The Federal Service of the Russian Federation on drug control (FSKN) actually completed the creation of a single data bank on persons who have committed crimes in the field of drug trafficking. The issues of creating this storage of information were considered on Tuesday in Moscow at a meeting of the Government Commission on Combating and abuse of narcotic drugs and their illegal trafficking, headed by the director of the FSKN Viktor Cherkessov. "In fact, the bank is already operating.

Among the nominees for the prize to the best coach according to the results of 2006, which is annually awarded by the International Federation of History and Statistics of Football (IFFHS) , was the mentor of the Russian national team Hus Hiddink. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda , the success of the Dutchman as a mentor of Russian football players, of course, would not have made him a title applicant. But Hiddink, recall, performed another miracle with the modest national team of Australia.

The Government of Chechnya intends to return to the republic the former glory of one of the tourist centers of the North Caucasus. This was stated in an interview with reporters, the chairman of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov. "The Chechen Republic has unique opportunities for the development of the tourism business.

The head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry, Gelahuashvili, said on Tuesday in an interview with Imady Georgian television company that Georgia with Russia has a "moral and mental" incompatibility, since "Russia, unlike Georgia, has not yet been freed from Soviet stereotypes and approaches." Razezhashvili also noted that no one in the West is in doubt that "Russia does not come well with the neighbors." In his opinion, Russia uses the unsettlement of conflicts around Abkhazia and South Ossetia to

When the rats are sleeping, the film appears in front of them about what they did on this day. According to the results of a new study, scientists suggested that this could be akin to the nature of human dreams, writes the publication Live Science . The study confirms the hypothesis that animal memories are fixed in the brain and “scroll” in it during sleep.

Since the beginning of the year, the Russian Ministry of Emergencies has been saved by more than 96 thousand people, among them the majority were saved in fires. The number of fires in Russia this year, according to the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, decreased by 5%, and the number of people who died in fires decreased by 4.6%.

The American business newspaper The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday devotes two articles at once to the deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vladislav Surkov. The first of them is dedicated to the Surkov’s hobby unusual for the official of such a rank - rock music. Few people know that in his free time from the main work, the Kremlin ideologist writes texts for the Agatha Christie group. (Full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Lithuania, the procedure for identifying the bodies of the dead Russian sailors entering the crew of the PTS-0212 vessel missing in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kaliningrad region said on Monday. "Preliminary information that the bodies of the captain of the ship H. Kazakov and the trail-master A. Rodonov were found completely confirmed as a result of search activities," the press release said.

The best project of the monument to Osip Mandelstam will be determined as a result of a closed competition, Yevgeny Bunimovich, the head of the Culture Commission on the Culture of the Moscow City Duma, told reporters. "In order to determine the best artistic solution, the initiative group holds a closed competition, to participate in which six Moscow sculptors are invited, selected on the basis of the recommendations of our leading specialists in the field of culture and art," Bunimovich said.

In general, residents of the European Union against the further expansion of this supranational bloc. However, this is in no way due to the fact that - albeit in the long run - the ranks of the European Union can be replenished by Turkey, a Muslim country. Such conclusions are leaded to the results of the pan-European sociological survey Eurobarometer and the FT-Harris survey ordered by the British newspaper The Financial Times , the newspaper-GZT.ru reports today.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was the first of the law enforcement agencies was the composition of its public council created by decree of the President of Russia . It included many famous cultural and business figures. The Ministry of Defense hopes that this "star" composition will exercise public control over the military, writes Kommersant .

Participants of the All -Russian Scientific Conference, which opened on Tuesday in Tomsk, “Distribute Mechanisms of Individual Adaptation” discuss the topic of human capabilities. According to the Associate Professor of the Department of Physiology of Human and Animals of Tomsk State University Natalya Mamonova, Novosibirsk scientists came to the conclusion that the people who are commonly called left-handed people were told by left- handed agencies.

For the whole year, Russian President Vladimir Putin was required in order to decide which of the non -governmental organizations operating in the country are worthy of obtaining material support from the state. The State Duma of last fall approved the allocation of 500 million rubles in 2006 to support the non -profit sector, but only on Monday Putin “painted” this money, writes “News Time” on Tuesday.

In early 2007, the State Duma will consider the issue of strengthening administrative responsibility for violation of traffic rules. This was announced on Tuesday at a press conference by the head of the Duma committee on constitutional law and state building Vladimir Pligin. So, according to him, according to the proposed standards, a person who does not have the right to drive a car will either be arrested or pay a fine of 25 minimum wages (2500 rubles.

Midfielder of Madrid Real Madrid David Beckham insured himself for a record amount of 100 million pounds (almost 200 million dollars). Thus, the British football player acquired the most expensive personal insurance policy in the history of sports. This policy covers injuries that Beckham can receive on the field, aesthetic defects, and serious diseases.