The striker of the Spanish national team Fernando Muryentes will go to Liverpool from Madrid Real Madrid, in the main composition of which he fell only occasionally in the current season, for nine million euros. According to the Royal Club website, the player will go to Liverpool this afternoon in order to take a medical examination tomorrow. The press service of the English team has not yet officially commented on this message.

The leaders of the Yuganskneftegaz oil company are accused of concealing two billion rubles. The press service of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District reported that a criminal case was instituted in Khanty-Mansiysk on the fact of tax evasion on an especially large scale.

The press secretary of the White House Scott McLellan confirmed that the United States has stopped searching for weapons of mass destruction (OU) in Iraq. He informed reporters on Wednesday in Washington. According to him, the “mission in another area” was entrusted with the search for American experts. At the same time, he noted that in Iraq, perhaps "several people remain," RIA Novosti reports.

The recent accident of the US nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean was much more serious than at first the command of the United States naval fleet was reluctantly recognized. This is evident from the messages by e-mail, which the U.S.-Admiral Pol Sullivan, the commander of the U.S. Underwater forces in the Pacific Ocean, sent the newspaper The New York Times .

For ten days the Russians celebrated the New Year, then for some of them a bitter hangover came - in particular, for the German Focus correspondent, Boris Wright Shuster. (Transfer of an article on the website inopressa.ru ). “Something will definitely go wrong, all the experts converged in this. The only thing I did not count on was that I will suffer personally,” the correspondent says.

Employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk region, together with the regional prosecutor's office and the ARC, eliminated the criminal group, whose members committed custom -made murders and other serious crimes in Yekaterinburg and the region. According to the press service of the FSB of Russia in the Sverdlovsk region, crimes were committed using explosive devices.

American scientists intend to celebrate the United States Independence Day this year - July 4 - unprecedented in the history of space, literally fireworks. But to implement these plans, it is necessary that today the automatic interplanetary station Deep Impact reaches the calculated trajectory of the interplanetary flight and that all its on -board systems later work. The launch of the spacecraft will be carried out from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral.

Tbilisi claims "facts of an encroachment on the sovereignty of Georgia" from Russia in connection with the elections in Abkhazia, RIA Novosti reports. “The Georgian Foreign Ministry expresses a firm protest in connection with the facts of an encroachment on the sovereignty of Georgia and categorically requires Russia to suppress the destructive actions in Abkhazia,” the Georgian foreign agency’s statement, widespread in Tbilisi on Wednesday evening.

The number of victims of the 9-Balgal earthquake and the followed by the Tsunami in Asia, according to official figures, reached 158,654 people . The number of foreigners who died and disappeared as a result of a natural disaster is about 7,000 people .

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office sent additional documents to Switzerland in the Yukos case and asks the Swiss colleagues to resume the process of the Veteran Petroleum Foundation, which were previously arrested, but then defrosted.

On Wednesday in Rome, the festival of Russian culture ends, which opened on December 2, 2004 . For almost a month and a half before the Italian public, leading Russian musical, theatrical and dance groups showed their art. Several artistic and photo exhibitions, films from movie archives and the latest works of Russian filmmakers, as well as a number of other events were held in the capital of Italy, RIA Novosti reports.

Italy is preparing to join in the fight for accepting the 2012 European Football Championship. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the relevant statement of the country's football federation. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with the head of the Franco Carraro federation in order to develop a draft proposal to organize a tournament. As a result of the meeting, the Italian government officially supported the proposal to hold the championship on the Apennines.

The Georgian “Rose Revolution” and the Ukrainian “Orange Revolution” that occurred last year in the states that are located on the territory of the former USSR are a direct challenge to the ruling elites of Russia and other states of the post -Soviet space.

Motorologists participating in the Dakar 2005 rally decided not to go to the start of the 12th stage in memory of their comrade Italian Fabrizio Meoni, who died on the highway on Tuesday . According to RIA Novosti, citing the EPE agency, Rally Director Etienne Lavin said he "respects and understands this decision, although he did not make it." Athletes and their cars will be transferred to the start of the 13th stage on aircraft.

The captain of the England football team David Beckham on Tuesday tore off the applause of journalists, when during the press conference of the Madrid “Real Madrid” he tried to speak Spanish for the first time in public, reports Reuters . Answering the questions by Beckham blinked, but he won the location of many representatives of the press in that he began to speak the language of the country in which he was playing.