A priest in Romania can be deprived of a dignity after he was noticed playing in a bar in poker. At the card table of Father Vasil, the police found at the time of the raid. He and two more people were forced to pay a fine for gambling in the wrong place. Nine people played poker, but at the time of the arrest, the money lay on the table opposite only three participants. “I was dumbfounded when I found out that one of the players who made the bets is a priest,” the police representative said.

Russia sends its observers to the parliamentary elections to the upcoming Palestinian Autonomy on January 25, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Gazelle passenger minibus, in which there were 15 people, in the evening on Tuesday fell under the ice in the city of Pavlovo in the Volga region of the Nizhny Novgorod region while trying to move the Oka River. According to updated data, 6 people were killed as a result of the incident, and not 10, as previously reported. Nine people were saved - all of them were taken to the city hospital with a diagnosis of hypothermia.

Tatyana Paukhova was appointed general director of the Culture channel. Earlier, she held the positions of the first deputy general director and editor -in -chief of this television channel. According to RIA Novosti , a source on the television channel, on Tuesday, an order was issued by the VGTRK on the appointment of the Paukhovaya director of the branch of the GRC Culture from January 17, 2006.

The court in Chisinau on Tuesday sentenced the former Minister of Defense of Moldova, ex-director of the information and security service of the republic, adviser to the head of the RAO UES of Russia Valery Pasata by 10 years in prison.

The mayor of the American city of New Orleans, who last summer was devastated by the hurricane "Catherine", said that the Lord God is angry with America and the blacks. “Undoubtedly, God is angry with America. He sent one hurricane at us at the other, which destroyed and scourged this land,” said Mayor Ray Neijin, who is an African American on Monday on Mondeza Luther King's Day. "Undoubtedly, he does not like our presence in Iraq under false pretexts.

The observation council of the professional hockey league (PHL) at his meeting on Tuesday, which was chaired by Senator Mikhail Margelov, decided to consider the issue of resigning Alexander Steplin from the post of President of the PHL. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the Supervisory Board of the PHL Mikhail Margelov.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and the government in full force will take part in a meeting of the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday with the resolution of the political crisis in the country. This was announced on Tuesday by the speaker of the parliament Vladimir Litvin after a meeting of the conciliation council of the leaders of deputy groups and factions.

Russia considers it possible to make the problem of fighting the "bird flu" to the meeting of the Eight. This was announced on Tuesday by the chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko. These days, he takes part in the conference that opened in Beijing on Tuesday on the fight against "bird flu". “Our country, as the chairman of the“ big eight ”of 2006, will make his contribution to the global system of fighting the“ bird flu, ”Onishchenko said.

The military prosecutor's office of the Moscow Military District (MVO) terminated the investigation of the criminal case of a traffic accident in which the Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic Sergey Abramov suffered.

The state retains interest in the metallurgical asset of the general director of the Norilsk Nickel Mikhail Prokhorov and the head of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, says the British The Times . True, analysts interviewed by the Gzt.ru newspaper believe that if the state buys Norilskell, then it will not be done by the Almaza company Alrosa, but Rosoboronexport. Recall that the domestic government has been cultivating the new raw materials giant based on the Alrosa diamond holding since last summer.

17-year-old Sasha Martynenko from Kfar Saba, who 9 years ago moved with her parents from Ukraine to Israel, became the winner of the prestigious contest "Israeli Model 2006". The girl gave an interview with Newsru Israel , in which she talked about the competition and plans for the future. The competition "Model of Israel 2006" began in November last year. Thousands of applicants came to the Roberto agency.

The French intelligence services note the aggravation of the negative, according to their estimates, the trends: many Europeans who contacted Islam are located to radicalism. “This is a phenomenon in the prime,” said Pascal Melo, head of the French internal security service. According to him, out of 5 thousand French Muslims-Salafites (adherents of radical Islam- approx. Ed.

A drinking person earns at least 10% more than his colleague, a tender, the report of the American National Bureau of Supplies in the Field of Economics says. In Russia, a similar analysis was not carried out, but experts are sure that moderate intake of alcohol is beneficial for a career. This was written on Tuesday by the newspaper Vedomosti .

A foreign fishing vessel, on board of which there was a crew of 12 Russian sailors, sank on Tuesday in the Tatar Strait, separating the mainland from Sakhalin. Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies from the aircraft discovered 7 dead bodies in the Tatar Strait, the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies told Interfax. According to him, now the bodies of the dead are raised to the nearby sea vessels.