The ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) electronic fee system will be installed on cars of the Japanese parliament, which allows not to stop to pay road training camps. According to the Committee of the Administrative Rules of the Japanese Parliament to Yomiuri , the ETC will be installed on a car of any legislator if it submits an appropriate application. The system allows you to pass without stopping points of payment on private high -speed roads, not standing in lines of barriers.

In the Atlantic Ocean, Fedor Konyukhov, on his yacht "Trading Network" The Scarlet Sails "began today to search for the French rower Emmanuel Kuandra, with whom the connection was interrupted more than a week ago. Emmanuel went to beat the global intersection of the Atlantic for single boats. The best result belongs to Fedor, which in 2002 reared the Uralaz boat. The ocean in 46 days 4 hours.

An earthquake again occurred in the Iranian city of BAM. Data about the victims has not yet been received. According to RIA Novosti on Friday, the press service of the Tehran University Geophysical Center, the force of underground shocks recorded in the natural disaster area at 17.02 Moscow time amounted to 4.3 points on the Richter scale.

Superstitious people suffering from Triscadphobia (fear of the “Friday of the 13th” day), in order to maintain peace of mind, psychiatrists advise not to plan serious and responsible affairs for Friday the 13th.

President of Cyprus Tassos Papadopulos and the leader of the Turkish community of the island of Rauf Denctash agreed on Friday with the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan Plan of reunification of the country. With this breakthrough, in the settlement of a 30-year conflict, three days of intense negotiations ended, the last round of which dragged on for almost 20 hours.

The American tanker was arrested for trying to help al-Qaeda secret information. Now the soldier of the National Guard Ryan Anderson is accused of "assistance to the enemy." According to AR, Anderson went into extremist chats on the Internet and distributed information there about the capabilities and equipment of the American army.

In Riga on Friday, the official opening of the World Cotton fishing championship took place. Competitions will be held on February 14-15 on Lake Ungur, located 100 km from the Latvian capital, not far from the border with Estonia. On Friday, there was a training of participants in the tournament, RIA Novosti reports. Fishermen from 11 countries, including Russia, take part in the current championship. The Russians are among the favorites of the tournament.

The Kamchatka military prosecutor’s office received the results of the flight-technical examination of the emergency landing of the Mi-8 military helicopter on the ice of Lake Kalygir in Kamchatka.

In India, two people were injured in the crash of a helicopter. The accident occurred on Friday during a training flight, a representative of the Hindustan Aeronautics LTD in Bangalore, which belonged to a helicopter, said. As a result of the helicopter fall, the pilot instructor and a cadet managing the helicopter was injured. Both of them are hospitalized, RIA Novosti reports.

As reported on Friday in the Hydrometeorological Department of Moscow and the Moscow Region, on Saturday in the city there will be variable cloudy, mainly without precipitation. The temperature at night in the city will be from minus 20 to 22 degrees (in the center - minus 17-18 degrees, in the region from minus 19 to 24). In places in the region will be minus 27 degrees. On Saturday afternoon in the capital there will be minus 12-14 degrees, in the region from minus 12 to 17 degrees.

Vladimir Lukin is appointed Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. At the plenary session of the State Duma, Lukin was supported by 333 deputies under the 300 vote minimum in the Russian Federation established by the Law on Human Rights in the Russian Federation. Four voted against, one deputy abstained, RIA Novosti reports. The appointment of Lukin organizedly supported only the faction of the parliamentary majority - "United Russia".

The deceased resident of Berlin will find eternal peace in outer space. A capsule weighing seven grams and the size of no more than a case from labial lipstick with the ashes of the deceased will be delivered on April 30 to a near-earth orbit by the Russian Rocket Rocket, ITAR-TASS. A resident of the Berlin district of Shpandau Hinz Müller died in 2002 at the age of 78. According to his widow, he "was in love with the stars" and could look at the starry sky for hours.

The France prosecutor's office demanded the sentence of the extreme right -wing politician, Jean Marie Le Pen to conditional imprisonment and a fine for calls for racial hatred. In addition to a two-month conditional imprisonment and a fine of 8 thousand euros, the prosecution on the court passing in Paris demanded for J.-M. Le foam of a year deprivation of the right to be elected, reports Interfax.

On Friday in Moscow, a ceremony of inclusion in the constant exposition of the State Tretyakov Gallery of the painting by Karl Bryullov "The Fort Pico on the island of Madeira" took place.

The famous film director Nikita Mikhalkov was hospitalized for several hours in the Botkin hospital on Wednesday, February 11. As the director of Interfax told the Interfax, Mikhalkov felt bad on the plane on the way home from Milan, where the on the eve of his awarding the Order of the Knight of the Big Cross . After the aircraft arrived at the Sheremetyevo-2 airport, an ambulance was called to the ladder, and the patient was taken to the “Medicenter”, located in the Botkin Hospital.