The head of the DPRK Kim Jong Ira was congratulated by Russian artists. Messages about this appeared on Thursday in the DPRK newspapers and on the Korea Central Telegraph Agency), ITAR-TASS reports. The birthday of the DPRK head Kim Jong Ira falls on February 16, but almost since the beginning of the year the leader of the republic accepts congratulations and gifts from different parts of the globe.

In Pakistan, two lovers scored stones due to an illegitimate connection. Relatives of the murdered woman dealt with lovers. This was reported on Thursday by the Pakistani media. According to the representative of the Penjab province, the tragedy occurred the other day in the village of Dong Bong.

The famous Stylawo boxer Mike Tyson began treatment with alcohol and drug addiction. According to RIA Novosti, he is located in the Wonderland Country Center in Hollywood Hills. In addition, Tyson began attending outpatient classes for addicts and drugs in the suburbs of Los Angeles: treatment in Wonderland provides this opportunity. The former world champion was detained on December 29, 2006 on suspicion of drug storage and drunk driving.

In Moscow, the victim of the thieves was the adviser to the Secretary of State of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin Kirill Kosolapov. Advisor Borodin parked his Mercedes GL-500 near the house on Savrasov Street. When he went back a few minutes later, he saw that the right front glass was broken in the car, and a booth with money and documents disappeared from the cabin. Kosolapov urgently called the police, saying that 985 thousand rubles were in the stolen bag.

Due to the threat of the explosion, the aircraft with 133 passengers on board, RIA Novosti , made an unscheduled landing at the French city airport, due to the threat of explosion. The plane was performed by the Paris-Roman flight. Airbus A320 of the Italian airline landed at Lyon Airport at 11:30 local time. The signal that the threat of an explosion is possible on board the aircraft entered one of the control and dispatch points of Rome Airport.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan welcomed the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow was trying to help Baku and Yerevan in search of a solution to the Karabakh problem, Interfax reports. Recall that Putin at a press conference said that Russia is trying to help both countries find a mutually acceptable solution, but this should be the decision of the countries themselves.

"The strange lack of activity" of Orthodox believers in Russia can lead to the cessation of the teaching of the "foundations of Orthodox culture." This was warned by the Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate Archimandrite Gennady (Gogolev) in his report on the Youth section of the XV Christmas readings on January 31, Blagovet-Info reports.

The prosecutor's office of the Arkhangelsk region opened a new, third criminal case against the mayor of Arkhangelsk Alexander Donskoy, who announced his presidential ambitions in October 2006.

The consequences of the energy-starting in Sochi, where last day interruptions in electricity were observed due to heavy snowfalls, were eliminated on Thursday morning. The city is connected to energy supply and there are no more restrictions in the supply of electricity, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. "From 5:00, a gradual connection of the life support objects of the city of Sochi to the sources of electricity began.

The prosecutor's office of the Samara region arose a number of questions for the former mayor of Samara Georgy Limansky in cases of excess of official powers and official forgery.

The anniversary world tour of the famous singer Demis Roussos will begin with Moscow. According to ITAR-TASS, the organizers of the musician tour, on March 7, he will give a solo concert at the State Kremlin Palace. The new tour of Russo is the name "souvenir for your beloved." “You have a wonderful country, a year ago, when I came with the Ava Maria program, I was touched by the welcoming reception of Russians,” the organizers of the singer’s words cite.

Estonians are afraid of Russia's introduction of economic sanctions, writes the Estonian newspaper "Day after Day" , referring to his own survey of Estonian politicians and figures of the economic sphere. The economic pressure of Russia will cause the greatest damage not to large business, but to ordinary citizens, experts believe.

The Federal Agency for Cadastre Real Estate (Rosnedvisiness) was reassessing buildings and structures according to the new methodology, as a result of which taxes on this real estate should grow several times. So far, revaluation is carried out only in four test regions - the Tver, Kemerovo, Samara and Kaluga regions. The “test regime” will last until the end of 2008, after which all real estate in Russia will be reassessed according to the new methodology, writes “Independent Gazeta” .

The Moscow City Client Bank revoked a license, according to the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation . The bank is deprived of the right to work for non -fulfillment of banking legislation. "City Client" cannot meet the requirements of creditors, and the debt to the bank customers is about 21 million rubles. The license was not recalled for money laundering.

The New York Publishing Group Random House announced that on March 27 this year, the book of the Pope Benedict XVI "Jesus of Nazareth" was published in English. As the French Le Monde (full text on the website Inopressa.ru ) notes today, in the Italian press the book has already been called the Ratzinger Code. On the one hand, because the expected book of Pontiff should contribute to the dispute about the sources of Christianity, provoked by the polemic around the "Da Vinci code".