By the end of the week, warm spring weather was established in the metropolitan region, but the nights are still cold, they reported on Wednesday in Roshydromet. That night in Moscow it was minus 1-3, in the region from zero to minus 5. In the afternoon in the capital there will be up to 12 degrees of heat, and in the suburbs the air will warm up to plus 14, the wind is southeast, moderate. However, this weather is not in the best way on the environmental situation in the city.

Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECR MP) Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin. As he stated on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, “the film has already been watched by a number of our clergy and believers; there are different opinions: maybe there are more positive opinions, although there are also negative ones.” In his opinion, for people who are just looking for faith and are just approaching the Church, this film may be useful.

Today, Orthodox Christians celebrate the holiday of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary . This year this day fell on a passionate week - the last week of Great Lent . The Romir Monitoring service found out what place in the life of Russians is occupied by religion. The study was conducted on March 11-15, 2004, 1,600 Russians were interviewed in 107 urban and rural settlements of the Russian Federation.

Seven prime ministers promises to show in the new, 229th season the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. This became known at the press conference on Wednesday, which was dedicated to the plans of the Bolshoi for the upcoming creative year. The meeting with journalists was attended by Gabta General Director Anatoly Iksanov, chief conductor, music director Alexander Vedernikov, artistic director of the ballet troupe Alexei Ratmansky.

Israel and the United States have reached a fundamental agreement on the support of the Americans nominated by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a unilateral department from the Palestinians.

More than a million people annually die in the world in traffic accidents, another 50 million are injured and find themselves in hospitals. Such sad figures brought at the Moscow representative office of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of World Health Day on April 7. If the trend does not change, warned the general director of the WHO Jong Vuk Lee, then the number of accidents will increase by 60 percent, DW-World reports until 2020.

In Switzerland, on Wednesday, as a result of the fall of the Piper 46 aircraft, 5 people were killed, including 1 child, RIA Novosti reports. The accident occurred at 11:30 local time. The plane fell to the golf site between the villages of Madyland and Zuoz in Canton Grizon. According to the police, all passengers of an airplane capable of transporting 10 people on board were killed.

On Wednesday, a robbery was committed in the center of Moscow, as a result of which about 3 million rubles were stolen. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at 11:50 to the house of the 13th on the 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, a VAZ-2109 car drove up, in which there were a cashier and a guard. In the car, a salary was brought for employees of one of the companies.

“Real” went to the match in the capital of Monte Carlo in combat composition, unless David Beckham, who went through yellow cards, could not take part in the game. But Bex was replaced by Fernandez Borha. In addition, Roberto Carlos appeared on the field, who served his two -match disqualification. Michel Salgado entered the field, whose injury eventually turned out to be not serious.

The United States Marine Corps received ten years in prison for the sale of stolen body armor. In total, the 26-year-old soldier stole more than a hundred bulletproof vests from army warehouses. To sell the stolen, a resourceful American used the services of the EBAY network auction. According to Spiegel Online , equipment items were sold through the Internet at a cheap. The soldier received 44 thousand dollars from buyers, although the real cost of the stolen was about 88 thousand.

British soldiers better cope with the aggravation of the situation in Iraq than the Americans, and the Shiite leader of the al-Sadra can, in a sense, be compared with Ben Laden. This opinion was expressed by an expert on the Middle East Ahmad Lutfi in an interview with the newspaper Le Temps (translation by Inopressa.ru ).

The final series of the Russian Hockey Championship received its continuation in Omsk. Local "hawks" in the third match managed to outplay the Magnitogorsk Metallurg by shootouts and minimize the lag in the series to three victories. Two defeats in Magnitogorsk put themselves in an extremely difficult position - any mistake could become the latter for the "avant -garde".

Chocolate, which future mothers eat, makes their children happy. This is evidenced by the research data, which was conducted by the University of Helsinki, reports New Scientist . The study was attended by 300 women. Katrin Raikonen and her colleagues asked them to calculate how much they eat chocolate. After the birth of the child, the researchers determined the connection between how cheerful the baby looks, and how much chocolate his mother ate during pregnancy.

The details of the incident became known when the Ural doctors had to save a woman delivered to them with two kitchen knives in her eyes . Doctors of the 23rd City Hospital of Yekaterinburg not only saved the life of a woman, but also restored her vision. They admit that the operation can be considered unique, but modestly notice that without luck could not. The doctor Stanislav Chursin, who was on duty that evening, says that he was faced with this for the first time.

The Moscow City Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted as a whole amendments to the law on the procedure for the reconstruction of premises in residential buildings, introducing additional restrictions on the redevelopment of apartments.