The International Motorsport Federation (FIA) adopted the next amendments to the sports regulations of car racing in the Formula 1 class for the 2005 season, Reuters reports. For the most part, reforms are aimed at reducing the velocity of pain and increasing the level of security. The following changes will enter into force already at the first stage of the Grand Prix - March 6 in Melbourne. Engines The engine in each car should now be used for two races, and not one.

As a result of the explosion in Kaliningrad in the courtyard of a residential building, one person died and one was wounded. The explosion thundered at about 21:00 Moscow time on Tuesday in the courtyard of the N19 residential building on Rimskaya Street in the Leninsky district of the city. “Tonight, in the courtyard of the VOLVO Center, the Director of the Volvo Center, an explosive device worked in Kaliningrad.

The most popular way to invest in Russia is real estate investments, almost half of Russians prefer it. The second most popular are bank deposits. True, at the same time, many potential investors in Russia do not trust anyone and prefer to keep money at home. Such results were given by a survey of the Romir Monitoring research center, during which 1,500 people were interviewed in 100 cities and settlements of Russia.

Underground shocks by force up to 6.0 points on the Richter scale were registered on Tuesday night on the Indonesian island of Sumatra with an epicenter of 200 km northeast of the Padang port city, the administrative center of the West Sumatra province (1.5 thousand km west of Jakarta). After about 7 hours, an earthquake with a capacity of 5.0 points occurred in the Mentai Strait of 165 km southwest of Padang. There were no reports of victims and destruction at this hour.

Huge lines lined up in the morning on Tuesday in the city and regional branches of the Central Bank of France. People stand for hours in order to exchange coins of the former national currency of France - Frank. In recent days, many parishes called on the French to find these coins and sacrifice their churches. That is why now there were many church elders who change the collected francs to the euro in the lines, ITAR-TASS notes.

The State Duma is going to discuss amendments to the law on banking secrets, allowing law enforcement officials to receive all the information about the movement of the client or depositor, before the criminal case initiation. The amendments were proposed in December last year by deputies of United Russia, and they are able to significantly undermine the already slight confidence of Russians in the banking system.

The President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh expects to support Russia in the event of an armed conflict with Georgia. Commenting in an interview with Rossiy newspaper the recent statements of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, which contains a threat to use force against Abkhazia, Bagapsh noted: "He said that peace negotiations with us are impossible, then what is possible? Let them try if the past lessons have not taught them anything." "Let the Americans help them what can you do.

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday canceled the decision of the Basmanny Court, which recognized the presence of signs of a crime in the actions of the lawyer of the NK Yukos Pavel Ivlev . Thus, the court granted the cassation appeal of the defense of Ivlev, recognizing the conclusion of the Basmanny Court illegal and unreasonable.

In Moscow, military personnel and students may be involved in the work on public transport stops at public transport stops, Petr Aksenov, the first deputy mayor in the government of the capital, said at a selector meeting of the city’s utility. “If necessary, we will try to connect military personnel and students,” Aksyonov said. He also turned to the communal services of the capital with a demand to increase the number of equipment working on the streets.

A six -lap frog was found in a restaurant in China. The frog was bought by a restaurant in the market in the city of Guangzhou in the province of Guangdun. She looks just like other frogs, except for a pair of additional legs under the jaw, Ananova reports. Professors from the University of Ginan believe that the cause of additional legs in the frog can be a gene mutation, chemical infection or radiation. Earlier , a two -headed sheep with two mouths and four eyes was reported in China .

In Tyumen, during an investigative experiment, a suspect in particularly serious crimes fled. The emergency occurred around 17:40 local time, the investigative experiment was conducted on Sovetskaya Street, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Tyumen Region Andrei Voronin. The suspect was handcuffed, he managed to flee from under the police convoy.

Valentine's Day, widely celebrated in the Protestant Church and has taken root in Orthodox Russia in recent years, went quietly and imperceptibly in the largest Catholic country - Brazil. In the windows of stores and on the lively streets of Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo and other cities of Brazil on Monday and the day before, red hearts did not flaunt and couples in love did not hurry to each other with gifts.

The story of the disappearance of the chief choreographer of the musical theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, 57-year-old Dmitry Bryantsev, diverged Russian newspapers, supplemented by gossip about love affairs and real estate transactions. On June 28, Bryantsev left the hotel in Prague and did not return . For more than six months now, nothing is known about the fate of the famous choreographer.

The Caribbean Indians from the island of Dominic protested the authors of the Caribbean Pirates, who plan to present them in the picture with cannibals. According to the leader of Caribov Charles Williams, during negotiations with representatives of Disney, it turned out that part of the script is built on cannibalism, and it determines the movement of the plot and therefore cannot be excluded.

The genetic test made it possible to install the parents of a three-month-old child from Sri Lanka, who was claimed by nine couples . It is expected that the boy will be transferred to his parents on Wednesday right in the court of the Calmunai Court, to the east of the capital of the country of Colombo. The struggle for the child began shortly after the strongest tsunami collapsed to Southeast Asia. During the disaster, the child was in her mother’s arms, but she failed to hold him.