The Baldinsky collection will most likely return to Germany in the second half of 2005. This was announced today by the Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Legislation in the field of mass communications and the protection of cultural heritage Anatoly Vilkov. Baldinskaya collection - a collection of drawings and paintings by outstanding masters of European fine art of the XVI -XX centuries, taken from Germany in 1945.

In Sochi, where a snow cover is observed in February every year, by noon on Friday, the height of the falling wet snow reached 10-15 cm, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the forecast department of the Sochi Hydrometeorological Center Galina Matveeva. "Precipitation became possible due to the activated southern cyclone, which moved to the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus from the east of the Mediterranean Sea," she explained.

The helicopter with Brazil President Luis Inasiu Lulu da Silva, due to heavy rain, made an unplanned landing in the middle of the field. According to the press service of the President of Brazil, the incident occurred on Friday, when the head of state flew from one to another city of the North-Eastern state of Permibuku. The helicopter landed in an open field 35 km from Karuar - a city in which and Silva was supposed to make a speech at the opening of the hospital.

The burial of the bodies of people who died during the tsunami will last at least 6 months on Sumatra, said the coordinator of the international movement of the Red Cross in Indonesia Irsa Gryun. According to her, the reason for this was an acute shortage of personnel for funeral teams. Initially, it was said that the work on extracting from under the rubble and mass burial of thousands of bodies of people will take 2 months.

The American student received an art prize and an “excellent” rating from his teacher for an abstract collage, which combines Nazi swastikas, quotes of Adolf Hitler, an American flag, toy soldiers in American uniform and a portrait of President Bush.

In Volgograd, a violent patient of a psychiatric hospital number 17 was detained, who attacked people with a knife. Two people suffered from his actions, with injuries they were hospitalized. According to a certain 54-year-old Sultanov on the eve of the special treatment was reported on Friday in the Department of Internal Affairs of the regional center, which was released from a special Medical Medical Education for his mother’s responsibility, ITAR-TASS reports.

On the eve of St. Valentine's Day, the Ukrainian weekly magazine "Correspondent" published a rating of the sexiest Ukrainians. The ranking included not only sports and show business stars, but also politicians, including Viktor Yushchenko, Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko, but not all of them occupy the upper positions in the ranking. In total, there are almost 50 surnames on the list of sexual Ukrainians, but singer Ani Lorak became the unconditional leader.

American film actor Corey Feldman is called to the process over Michael Jackson. The prosecutor's office believes that he can become a valuable witness by telling about his relationship with Jackson. Corey Feldman is now 33 years old, and with Jackson he was on friendly relations as a teenager. In all interviews, he always defended Jackson, but recently the tone of his statements has changed.

At least 95 people died in Pakistan over the past day as a result of powerful rainfalls and snowfalls. The strongest rains with wet snow led to the destruction of the dam near the city of the Espassy in the province of Belujistan. Several villages were flooded. According to the official authorities, at least 50 people were killed in the province. More than 700 inhabitants of two villages washed off by flows are considered missing, RIA Novosti reports.

The contract of the Russian pilot Roman Rusinov with the Formula 1 racing team can be signed in the near future. This was announced in an interview with RIA "Novosti" by the press secretary of Midland Boris Muradov. “At present, the novel is in France, where he is studying the contract proposed to him. I think that in a couple of days it will be completely clear whether the agreement will be signed or not,” Muradov said.

The spiritual leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowen Williams, welcomed the announcement of the upcoming marriage of the heir to the British throne of the Prince of Wales Charles at his longtime friend Camille Parker Bowles, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to the press service of the World Anglican Community ( ACNS ) “I am glad that Prince Charles and Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles decided to take this important step,” said Archbishop Williams.

The Meshchansky court granted about 40 petitions for the introduction to the materials of the criminal case of a number of documents by the Party of Protection of Khodorkovsky. These petitions were filed on February 7 and 8, however, the court for reasons of appropriateness transferred their consideration after the presentation of all evidence of the Khodorkovsky defense party, RIA Novosti reports.

The police officers of the city of Cheremkhovo Irkutsk region detained a 30-year-old young man suspected of cannibalism. It is assumed that the detainee excavated one of the fresh graves in the city cemetery and extracted the body of the recently buried, reports Irkutsk State Tax Code . The man cut off his head and leg at the corpse and consumed in this way the man to eat, and sold part of the meat in the market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told where he keeps his money. The salary, which after the last increase is $ 5,000 , is charged to the account at Sberbank. The president spoke about this at a meeting with the leadership of Citi Group, after the chairman of the board of the Sebors Wealll group invited the president to start a City Bank card. Putin refused, saying that he was transferring a salary to Sberbank.

The cockcares with a double-headed eagle will cease to be affiliated with the uniforms of the Russian troops, said Lieutenant General Sergei Shlyaev, head of the Central Battery Department of the Russian Defense Ministry. "They fulfilled their role and are no longer needed. As a result, the height of the cap can decrease by a few centimeters," Shlyaev said.