Two children and one adult were injured as a result of an explosion in one of the schools of Dagestan. This was reported by RIA Novosti by phone in the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. The explosion occurred the day before as a result of a gas leak in the canteen of the school, which is located in the village of Duchi of the Kumtorkalinsky district of Dagestan.

On the eve of the Riga castle - the residence of the President of Latvia, Vike -Frebergi, a rally was held , in which approximately 20 thousand Russian schoolchildren took part. They continue to protest against the translation of training in high school in the Latvian language. The president did not go to the protesters, but a day earlier she accepted three Russian schoolgirls. “We are glad that we were listened to. And we regret that we did not hear,” the girl said after this meeting.

In Russia, 3 million couples are in an unregistered marriage, which is about 10% of the total number of couples, which are 34 million. This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Galina Karelova, commenting on the final results of the 2002 All-Russian Census , which were considered at Thursday at a government meeting. “For the first time, information about the number of unregistered marriages has been collected,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the task of any leader, all the more such a rank as the president, is to offer the company to a person whom he considers worthy to work on this place further. Putin said this on Thursday in Moscow at a meeting at Moscow State University with his proxies. “If people agree, support, then this will be a continuation of what is being done now,” Putin emphasized. “But even if this person is worthy, experienced, still another person.

In Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday, 10 thousand counterfeit CDs were destroyed for a total of about 1 million rubles, Interfax was told on Thursday in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Volga Federal District (PFD).

The Belarusian side signed an additional contract for gas supply in the amount of 360 million cubic meters, RIA Novosti was told on Thursday evening at Trans Naft CJSC. This is enough to meet the needs of Belarus for 5-6 days. In this regard, Gazprom today will restore the transportation of gas to Belarus in full, so far for this period. Recall that in the evening Gazprom made a statement that the supply of Russian gas to Belarus on Thursday was completely discontinued.

Representatives of the Hockey federations of Finland, Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland at their meeting confirmed that their champions will take part in the tournament of the six strongest European clubs in January, the director of special projects of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) Federico Saviotszi said yesterday.

The authorities of Gabon, countries in equatorial Africa, after the audit were forced to close the school, where students, many of whom were far over 30, practiced drunkenness, prostitution and bribes to teachers. The reason for the audit was four -day riots, which were arranged by 6 thousand students of the school. "Children" destroyed everything in the building. It turned out that the classes were crowded - in many there were more than a hundred people, including those who were exceeded 30.

In Turkey, in the area of ​​the city of Lengerun, as a result of a traffic accident, 14 people were killed on Thursday and 20 people were injured, ITAR-TASS reports. The cause of the accident was the refusal of the brake system of the truck, filled with corn with bags of corn. The truck crashed at full speed into a passenger bus that was walking in front of him. The blow was so strong that the bus crashed into a minibus rushing ahead. Both cars flew into the ditch and turned upside down.

In the area of ​​Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Wednesday morning, the Su-24 front-line bomber had an accident. Both pilots were baptized. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Air Force of the Russian Federation, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky. The accident occurred at 6:52 Moscow time. The pilots performed a planned training flight. When landing, there was a refusal of the mechanism for rearranging the wing to the landing position.

Frosts hit the metropolitan region. According to Roshydrome, in the early morning the thermometer was held at the mark of minus 18 in Moscow and 18-20 in the region. Closer to noon, the temperature will rise to minus 14-16 degrees in the capital and 13-18 frost-in its vicinity. Light snow will pass in places. According to weather forecasts, it will be cloudy with clearings, the sun may seem because of the clouds. However, at the same time on the roads, strong ice, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Egypt in the Red Sea, near the Egyptian resort of Sharm-El Sheikh, a ship with foreign tourists aboard. The ship died after a fire broke out on it, Interfax reports. The police said that at least 3 people were killed - an American and 2 South Korets. Another 11 people escaped, rushing into the water. On the ship were tourists who were going to engage in underwater swimming.

The All -Russian population census, carried out in 2002, recorded a decrease in Russia in Russia, as well as an increase in the number of Armenians and Azerbaijanis compared to the data of the previous 1989 census. This is stated in the materials of the Goskomstat of the Russian Federation, presented to the upcoming meeting of the Russian government on Thursday.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld warned that the returning of political sovereignty Iraq at the end of June does not mean automatically transferring authorities in the field of defense to the new Iraqi authorities. During a brief conversation with journalists today, the head of the Pentagon emphasized that the issue of transferring authority to the local population in the field of security will be resolved in various regions of Iraq in different ways.

At the end of March, an agreement on cooperation will be signed between the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region and the Moscow Diocese. This was reported today by Interfax in the cultural department of the Moscow Region. It was noted there that "the agreement should set up all points over" I "in the joint existence of religious and museum services in historical and architectural complexes in the Moscow Region," the agency’s interlocutor noted.