A passenger bus with people fell on Thursday under the ice on the Yenisei 20 km from the capital of the Republic of Tuva -Kyzyl. A regular bus went under the water for two -thirds. Earlier in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 6 Gazelle passengers drowned in the river. According to the final official figures, 22 people were in the regular bus, including the driver. Two of them were killed, 20 managed to save. Earlier, the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation reported 25 passengers.

Recently released from the Turks prison Mehmet Ali Agja, who attempted in 1981 at Pope John Paul II , made a deal with one Hollywood film company worth $ 8 million. According to his friend and bodyguard Heydar Mengi, according to the contract, A. Agja, who has already received an advance of $ 500 thousand, is exclusively undertaken to tell this company about the motives for the attempt on the head of the Vatican .

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank to report on the government on measures to prevent the surge in inflation.

On Thursday, Russian tennis players Nikolai Davydenko and Igor Andreev reached the third round of the first Grand Slam series of the series of the Grand Slame series - the Australian Open Championship in the Australian in the tennis. Last year’s quarter -finalist of the tournament and his current fifth racket Davydenko in four sets outplayed American Kevin Kim. The Russian in a tense struggle lost the first batch, and then won three sets in a row.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the Central Bank to continue to control the implementation of legislation in the banking sector. At the same time, the head of state warned the Central Bank against any campaigns in this area.

The Washington Judge Emmett Sullivan rejected the lawsuit of the Moscow Dynamo hockey club to the NHL club Washington Capitelz on the issue of rights to Russian Alexander Ovechkin. In accordance with the court decision, the forward of the Russian Olympic team is free from any obligations to blue and white.

A law firm providing services to the Minister of Information Technology and Communications Leonid Reiman called him the true owner of the fund registered on Bermuda and controlling a large package of shares of one of the largest Russian cellular operators. This was reported in the materials of the case, which is now in the London Court, writes on Thursday The Wall Street Journal (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

During the training collection in the Cyprus of the Debutant of the Russian Football Premier League- the Luch-Energy club from Vladivostok-almost had a tragedy. In the game martial arts, the Russian team football player was injured. He made an anesthetic injection, as a result of which the player developed anaphylactic shock. This is an allergic reaction that occurs when an allergen is introduced into the body.

In the morning, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg received an anonymous message about an explosive device laid down at the Baltic Plant JSC. "At 8:07 Moscow time, an anonymous phone call was received, the calling announced the mining of the Baltic factory. Measures will be taken to check the enterprise," said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies.

Today is the baptism of the Lord . The sign of this holiday is the consecration of water and immersion in the hole. In Russia, with its current, truly baptismal frosts, the last tradition acquires, perhaps, a socially significant shade. In any case, the immersion in the Epiphany hole of a number of state and political figures has become an almost ritual action.

In Israel, two fourteen -year -old teenagers were arrested for attacking an elderly woman. As it turned out during the investigation, the boys argued on 10 shekels, which of them dares to push the unfamiliar old woman walking along the street so that she fell. Teenagers waited for the victim, sitting on a bench on A-Nesim Street in Migdal A-Emek.

In Turkey, a third of which is covered by "bird flu" , cases of animal diseases with a no less dangerous disease - foot and mouth disease were revealed. The first cases of foot defeat became known in the province of Edirne in the European part of the country, CNN-Turk television reports on Thursday.

In Israel, on Thursday, Levy Lyalik, an uncertified murder of a child, will be charged. In the district court of Tel Aviv, the prosecution and defense must report on the conclusion of a legal transaction. Lalik, accused of killing his own two -month -old daughter and abuse of her body, achieved an agreement with the prosecutor’s office and will be accused only of an unintentional murder that does not provide for life imprisonment.

The court of the Zhirnovsky district of the Volgograd region sentenced a local resident on charges of infection of HIV infection. As the investigation established, one of the residents of the city of Zhirnovsk, knowing that she was ill for a long time had random sexual intercourse. At the time of the case in court, the examination revealed that one of the 40 men who since 2001 have been partners of a 24-year-old woman is already sick with AIDS.

The company "Prof-Media" acquires a 100% stake in the Publishing House "Poster" from the satellite group, the joint press release of companies distributed on Thursday said. "The transaction will be completed after receiving the appropriate permission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service," Interfax quotes the document quoted.