The import of the American currency to Russia almost ceased. Ruble cash, on the contrary, is growing. The last chord should be the appearance on the market of bills with a face value of 5,000 rubles. She can become a full-fledged replacement for a 100-dollar bill, so beloved by Russian holders of large cash, is the Izvestia . In the world, $ 630 billion is contacted. In the United States, less than half of this amount is used.

The Tu-160 strategic bombers will resume flights on January 16-17, interrupted after the bombardor disaster in October 2003. This was stated in Moscow to reporters on Wednesday, the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Colonel General Vladimir Mikhailov. "The reasons for the disaster of the Tu-160 bomber , which occurred in October 2003, after which the flights of these aircraft were temporarily discontinued. On January 16-17, flights will be resumed," Mikhailov said.

Russian Ivanov Minister of Defense said that there would be no conclusion of the Russian military bases from the territory of Georgia as it was carried out in Germany. “Everyone understands everyone perfectly, and once again I confirmed this that there would be no conclusion of our bases from Georgia, as it was from Germany at one time, when soldiers, officers and weapons were dumped in a clean field and called it a conclusion,” Ivanov told reporters on Wednesday in Krasnoyarsk.

The British police arrested a citizen of Sudan at the London Airport of Khitrovo, who carried suspicious ammunition on board the aircraft. According to the Sky News television company, during standard procedures for checking passengers from a citizen of Sudan who flew out of Washington, items were found prohibited for transportation on board the aircraft. The passenger, whose name has not yet been reported, was about to fly out of London in Dubai.

Due to the injury of the calf muscles, Chelsea striker Ernan Krypo can skip the first match of the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League against Stuttgart. Last Wednesday, the striker of the Argentina national team, despite the assurances of his readiness to continue the meeting, was forced to leave the field in the first half of the match with Liverpool. Since then, Croats refused to start treatment, which would take at least a month.

Soft toys performing a song about the Russian president will not be supplied to the Urals. Chinese manufacturers who made these musical animals said that the party recently taken to Yekaterinburg was the last. As previously reported, politically -minded hares appeared in the Urals recently.

In Russia today they celebrate an unusual holiday. It is not indicated in any calendar, but all Russians celebrate it - the old New Year. This tradition is associated with the Julian calendar , according to which our country lived until 1918: it was today that the old style came on January 1. The people have been called Vasiliev since ancient times, since today the memory of St. Basil the Great, who lived in the 4th century, is celebrated.

The famous Bulgarian football player Christ Stoichkov in the past, who recently completed the career of the player, intends to celebrate his exposure to the Spanish Barcelona match of world football stars at the famous Nou Kamp stadium. Next week, Stoichkov, who spent his best years in Barcelona, ​​will sign a contract with the Catalan club for a year and a half, after which he will officially enter the coaching staff of the Spanish team.

At least two people died as a result of an explosion of a bomb in the Iraqi city of Baakub, located 67 km from Baghdad. According to eyewitnesses, a bomb exploded, laid down in a car near a police station. The explosion was very powerful, people literally spread on the ground, reports Reuters. Two dead - passers -by, residents of the city. 14 Iraqi police officers were also injured.

Numerous flocks of monkeys storm the India embassy in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu. This was announced on Wednesday by a representative of the diplomatic mission. According to him, the monkeys attacked the staff of the embassy, ​​arranged a mess in the building of the diplomatic mission and destroyed all the documentation. In addition, the monkeys attacked the children who played on the playground on the territory of the embassy.

After the head coach of the Russian national team , Georgy Yartsev, extended the contract with the Russian football union for two years, the program for preparing the national team for the 2004 European Championship was approved. In total, four friendly matches are planned, and they will all pass outside our country. On February 11, Russia will play with the second team of Japan, and a few days later it will meet with the youth team of this country.

The change of floor, a same -sex copulation - all this is observed not only among people, but also among birds, bees and other representatives of the earth's fauna. Even jealousy is familiar to the animals: jealous females of toad, for example, can sneak up to a copious pair and break both, writes Time (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Female anger When men are catastrophically lacking, women enter into severe competition.

In Moscow on Wednesday, an employee of the Livan Embassy was easily wounded, who violated the rules of the road in his car. According to the information department of the capital’s capital, in the morning in the city center on Petrovka Street, employees of the road patrol service drew attention to the Volvo car with diplomatic numbers, which grossly violated the rules of the road and posed a threat to pedestrians and other cars.

The President of the World Association of Belarusian Jews, Jacob Gutman, was detained by police officers for an unauthorized picket in Minsk opposite the Presidential Administration.

The co -chairman of the ATP Irina Khakamada addressed the Russians with an open letter in which she accused the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin of intentional and cold -blooded use of deadly gas during the assault on the special forces of the theater center at Dubrovka in October 2002. According to her, she goes to the polls to reveal the truth about this and other crimes of the authorities to the Russians.