The Russian Ministry of Emergencies is preparing a special defense with humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka. As reported on Monday in the press service of this department, "on the night of January 11 from the Moscow Domodedovo airport to the capital of Sri Lanka Colombo will fly out the transport aircraft of the IL-76 EMERCOM." Part of the help was provided by Belarus. These are blankets, tents, wheat flour and devices for water purification.

The General Director of Spartak, Yuri Pervak, said that the planned friendly match dedicated to the end of the disqualification of Yegor Titov may take place on January 23. Recall that Titov’s disqualification period expires on January 22, reports Sport-Express . “The holding of such a match is my initiative, but now Igor Rogozin’s commercial director is dealing with this issue.

In St. Petersburg, unknown criminals committed the murder of four people, another victim is in the hospital. This was announced on Monday by telephone by a source in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. “On the eve, police officers in the basement of a residential building on the Avenue of Artists discovered the bodies of two men and two women with traumatic brain and knife injuries,” said an employee of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

At least 14 people became victims of storm in a number of European countries . Thousands of people were deprived of power supply, Interfax reports. Most of the victims were noted in Sweden, where 11 people died. At least three more died in the UK. Due to the rampant, the work of many European airports and ferry systems turned out to be paralyzed.

The dollar to the euro, which has decreased for three consecutive years, may stop its decline in 2005, said market participants surveyed by Bloomberg . In their opinion, at the end of 2005, the dollar, which finished 1,3552 dollar for the euro last year, will bargain at $ 1.34, since the increase in interest rates will make American assets more attractive for investors.

The inspector of the Gomel preictise opened random firing in the Gomel Regional Clinical Hospital and wounded three people. This was reported on Monday in law enforcement agencies of Belarus. Two nurses and another employee of the pre -trial detention center were wounded from a service weapon. The shooter also caused himself a gunshot wound in his hand, reports Interfax.

For several days, the Russian side will produce ten additional flights to deliver to the Indonesian province of the ACCHAL Hospital for 120 hospital places, the necessary equipment and vehicles. This was reported on Monday by the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation .

A resident of the Chechen village of Naurskaya Stepan Shupshanov was seriously injured as a result of an explosion in a local cemetery, Interfax was told on Monday in the Naursky District Department of Internal Affairs. "Shupshanov, who worked as a watchman at the local cemetery, was blown up on an unknown explosive device at the time when he was going to work. In the cemetery, he stepped on an unknown object that exploded.

The current President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma ordered the Minister of Defense Alexander Kuzmuk and Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko to urgently begin to plan the withdrawal of peacekeepers from Iraq in the first half of this year. According to the results of the meeting with the head of the Ukrainian state, Kuzmuk reported this to reporters.

Officials of all ranks within the walls of the municipality of the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye and local services from now on cannot celebrate birthdays and other holidays with alcohol drinks. This decision was made by the city mayor of the city Yevgeny Kartashov, the press service of the city executive committee said. The mayor explained that there are civilized forms of congratulations: wishes, flowers, cards, friendly cartoons. “No offerings, snacks, sandwiches.

In Moscow, a storm warning is preserved for another hour. This was announced at 10:00 a.m. Monday was reported in the capital's hydrometeorological bureau. A storm warning in Moscow was announced the day before. On Sunday, a strong wind damaged two houses in the city. According to weather forecasters, it is possible to increase wind gusts of up to 20 meters per second.

Hockey players of the Moscow Dynamo on the night of Sunday to Monday with a score of 1: 2 lost the decisive match of the Continental Cup Super Final, which took place these days in the Hungarian seeshferavar, the Slovak club "Called". Michal Gandzush distinguished himself twice the leader of the Slovak championship, Vadim Shahrachuk, Dynamo, RIA Novosti.

The forward of CSKA Brazilian Wagner Love is not going to return to Russia and play for the army club. He concluded a contract with Corinthians from San Paulo and now there will be no accurately play for the metropolitan team. According to Wagner, this is the only way he will be able to break into the main composition of the Brazilian national team. According to the press service of Corinthians, it is expected that CSKA will be paid $ 10 million for the transfer of the football player.

On Sunday in the Dutch city of Herenven, European Champion European Champion with the result of 150.997, the Dutchman Yokhem Oitdehaag, became the European Champion. The second, third and fourth places were also taken by the Dutch skaters: Sven Kramer, Karl Ferheyien and Mark Tatitert. Of the Russians, Ivan Skobrev achieved the best result, who took seventh place in the overall standings.

In Kaluga, a picture of the famous artist Apollinaria Vasnetsov "Forest" was stolen from the State Art Museum. This was announced on Monday by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The day before at 12:45, the study of the work of the artist Vasnetsov 1880 was stolen from the premises of the museum located in house 104 on Lenin Street.