The State Duma decided to nevertheless consider the statement of the chamber at the plenary meeting on February 4 in connection with a well-known letter signed by a group of deputies on the ban on Jewish organizations in Russia. The draft document was prepared by the Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations. In this statement, the chamber is going to evaluate this appeal.

The Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began an inspection trip to the premises cities, which applied for the 2012 Games, from the capital of Spain. The next city will be the capital of Great Britain - London, which it will visit from February 16 to 19. Then the commission will cross the Atlantic Ocean and from February 21 to 24 will conduct a test for the Olympic readiness of New York.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service first opened the case on the grounds of unfair advertising in the plastic cards market - this is where its Nizhny Novgorod administration suspected Alfa -Bank. The reason for such a decision was the Alfa-Bank advertising video, which was held on the Nizhny Novgorod air of the Silver Rain radio station in December 2004.

The Moscow CSKA spent the last match on the house parquet in the group stage of the basketball Euroleague Uleb. The victory over the "unique" with a score of 76:70 was the 13th for the army in this tournament. The best sniper in the winners was Marcus Brown, who scored 21 points. “It was a difficult game,” admitted the head coach of CSKA Dushan Ivkovich. “UNIKIA” is an excellent team that prepared for the match and read the game well. We controlled the course of the meeting.

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascism, on May 8, 2005, in Tallinn, on the Maaryamyagi memorial complex, it is planned to open a monument to the Estonians who fought on the side of the Nazis against the Soviet Army in 1944. The construction of the memorial will be financed mainly by the city of Tallinn, as well as veterans living abroad, who fought in Estonia against the Soviet army. The total cost of the complex will be 900 thousand kroons (about 75 thousand dollars).

The development of the Internet has led to the appearance of a new mental illness, scientists say. Among the users of the World Wide, pornomanias are distributed. While the pornomans represent a minority of users, but their number is growing rapidly, scientists warn. Search for pornography becomes the meaning of life for such people. They forget about the family, children, about work and sex, writes The Sydney Morning Held . “The Internet is to blame for this.

On Thursday, late in the Vienna Opera Theater, a traditional opera ball will begin, which will be the culmination of the season of balls passing throughout Austria since the beginning of the year. According to RIA Novosti at the Vienna Opera Directorate, in the 49th season, unlike past years, there will be no celebrities at the Vienna Opera Ball.

Journalists from all over the world on duty near the Dzhemelli clinic, where John Pavel II is now located, “catch” the slightest details regarding the stay of an unusual patient here. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica decided to tell readers more about the hospital and what papal apartments are (the translation of the article publishes the site inopressa.ru ). Branch with an area of ​​200 square meters. m is a kind of medical citadel in the clinic.

The leaders of all 52 national football associations that are part of UEFA approved a package of proposals for the development of their own pupils in clubs. At the conference in Nyon, the UEFA Executive Committee submitted the corresponding set of rules that are planned to be applied in tournaments under the auspices of the organization in the future. The European Football Union invited national associations to introduce such rules in its domestic tournaments.

The police and security services are brought into a state of increased readiness in Jerusalem in connection with an increased threat of terrorist attacks. According to special services, radical groups plan attacks on Israelis in the northern part of the city, ITAR-TASS reports. Earlier, at the Havara checkpoint near the embassy on the western bank of the Jordan River, the soldiers detained a 15-year-old Palestinian, who transferred a suicide bored in the bag.

Israel will release 900 prisoners of Palestinians as a gesture of goodwill. This will be announced next week during the highest level with the participation of Mahmoud Abbas, reports Reuters with reference to a source in the Israeli government. A member of the Cabinet of Ministers emphasized that among the 900 Palestinians there will be no those who were imprisoned for terrorist attacks against the Israelis.

Annibal Gaddafi - one of the sons of the Libyan leader of Muammar Gaddafi - was detained by the French police after he arranged a brawl at the Paris hotel. According to sources in the metropolitan Police Prefecture, this incident occurred on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in one of the hotels of the 11th district of Paris, where the son of the Libyan leader made a reprisal against his girlfriend, subjecting her to fighting.

Any power is temporary and will respond to God. This is the US President George Bush in his speech in his annual "National Prayer Breakfast" in Washington with the participation of most members of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the American Congress, the Government and the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as more than 100 foreign delegations, including several presidents. "Any power is temporary and will ultimately be obliged to answer to God," Bush said.

In Sweden, the executive director of one of the largest companies in the country for the sale of Siba Electronics Faben Bengsson, abducted by attackers on January 18. This was announced by a representative of the Swedish law enforcement agencies. The 32-year-old entrepreneur was captured by attackers on the way to work in Gotheborg, 476 km southwest of Stockholm. The police said that the abductors demanded a ransom for his release, but as a result of the money the criminals did not receive.

In November, the leader of the Ukrainian "Orange Revolution" was poisoned by dioxine , as a result, his face was covered with a crust. “I still can’t get used to the face of Yushchenko that you see,” Yushchenko told reporters at the Economic Forum in Davos last week. The change in appearance did not force Yushchenko to refuse the fight against Yanukovych in the elections that were held in November, writes The Washington Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).