On Thursday, the 32nd military town in Yekaterinburg again fell into the center of attention of the media in connection with the reports of new cases of "hazing". In the city hospital are four beaten military personnel. One of them, Private Afanasyev, was beaten by sticks in the 32nd military town. He has serious injuries of the legs and necrosis of the tissue, which, in the case of military personnel Andrei Sychev, caused amputation of the legs.

The Council of Management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will gather in Vienna for an extraordinary session dedicated to the Iranian problem. The session was convened at the initiative of the "European Three" as part of the UK, Germany and France in connection with the withdrawal of Iran from a voluntary moratorium on the implementation of Uranus enrichment.

The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi admitted to Vladimir Putin that he deceived his voters about sex before the elections. The telephone conversation of Berlusconi and Putin took place the day before, writes on Thursday Corriere Della Sera (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

In the city of Nabluz on the western bank of the Jordan River on Thursday, a German citizen was stolen. According to an employee of the hotel, where the abducted citizen lived, a German citizen, whose name was Christoph, was captured by a group of armed Palestinians at the hotel, RIA Novosti reports. Other details of the incident are not yet known. So far, no one has taken responsibility for this abduction and has not put forward any requirements.

The American "People's Meteorologist" Surok Phil, living in the city of Panesutoni (Pennsylvania), will predict how long winter in the United States will last. Every year on February 2, it is removed from the hole to the light to determine whether spring will come soon. If the sleepy prophetor sees his own shadow, the folk sign says, then wait for the heat for another one and a half months. If there is cloudy weather, then spring is just around the corner.

Forward Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin, was recognized by the National Hockey League The Best Attacking Player of January and the best newcomer of the past month. In fourteen matches of January, Ovechkin scored 21 points (11 goals and 10 programs - most of all in the league), made the first in his career a hat -trick and scored an incredible goal against the Phoers Coyotis.

From 10 to 140 thousand euros increased the Center for Simon Vizenthal a prize for information that will help arrest the former Nazi doctor Ariberth Haim. Employees of this Jewish human rights organization, pursuing Nazi criminals around the world, believe that since 1962 he has been hiding in Latin America or Spain. Until recently, Haim was listed dead.

The meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation on Thursday is held by the first Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev due to the fact that Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov fell ill with an acute respiratory disease, Interfax was told on Thursday in the government’s press service. Ironically, the government is discussing healthcare issues today.

In the UK, exhibitionist was banned for five years to talk with all women except his family members. Such prohibitive measures imposed for antisocial behavior were forced to take after 43-year-old Thomas Brown exposed his genitals to a young student and began to masturbate with her. Now Brown is not recommended to approach and start a conversation with any woman, excluding his family members.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine and Rosukrenergo AG on Thursday, on a shallow basis, created a joint venture of UKRGAZ-Energo CJSC. According to the press service of Gazprom, the company will be registered in Ukraine in the very near future. Also on Thursday in Kyiv, a general meeting of participants in Ukrgaz-Energo CJSC was held. At the meeting, the Charter and the Supervisory Board of Ukrgaz-Energo was approved.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) today made a statement on the "activation of the activities of representatives of individual foreign structures and their accomplices in Ukraine," ITAR-TASS reports.

The quality of humorous television programs on Russian television arranges 58 percent of Russians. This is evidenced by the next survey, which was held at the end of January the Public Opinion Foundation in 100 settlements of the country. According to the survey, almost 70 percent of Russians often or constantly watch humorous programs.

The rabbi of the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya in Moscow Yitzhak Kogan expressed confidence that the books of the Lubavich Rebbe would be returned to the Hasida community. “We have passed all the courts. This Saga continues 90 years. But I’m sure that the books of the Rebbe will be returned to the community,” Rabbi said in an interview with the Interfax correspondent before the awarding ceremony of those who took part in the neutralization of the attacking synagogue.

Metropolitan and Borovsk Clement, the manager of the Moscow Patriarchate, does not support the idea of ​​sexual education at the school. “I do not support the idea of ​​sexual education at school,” Metropolitan said on Thursday at a press conference in RIA Novosti . “I support moral education in schools. In Christian moral teaching, there is a position on abstinence and chastity,” the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) emphasized.

President George Bush undertook to remove America from the "Oil axis of Evil". Such was the main idea of ​​his annual message to Congress . "Its goal is that after 20 years America replaced more than 75% of oil imports from the Middle East - of course, ambitious. But necessary," the British The Times believes. His speech was unusually inspired. "The president’s appeal to the nation usually contains too little memorable lines.