In Ukraine, a 13-year-old girl gave birth to a 13-year-old girl in the city of Vinnitsa. The father of the child is 21 years old, parents are not going to abandon the newborn, ITAR-TASS reported in the regional administration. Over the years of independence of Ukraine, this is the second case, when a minor becomes a mother. In January 2004, an 11-year-old girl gave birth to a 11-year-old girl in Kharkov, she became a grandmother at 28. True, then the father abandoned the child.

The traditional annual carnival starts on Friday in Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo, where samba dance schools compete on the carnival, the holiday will be opened by the presentation of symbolic keys to the city of a fictional character-King Momo. This hero will open the passage of each dance school in a sambadrom, which is a special concrete strip, 600 meters long and 20 meters wide, on both sides of which there are spectator stands.

The Qatarian authorities arrested on Thursday two people suspected of involvement in the murder of the former head of the self -proclaimed Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. According to the Katar news agency with reference to the "responsible source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs", the authorities continue investigative actions with suspects of the murder of Yandarbiev.

The idea of ​​the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance to increase the income tax rate for Russians, and at their expense to reduce the unified social tax for enterprises, did not find understanding in the tax department.

Manana Shevardnadze, the daughter of the former President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and the wife of the gia Jokhtababeridze detained today in Georgia in Georgia , does not exclude that they may ask for political asylum in another country. At a press conference on Friday, Manana Shevardnadze also said that the accusations against Jokhtaberidze from the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office have no reason.

The Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill met today with the President of the Republic of Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovin), Dragan Chavich, who was in Moscow at the invitation of the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov.

The UEFA appeal committee began consideration of appeal to disqualification of the football player of the Russian national team and the Moscow Spartak Egor Titov. The meeting in the Swiss Nyon should end by 15:00 Moscow time. Titov, along with his lawyers, is present at the meeting.

On the behalf of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Vnesheconombank made payments on February 20 on debt repayment and servicing to the member countries of the Paris Club of creditors for a total amount equivalent to $ 2.13 billion. Payments were made in nine currencies and made in hard accordance with schedules agreed with sovereign creditors.

In Moscow, a teenager was detained, who "mined" his own school, in the management of information and public relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, was detained. “On Friday, the police detained a 14 -year -old teenager who called the 02 service from the taxophone,” said the representative of the department, Yevgeny Makarova, RIA Novosti reports.

The US authorities accuse the Israeli businessman Asher Carney, living in South Africa, on the sale of nuclear materials to Pakistan and his likely enemy - India. Initially, Carni brought criminal charges of exporting nuclear charges to Pakistan. However, recently, the US Magistral Court received new data indicating that Karni negotiated with an Indian businessman who wanted to secretly purchase nuclear material for two Indian missile production plants.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma for an urgent order draft law "On the formation of a new constituent entity of the Russian Federation as a result of the association of the Perm region and the Komi-Permyatsky Autonomous Okrug." On December 7, 2003, a referendum was held on the unification of the Perm region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. Then most inhabitants of the two regions supported the association.

President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf announced new measures to combat the propaganda of terrorism and extremism, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The leaders of the US Catholic community are unhappy with the attitude of the probable presidential candidate from the Democratic Party of John Kerry to the problem of abortion. Catholic on religion, Kerry, nevertheless, openly supports abortion and for expanding the rights of homosexuals, Blagovest-Info reports.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma assured the Federal Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder in the fact that he would not nominate his candidacy in the coming presidential elections in 2004. Schroeder announced this at a joint press conference with Kuchma in Berlin, dedicated to the results of Ukrainian-German political consultations. According to Shreder, the heads of the two states discussed the constitutional reform in Ukraine.

As a result of the careless handling of weapons, Sergeant Special Forces of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation shot his comrade when performing ambushed actions in the area of ​​Achkhoy-Martan in Chechnya, Interfax reports. “A bullet hit the sergeant into the heart area,” a source in the headquarters of the group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Hankal (Chechnya) said on Friday.