More than 4 thousand people died in fires that occurred in Russia during the first two months of 2004, the Ministry of Emergencies said. "In January -February 2004, more than 36 thousand fires were registered in the Russian Federation, more than 4 thousand people were killed in them, including 139 children. More than 2 thousand people were injured. Direct material damage amounted to 600.5 million rubles," said the Ministry of Emergencies of the Interfax on Friday.

The Nigerians Obzhimad Obuykule and Ojimad Nkiruk, who met two years ago in the correctional institution of the XZH-385, promised to get married after the liberation at the celebration of the Orthodox Nativity of Christ . To date, both have served the terms of imprisonment and, having left home, got married, the Blagovers-info reports.

Three powerful explosions thundered on Friday in Baghdad in the area of ​​placement of the temporary coalition administration. This was stated by a representative of the American command in Iraq. Explosions occurred in the city center. A howl of sirens is heard over the city, which usually sounds when the so -called "green zone" is subjected to shelling, in which the American military and temporary administration are located under the control of Paul Bremer.

The Pentagon conducts an investigation on the fact of the possibility of Iraqi rebels of new, more powerful Russian missiles. Such missiles give militants the opportunity to bring down American helicopters and threaten the safety of other aircraft. This was reported by officials of the defense department studying the components of missiles found on the site of recent disasters and captured during raids, writes The Boston Globe (translation on the website inopressa.ru).

The Basmanny Court postponed on April 7 a criminal case against writer Kirill Vorobyov , published under the pseudonym, Bayan Shiryanov and the accused of making pornographic materials for the purpose of their spread. According to the writer’s lawyer Alexander Glushenkov, the transfer of the process scheduled for Friday is due to the fact that the conclusion of a repeated complex art history-linguistic examination is not ready. She was appointed by the court at the last meeting on March 5.

Responsibility for an explosion on Wednesday evening at the Djabal Lubnan (Mount Lebanon) , which killed 7 people, took over the al-Qaeda terrorist group. This is stated in a letter received in Dubai by the Ashark Al Awsat Mezharab newspaper, Interfax reports. The letter says: "Lions" al-Qaeda "who are in Iraq to expel enemies, planned and carried out this operation." The authenticity of the document has not yet been established.

The chief rabbi of Russia ( Keror ) Adolf Shaevich turned to the chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Fetisov and the President of the Russian Federation Basketball Sergey Chernov with an appeal to prevent anti -Semitic manifestations in sports, which are held in the country, Interfax reports. The reason for the appeal, A.

"Blond Banditka", suspected of a series of robberies of banks in the United States, was arrested in sin. The public assistance and the guesses of investigators allowed the FBI agents to go on the trail of the 36-year-old Denise Ruth Bender. The woman is accused of eight robberies committed by her for four weeks. During the detention, she did not show any resistance. “She obviously knew that they were looking for her,” said the FBI representative Beth Anne Style.

Employees of the Office for Combating Organized Crime of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Saratov Region detained a student of the regional university who tried to realize half a million false rubles. A student of the Saratov State Technical University and his non-working partner tried to sell a total of two hundred 100-ruble and 960 fake 500-ruble bills.

In Kamchatka, a murder of the wife of the General Director of the FSU "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka Air Aviation" (Petropavlovsk Airport) Alexei Tverdokhleba was committed. According to the press service of the internal affairs department of the Kamchatka region, at 7:20 local time, a neighbor Tverdokhlebov called the police department. As it turned out, the man entered the apartment on the scream of a woman and saw Larisa Tverdokhleb lying in blood.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov appointed Mikhail Seslavinsky as the head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. This was reported on Friday in the Department of Government Information. Since July 1999, Seslavinsky served as the first deputy minister of the Russian Federation for press, television and radio broadcasting and mass communications. Seslavinsky is a professional official from information.

The 2004 Olympiad in Athens is still 147 days left, but it is already beating records - 202 countries are going to send their athletes to the Olympic Games. For comparison, representatives of 199 states and athletes from East Timor who performed under the flag of the IOC were competing in Sydney's Summer Games in Sydney. Now, all the national Olympic committees, which are officially recognized as the IOC, expressed their desire to participate in the Olympics.

More than 700 letters of thanks from Indian students were transferred today by the mayor of Luzhkov, the President of the Association of Indian Students in Moscow, a cardiac surgeon of the Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgeon RADSH RADAZHAN. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Center for Vedic Culture.

In the Amur Region (Far East) on Friday morning, a traffic accident occurred, as a result of which two boys, born in 1988 and 1989, died. According to the regional administration, in the village of Novo-Petrovka, a bus with a team of children-valebolists from the city of Free collided with a KAMAZ car. According to the traffic police, when turning, the bus entered the oncoming lane, Interfax reports. There were 10 children on the bus, a driver and an adult accompanying person.

Under the Holy Danilov Monastery, where the Synodal Residence of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II is located, it is planned to create a center for rehabilitation of homeless children, Interfax reports with reference to the communication service of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Patriarch said about this at a meeting with the inhabitants and philanthropists of the monastery.