For the first time in Siberia in the Bolsherchensky zoo (Omsk region), a cub was born a family of hippos. As Interfax was told in the Ministry of Culture of the Omsk Region, the hippo nicknamed Magic was born on March 5, its weight is 25 kg. Until the mother of magic does not allow her close to her employees of the zoo. Observing at a distance, it can be judged that the cub grows and develops normally.

The Commander -in -Chief of the US Navy Gordon Ingland can become the successor to Paul Wolfovitsa as deputy head of the Pentagon. The candidate of Ingland as the first candidate for the post of deputy defense is called several influential American publications, such as The New York Times and Washington Post. Incland, who headed the Navy in September 2003, is a civilian and, before joining the Pentagon, worked in various business structures.

The deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov held a secret meeting with leading Russian rock musicians. The Kremlin "Gray Cardinal" wanted to achieve from artists guarantees of the loyalty of power. The meeting was held in one of the Moscow hotels and, for obvious reasons, was closed to the press.

President of Yakutia Vyacheslav Shtyrov signed a decree on the special status of fossil residues of the mammoth fauna and the regulation of their turnover in the republic. According to the President’s Secretariat on Thursday , the document was adopted for the rational use of mammoth tusks, creating an effective system for regulating their turnover, as well as stimulating the socio-economic development of the northern and Arctic uluses of Yakutia.

In Russia on Friday, a campaign to receive children in the first classes officially starts. However, getting to a good school is becoming more expensive every year. From year to year, competitions that are held both preschool children and their parents are more reminiscent of auctions where they put up a place at the desk for sale. At the same time, people pay with money or services and equipment. All this is prohibited by law, but in practice, legal norms do not work.

Deputy Prosecutor Governor of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolesnikov said that the Prosecutor General’s Office could conduct materials for a month in connection with a fight in the hall of the State Duma with the participation of deputies from the LDPR factions and Rodina. "The optimal deadlines are to conduct such a check within a month; it will not require large organizational or other efforts," Kolesnikov told reporters on Thursday.

By the day of the spring drafted into the army, which will begin on April 1, the coalition "For the Democratic Alternative Soldier Service" and the Union of the Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers of Russia prepared a special report, which contains information about the call for military service.

The famous hockey player of the national teams of the USSR and Russia, Sergei Makarov, is ready to put up his candidacy for the post of president of the Russian Hockey Federation, whose reporting and election conference is scheduled for April 20. He announced this today in an interview with ITAR-TASS.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank is gathering on Thursday for a meeting to hold the elections of a new head of this largest international credit and financial organization. It is assumed that he will approve the candidacy of Paul Wolfovitsa nominated by President George Bush, the current First Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States.

In the suburbs of Vladivostok (Primorsky Territory), Toyota’s minibus crashed into a passenger bus of the 102nd route, one person died, two were injured. In the press service of Vlaspas, whose experts worked at the scene of the accident, Interfax reported that, presumably, the driver of the minibus for incomprehensible reasons drove into the oncoming lane, where the passenger bus was moving at that moment.

The European Court of Human Rights accepted the complaint of Miroslava Gongadze, the widow of the Ukrainian journalist George Gongadze , who was killed under unclear circumstances in September 2000. According to the RIA Novosti in the RIA Novosti in the Strasbourg headquarters of the court, in the filed claim of the journalist’s widow, the Ukrainian authorities accused that they “did not protect her husband’s life” and “did not properly conduct an investigation” in the murder case.

Candidates for the post of mentor of the Russian national hockey team will be considered next week. This was announced in an interview with RIA "Novosti" by the head of the press service of the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) Andrei Mochkin. “The issue of the appointment of the mentor of the Russian team will be considered next week, when a meeting of the FCR executive committee will be held,” Mochkin said, adding that one of the applicants is the head coach of Dynamo, Vladimir Krikunov.

The Ukrainian national football team has fallen the leadership in the second European group of the qualifying tournament of the 2006 World Cup. On Wednesday in Kyiv, Ukrainians beat Denmark with a score of 1: 0. The ball at the 67th minute of the meeting was scored by Andrei Voronin. After this game, Oleg Blokhin’s wards, which they scored after seven matches. The closest pursuers of the Ukrainian national team in this group - Greeks - only 11 points after six matches.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court will consider the cassation appeal of the protection of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev to the decision of the Meshchansky court, which extended him the term of detention until June 26.

In Switzerland in the hands of scientists, there is an ancient manuscript, which is the gospel of Judah - the Apostle, who betrayed Christ. Such a sensational statement was made on Tuesday in Basel for the preservation of ancient art of Maecenas, the Swiss newspaper Le Temps (translation on the website Inopressa.ru ) reports.