Even among the usual Muscovites, the recent warnings of terrorist danger were trembling: Russian security services reported that Islamists in the coming days plan large terrorist attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Fear cannot be called causeless: the threats of Chechen separatists to transfer the war from their territory to other regions are extremely serious, and this proves the situation in the North Caucasus.

Two vaccines from an incurable form of cancer, mortality from which occupies the second place among women under 35, in the course of the tests were so successful that, according to experts, they will receive licenses for widely used, writes The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). They prevent papilloma infection with the virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer in more than 70% of cases.

In Ulyanovsk, by decision of the city anti -epidemic commission, from February 3 to 9 inclusive, classes in the city’s schools are canceled in connection with the excess of the epidemic threshold for the incidence of influenza and SARS. Amusing and mass events in Ulyanovsk culture institutions are also canceled, Vyacheslav Nikishin, chief physician of the city of Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision of the city, told Interfax.

As already reported , the Pope John Paul II was hospitalized the night before in the Roman Catholic Hospital "Dzhemelly". The current acute respiratory disease of the 84-year-old Pope John Paul II, according to doctors, is closely connected with his general health state. The complication of swallowing functions and violation of the speech apparatus are closely related to Parkinson's disease, which pontiff has been suffering in recent years, doctors say.

The 75-year-old Valentin Temples, better known in certain circles under the nickname of the shark, which he was given in the camp, spoke about his criminal career. Currently, the famous gambler, who spent more than half of his life in zones and prisons, lives in the village of Komsomolskoye in the local boarding house of war and labor veterans. The churches became a prisoner under Stalin, and finally released only under Yeltsin.

In the United States, the court in the case of Michael Jackson continues. On the second day of the court in the California city of Santa Maria, by noon, the judge took the necessary number - 250 people - potential candidates for the composition of the jury. Initially, it was assumed that this procedure would take three days.

The Israeli police are considering the possibility of using "salt bullets" to suppress the alleged resistance of Jewish settlers during the evacuation of their settlements from the gas sector in accordance with the demarcation program with Palestinian autonomy .

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov said on Wednesday in Tomsk that a reduction in the number of deferrals from military service does not mean that students are planned to be drafted into the army. "We are the world champions in the number of deferrals from military service, which in Russia there are 25, like no one.

One of the alleged participants in the gangster operation to capture hostages at school number 1 of the city of Beslan (North Ossetia) was detained in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia.

The King of Nepal Gianrand Bir Bikram Shah Dev announced a new composition of the government of this kingdom in the Himalayas, reports Indian television. The king intends to lead the new cabinet of ministers, which included 10 people. The new government included one representative of the United Marxist -Leninist Communist Party - Radha Krishna Minali, who was headed by the Ministry of Sports and Education.

American intelligence "concluded with confidence" that North Korea sold the redesigned Uranus of Libya, the article published on Wednesday The New York Times, published on Wednesday. Thus, the "early fears" are supported by the fact that the DPRK is engaged in the export of materials for nuclear weapons. According to the newspaper, nine months ago, international inspectors presented the first evidence that North Korea, perhaps, provided Libya by almost two tons of Hexafluoride Uranus.

They control oil, gas, as well as banks and airlines. They establish their dictatorship over newspapers and private enterprises. They organize mysterious operations abroad. Former secret agents, thanks to the support of Vladimir Putin, are already 25% of the entire nomenclature in Moscow. They, as in the old days, consider the West an enemy, writes the weekly Italian magazine Panorama in the article "Spies return to the cold" (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Strong snowfall, limited visibility and icing of the runways became today the cause of failures in the work of Munich International Airport (Bavaria). According to a representative of one of the largest Air Harbor of Germany, in the afternoon, 80 flights had to be canceled, and more than 200 aircraft flew out of Munich as intended with a delay of half an hour or more. Thousands of passengers were forced to spit the time on suitcases in anticipation of improving the weather.

Players of the Russian national football team will support the campaign "Get up and tell", directed against the manifestations of racism in European football, the press service of the Russian Football Union (RFU) reports. The campaign will be that a friendly match with the Italian team , which will be held on February 9, its players will be released in non-traditional black and white t-shirts and black and white bracelets.

The Tbilisi court of the priest Vasily Mkalavishvili, who was excreted from the Georgian Orthodox Church (GRC), was sentenced to six years in prison, finding him guilty of violence against religious minorities. The court, held on January 31, also sentenced Peter Ivanidze, the closest assistant to Mkalavishvili, to four years in prison.