Police officers in the Primorsky village of Romanovka, Romanovka, Skotovsky district, seized about 112 kg of marijuana from a local resident. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, a large batch of drugs was discovered during operational-search measures by criminal investigators in a private house with a previous man. The detainee is placed in a temporary detention center.

On Sunday, on Sunday, on Sunday, the third world championship in underwater fish fishing ended in Latvia on Sunday. The first took place in 2001 on the Krylatsky Canal in Moscow, the second - in 2002 on the same Latvian lake. The winner of the competition, as the last time, was the leader of the Latvian team Peteris Leaderis. In the team standings, Latvians also took first place. The Russian team became the silver medalist of the championship.

The governor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra Bishop of the Sergiev Posad Feognost consecrated in the name of the Holy Trinity the first Orthodox church in Antarctica, erected at the Bellingshausen Russian Polar Polar. According to the agency of RIA Novosti today at the church-Holder Center of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Encyclopedia , a patriarchal courtyard was established under the polar church, subordinate to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

The Central Bank published data on the turnover of cash currency for December 2003. It is not surprising that now the Russians are indifferent to the fall of the dollar . As it turned out, the Russians got rid of most dollar savings just for the New Year. According to the Central Bank, the deliverance of the population from the cheaper dollars in December took on an avalanche -like character.

On Monday, the Nikulinsky court of Moscow will consider 25 claims of the Presidential Affairs Department against former State Duma deputies who did not release official apartments in a complex on the street of the street of Palm. Three more similar claims will be considered on February 20.

On the night of Sunday to Monday Moscow time in Los Angeles in the Staples Senter arena, the 53rd match of all stars of the National basketball association was held. With a score of 136: 132 the Western national team won, for which Russian Andrei Kirilenko spoke. The forward of the Russian national team spent 12 minutes on the site, for which he scored two points (one hit from the game of three, one selection and one block show).

21-year-old Russian woman Elena Isinbaeva updated the global record for height jumping in the halls, taking a bar set at an altitude of 4 meters 83 centimeters at the athletics tournament "Six Star" in Donetsk. This is the highest achievement for both the hall and for the stadium. Isinbaeva by two centimeters improved her own record for open halls, installed in July last year at a tournament in Gaitshid. Now Isinbaeva is the owner of all three world records in this discipline.

The most likely cause of the death of the famous Italian bicycle worker Marco Pantani is considered to be a cardiac arrest, not suicide, as previously expected, reports the Air Force . Marco Pantani died on February 14 by one of the hotels in the city of Rimini . In his room, the police found sedatives. “No one is talking about suicide now,” said Paolo Jengarelli, prosecutor Rimini.

Transval-Park, whose roof fell on Saturday, buried several dozen people under reinforced concrete structures, belonged, including the wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Elena Baturina, the media say. Information about this is published on Monday at once two newspapers - Kommersant and Vedomosti . However, this information is unofficial. Judging by the documents, the water park is managed by Terra Oil CJSC, which is engaged in the trade in machine oils.

The famous Russian coach Anatoly Byshovets, who won the Olympic football tournament in Seoul with the USSR national team in 1988, can lead the Georgian team. In an interview with the Air Force, the coach confirmed that he received a similar proposal from the president of the Georgian football federation Merab Jordia. The parties intend to discuss the details of the agreement during a meeting in Cyprus, where Anatoly Byshovets is now located.

Another suspect was detained in the capital of France in the case of the so -called "Chechen cells" - an Islamist group, which, presumably, was preparing a terrorist attack against the Russian Embassy or another Russian representative office in Paris. As sources in the Paris Palace of Justice reported on Monday, we are talking about the 27-year-old Saber of Lurga, who had long been wanted by law enforcement agencies.

In Russia, for the first time after a almost centuries -old break, an international horse polo tournament in the snow will take place. As the organizer of the tournament, President of the Moscow Polo-Club Viktor UAKO, said at a press conference on Monday, the competition will be held on February 28-29 at the Central Moscow Hippodrome. According to UAKO, players from the UK, Italy, Argentina and Russia will take part in the tournament.

To assist the victims as a result of the tragedy in the water park in Yasenevo in the capital, a special account was opened in the Bank of Moscow. This was reported in the Department of Social Protection of the Population of the Capital, RIA Novosti reports. You can transfer money to the account: The Department of Social Protection of the city of Moscow TIN 7704253064, KPP 770401001.

Nine people received various injuries last Sunday as a result of the fall of a car from a bridge in the Karasai district of the Alma-Ata region (southeast of the republic). According to Interfax on Monday, the State Agency for Emergency Situations (ASF), the GAZ-66 driver did not cope with the management, as a result of which the car fell from the bridge to the Bolshaya Almatinka River.

The founder of Playboy magazine Hugh Hefner sells 21% of the company's shares to pay off the debts of Playboy.com . Playboy Enterprises Publishing Company confirmed the information published earlier than Chicago Business that Hugh Hefner sells more than 20% of the company's shares, which he established 51 years ago.