Polish customs officers detained Germany citizen for trying to smuggle the Moskvich car. The incident occurred in the border city of Gozhuv Velkopolsky (Lyubusky Voivodeship). The German was detained for trying to take out a 1954 Moskvich car. The motorist had no special permission. This document is needed if more than 25 years have passed since the release of the passenger vehicle.

Users of the paid reference and service service 009 got the opportunity to use the new service "to help the Orthodox" around the clock, RIA Novosti was told in the department of information and public relations of the Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS). The “service” to help the Orthodox allows believers to get the necessary psychological and informational assistance. The service is also intended to educate the population on religion issues, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Renault-Nissan leadership until 2009 does not plan to expand the alliance by inclusion of other world car manufacturers in it, said the head of the Alliance Carlos Gon at a press conference in Paris dedicated to summing up the financial results of the year of the French company. "We are focused at the work of each individual company in the alliance. Until 2009, we will not consider anything new," he said.

Human remains exhibited at the Internet agriculture , and later seized with law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg, are not the relics of the Orthodox saints, today RIA Novosti said the head of the antique department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region Vladislav Kirillov.

In Antalya, the popular youth resort Olympos almost completely burned down. None of the staff and vacationers were injured, ITAR-TASS reports citing local media. The resort was located far from the highway in the terrain closed mountains on the territory of the Olympos National Park in the county of the Kumluja. There were no hotel rooms - tourists settled in wooden bungalows, most of which were mounted on the branches of powerful relict trees. The fire occurred on Wednesday.

The works of the anonymous British artist - the master of graffiti, calling himself Banksy, became extremely popular during trading at the auction of works of contemporary artists Sotheby's in London. According to BBC , the painting "Bombing of Central England" depicting players in bowling, throwing a bomb on a grass field instead of balls, was sold for 102 thousand pounds (about 200 thousand dollars) to a collector who wished to remain unknown.

A group of employees of the police near Moscow was arrested on charges of extorting a bribe of 1 million rubles. As Interfax was told in the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region, the head of the department of the operational-search part of the Department for Combating the Tax Crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Moscow Region, police colonel Vitaly Zarudny, as well as a group of his subordinates of officers, were detained.

The Moscow Property Department filed a lawsuit to the arbitration court of the capital on the termination of the lease agreement and evict the Moscow Islamic University (MIU) from the building he occupied in the South-East District, on the passage of Kirov, 12. According to RIA Novosti, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Russian Council of Russia (SMR), the rector of MIUT Marat Murtazin, at the end of January the university was proposed to free the building until March 1, 2007.

The chief of police of the American city of Kevaskum (Wisconsin) Richard Nebel wrote out a fine for violating the rules of the road, reports the MSNBC channel. According to the American media, the attention of the police chief distracted the stopped garbage truck and he did not notice the standing school bus with the lighthouse.

Singapore ASCOTT Group and the Russian AMTEL Properties Development signed an agreement on the establishment of a fund of $ 100 million to create and maintain apartments network in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The fund is created on a parity basis. Experts note that the Russian market of elite residential real estate has not yet been formed. It is small and its volumes: the annual turnover is less than 10 million dollars.

20 people died, about 30 were injured as a result of explosions of two bombs committed on Thursday in Iraq, Interfax reports. Five more people were killed when attacking unknown people on a patrol in the city of Baakub. During the explosion of the mined car in the bazaar of Al-Azias, 70 kilometers southeast of Baghdad died 14 people. About 30 people were injured. Al-Azias is inhabited mainly by Shiites. Most of the dead are civilians.

As the scientists of New York established, computer games - contrary to very common opinion - not only do not harm the fragile vision of adolescents, but vice versa, they noticeably improve it. However, this applies only to "active" games, Russian New York reports.

The famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich, who is treated in one of the Moscow clinics, feels better, but it is still unknown when he is discharged from the hospital, the musician’s press secretary Natalya told Interfax. “Doctors assess the condition of Mstislav Leopoldovich as satisfactory,” said. She recalled that back in December the musician felt worse, and some time ago was hospitalized in one of the Moscow clinics. “Exacerbation happened back in December,” the press secretary said.

The formation of the new composition of the CEC is almost completed. The United Russia party is preparing to propose to the post of head of the CEC of the First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation of Valery Grebennikov. The newspaper Gzt.ru writes about this on Thursday.

A loud scandal flares up around archaeological work on the temple mountain in Jerusalem near the Al -Aksa mosque - one of the main shrines of Islam. Near the temple mountain - the places of the sacred for both the Jews and for Muslims, the construction of a pedestrian bridge leading to the Maghriba gate is planned - one of the entrances to the temple mountain.