An explosion occurred in the dormitory of Moscow State University on Shvernik Street in the southwest of Moscow. According to ITAR-TASS in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, one person suffered. “He was hospitalized with wounds,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The explosion occurred on the 13th floor of the second building of the Graduate Student house and the trainee of Moscow State University. According to preliminary data, an explosive device worked.

Banker’s lawyer Alexei Frenkel, suspected of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozlov, says that he is hindered in a meeting with his client. “Neither on Friday, nor Saturday, nor on Sunday, I could not meet with Frenkel in the isolator. Here the score is for minutes. We cannot fulfill the court decision and collect the necessary evidence,” said RIA Novosti Igor Trunov, representing the interests of Frenkel.

The right -centric French "Union for the Popular Movement" officially nominated on Sunday the Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy as a presidential candidate. The "Union for the Popular Movement" includes the current president of France Jacques Shirak. Earlier, the presidential candidate was nominated by the Socialist Party of France. She became Ruayal, Avil.

A resident of Stavropol, who was on the wanted murder, resisted the police officers who intended to check the documents from him, a source in the UVD of the Potigore district of Stavropol told Interfax. "Last Saturday, when trying to verify the documents from a man in the Sessentuk village for police officers, fire from automatic weapons was opened," the source said on Sunday.

Passenger aircraft "Domodedovo Airlines" (DAL), whose flight was executed under the flag of the Croair Airlines (both airlines are part of the Air Union alliance) and was detained in the UAE, already flew to Moscow, Olga Bykova, the head of the press, told Interfax. Earlier, the press secretary of the Krasaire airline Natalya Burmistrova told Interfax that the IL-62, flight 2412, took a flight along the Route of the Seychelles-Moscow with an intermediate landing in Sharja (united Arab emirates).

President Viktor Yushchenko today confirmed the intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court regarding the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted by the Parliament. He stated this at a press conference in Mukachevo.

Armed security will be assigned to witnesses in the Litvinenko case - a special forces guarding the Prime Minister and members of the Great Britain, the British newspaper Telegraph writes on Sunday. It is reported that this security measure is necessary "to protect witnesses from a possible threat to their life by Russian investigators." Representatives of Russia plan to interrogate about 100 witnesses in the Litvinenko case in the UK.

The Russian boxer Sultan Ibragimov in battle for the world of the world in the Superezhany Weight category according to the World Boxing Organization (WBO) against the current world champion of American Shannon Briggs, which will be held as part of a large boxing show on March 10 in New York in the legendary Madison Square Garden, will have significant advantages.

Russian "walruses" are going to arrange festive bathing in Strogino for baptism, said Vladimir Grebenkin, chairman of the hardening and sports winter voyage of Russia. "Bathing will be held at noon, from January 18 to January 20, in the Moscow River, in Strogino, near the Trinity-Slykovo pier, next to the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A font, decorated with Christmas branches, will be very beautiful," Grebenkin said on Sunday on Sunday.

The disease of the soldier in the 21st separate engineering company of the Leningrad Military District of the ordinary novel Rudakov is not associated with external physical influences and tireless relations.

In Spain, about 250 thousand people took part in demonstrations against the recent explosion in Madrid, organized by the Basque separatist organization. The explosion occurred at the parking lot of the 4th terminal of the Madrid airport on December 30. As a result of this campaign, two citizens of Ecuador who came to Spain to earn money were killed. Several people were injured, reports the Air Force .

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev and the famous French fashion designer Pierre Carden met today to discuss the conditions of cooperation and see the sketchs of sportswear, which the master intends to wear the Russian national team at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. According to Carden, who has a sincere sympathy for Russia, his old dream was to create a sports form, combining professional properties with elegance and style.

Checking the banking and credit accounts of suspects in terrorism and espionage of the US residents, the Pentagon does not violate their rights. This was announced today in an interview with FOX television company Vice President Richard Chaini. "The Ministry of Defense is doing this because there are hundreds of objects in the United States, which can become the potential goal of terrorists," he said.

Two people died in Sweden as a result of a hurricane wind, which fell on the territory of Scandinavia last night, ITAR-TASS reports. The victims of the hurricane were a 9-year-old boy and 60-year-old men, noted in the Swedish police. Due to the strong wind today, the railway message between Oslo and the West of Sweden was temporarily suspended. Storm winds affected the western and southern parts of the Norwegian coast, as well as the southwestern territory of Sweden.

In Thailand, an investigation of a large railway accident was launched, which occurred early on Sunday morning in the area of ​​the Khuakhin resort city on the coast of the Gulf of Siamese about 180 kilometers south of the capital of the country of Bangkok. Two passenger trains collided there, AP reports, referring to representatives of the railway.