At the auction in Istanbul for the record for Turkey, the amount of the Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky "Sailing off the coast of Crimea" was sold for Turkey. The trading organizer of the Turkish company Alif Art does not name the name of the buyer, but, as well -informed sources note, a certain Russian collector acquired a picture for $ 1.5 million.

Chinese intelligence is one of the special services most active in the United States. Following it is Cuban, Russian and Iranian intelligence services. This was announced by the chief coordinator of counterintelligence in the US government, writes on Tuesday The Washington Times (full text on the website Inopressa.ru ).

Recently approved as President Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov ordered the liquidation of five checkpoints in the Terrible and suburb of the Chechen capital.

The Yaroslavl City Prosecutor's Office sent a criminal case to the Krasnoperekopsky District Court against the former head of the Krasnoperekopsky district, accused of rape and sexual relations with adolescents.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad called on the Palestinian radical movement "Hamas" to continue resistance to Israel. He made such a statement on Tuesday at a meeting with the chairman of the Hamas Politburo Haled Mashal, who arrived on March 6 on a two -day visit to the Iranian capital.

The Moscow Basmanny Court on Tuesday, as expected, extended for two months at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office the term of arrest to the banker Alexei Frenkel, accused of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov.

On Tuesday, on the football fields of Europe, the first four teams participating in the 1/4 finals in the Champions League will be determined. Matches will begin at 22:45 Moscow time. If not central, then the most spectacular of them is expected in Liverpool, where the club of the same name will accept the Spanish Barcelona.

The wife of the National Stratgies Washington Washington Company and the Russian-American relations of Paul Joyal announced that her husband was not robbed, on Tuesday, Ar. During a short interview, Elizabeth Joyal informed reporters that earlier information that her husband had been abducted by a wallet and a portfolio is false. At the same time, she noted that she did not know what could cause an attack on him. “We actually have no idea what was the cause (attack).

In Alaska, an angry moose knocked out a helicopter. The incident occurred last Saturday, when a biologist from the nature protection department Kevin Wight conducted a study in the framework of calculating the number of moose near the small settlement of Gustavus with a population of 459 people and shot an ampoule with sleeping pills in one of the animals.

The UN Drug and Crime Specialists published a report on Monday, in which they warned of a sharp increase in drug production in Afghanistan. In their opinion, in 2007, Afghanistan can put even more opium poppy on the world market than in the “record” in 2006 , when, according to the US State Department, the production of this product used in the production of heroin increased by 25%, BBC reports.

The Western countries, which initiated a new draft resolution of the UN Security Council on the Iranian nuclear problem, achieve a "phased and gradual" intensification of pressure on Tehran. On Monday, the European Troika - the UK, France and Germany - with the support of the United States presented the details of the new project at the unofficial consultations in the format of five permanent members of the UN and Germany Security Council.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, on Tuesday, recognized the conclusion to the lawful conclusion on the presence of signs of the corpus delicti in the actions of the ex-Senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmyan, accused by the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation of embezzlement of $ 1.5 million using his official position, while defering a complaint of protection.

In the new international rating of compliance with property rights, Russia takes 63rd place. According to this indicator, Russia was in the lower part of the list of the 70 largest countries of the world. According to experts, in Russia the best leaves for all the components of the property protection index: political and judicial situation, protection of rights to material and intellectual property.

Two explosions thundered on Tuesday in the center of the Shiite procession in the Iraqi city of El Hill, 100 km north of Baghdad. As a result of the double terrorist attack, at least 90 pilgrims were killed, over 150 were injured, reports Associated Press. According to the local police, the two suicide bombers were driven by explosive devices in the middle of a group of pilgrims, which were headed to the Cherbela, which were holy for the Shiites.

Last weekend in the UK, the most expensive accident in the world occurred. Bugatti Veyron crashed there, worth more than 1 million 600 thousand dollars. According to the British policemen, The Sun , Supercar, who there are 12 pieces for all the British Islands, moved under heavy rain at a speed of about 160 kilometers per hour along the section of the suburban road, where the speed is limited to 60.