On Wednesday, the first modernized Volga GAZ-31105 will come from the conveyor of the Gorky Automobile Plant. In fact, this is an updated version of the previous GAZ-3110 model , which has been produced since 1997 and over time should give way to the conveyor. GAZ -31105 will cost more than the predecessor for $ 500 - 172 thousand rubles. For this money, motorists will receive a new chassis, which will not need to be regularly lubricated, new Bosh lighting equipment and radiator lining.

In Tel Aviv, one of the skyscrapers of the Azrieli Center is mined. The shopping center, located in the Tel Aviv skyscraper, was evacuated in connection with the detection of low-power explosive device on one of its floors, the cursor agency reports. A small box with explosives and a detonator invested in it was discovered by the internal security service of the building during a normal detour.

The Cuban leader Fidel Castro will soon receive an official invitation to the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew (Archondony) to visit the Monastic Republic of Athos located in the north of Greece, RIA Novosti reports. This, as the Greek Macedonian News Agency reports, the day before, Patriarch Bartholomew himself told reporters in Istanbul, who wears the honorary title of the Ecumenical Patriarch and is considered the first among the equal principles of the Orthodox churches.

The corpse of a Russian peacekeeper has been discovered in the Zezuzino-Abkhaz conflict zone, Zugdidi police said. Details are still unknown, the events of January 27 are considered as the version, when an armed clash between the police of Georgia and the Abkhaz criminal group consisting of 10 people took place in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, RBC reports. The incident occurred in a 30-kilometer zone of security, where Russian peacekeepers are deployed.

A girl from Mordovia, possessing a unique "X -ray" vision, made a splash in London. After British journalists learned about a unique child, the Sun newspaper has concluded a contract with her, and now the girl will have an examination in the British laboratory. Natasha Demkina first felt her gift when she was 10 years old. Once she began to tell her mother about how the human body works.

On Tuesday, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against the keeper of the paintings of Peter Konchalovsky. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation accuses the family of one of the artist’s heirs of “performing illegal operations” with paintings under arrest. Peter Konchalovsky died in 1956, leaving all the paintings in the inheritance of his son Mikhail.

This year, the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg is forced to abandon the National Theater Prize and participation in the Golden Mask festival. "The theater goes to this step, understanding the entire degree of responsibility to Russian lovers and connoisseurs of musical art.

The new chairman of the Duma culture committee is wig and advocates recognizing an artistic whistle with a full -fledged form of art. The 66-year-old Joseph Kobzon, who is called Russian Frank Sinatra, outlined his reactionary and absurd vision of the future Russian culture. In the election, Kobzon, with the support of the Primmnevskaya Party, "United Russia" went to the parliament in the constituency in Eastern Siberia.

Due to the cold weather and plentiful snowfalls, the largest British Airways airline in the UK canceled 44 passenger flights today. The company spokesman said that 36 liners were detained in the London Heathrow, and 8 in Gatwick 8. "We are asking the clients who booked places on these flights, do not come to the airports, but make a call to our airline and either pick up money or order a ticket for another time," said BA spokesman. Strong cold caused transport chaos in the British Isles.

In Mordovia, 37 people were poisoned at the wedding and were hospitalized. Their condition is evaluated as satisfactory, reports RIA Novosti. The incident occurred in the village of ATYURIEVA. According to doctors, patients began to contact medical help from January 25. Among the hospitalized - 6 minors. Upon admission, they observed classic signs of poisoning. The condition of the patients was evaluated as serious. Currently, the life of all those who received is out of danger.

Belgian Kim Klisters defeated herself, after which she prevailed in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open Championship over Russian Anastasia Myskina - 6: 2, 7: 6. In the second set, Kim played with a terrible pain in her right ankle, but managed to survive the entire match. It was in this party that Kliisters took a medical time out, and then allowed the opponent to play six matches, but at the seventh completed the match.

The emissar of Chechen militants Ahmed Zakaev arrived on Wednesday at Berlin at the invitation of the speaker on foreign policy issues of the Social Democrats faction in the Bundestag.

At 18:00, the Central Election Commission of Russia stopped receiving voters' signatures in support of presidential candidates. Representatives of five candidates handed over the signature sheets to the CEC: Vladimir Putin, Sergey Mironov, Ivan Rybkin, Irina Khakamada and Sergey Glazyev. Two more presidential candidates - Nikolai Kharitonov and Oleg Malyshkin - were exempted from collecting signatures as representatives of parliamentary parties.

Moscow is threatened by a diphtheria epidemic. This was stated today by the chief state sanitary doctor of Moscow Nikolai Filatov. Despite the fact that in 2003, compared with 2002, the incidence of diphtheria decreased by 35.5%, the situation is estimated as stressful. The incidence rate in Moscow exceeds the average Russian.

On Wednesday, the weather will not change significantly in the metropolitan region, but on Thursday the cyclone will bring a strong snowstorm and warming, Roshydrome said. Now in Moscow about 6 degrees below zero, in the region minus 4-8 frost. By the middle of the day, minus 2-4 degrees will warm in the capital, minus 2-7 is expected in the region. It will be cloudy, light snow will pass. The wind is southeast, moderate, reports to ITAR-TASS.