The so -called "stripping" in the field of gambling business in Moscow will continue. This was announced on the air of the TVC channel by Yuri Luzhkov. The metropolitan mayor considers the situation an unacceptable situation, "when one percent of the players win, and 99% -" Bubbling ". Luzhkov recalled that the new law on gambling business is currently under consideration in the State Duma.

Despite the end of the Olympic Games in Turin, the friction between the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR) and the Bosco company, the General Sponsor and the official equipment of the Russian team at the games in Turin, continue.

On the border of Iran and Iraq, the Americans managed to intercept the cargo of bombs of the new structure, which can break even tank armor. Explosive devices are factory manufacturing, and some experts already say that without the help of Iranian authorities it could not be.

In the city of Mozdok in North Ossetia, a double murder was committed, the operational duty officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic said on Tuesday. "The murder occurred at night. The VAZ -2106 car was fired from automatic weapons, which was moving around the city with three passengers of Kumyk nationality. Two of them died on the spot, one was taken to the hospital," the attendant informed, Interfax reports.

From the beginning of the Iraqi war, as the Pentagon data showed, at least 8 thousand soldiers soldiers were deserted from the US armed forces, but the average level of desertion was reduced after the attacks of September 11 in 2001, writes USA Today (the full text on the website inopressa.ru ). Since the fall of 2003, 4387 soldiers of the army, 3454 representatives of the Navy and 83 - the Air Force deserted.

In New Zealand, the Robinson 22 helicopter rapped. As a result of an accident, two people were killed - a Canadian citizen piloting the car, as well as an American tourist. The disaster occurred on the territory of the National Park Mount Aspiring (Mount Aspiring) near the city of Vanaka, located 800 kilometers south of the New Zealand capital.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, it is believed that it is possible to congratulate women on the occasion of March 8, but they recall that this year international women's day falls in the middle of the first week of a great post, which is not compatible with amusements.

In the German city of Crefeld in the west of the country, a drunken driver of a funeral catafalk was arrested after he bit a policeman who asked him to undergo a test for the content of alcohol in blood. According to the police, Katafalk was supposed to transport the dead from the funeral bureau in the cemetery. When the driver Katafalka arrived on the call and got out of the car, it immediately became noticeable that he was drunk: he practically could not stand straight and walked staggering.

The Israeli authorities allowed Igal Amir, who was serving a life imprisonment for the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, to have children, RIA Novosti reports. Amir and Larisa Trembovlier, whose marriage a month ago was registered in the Israeli Ministry of Internal Affairs, received permission to go through the artificial fertilization procedure, the representative of the Israeli Prison Department said.

At a time when Muslims of the whole world opposed the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the French adherents of Islam seek to ban the books of the great philosopher of the 18th century Voltaire. The indignation of the Muslims caused the work "Mohammed" in 1741, in which the philosopher ridicules religious intolerance. According to local Islamic activists, public readings insult the Muslim community, the Blagoverst-info reports.

Like every holiday, on March 8, it provides an opportunity to emerge from the stream of the repeated -explosive of the everyday life unconscious in their automatism and try to comprehend certain facets of our being. On the eve of International Women's Day, the correspondent of the "World of Religions" website turned to the religious leaders of five world religions with the appropriate for one sixth land to the holiday with questions.

The nearest launch of the reusable spacecraft shuttle is scheduled for May. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov. "On March 2, a meeting of the heads of leading world space agencies took place in Florida (USA). The American side, speaking of the launch of shuttle, informed everyone that the swinging period was over. In May 2006, the shuttle spacecraft will be launched, the mood was on May," Perminov said.

In Moscow, an exhibition opened on Tuesday, which shows unknown photographs of Salvador Dali. The exposition is located in the center of contemporary art in Pushkarev Lane. The author of the photo exhibition "gave in the style of rock" - Spanish photographer Martin Frias. He managed to capture Dali in the most unexpected poses and various settings. One of the photographs in which Dali and Frias were shown together are evidenced of the friendly relations of these people.

On the eve of March 8, in the metropolitan region it will not be frosty and cloudy in the spring. According to the Hydrometeorological Office, this is due to the approach of the next southern cyclone. Despite the fact that it will be held east, Moscow and the region will be in its cold rear part. Cloudy weather will prevail today, the east wind is 3-8 m/s, at times light snow is possible. In the afternoon in Moscow, the thermometer will show minus 2 - minus 4, in the region to minus 8 degrees.

There was one step left before the pandemic of the bird flu, says the director of the research institute (research institute) of virology named after Ivanovsky RAMS Dmitry Lvov. “One amino acid replacement in the genome is not enough for the virus to be transmitted from person to person. And then the fire will begin,” the academician said on Tuesday at a press conference in the central office of Interfax in Moscow. According to him, the pandemic virus may appear at any time.