The special commission of the anti -doping support department of the Federal Agency for Physical Education and Sports of the Russian Federation established that the increased level of a number of parameters, discovered on the eve of the Olympics in Turin by the hockey player of the Kazan Club of Ak Bars, is in no way connected with the use of doping.

The Bank of Russia states the accumulation of risks in the banking system in connection with the growth of lending volumes, Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, told reporters. This is not the only problem facing domestic banks, and on the eve of the head of the RSPP, Alexander Shokhin, even predicted the liquidity crisis that domestic bankers will encounter in 2009.

The deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov believes that in the upcoming elections of 2007-2008, two forces interested in political restoration will seriously say about themselves, the “Party of the Oligarchic Revenge” and supporters of the National Dictatorship, or, as Surkov called them, isolationists.

The government on Thursday first discussed plans for placing a stabilization fund. The matter did not come to a direct discussion, although even brief sketches of the deputy head of the government of the Government Mikhail Kopeikin to an alternative Ministry of Finance to investing a stab fund in the promotion of foreign companies outraged the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin, Kommersant reports.

In the Voronezh region, a large traffic accident occurred on Thursday night. As a result of a collision of a regular bus and a truck, four people died, three more were seriously injured. This was reported in the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies. They specified that the incident occurred at about 00:00 Moscow time at 718 km of the Don federal highway, ITAR-TASS reports. “The bus with 14 passengers followed the Voronezh -on -on -Don route.

Noticeable warming for most of Russia will not occur at least until the end of March, the hydrometeorological center notes. “March is a typical winter month for Russia. The average daily temperature stably crosses over zero only at the very end of the month. So how our souls are not torn by the beginning of spring, we will have to wait,” Roman Vilfand, director of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, told Interfax.

In the St. Petersburg Temple of St. Catherine on Hevsky Prospekt on March 11, a prayer television will be held with Pope Benedict XVI , dedicated to the IV European Day of Universities, Ilya Stogov, one of the organizers of the teleconference on the Russian side, told the Interfax agency. “This is the first such teleconference with the participation of the new Pope. In this regard, it is especially important that it was Petersburg that was chosen from Russian cities,” he said.

While the world of show business and curious fans are looking forward to the announcement of the wedding date of the brightest and beautiful pair of Hollywood Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, rumors appeared that they had already married at a secret ceremony. Recall that the romance of the couple, who is waiting for their first common child, from the very beginning was accompanied by the contradictory rumors and speculations.

Serious transformations are coming in the Russian military-industrial complex. For the sake of the gradual privatization of the OPC, it will be necessary to change several laws at once, and the Federal Property Management Office is being prepared for this, said Stanislav Puginsky, deputy head of the Federal Agency for Industry. It does not exclude that in the end, private companies will also receive access to defense enterprises.

The Vietnamese Court sentenced the famous British rock musician Gary Glitter to three years in prison for sexual harassment in relation to two minor girls aged 10 and 11. The court also ordered him to pay 5 million dongs ($ 422) as compensation for moral damage to the families of the victims, reports AR. Initially, against the musician, accusations of rape of minors were brought against, but the investigation could not prove this.

Negotiations between representatives of Eurotroki (France, Germany and Great Britain) and Iran will continue on Monday, March 6. This was at the end of the first round of negotiations in Vienna was reported by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany and France Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Philip Dust-Blazi participating in them.

On Wednesday on the trial, the overthrown dictator Saddam Hussein recognized his responsibility for the murder of 148 people, including children, in the town of Dujyil in 1982, the Le Temps Swiss newspaper writes on Friday (text on the website inopressa.ru ). “I gave this to the order. I am not used to shifting responsibility to others,” he said.

The Holy Synod of the Elladsky Orthodox Church with indignation reacted to the official notification of the Kiev Patriarchate from Kiev about the Hirotonia held last year at the Bishop of the Chersonesos and the exarch of this, which was not recognized in the Orthodox world of the Church of the chrysostoma of the Bestromers.

The largest mobile operator of Russia and Eastern Europe, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), announced a reduction in 5,000 jobs, that is, 20% of staff. According to CNews , said the first vice president of the company Eric Frank. The manager explained that at the moment, the penetration of mobile communications in some regions of the Russian Federation has reached 100%.

The venerable age of Abu Muhammad, a resident of a small Jordanian village of Zimal, who recently turned 120 years old, did not become an obstacle to his desire for personal happiness. A good old man, having rejected all the tips about a well -deserved rest on the part of his many children, grandchildren and great -grandchildren firmly decided to relate himself to the bonds again.