On Friday, the Central Election Commission of Belarus completed the registration procedure for presidential candidates. Elections in Belarus will be held on March 19.

The Swedish special service of the SEPO internal security detained a foreign citizen on suspicion of espionage. According to local media on Friday, we are talking about a Russian citizen Andrei Zamyatnina, which is known that he is a scientist and he is 29 years old. There are no official details.

Nationalists staged a fight at an anti -fascist concert in Moscow , the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" reports. As the leader of the Yabloko youth Yabloko told the radio station, during the concert "For Russia without fascism, war and violence" in the recreation center named after Gorbunov appeared in the hall about 30 members of nationalist organizations.

On February 18, at the invitation of the Russian Orthodox Church, Cardinal Rage Echegarai, the former president of the Papal Council "Justice and Peace", the winner of the International World of World, is one of the most influential hierarchs of the Roman Catholic Church , arrives in Moscow from Rome.

At the Winter Games in Turin on Friday, the first set of awards was played following the results of a male ski race at a distance of 15 km in a classic style. Four represented Russia in the race: Ivan Artyev (46 starting number), Ivan Babikov (77), Sergey Novikov (88) and Vasily Rochev (91). The ski "gold" goes to Estonia for the third time at the current Olympiad.

In Yekaterinburg, hospitals are full of patients with rotavirus infection. The infectious departments are almost daily children in a serious state, and their treatment begins with a dropper. And in almost everyone, the disease proceeds in very severe form. Every day only to 10 children enters the hospital No. 15. The symptoms are similar, so doctors can easily diagnose - rotavirus infection: “The infection has obvious symptoms.

US President George Bush asked Congress for an additional $ 72 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as another $ 19.8 billion to restore the southern part of the country, which suffered from Hurricane "Catherine". This is stated in the Washington on Thursday in Washington by the Press Service of the White House in a letter of Bush addressed to the speaker of the House of Congress of the US Congress Congressman Dennis Husta.

Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko, having won the Olympic "gold" in men's single skating, is not going to leave amateur sports. Having admitted to reporters that the victory at the Olympics in Turin was his cherished dream, Eugene stated that he plans to continue his performances for Russia and try to win another Olympic “gold” in Vancouver, Olymp2006.ru reports. "Indeed, you won’t earn money in lovers, the Grand Prix winning is five thousand dollars.

Scientists around the world are studying the behavior of the bird flu virus. They warn that the virus of "bird flu" began to be transmitted from one species to another. And now the opinion appeared that cats are now in serious danger, infecting each other with the H5N1 virus. “It is precisely what we feared about people,” said Christian Walzer, professor of the Department of Zoology and Ecology of the University of Vienna. - Mammals are infected. The virus is transmitted from cat to cat.

In Egypt, the first cases of the death of birds from the "bird flu" were recorded. This was announced on Friday by the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). In three regions of the country, a dead bird has been found in a dead bird, a dangerous H5N1 virus for humans, he pointed out.

In Italy, law enforcement agencies began a major investigation into the relations of Chinese gangsters with the Italian mafia. In the Milan Chinatown on Paola Sarpi Lia Street, an investigation has long been conducted in the case of suspicious investments in real estate and trade. In Rome, investigators found dummies and banks in which money was laundered. The first major investigation in the case of the capital of the Dragon mafia in Italy affected 22 thousand Chinese.

Scientists studying the consequences of global warming came to the conclusion that the map of the world will change to the next millennium as a result of catastrophic climatic changes, and drew an apocalyptic picture on Earth, writes The Times .

In Russia, the draft for military service will remain, and the recruitment contingent will be expanded. Contractors are planned to equip about 140 thousand posts of soldiers and sergeants, which will allow us to go to military service for a period of 12 months since 2008 and not to send more to the "hot spots" of military personnel to call.

Ten students of the second grade of one of the Bishkek schools are hospitalized with signs of lacrimal gas poisoning from a gas spray. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Kyrgyzstan, an accident occurred in the capital's school No. 69 on Thursday. According to preliminary data, the self -defense tool brought the 11th grade student to classes and decided to try it at a break.

In Hong Kong there is a demonstration of protest against the publication in European newspapers of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad . According to the organizers, about three thousand people take part in it. The demonstrators gathered near the central mosque of Hong Kong and go along one of the most lively highways of the city - Nathan Street, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Hong Kong media, this was the first major protest of Muslims in Hong Kong over the past twenty years.