The mentor of the Madrid “Real” Vanderley Lutherg forbade David Beckham to act in films, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the British newspaper Sunday Mirror . Earlier, the midfielder of the England national team signed a contract with a film company for shooting in the film "Goal!" , and had to leave the team to participate in the filming.

The British bookmaker William Hill stopped taking bets on a probable applicant for the role of the legendary agent 007 James Bond. Such a decision was made due to the fact that too large bets were made on actor Dugrey Scott. As practice shows, large bets are usually put by one who has certain information. Until now, the chances of Dugrey Scott have been evaluated as 6 to 9. It was followed by Clive Owen with an indicator of 5 to 2.

The Russian Jewish Congress (rivers) announced his firm intention to pursue in court the persons who signed the application to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation regarding the verification of the activities of Jewish organizations. This is stated in a press release from the organization, which entered on Tuesday in RIA Novosti . Congress also intends to pursue the newspaper "Orthodox", which on January 23 published the text of this appeal.

The third day is the search for a deputy of the State Duma from the United Russia faction Kirill Ragozin , who had failed on a snowmobile under the ice in the Gulf of Finland. His body has not yet been discovered, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Tuesday. The accident became known on January 29.

Vnesheconombank (VEB) attracted the loan of Chinese banks in the amount of $ 6 billion, which were sent to the transaction for the purchase of shares of Yuganskneftegaz , said Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexey Kudrin to journalists on Tuesday. He refused to name which particular banks of the VEB attracted the loan, saying only that one of them was an Eximitank of China.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Latvia are outraged by the statements of the President of the country Vike Vick-Frebergs about Vobl, Vodka and Elipers, which she used, speaking on Sunday in the transfer of the LNT channel, dedicated to the Russian-Baltic relations and evaluating the events of the Second World War in the Russian and Latvian societies.

The Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko believes that the teaching of religion in schools should educate interfaith tolerance.

The winner of the Champions Football League last season Porto broke up with the Spanish coach Viktor Fernandez, who worked in this position for less than six months, Reuters reports citing local media. It is expected that he will be replaced by the coach of Vitoria Setubal Zhose Kuseyir, but Porto representatives refused to comment on these messages. Fernandez signed a two -year contract with Porto in August. He was an assistant to Jose Mourinho, who went to Chelsea.

“Egypt is the only country in the region that is preparing for a possible military confrontation with Israel,” said Yuval Shteinitz, chairman of the Knesset Committee on International Affairs and Defense, the Likud and Defense Party. Earlier, at a meeting of the Committee, Steinitz said that, despite the temporary improvement in geopolitical conditions, some processes that may work against Israel flow in the Middle East region. “Therefore, I am not optimistic,” he said.

81% of Russians from among the participants in the sociological survey conducted in January 2005 by the analytical center of Yuri Levada by order of the Public Verdict Foundation, they indicated that they consider the problem of arbitrariness of Russian law enforcement agencies serious. In the course of the study, it turned out that 70% of respondents do not trust law enforcement agencies and treat them with fear, and 72% believe that they may suffer from their arbitrariness.

In the village of Ust-Avam Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, 18 cases of acute intestinal infectious diseases were registered, including 11 children. "One child at the age of 6 months has died, the rest of the disease proceeds in mild and moderate forms," ​​ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the federal supervision service in the field of consumer protection and human well-being. All victims are hospitalized in the infectious hospitals of Dudinka and Norilsk.

The attention of the newspaper "News Time" was given today by the statement made on the eve of the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril .

In the California city of Santa Maria, the first day of the trial of Michael Jackson ended. He is accused by 10 points, including committing immoral and depraved actions against a child under 14 years of age, in criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, extortion, illegal deprivation of liberty, as well as the provision of alcohol to a young child. The last day was dedicated to the selection of jury members.

Presidential amendments to the tax and criminal codes are fully consistent with the wishes of the prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov and promise big problems to business. According to Kommersant , the president proposes to return the confiscation of any property as a measure of punishment for any crimes. The second initiative gives tax authorities the right to recover tax fines without the participation of the court.

The Russians suffered the first defeat at the World Handball Championship, losing the starting match of the second group stage to the France team with a score of 22:25. Nevertheless, the Russian team with four points has retained a leading position in the first group, but now it shares it with the Tunisian team, which confidently won the Czech team - 36:25. In another match, the Slovenes scored the first points in the group, winning the second place of the Greeks - 37:29.