In connection with the holding on Saturday in the central part of the capital, the mass political action from 10:00 until the end of the event will be blocked by traffic, including public, through several streets, the Moscow traffic police department reported on Thursday.

On April 20, the first in the history of Islamia will open in Saudi Arabia. Sports under the slogan "Islam is the world" will be held in the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah and Taif, Islam.ru reports with reference to Iina . To date, 54 countries are members of the Islamic Conference organization, agreed to take part, and Albania, and that Uzbekistan expressed regret that they could not participate in the event.

The protest against increasing fuel prices takes place on Thursday in all major cities of Russia. This was reported in Moscow by the organizers of the action - representatives of various public associations of motorists. The organizers expect that about half a million people will take part in the protest.

The Ministers of Defense of Russia and NATO on Thursday at the Russian-NATO meeting in Nice will discuss issues of fighting terrorism and the situation in hot spots.

Iraq authorities decided to close all the borders of Iraq from February 17 to February 22 in order to safety during Shiite mourning by Imam Hussein, Reuters reports. This action is undertaken in order to “ensure the safety of Iraq citizens,” the statement widespread in Baghdad by the Chancellery of Prime Minister Ayad Alaiui. Today is the 1st day of the Muslim month Muharram, ITAR-TASS notes.

A portrait of the naked supermodel Kate Moss, written by one of the most famous British artists Lucian Freud, sold on Wednesday at the Christie's London auction for $ 7.32 million). The name of the buyer is unknown, reports Ar. The piquancy of the portrait is given by the fact that the 81-year-old British artist, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud wrote the top model Kate Moss in 2002, when she was pregnant.

For the first time in 25 years in Austria, a temperature of almost 25 degrees of frost has been recorded in Austria. It was before this mark that the thermometer column in the village of Kleincycke in the federal land of Burgneland in the east of the country fell, RIA Novosti reports.

People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin on February 10 celebrates his double anniversary. The artist is 90 years old, he also celebrates the 60th anniversary of work at the Central Theater of the Russian Army.

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev considers the salaries of Russian football players and hockey players overpriced. On Thursday, at a press conference in the OKR, he expressed the opinion that in team sports, such as, for example, football or hockey, the wages of athletes are very high. According to Tyakachev, representatives of other sports who successfully perform in the international arena and bring glory to the country, offends this fact.

About 6,000 people gathered last night at the opening of a new IKEA store in the north of London. As a result of the resulting crush, 5 people went to the hospital with chest injuries, and another 22 assistance was provided in place. The furniture store was forced to stop working 30 minutes after the opening. Buyers hoped to purchase goods with declared large discounts. So, leather sofas cost only $ 65 for those who arrive after them at night between 0:00 and 3:00, reports Sky News .

The day before, the International Space Station (ISS), due to the wrong team of the American TsUP in Houston, "went to the drift" for five and a half hours due to the refusal of all three gyrodins on the American segment of the station.

The fact that the new Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko suffers from poisoning with dioxin has already been confirmed by blood tests and tissue examination. It is assumed that he was added to food on September 5 last year during dinner with the first persons of the Ukrainian special services . Nevertheless, skeptics argue that this could not be at least for chemical and biological reasons.

Today is a new, 1426th year in the Muslim lunar calendar. The date “Hijra” (“relocation”, “emigration”) of the Prophet Muhammad with supporters from the hometown of Mecca , where his religious sermons, was not successful in the Yasriba (the city of Medina ), was taken. The inhabitants of the oasis chose him with the arbitration judge and their leader.

Scientists have proven a fact that has been known to all humanity for a long time: women always take on vacation twice as much as necessary, and men always forget to take something absolutely necessary. Women have always called such statements slander, but now science has embarked on the side of the men, Sky News notes. The study was carried out by sociologists by order of the Travel Company P&O Cruises.

The Holy throne published a new instruction for diocesan and mecal -parchial tribunals involved in the case of cancellation of marriage. President of the Papal Council for the Interpretation of the canonical texts Cardinal Hulian Errans presented to reporters an instruction, which was called "Dignitas Connubii" (dignity of marriage). The instruction does not offer any new rules, but is devoted exclusively by canonical procedures for recognizing marriage invalid.