In the Indonesian capital, the tour of the Moscow Regional State Theater "Russian Ballet" begins. 48 members of the troupe arrived in Jakarta. The tour of the “Russian ballet” in Indonesia will begin on Thursday evening a gala concert in one of the best hotels in Jakarta “Mulia”, and from February 23 to February 25, the troupe will give six performances of ballet “Sleeping Beauty” on the stage of the capital's cultural center named after Ismail Marzuki.

In the city of New Lyalya, the Sverdlovsk Region, the criminal investigators detained a group of drug dealers, including a local district police officer.

In Makhachkala today, at about 6:00 Moscow time, the mullah of the quarterly mosque on Nagornaya Street was killed by unknown people. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the duty unit of the Makhachkala International Affairs. According to the police, "53-year-old Dagira Kachaev was found by parishioners in a wash room before the prayer." The criminals shot the clergyman twice in the head and disappeared. At the crime scene, two sleeves from the Makarov pistol were discovered.

AvtoVAZ OJSC increased the warranty on front -wheel drive cars Lada Samara, Lada 110, Lada Kalina and Lada Priora up to 3 years or 50 thousand kilometers (depending on what will come earlier). This is stated in the message of the company entering ITAR-TASS. Warranty obligations in relation to all -wheel drive and rear -wheel drive cars LADA remained the same: 2 years or 35 thousand kilometers (foreign manufacturers usually give a guarantee of 100 thousand kilometers with a similar time - approx.

Russians Mikhail Yuzhny and Nikolai Davydenko reached the quarterfinals of the Tournament of the International series of the Professional Tennisian Association in Dutch Rotterdam, whose prize fund is more than 750 thousand euros.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia asks the Ministry of Health and Social Development to approve the form of a certificate that medical organizations give to citizens when sex change, RIA Novosti reports. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation receive appeals of citizens and registry offices about arising problems when amendments to the record of acts of civil status due to sex change.

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin predicts a further drop in the dollar. “The dollar will fall, the question is how fast,” the head of the Ministry of Finance said, on Wednesday February 21, speaking at a lecture at the Higher School of Economics. Kudrin also said that, according to new data, in 2005, in Russia, not an influx was observed, but an outflow of capital. In general, the minister predicts positive changes in the Russian economy.

In the archives of the British Film Institute, an previously unknown film industry was discovered by the famous actress Audrey Hepburn, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the British media. This is a video without a sound lasting one minute. According to experts, he may be the earliest of the preserved filming of the actress, which is often called the most charming in the history of world cinema.

Web giant yahoo !! , which is not only the search engine, but also the source of news for many of its users, decided to submit information in an original way. As reports The Hollywood Reporter , in the near future the news on the resource will "sing" in pop genres on the resource. Official representative of Yahoo! He refused to clarify the details, but confirmed that we are talking about the ODD News undround project.

The cancellation of the amendment of the Jackson-Vanik, which limits the trade between Russia and the USA, would have become a good signal for the development of Russian-American relations, said Igor Ivanov, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Thursday.

In the tone of his speech in Munich, President Vladimir Putin showed that Russia has become different and the attitude towards it from the West should also change. This opinion was expressed by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Yastrzhembsky, who is the special representative of the head of state on the development of relations with the European Union.

The representative of the paramilitary wing of the Hamas "" Brigade of the Al-Kassam "Abu UBEDA Brigade said that" a truce with the Zionist enemy, from our point of view, is over. " This statement was made in connection with the liquidation of the "field commander" of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization Mahmud Ibrahim Kasam Abida Abu Al-Jahim, who organized the Tel Aviv Central Business Station, which was prevented by Israeli special services, reports Newsru ISRAL .

On the streets of the Ukrainian city of Lviv appeared posters with a slogan: "Matyuki to turn you into Muscovites" with the inscription "... They do not swear in an oblast ...

On the coast of Indonesia on Thursday morning, a passenger steam caught fire, on board of which there are more than 350 people. The Indonesian warship arrived at the place of the incident, which the majority of the victims saved. As a result of the fire, at least 16 people died, even more than a dozen are considered missing, reports Ar. Eyewitnesses saw how a woman jumping from a burning ferry with a half -year -old child in her arms disappeared from a burning ferry.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to consider the lawsuit of the Yabloko party regarding the decision of the CEC of the Russian Federation, which confirmed the legitimacy of the resolution of the city election commission of St. Petersburg, which refused Yabloko to participate in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the city.