The Supreme Council of Crimea decided to hold a local republican advisory referendum to give the Russian language the status of the second state. 53 out of 62 deputies of the Crimean parliament voted for such a decision. In accordance with the resolution, which is enforced from the moment of adoption, the referendum will be held on Sunday, March 26, 2006. The question “Are you for the referendum for giving the Russian language the status of the second state language?”, Interfax reports.

The former coach of the Austrian biathlon team Walter Mayer is placed in a psychiatric hospital and will be there for at least three weeks, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the German ZDF channel. He threatened to commit suicide more than once, and the Italian authorities are afraid for his health. Recall that Mayer is lifelously removed from coaching after doping scandals. He was disqualified during the 2002 Olympics , because then he was accused of transferring doping to the athletes.

At the Olympic Games in Turin, the next set of awards of the ski was played in Slalom. The Olympic champion in this discipline was the Swede Anya Parson. The winner in the sum of two attempts showed the result 1: 29.04. The second and third places went to the Austrians Nicole Hospaces and Marlis Shild, who lost 0.29 and 0.75 seconds, respectively. For 24-year-old Parson, this Olympic success was the first in his career.

The presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the acting Premiere of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The reason for this was the promise of the acting Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to expel the Danish humanitarian organizations from Chechnya in connection with the publication of Muhammad's Prophet in Danish newspapers.

The Russian flight management center (TsUP) on Wednesday in the evening carried out the same -pulse correction of the ISS orbit and thereby increased the flight altitude by about three kilometers. "For the correction of the ISS orbit, four engines of the M-54 progress cargo ship were used. They were turned on at the automation command at about 20:50 Moscow time and worked for about 16 minutes," the TsUP press service told Interfax.

The laureate of the three "Oscars" director Roberto Beninya represents his new film. The premiere of the film "Tiger and Snow" was simultaneously held in several world capitals. Roberto Benini's tape "Tiger and Snow" has recently aroused increased interest to both distributors and spectators. Moreover, the director showed his picture at two European film festivals. However, Beninya was in no hurry with the world premiere.

The Russian government is preparing a draft amendments to the Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations", which give the right to the Federal Registration Service (Fed) to conduct a religious examination.

The father of the President of Russia was a submariner. This conclusion was reached by Komsomolskaya Pravda , revealing the secret of the little -known picture of Father Vladimir Putin. This photograph (posting from the old picture) on the eve of the day of the defender of the Fatherland was handed over to the reader from St.

The organizers of the World Summit of Religious Leaders, which will be held in Moscow in July this year, expect the arrival of senior representatives of the Vatican , but the invitation of Pope Benedict XVI was not sent. “The question of a personal invitation of the pontiff did not stand,” said Alexei Dolgov, an employee of the Inter -Christian Relations Secretariat of the Department of External Church Relations , answering the question of Interfax agency.

In the American state of Florida, a man scored his neighbor with a sledgehammer and a nail from due to toilet paper. On Monday, 56-year-old Franklin Paul Crow was charged with the murder of his neighbor in an apartment, 58-year-old Kenneth Mettyus, the police of the Maryon district said. Crowe told the investigators that at the weekend, men were quarreled due to the lack of toilet paper in the house and began to fight, AR reports.

The Spanish police managed to detect and detain valuable archaeological finds, illegally exported from Iraq. According to the radio station "Kaden Ser", we are talking about 21 subjects, including clay tablets and a gold necklace related to the Sumerian civilization and the Assyrian kingdom. These items of antiquity were put in Madrid for auction.

California Jamie Miller lit up with happiness when she saw the Governor of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the news, but her joy was connected not so much with her political addictions as with one beer - for dogs, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper writes. The fact is that Schwarzenegger during his trip along the Nappa Valley, which suffered from the flood, not only talked with the residents of the region, but also visited the local pet store.

The Federation Council at a meeting on Wednesday approved the amendment to the Law "On Communications", which cancel the payment of incoming calls to mobile phones, ITAR-TASS reports. The innovation should enter into force on July 1 of this year.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine reports the deaths of poultry in the village of Pesochkoy, Leninsky district of Crimea and Alushta. Such data came from the public service of veterinary medicine of Crimea as of Wednesday, the press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine reports. Pathological material was sent to the Republican Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine of Autonomy. In the village of Pesopochny and Alushta, the conduct of courtyards is organized.

The government has established a special procedure for admission to civilian universities and regulates their service while studying. This document, which is published on Wednesday, is published by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta , worthy of the place of honor in the Dembelsky album - it is difficult to come up with the best agitation for the professional army.