On Thursday, the Tver Court of Moscow will consider the claims of the mothers of those who died as a result of the gathering of the glacier of the director Sergei Bodrov and a member of his film crew, actor Timofey Nosik to the Government of the Russian Federation and the Republic of North Ossetia on compensation for moral damage caused by the death of sons.

The French newspaper Le Monde is trying to find out where the businessman of Russian descent Arkady Gaidamak, who is in the case of smuggling weapons to Angola and laundering money through the Israeli Bank, Hapoalim. Whether he is still in Israel, where he settled in December 2000, or is no longer (a translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Criminal investigators detained the suspect in the murder and dismemberment of the corpse in the Leningrad Region. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, a 26-year-old resident of the village of MGA is suspected of committing a crime, reports REGNUM .

The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest-2005 intend to hold it on Independence Square in Kiev, on a stage, decorated in the style of the "Orange Revolution". “The Ukrainian people understand that it will be more prestigious to observe the competition on the Maidan of Independence along with politicians and Ukrainian performers than in the Sports Palace along with European delegations,” said the co -chair of the organizing committee, deputy prime minister of Ukraine Nikolai Tomenko.

A fire in a transformer booth paralyzed on Thursday traffic on two lines of the New York metro. According to the representative of the city transport administration Paul Flerange, the fire occurred at 11:00 local time at the station in Harlem. As a result of the fire and the explosion of the transformer followed, the Metro repairman received burns. Four compositions stopped on the de -energized ways. About 500 passengers of electric trains were evacuated, RIA Novosti reports.

The Romir Monitoring research center conducted a survey of Muscovites to find out cinematic preferences. The survey was attended by 760 people aged 13 years and older. Respondents answered the question: "What genre are you missing the films?" The answers were distributed as follows: more than a third of the respondents (37%) admitted that they lack good comedies. A little less respondents (31%) replied that they would like to see more high -quality fiction.

A homemade explosive device was found on Thursday evening at the gates of the building of the Republican Ministry of Emergencies in Makhachkala. The duty unit of the Ministry of Emergencies of Dagestan informed RIA Novosti that the suspicious bag was found at the entrance to the building at about 22:30 Moscow time. Dogs of the monitors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs responded to the presence of explosives.

The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, with the support of the head of the Kremlin administration, Dmitry Medvedev, took control of the board of directors of the company. Until now, it was believed that the government has a majority in the Council of the Gas Monopoly and can make the necessary decisions through directives to state assistants.

The Ulyanovsk hockey team with the Volga ball at the end of the Russian championship almost lost funding, and there was immediately talk about the liquidation of the club with a long history. The main reason that caused the shallowing, and then the drying out of the financial flows was associated directly with the complex position in the region as a whole, as well as with the governor's elections.

The journalists of The Sun, the British newspaper, checking the safety of the royal family, freely entered the territory of the Windsor castle with a large package, on which Bomb was written. The newspaper’s report notes “the lightness that is breathtaking”, when the minibus rolled in the movement of their rented, which has passed one line of protection of the royal residence after another, Interfax reports. They calmly drove next to the chapel of St.

If you are an Andrew Mousen, a British court poet, clothed with the honorary duty to create a memorable life -affirming ode in honor of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camille Parker Bowles, then all the rhymes that come to the head of the word "Camilla" - Vanilla, gorilla, Godzilla - seem inappropriate, writes The News York Times (translation on the website of Inopressa ).

Sony specialists are developing a TV that will be able to reproduce the smells of what is happening on the screen. A special device introduced into the TV will emit ultrasonic signals. It is believed that they are absolutely harmless to health and will stimulate “sensory perception”, awakening the memory in the memory of the audience, which are connected with what is broadcast at one time or another on the television screen.

Exhibits from Hans Hans Christian Andersen in Odens will be presented in Moscow at an exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the great Danish storyteller. At the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka, rare documents will be presented containing detailed biographical information about Andersen, his family, and the immediate environment.

The American, who pursued the Russian tennis player Anna Kurnikov and tried to get into her house in the state in Florida, was recognized as a mentally insane by the court in Miami. According to the decision of the district judge, Diane Ward, 40-year-old William Lady will have to undergo forced treatment in one of the medical institutions of Florida for 6 months, ITAR-TASS reports. On January 30, Naked William Lady, swimming to the island of Sanset Ayland-3, where the tennis player is located.

In the suburbs, 12 grenades of the F-1 of the Great Patriotic War (WWA) were found near the bus atmosphere, a source in law enforcement officers said on Thursday. According to law enforcement agencies, on the eve of the morning, the police received a message that at the bus stop near the village of Podol in the Istra region of the region, a pot was discovered, in which there are objects similar to grenades. Law enforcement officers immediately left for the place.