plans for the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of St. Petersburg, which will be held in May, are overshadowed by a message about the loss of many millions of dollars allocated for the restoration of the city. Apparently, these funds are plundered.

According to the latest data, the number of victims of the earthquake in China reached 279 people, more than 4 thousand inhabitants of the Sinjan-Uygur Autonomous Region (SURA) in the north-west of the country were injured. About 8.9 thousand houses and buildings were destroyed in the disaster zone. Currently, work is ongoing to eliminate the consequences of the most powerful over the past half a century in the Suire of the element.

The Dusseldorf prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday the names of six accused in the case of illegal assignment by members of the Supervisory Board of the Mannesmann Communication Company of multi -million dollar amounts. According to the investigation, they received a total of 125 million euros as a “weekend manual” in the absorption of the company by the British communication concern Vodafone.

The coach of the Moscow "Lokomotiv" Yuri Semin will decide on the composition only immediately before the match. It is not yet clear whether Oleg Pashinin can play in a Moscow meeting with Milan. According to the second Loko coach, Boris Ignatiev, it is not known whether Oleg Pashinin, who in the first match in Milan became a stronghold of the defense of Muscovites in the first match in Milan .

Iraq can plan an attack on American cities with the help of unmanned aircraft equipped with a navigation "global positioning system" (GPS). This was announced by the American television channel Fox News with reference to high -ranking representatives of the American leadership. According to the TV channel, the developments caused such anxiety, which, according to it, is conducted by Iraq in the field of creating small unmanned aircraft that could carry a chemical or biological weapon.

The single of the Russian Tattoo group "All the Things Said", who headed the British charts four weeks ago, is not left the first line of the hit parade and still. The duet of girls with a stage lesbian image does not leave from the first pages of the British tabloids. Critics of Tattoo creativity continue to blame them for the spread of pedophilia and the exploitation of unhealthy sexual inclinations of a certain part of the public.

The Conrad Adenauer Foundation, together with the Center for Ethnic Confessional and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the Presidential of the Russian Federation, officially open today the international Internet conference "Globalization and clash of identities". The conference will be attended by leading Russian and foreign political scientists, politicians and experts.