Israel became a record holder for visiting Russian Internet sites, the day before, a professor at Moscow State University Alexander Voyskunsky said at a conference, which was held at the Center for Social Information at the University in Haifa. According to the psychologist and the Internet researcher working according to the Maariv newspaper at Moscow State University.

The criminal, accused of raping seven girls and women, was caught and returned late in the evening on Monday to prison - a week after the escape , AR reports. The 34-year-old Reynaldo Rapalo fled from the Miami-Dad (Florida) district prison. He is suspected of raping seven victims aged 11 to 79 years. Rapalo fled through the ventilation hole in the ceiling of his single chamber, after which he got out to the roof and went down the sheets connected together. The rapist was not one.

MGTS reports the commissioning of a new license plate on Lublin, Petrovsky and Filevsky telephone nodes. This is stated in a press release from the company posted on Tuesday on its official website . On the Lublin telephone node in the Maryino area, a new license plate in the code 499. Phones: (499) 722-0x-xx, 722-8x-xx are commissioned.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the Federal Budget for 2006", adopted by the State Duma on December 7 and approved by the Federation Council on December 14 of this year, the press service of the head of the Russian state reports. The Federal Law was adopted in order to form and spend funds of funds intended for the financial support of the tasks and functions of the state in 2006.

The third Kurultai (Congress) of the Muslims of Tatarstan will be held on February 20, 2006, the chairman of the spiritual department of Muslims (Duma) of the Republic Gusman Ishakov told the Interfax agency. This date, he said, was determined at the Plenum of the Duma, held last Saturday. “At the congress, which is held every four years, the report of the chairman of the Duma will be heard, the election of the mufti and the main Kazyia (judges - approx. Ed.

The Tu-214 airline Dalavavia , which requested an emergency landing after departure from Khabarovsk to Moscow, was safely landed at Khabarovsk airport at 21:30 local time (14:30 in Moscow). On board the airliner were 154 passengers and 9 crew members, there are no injured among them. All passengers of the N664 flight will be delivered to Moscow by the IL-62 Airlines Dalavia, Interfax was told in the Khabarovsk airport control room.

Bulgaria completed the withdrawal of a limited military contingent from Iraq, reports AP with reference to a source in the Ministry of Defense of Bulgaria. As the Bulgarian Minister of Defense Veselin Draznadov said on Tuesday, the last group of military personnel of 130 people is relocated to Kuwait and from there will go home.

The movement of the Sochi electric train - Sukhum will be restored in January 2006. Such an agreement was reached during a meeting on Tuesday in Sukhumi the Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsha with the head of the Directorate of the North Caucasian Railway of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vorobyov.

In the Primorsky Territory, as a result of an accident, one hunter shot another. According to Tuesday, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District, the tragedy occurred last Thursday in the Khackay district near the village of Ilyinka. During the hunt, a 47-year-old man made a careless shot from a carbine, which turned out to be fatal for his acquaintance. From the injury he died on the spot, Interfax reports.

In the village of Nuradilovo, the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, the active phase of the special operation to block and detain the action movie ended. Initially, the news agency reported that one militant was killed, while a police officer died. Khairudin Kamaludiev, deputy chief physician of the Khasavyurt district hospital, said that the police captain from the Ulyanovsk colleague Peter Pololegin died from the injury to his head.

In the Donetsk region, 11 members of an organized criminal group were arrested, on the account of which 57 murders. As Interfax was told on Tuesday in the Department of Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, two criminals were arrested in Russia. According to the department, the organized crime group specialized in custom -made murders, robberies, extortion, controlled metal, fuel markets, gambling business.

On the first day of the celebration of the Nativity of Christ from a cafe in the city of Neshil in the United States, puff cookies with cinnamon were stolen, the so -called "bun of the nun", reminiscent of the face of the nun of the mother of Teresa in old age. Bob Bernstein, the owner of the institution, found the loss, according to him the attacker entered the cafe early in the morning, abducting the rarity.

A year ago, when President Viktor Yushchenko, as a result of the Orange Revolution, came to power in Ukraine, he predicted that the uprising would inspire democracy throughout the former USSR. After 12 months, his forecast turned out to be wrong, writes Financial Times . The year, which began with the triumph of Yushchenko, ended with the success of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the authoritarian president of Kazakhstan, who won the presidential election for the third time, gaining 91% of the vote.

The chairman of the Palestinian National Administration (PNU) Mahmoud Abbas is not hospitalized and feels good. He himself reported this, leaving the hospital in Ramallach on the western bank of the Jordan River. “I visited our brother Saher Khabash, with whom there was a stroke,” the Palestinian leader told reporters.

The broadcasting of the Deutsche Welle radio station at Moscow average frequencies, blocked on December 21, has not yet been resumed. A similar fate befell the British BBC , French RFI , as well as the Christian radio station TWR . It is not yet clear whether it has political motives, or the problem arose in connection with a change in the procedure for issuing a license, the Handelsblatt newspaper writes on Tuesday.