At the end of February, to the question "Do you think that George Bush copes well with his duties of the country's president?" Only 34% of the Americans expressed support for the presidential actions, showed data published on Monday in the United States a public opinion survey conducted by order of CBS News . In February, the rating decreased by 8%. This is the lowest approval indicator in the history of the reign of Bush the Younger.

In the Bashkir city of Agidel, a local resident killed his father, and then dismembered the body. According to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnokamsk district of Bashkiria is investigating a criminal case on the murder of a resident of Agidel, and the son of the deceased is arrested on suspicion of murder.

The Moscow Arbitration Court today recognized as bankrupt the former giant of the domestic automotive industry - the Moskvich Avtozavod. The court opened bankruptcy proceedings against the enterprise and appointed Alexander Ivanov bankruptcy trustee, Interfax reports. The Council of creditors made the decision to apply to the court almost unanimously on January 30 this year.

The spread of the bird flu virus is connected not only with bird flights. This opinion was expressed by the director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Veterinary Institute of Poultry (Uzvip), doctor of veterinary sciences Eduard Dzhavadov. "At present, analyzing the localization of the latest outbreaks of" bird flu ", we can assume that the infection is spreading not only according to the ways of migration of wild birds," Javadov said in an interview with RIA Novosti .

US Vice President Richard (Dick) Cheney, apparently, will resign during the year. This was announced on Tuesday by the conservative political magazine Insight , referring to senior representatives of the Republican Party, ITAR-TASS reports. According to party leaders, Cheney will put his authority in 2007, a few months after the elections to Congress.

In the US Congress, a vote on the bill on the support of democracy in the five countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan begins. This was reported in the Secretariat of the House of Representatives of Congress. The bill entitled "Act on Democracy and Human Rights in Central Asia" provides for the annual allocation of $ 188 million on a number of programs to support democracy in all five Central Asian states.

The Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Kirill said that the idea of ​​human rights should not contradict religious morality. “In recent years, in European society, some issues that cannot be recognized as religious morality are actively protected from the point of view of human rights,” the Orthodox hierarch noted at the conference “Human Rights and the Dignity of the Personality.

While in Austria, historian David Irving, who denies the reality of the Holocaust, was sentenced to three years in prison for public statements that the Nazis did not engage in the systematic extermination of Jews during the Second World War, in Russia, a country that recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Chruschev’s condemnism at the twentieth CPSU Congress, many people relate to the deceased The dictator is positive and, moreover, a new museum dedicated to Stalin will soon open, the

The Academic Council of the Institute of Philological Research of St. Petersburg State University decided to create the Scientific and God-Speed ​​Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. The center will be headed by the rector of the university parish of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Secretary of the Scientific Council of the St.

The country's main financial plan is necessary without taking into account oil receipts, said the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin. With his view of public finances, the candidate of economic sciences, Professor Kudrin shared on the pages of the journal "Economics issues" .

Officials of the presidential apparatus are preparing amendments to the legislation to combat corruption in the law enforcement system and courts. The package of amendments prepared by the presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak, who is even called the “Judicial Reform-2”, is already approved by the Ministry of Justice and the Cabinet in the person of the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

In recent years, one of the reasons for the critical attitude of the West towards Russia has been an increase in discontent in the semi -authoritarian character of the administration of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. However, as the Financial Times writes on Tuesday, there is a share of hypocrisy in this, because the West did not criticize the undemocratic behavior of the Yeltsin administration and its oligarch mining workers.

In the United States, on Monday, at the 98th year of his life, the famous writer and military pilot of the Second World War, who wrote a book about hostilities in the sky, “God IS My Co-Pilot), retired brigade Robert Scott, died. The director of the Aviation Museum at the military base of Robins Paul Hibbitts reported his death. The last years of his life Scott worked in this museum.

The Communist Party does not intend to maintain any contacts with the ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov with a new political association , said the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov. "We believed and believe that there can not be any contacts between our party and the movement created by Kasyanov, since this movement clearly smells of an orange shower," Zyuganov told Interfax on Tuesday.

The author of the world bestseller "Code of Da Vinci" Dan Brown on Monday appeared in court in London on charges of plagiarism . In the process, a break has been announced: the court needs time to get acquainted with the work of the prosecutors and the defendant. According to the plaintiffs, the New Zealander Michael Beigent and American Richard Lei, the plot of the book “Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail) is based on the popular story.