The Tu-154 passenger aircraft made an emergency landing at the Airport of Yekaterinburg, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. At about 8:15 Moscow time, the Tu-154 plane, which made the Yekaterinburg-St. Petersburg flight, made an emergency landing at the Koltsovo International Airport Yekaterinburg. According to preliminary data, the reason is the refusal of one of the three liner engines. On board were 67 passengers and 7 crew members.

The oil company Yukos at a meeting of the Moscow Arbitration Court on Wednesday announced a challenge to the judge considering the claims for the recovery from the company of the debt for 2002. The allotment is motivated by doubts about the impartiality of the judge in considering this dispute, Interfax reports.

The results of a special study conducted in 2002, with the support of the Federal Health Department, showed that most adolescents, boys and girls aged 16 to 20 feel healthy, although dependence on narcotic drugs and mental disorders in their environment is becoming increasingly common, reports Le TEMPS (translation of the article to Inopressa.ru). Problems associated with the lifestyle, manifestations of depression and even depression are rarely a reason for contacting professional doctors.

The representative of the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Zadorozhny, said that next week the parliament would consider the allocation of the central election commission about 90 million hryvnias to conduct a break in the second round of the presidential election, Interfax reports.

Interpol sent a request to Russia about additional information in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, previously announced at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office on the international wanted list. This is stated in a message received by ITAR-TASS from the headquarters of Interpol in Lyon.

The leaders of the Russian Orthodox and American churches performed on the eve of a joint festive service in the Moscow Church of the Great Martyr Catherine on Swing (Bolshaya Ordynka). It was dedicated to the throne holiday, as well as the 10th anniversary of the creation in the Russian capital of the courtyard of the Orthodox Church in America , which is located in the Catherine Church.

The Russian Orthodox community of Reykjavik allocated a piece of land for the construction of the temple in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. According to the Interfax agency in the Moscow Patriarchate, the decision on free transfer was made at the end of November at a meeting of the city government of the capital of Iceland.

This week marks 10 years since the beginning of the Chechen war, but so far the activities of the militants in Chechnya have not been stopped, and their most bloody leader, Shamil Basayev, has not yet been caught, Izvestia write. The newspaper analyzes the reasons why the war in the republic is still ongoing, and tells why Shamil Basayev manages to hide from the Russian special services.

The famous singer Selin Dion will receive a prize in Moscow in Moscow as a contribution to the world show business. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today by Julia Chinakova, who became one of the founders of the new annual All-Russian Award "Golden Bee". Its presentation will take place on March 6 in the Gostiny Dvor.

The State Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted in the fourth, final reading a draft federal budget for 2005. 337 deputies voted for the adoption of the main financial document of the country, 90 were against and two refrained. GDP growth in 2005 is predicted at 6.3%. Inflation parameters - 7.5-8.5% with an average export price for Russian oil of $ 28 per barrel and a foreign exchange rate of 30 rubles per dollar.

The left -handed person is most in the most bloodthirsty societies, according to a new study of the tribes of the world. This discovery can help to solve the riddle why the left -handed minority, in spite of everything, is preserved in human populations, writes Nature magazine (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). To be left -handed is to possess a number of advantages in confrontation situations. Lefts often achieve great success in sports such as boxing and fencing.

The IBM computer industry giant confirmed the information about the sale of his business for the production of personal computers of the Chinese company Lenovo, the leader in this industry. The transaction value, thanks to which the IBM will leave the market, which itself created in 1981, is $ 1.26 billion. As a result, Lenovo will become the third in the world in terms of production by a computer company.

Once a love novel was a fire that gradually flared up for dinners and tea with cookies, during which there was such silence that one could hear how the pin was falling, writes The Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). But times are changing, and now we can safely say that the characters of the old film about fleeting love “Short Meet” could not live in a world where 20-year-old and 30-year-olds worried about a partner have only five minutes.

The Ukrainian "Orange Revolution" strengthens the hope that the development of democracy in Ukraine will bring this country to the European Union. The problem is that many EU states do not want to see Ukraine in the European Union. About this on Wednesday writes the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal . (Translation of the article publishes the site inopressa.ru ) The European Union acted as an intermediary during a crisis in the Ukrainian presidential election.

Opponents of the reunification of the Russian Orthodox (Russian Orthodox Church) and foreign (ROCS) churches can slow down this process, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America Metropolitan German believes.