Russian border guards detained a group of smugglers transporting drugs. Among them was a colonel of the border service of Afghanistan. According to the press service of the Border Group of the FSB of Russia in Tajikistan, in one of the sections of the Moscow Border detachment (180 km south of Dushanbe), five armed violators of the border were detained from which about 80 kg of heroin and weapons were seized.

The famous actress Nicole Kidman is now present at meetings of the UN Security Council. Thus, it gets used to the role. In the new film "Translator" Kidman will play a translator, whose life was mortal as a result of an accidentally overheard conversation. For a deeper penetration into the image of her future heroine, Kidman watched on Thursday the translators who worked at the Council of People's Commissars, which was dedicated to Iraqi theme, RIA Novosti reports.

In Moscow, a war is flared between shareholders of OJSC Technoconstracport. The reason for the indignation of more than 300 minority shareholders was a deal that infringes on their interests.

Europol conducted one of the most large -scale and successful operations to combat child pornography. This was announced by the representative of the police organization of the European Union "Europol" Evangelos Storgiulis. An operation called Odysseus was coordinated by the European Party and took place on Thursday in 10 countries at the same time. In her course, a number of sites with children's pornography were liquidated.

The Siberia Airlines with 113 people on board, who was from Moscow to Barnaul, performed an emergency landing at the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo at 3:35 up to Barnaul. According to the operational attendant regional department for civil defense and emergency cases, no one was injured as a result of the emergency, Interfax reports. About 1:00 Moscow time, the crew commander reported that one of the engines had stalled at the plane. The pilot requested a landing in Tolmachevo.

The new flag of the Penza region with a stylized image of a non -missed rescue was hoisted on the eve of the regional administration. The deputies of the Legislative Assembly adopted the law on symbolism in November 2002. All this time, the flag was coordinated in the State Heraldic Council under the President of Russia, the Blagoverst-info reports. The new symbol caused disputes in the region.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a large ecological disaster occurred in the territory of the Zaazovsky reserve. On the new gas -processing well, which was developed by the subsidiary of Gazprom - Kubanburgaz, there was an emergency gas release from layers located at a depth of 3 thousand meters. The well is located 300 m from the Prorvensky farm. The accident occurred on February 17 at 23 hours 15 minutes. As a result of the release, depressurization of the well occurred.

So, the murder, the victim of which was the air traffic controller , was with a high degree of probability of lynching. The father, who, in the clash of two aircraft over the Lake Bodensky in July 2002, lost his wife and two children, sentenced to death the man whom he considered guilty. A terrifying "crime on the basis of hostile relations", which was spoke about all over the world. On Friday, the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger discusses on Friday.

The Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy will check the activities of Visa International in the Russian Federation. According to the results of the meeting, the Association of Russian Banks decided to investigate the criteria of banks in the calculation system.

In Iraq, a section of the oil pipeline south of the city of Samarra was blown up. According to the news agency of Saudi Arabia, a fire began as a result of the explosion, but the details of the incident are still unknown. Recently, cases of undermining oil pipelines in Iraq have become more frequent. A day before the last incident in the same area near the city of Samarra, another section of the oil pipeline was blown up, RIA Novosti reports.

In Riga, the protesting of youth has ended against the translation of Russian schools to study mainly in Latvian, as well as against the verification of the Russian special services created by the defenders of the Russian -clip . About 1 thousand participants in the protest rally gathered on Friday in the afternoon, on the bastion hill in the center of Riga.

The Board of Directors of the oil company Yukos at the meeting on February 26 refused to demand one of the former main shareholders of Sibneft, which now owns more than 10% of the Yukos shares, on the convening of an extraordinary meeting of the oil company shareholders, the Yukos press release reported.

In Moscow, on the eve of the morning, at house 2 on the boulevard of Jan Rainis, two law enforcement officials suffered due to the fault of unknown hooligans. According to the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, on Thursday at 7:00 on the street to the senior police lieutenant and the lieutenant of the police, both attackers approached both at the age of 21. Strangers asked the officers to smoke, after which they suddenly attacked them and began to beat them.

On March 14, the Russian President will be held in the Russian Federation. Judging by the results of the latest studies by Romir Monitoring, the rating of the current president of Russia is very high - 77% of citizens are ready to cast their vote for it. The Romir Monitoring group asked its respondents the question - what advantages and disadvantages they see from the current president.

Putin believes that the dollar can fall "another 10-15%", although he refused to give a specific forecast. "The dollar rate even does not know and will not say the head of the federal reserve system of the United States," the head of state believes.