Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is a person of a new, confident Russian foreign policy. Without Russia, it is difficult to compromise in the Iran’s nuclear policy, and Washington understands this. On the other hand, laurels are also flexible enough to demand something from Iran and Hamas and gently resist the United States.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted on Wednesday for the resolution in support of "expanding non -discriminatory attitude to the goods of Ukraine." At a meeting of the chamber in full force, the resolution number 1053 was supported by 417 congressmen and only two voted against. The resolution, in particular, states that the so-called Jackson-Viennik amendment should no longer apply to Ukraine.

There are 4 million pornographic sites on the Internet. According to statistics, only in January of this year on Yandex 4 million 300 thousand times a request was specified "Porn". The annual turnover of pornography trade via the Internet is 2-2.5 billion per year. As experts established, the minimum amount necessary to create a full -fledged paid porn site with legally acquired content is 25 thousand dollars. The same profitable article is the trade in pirate music.

The mayor of Turin Sergio Kyamparino solemnly carried on Wednesday evening an Olympic torch around the municipality Square on the eve of the 10-day paralympic games of disabled athletes opening on Friday. Participants in these competitions are already gathering to the capital of Piedmont. The opening ceremony will be headed by Italy President Carlo Adzelo Champi. On the same day, a meeting of the International Paralympic Committee was held in Turin, ITAR-TASS reports.

Ehud Olmert, acting The Prime Minister of Israel said that over the next four years, the "constant borders of Israel" will be established. What specifically had in mind Olmert, he did not explain, but again stated that he intends to preserve the main Jewish enclaves: Gush-Empers, “Jerusalem Envelope”, Maale Adumim, “Ariel district” and “Safe border in the Jordan River Valley,” Newsru Israel reports.

Chechen doctors are seriously concerned about the new cases of the disease by the so -called "pseudo -theasthemical syndrome of the psychogenic nature" of schoolchildren and teachers in the Silkovsky district of the republic. “Over the past days, six new cases of diseases of children and teachers have been registered in the Silkovsky district,” the chief pediatrician of the Chechen Republic and the chief physician of the Republican Children's Hospital Sultan Alimkhadzhiev told Interfax.

In the USA, in the state of Florida, a trial is undergoing three suspects in the abduction of $ 7.4 million. The unusual of the case lies in the fact that the raiders before the police detained themselves victims of other criminals. According to the investigation, on November 6, 2005, three bandits raided the Warehouse at the Miami Airport. After waiting for the Frankfurt containers, in which there were $ 80 million in cash, two masks attacked the collectors attacked the collectors.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich will not allow the London Chelsea to be left without a victory in the Champions League. The Governor of Chukotka at the upcoming meeting with the mentor of the Jose Mourinho team intends to force the Portuguese to abandon the previous transfer policy, according to which Chelsea did not intensify the star players, Lenta.ru reports with reference to Independent.

On Thursday, a meeting was held by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Titov with the chairman of the coordination center of Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia in Kosovo and Metokhia Sanda Rashkovich-Ivich. It took place two days after consultations on the problem of Kosovo in the UN Security Council. In Moscow, it is considered fundamentally important that the UN Security Council continues to play a key role in resolving the problem of Kosovo.

The fans of the Moscow Lokomotiv and the fans of Dmitry Sychev will soon see their idol on the football field again. A talented striker recovered from a severe injury to his left foot, because of which he missed eight months. As Lokomotiv, Alexander Udaltsov, said in an interview with ITAR-TASS-Attash, Dmitry is already training with the team in the common group, the only exception that doctors do-do not allow the attacker to beat the ball.

The Ministry of Environment of Malaysia reported that there were no people left to obtain permission to study the jungle to search for a snowy person. The authorities printed five hundred forms of statement, waiting for the influx of hunters for a snowy man, but not one of them was filled, said the head of the Department of the Ministry of Joor. It was in it that previously most often saw mysterious humanoid creatures.

US President Bush must convey to Russian President Putin that Russia's integration into the world community is at risk, while the Kremlin pursues a policy aimed at undermining democracy in the countries neighboring Russia. This opinion was expressed by Mark Brzezinsky, a lawyer from Washington, who served as director for Russian and Eurasian issues in the US National Security Council in Clinton’s administration, in an article published in The Boston Globe .

Trains from the center on the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro are followed with increased intervals due to smoke that arose on Thursday in one of the wagons of the electric train at the Kashirskaya station. "Due to smoke in one of the wagons arriving at the Kashirskaya station, the train had to turn off the voltage and eliminate the malfunction," the representative of the metropolitan press service told RIA Novosti . According to her, the voltage was turned off at 18:15.

In the United States, a prototype "glasses for separated lovers" was created at the Massachusetts Technological Institute. An ordinary glass for wine, covered with a layer of sensors and thin LEDs, and is also equipped with a miniature Wi-Fi or GPRS transmitter. When the glass "feels" the touch of a person, he sends a signal to a "friendly" glass through the Internet, which begins to glow in response.

In a difficult situation is the Armenian community of Iraq. According to Blagovet-Info with reference to Panarmenian , as a result of the terrorist attack on one of the Baghdad streets, Rita Markaryans and Seda Nasarzhian were seriously wounded last week. Women were in one of the Baghdad markets when an explosion sounded. Rita Markaryan was seriously injured and is now in the hospital.