During the telephone conversation between the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, Dmitry Kozak and members of the Protest Protest Protest Group in Beslan, an agreement was reached on the immediate unlocking of the Rostov-Baku highway. This was announced by Interfax on Saturday spokesman for the president of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Fedor Shcherbakov.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili expressed the hope that "Russia will play a constructive role in resolving conflicts in Georgia," ITAR-TASS reports.

Currently, the Moscow authorities have already prepared 1 million 100 thousand passage magnetic tickets for residents of the Moscow Region of preferential categories, by which they can travel in ground city transport and in the metro of the capital. This was stated on Saturday by the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. According to him, each ticket is designed for trips for six months.

Georgian residents of the Tskhinval region took 12 Ossetians hostage. This was reported by RIA Novosti by telephone was reported by participants in the protest in the Blok Poston of Ergneti, requiring the immediate liberation of Georgian policeman Vladimir Chaluuri.

Several hundred Swiss police officers blocked the railway station in Bern on Saturday so as not to let the anti -globalists in the city protesting against the World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos. According to the Swiss Telegraph Agency, the police blocked the platforms, which come from Geneva and Zurich.

The deputy prosecutor of the Achkhoy-Martan Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya was injured in an explosion in his VAZ-2110 car. The explosion was heard when the car with the prosecutor was departing from the prosecutor’s office in Achkhoy-Martan, Interfax told on Saturday a source in the administration of the Achkhoy-Martanovsky district. With a diagnosis of "traumatic amputation of the foot of the left leg" the deputy prosecutor was taken to the central city hospital.

In the capital of Bashkiria, Ufa on Saturday held a protest rally against the law on preferential payments. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria, from 1.5 to 2 thousand people took part in the action. Meanwhile, the headquarters for the preparation and conduct of the rally agency Interfax said that the number of its participants was about 10 thousand people.

In the Southern District of Moscow, unknown people defiled the Muslim cemetery, RIA Novosti was informed in the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. "On Saturday, the representative of the cemetery administration, located in the 2nd Roshchinsky passage, turned to the police. He said that 10 stone tombstones were fed in the cemetery," the Central Internal Affairs Directorate said.

The hurricane, which swept over Austria, caused serious damage to the country's economy, especially its Western federal lands, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture reported on Saturday. As a result of the hurricane winds, trees that blocked the highway along the highway and roads, were also damaged by power lines, and the vehicles turned upside down. According to the Austrian information resource Meine Krone , four people were killed.

The European Union warns against any military actions against Iran and is expressed in favor of solving all the contradictions in relation to Iranian nuclear programs only by diplomatic means. This is stated in a statement made public in Austria by a statement by the Commissioner of the European Union on foreign policy and good neighborly Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

In Moscow, "they decisively condemn the practice of arrests and abductions of persons as hostages and urge the parties to the Georgian-Yugooseta to abandon such actions that can cause a chain reaction, to lead to unpredictable consequences and escalation of the conflict." This was announced today by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko, in connection with a sharp exacerbation of the situation in the conflict zone, "provoked by opponents of the outlined

In Ingushetia, a large -scale preventive operation aimed at suppressing extremist and terrorist activities has ended. As Interfax was told on Saturday in the press service of the Ingushetia Ministry of Internal Affairs, during a special operation that began on January 19, seven caches with weapons were discovered, of which three manual anti-tank grenade launchers, 57 shots to them, a manual machine gun, electric departments, four mines, 24 hand grenades.

Representatives of Russian democratic forces believe that the elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko is interested in the development and strengthening of Russian-Ukrainian relations and in this regard, much will depend on the position of the Kremlin.

Five members of the Rodina faction in the State Duma, led by the leader of the faction, Dmitry Rogozin, continue the hunger strike in protest against the law on preferential payments. “Our hunger strike continues and we have already received signals from the regions about the support of this action,” Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview on Saturday night.

On Saturday, 11 matches were held as part of the NBA regular championship. Manu Ginobili set a personal performance record, scoring 48 test points in the match "San Antonio" with "Phoenix". Before the final quarter, the "spurs" lost 17 points, and, nevertheless, managed to translate the game into overtime and win - 128: 123. The effective game of Vince Carter brought NTS to win in the match with Boston - 104: 98.