At the ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana, located near Sochi, a snowboarder who fell under the snow avalanche is being taken. According to eyewitnesses, a snowboarder, a resident of Moscow, fell under an avalanche on Wednesday evening, said Vladimir Pereveriy, an operational attendant Center for the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in the Krasnodar Territory.

The Pechersky District Court of Kiev gave the arrest of two police detained police officers suspected of murder of journalist George Gongadze, RIA Novosti reports. According to "5 TV channel", another suspect has been taken from a wizard.

Thursday will be the coldest day this week, and last night it can become the most frosty in the current March, the metropolitan hydrometeorological unit said. In the early morning, meteorologists specified, the air temperature reaches its minimum. Now in the capital about 20 degrees below zero, and in some areas of the Moscow region the thermometer column shows 25 degrees of frost. In the afternoon, the March sun will warm the air only to minus 10 degrees.

A participant in illegal armed groups, who was a liaison between the leader of the separatists Aslan Maskhadov and the militants' groups, was destroyed in Chechnya. "Having received operational information, the Ministry of Internal Affairs unit blocked the residential building in Alkhazurovo, Urus-Martansky district, in which Arbi Alamatov was located.

Legislative acts adopted by the constituent entities of the Federation should be brought into line with the new Housing Code (LCD), said Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the State Duma Committee under the law. In particular, as Krasheninnikov noted on Thursday at a press conference at Interfax, this applies to the procedure for regulating the redevelopment of housing.

Three builders were injured in Moscow on Thursday as a result of the drop in the elevator in the house under construction. This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor's office. According to her, the fall of a cargo elevator occurred around noon in one of the entrances of the house under construction on Novocheremushkinskaya Street.

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Abdullah today urged President Syria Bashar al -Assad to fulfill the requirements of the international community and immediately begin to withdraw the Syrian troops from Lebanon. "Syria should soon begin the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, otherwise Saudi-Syrian relations will come across serious problems," Abdalla Assad said in negotiations in Riyadh.

In the Federal Court of Bankruptcy of the Southern District of Texas in Houston on Thursday, Judge Letizia Clark rejected the request of the Yucos NK for a second consideration of bankruptcy applications in the United States. Thus, Clark confirmed the decision that she made on February 24 that the Yukos case could not be considered by the United States court. The Houston Court considers the “issue of Yukos” closed, RIA Novosti told the Deputy Chief Claire of the Court of Transi Campbell.

The first meeting of the Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov with the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Old Believers Church Andrian was held on the eve of the city hall on the city hall on Tverskaya, 13. As Interfax agency Mikhail Men, who was present at the meeting, told the Interfax agency, during the conversation, the topic of preparation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the decree on religion, which gave the Old Believers the freedom of religion was affected.

In Japan, a flexible robot was created capable of swimming, wriggling like a snake, Tosihara Mukai said. He leads a group of developers in the Riken Research Institute in the city of Nagoy, operating with the support of the Japanese government. According to him, a similar robot was created for the first time in the world. Outwardly, the robot resembles a piece of a film of 14 cm long, 1.2 cm wide and 0.2 mm thick.

The Bolshoi Theater said that the libretto of the opera "Children of Rosental" does not contain abnormitative vocabulary or scenes of pornographic content. On Wednesday, the State Duma instructed her culture committee to check the information about the production of the Bolshoi Opera Theater on the libretto of the writer Vladimir Sorokin.

In Belarus, in the framework of the passing nationwide strike of entrepreneurs, on Thursday most markets did not work, street promotions and unauthorized meetings were held in a number of cities. On Thursday afternoon, about a thousand entrepreneurs blocked traffic along the main street of Grodno, Minsk entrepreneurs entered the protest, ITAR-TASS reports. Entrepreneurs have been striking on March 1 and say that they intend to continue the protest until March 25.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met in his residence Novo-Ogarsevo with the former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kole, who is in Russia with a private visit. Putin said that this year the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations of Russia and Germany is a “big event” in the relations of the two countries, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Thursday, a 70 -year -old billionaire of Josiaki Tsutsumi was arrested on Thursday - the legend of Japanese business, which was considered the richest man of the planet before Support of Microsoft and Bill Gates. The Japanese authorities suspect Tsutsumi under the conduct of double accounting and financial transactions prohibited by law. The Tsutsumi, according to the investigation, faked reports to hide his illegally large share of the shares of the Seibu Railway railway company.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Novo-Ogarev with the main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar , reports Interfax. During the conversation, the head of state said that he would not allow the spread of anti -Semitism, extremism and xenophobia in Russia.