The Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko decided to resettle the residents of the house number 8 Corps 2 on Dvinskaya Street until the end of this year. This was announced by the vice-governor of the city Alexander Vakhmistrov to reporters on Saturday, Interfax reports. "The governor understands the psychological state of people living in the house, who remember how two years ago there was a tragedy in their eyes in the house opposite," the vice -governor said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is convinced that when expanding the EU, it is necessary to find compromise solutions between Russia and new members of the European Union, ITAR-TASS reports. "Now the negotiation process has been established to solve specific problems arising in connection with the entry into the EU new states.

Russian experts do not see the reasons for concern about incomprehensible noise aboard the International Space Station last night. “All the on -board systems of the stations are working normally, the tightness is complete,” the ITAR -TASS employee of the flight management center assured ITAR -TASS.

In Spain, the troops took control of the main railways. This decision was made after yesterday at the high -speed railway line Madrid - Seville found a bomb. According to the Spanish Minister of Internal Affairs Angel Asubes, the security forces "kilometer per kilometer" are checked by the route. 45 helicopters, groups of expert-cinologists and armed patrols take part in the operation.

A terrorist attack is prevented in the center of Grozny, RIA Novosti was told in the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter -terrorism operation in the North Caucasus. According to Rosh, on the eve of engineering intelligence on Lenin Avenue, a unit of the federal forces near the route taxi stop found a home -made explosive device.

The commander of the 25th brigade of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, Major General Roman Dumbadze, was removed from his position, the Minister of Defense Gela Traviaashvili said on Saturday at a briefing in Tbilisi. According to him, the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense conducted an internal investigation on the facts of disobedience to command orders, as a result of which six brigade officers will be prosecuted, Interfax reports.

The cause of the accident on the Mozdok-Samemed main gas pipeline near Makhachkala was most likely a sabotage. This was announced on Saturday by one of the operatives working at the scene of the incident on Saturday. He noted that the gas pipeline pipe was probably undermined by a trotyl saber. As a result, a welding seam exploded. Similar damage were also caused in 200 meters of the Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline.

The presidents of Russia and France, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Shirak, visited on Saturday the Main Center for Testing and Directorate of Space Apparatuses named after German Titov, located 40 kilometers from Moscow in the city of Krasnoznamensk, RIA Novosti reports. This center is part of the space forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. From the center, both the military and civil space orbital grouping of Russia, as well as the ISS, are carried out from the center.

Two people died as a result of the catastrophe of a light aircraft in the area of ​​the South Korean city of Sosan, 140 km south of the capital of the country. According to the police on Saturday, the incident occurred due to the fact that the aircraft touched the runway with a wing during the flight at maximum low altitude. According to witnesses, the plane instantly flared up and collapsed.

Currently, the world has a threat of the use of portable anti-aircraft missile systems by terrorists. This was announced to journalists by the Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia - the head of the anti -terrorism center (ATC) of the CIS Boris Mylnikov, RIA Novosti reports.

The Executive Director of the All -Russian Movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev filed an addition to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office to the previous complaint on the Dubrovka terrorist attack with a request to initiate new criminal cases. He reported this on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow .

NASA experts have completed preparations for the launch of the Gravity Probe-B satellite, designed to check Einstein’s theory of space and time. There are four quartz balls inside the device. According to the NASA press service, these are the most ideal spheres of all ever done. Their temperature is maintained close to absolutely zero. These balls are isolated from external interventions and placed in the most “calm” environment of the existing ones. In space, their position should change.

The Russian Hockey Federation, apparently, decided to fulfill all the terms of the contract with the current coach of the national team Viktor Tikhonov. This is the only way to explain the unwillingness of the FHR to appoint Igor Larionov to the post of general manager. On the eve of the 43-year-old striker of the NHL club, New Jersey Devils refused to occupy this, explaining this by the fact that the FHR in the deadlines agreed by the parties did not give him a definite answer.

On Saturday, in the Tikrita area (180 kilometers north of Baghdad), US troops arrested nine Iraqis suspected of participating in anticoan operations, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Iranian television channel Al-Alyam, among the arrested were the bodyguard of the man "number two" in the former Iraqi leadership-Ibrahim Ad-Duri. For assistance in the capture of ad-Duri, the command of the coalition forces in Iraq announced a reward of $ 10 million.

The authorities of the Omsk region consider economic sanctions to be unreasonable, introduced on the eve of the United States in relation to the Omsk Motor -Building Enterprise named after P.I. Baranova. This plant is engaged only in the production and repair of aviation engines, ITAR-TASS said today in the Ministry of Industry, Transport and Communications of the Omsk Region.