In the bowels of the US presidential administration, George Bush has a sexual scandal. It concerns not private life, but public behavior. Despite the fact that a harsh struggle is going on on President Bush’s budget, a new cash flow fell on one of the programs - three times more money was allocated for it than in 2001.

In the near future, the circumstances of the privatization of 3,000 Ukrainian enterprises will be considered in Ukrainian courts, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Wednesday at a briefing in Kyiv. "Such a decision was made based on the results of the audit by the Prosecutor General of the circumstances of the privatization of all enterprises over the past 5 years," said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, RIA Novosti reports.

"On suspicion of embezzlement of budget funds on a large -scale, the Directors of the Khanty -Mansiysk Oil Company and the Nazim Oil and Gas Company were detained," Rashid Nurgaliev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at the department of the department, said today.

Italian art historians believe that they established the authorship of the picture of the artist of the Renaissance. Experts previously assumed according to the style that the magnificent work of the Renaissance era - the painting "Worship of the Baby Christ" - was written by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci, but there was no evidence of this. The release detection of a fingerprint on the canvas may help solve this riddle.

In St. Petersburg, the monument was cast as the head of the Academy of Arts Zurabu Tsereteli. A monument with a size of 20 cm and 3 kg weighing became the course work of a student of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The bronze ceremony in the apron holds the easel in his hand and rests on the brush like a cane.

The AP agency and the third channel of Italian television on Wednesday afternoon showed a video with the appeal of the Italian hostage in Iraq - a journalist stolen on February 4 in Baghdad . “You must stop the occupation, this is the only way to get out of the situation,” Juliana Sigren addressed the countries of the anti -Irac coalition and, in particular, to the Italian government, begging to withdraw troops from Iraq.

In the Neftegorsky district of the Samara region, a teacher of foreign languages ​​received a period of imprisonment for the sale and storage of heroin. The 38-year-old woman was sentenced to 4 years 3 months in prison, the press service of the Federal Drug Control Service of the region reports. According to the press service, when detaining a teacher in the apartment’s apartment, 40 doses of heroin prepared for marketing were discovered.

In the fourth quarter of 2004, the GDP of Japan unexpectedly decreased by 0.1% compared to the third quarter or by 0.5% in annual terms. Economists predicted that the Japanese economy will grow by 0.1%in the fourth quarter. In general, according to government statistics, in 2004, Japan's GDP grew by 2.6%, but the growth basically came for the first half of the year.

The Russian national football team retained 32nd place in the February version of the FIFA rating list, but now it shares it with the Egypt team. The squads of the squads of George Yartsev 650 points. The Russian national football team retained 32nd place in the February version of the FIFA rating list , but now it shares it with the Egyptian team. The assets of the George Yartsev team have 650 points.

Before the matches of the Moscow CSKA in Krasnodar and Lisbon, as part of the UEFA Cup, Russia is in a step from the zone that allows you to declare two clubs in the Champions League in the season, the newspaper Sport-Express recalls.

The defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky asks the Meshchansky court to terminate the criminal case against him regarding the charges of evading the oil company Yukos from taxes. The corresponding application was stated on Wednesday by his lawyer Henry Padva.

More than fifty stars of world football took part in a charitable match, the income from which will go to the aid of countries injured from the December tsunami. The game between the European national team, led by Ukrainian Andrei Shevchenko, and the rest of the world, led by Ronaldin, at the NOU KAMP stadium in Barcelona ended with a convincing victory of the "world" stars.

During the investigation of terrorist acts committed in Russia recently, specific suspects have been established. "Active support for the investigation of criminal cases on tragic terrorist attacks that shocked our country in recent years. I must emphasize that specific persons have been worked out for each of these crimes," said Rashid Nurgaliev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at an expanded meeting of the department of the department.

The paramilitary wing of the Fath movement - "Brigades of the Martyrs of Al -Axsa" - emerges from the state of a truce with Israel. This was reported on Wednesday by the Kuwaitsky news agency "Kuna", referring to the statement of the group. The “Al -Aksa Martyrs” brigades consider themselves free from a truce, since after the murders of the Israelis of the four Palestinians it ceased to be bilateral, ”the militants of the group said.

The correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent Victoria Clark talks about conflicts arising between Christian faiths on the Holy Land (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The Catholic priest talks about the outbreak of violence when Christians fought with Christians in a holy place - in the temple of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, September 27 last year, on the day of the Orthodox holiday of the erection of the honest and life -giving cross of the Lord .