In the state Hermitage, an exhibition of two paintings is opened on Wednesday. Only two canvases are presented - options for the same picture of the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens "Statue of Ceres". It depicts the statue of the Hellenistic goddess of fertility, which Rubens saw in the collection of Borgez in Rome. The director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky called the exhibition intended for "gourmets". It will last until June 2007.

In the east of Moscow, police officers detained the apartment thief, who was stuck in a metal grill bent by him during the robbery. According to RIA Novosti in the information department of the Moscow Main Department of Internal Affairs, the offender was caught the night before the police outfit while trying to remove the looted values ​​from a residential building on the main street.

In the State Duma on Wednesday, various grades were made by the so-called "disagreement" recently held in St. Petersburg. So, the representative of the Fair Russia faction, Alexander Chuev, said that the Parliamentary Security Committee should provide deputies with information on the legality of the actions of law enforcement agencies in the suppression of this action. On March 3, in the center of St.

The bill in support of the reception of new members, in particular, Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia, adopted the House of Representatives of the US Congress on Tuesday. He was approved without voting. A similar bill is now under consideration by the Senate.

In the Chita region, the police are looking for the killers of the grandmother and grandson. On March 5, 2007, the bodies of the housewife of the apartment and her 19-year-old grandson were discovered in the apartment of a 5-story residential building in the city of Hilka. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under paragraph "a" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code (murder of two or more persons).

On the festive day of March 8, warming will begin in the metropolitan region: the cloudy will decrease, and the temperature will increase to 2-4 degrees of heat, Interfax was told in the Hydrometeorological Department of Moscow and the Moscow Region on Wednesday. In the following days, the capital will become even warmer. Abundant precipitation is not expected. By Sunday in the capital it will grind strongly. With variable cloudy, the air warms up to plus 3-8 degrees.

On the eve of March 8, the Italian authorities "For the humiliation of female dignity" banned the advertisement of the new collection of famous Milan stylists Dolce and Gabbans (D&G). Previously, a similar ban on advertising D&G products was imposed in neighboring Spain.

The first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin lost documents for the right to own two elite plots of land in the Odintsovo district with a total area of ​​4 hectares and worth about $ 40 million. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda , this could happen back in 2006, but the loss was discovered only the other day. Boris Nikolaevich decided to contact the police.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov today resigned the mayor of the Terrible Movsar Temirbayev, Muslim Khuchiev was appointed the new head of the city administration, who had previously acted as the first deputy head of the presidential apparatus and the Government of the Chechen Republic. “Today we need new heads with new ideas. This is Muslim Khuchiev. He managed to attract about 1 billion rubles of investment in the restoration of Grozny,” the head of the republic said.

At least two US residents woke up today with millionaires, breaking a record jackpot in the Mega Millions lottery - $ 370 million. There is a possibility that there will be more winners, since not all results have been processed in California. One of the winning tickets was bought in New Jersey, and the other in Georgia. California results are delayed due to the large volume of tickets sold. Indeed, a record draw caused a huge excitement.

For many Americans, the victory of the former first lady Hillary Clinton in the upcoming elections in the United States can become a "triumph of feminism." The prospect of receiving a representative of the weaker sex at the head of state (even with a brilliant track record - a graduate of Yale University, a lawyer, a senator from New York) is not too much. Hillary did not forgive the reform of medical insurance developed under President Clinton - even democrats refused to vote for the document.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation opened a case against two federal state healthcare institutions that are part of the Rospotrebnadzor system, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the city of Moscow and the FSUZ Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Moscow Region , the official website of the antimonopoly department reports.

The sound made by a pyrotechnic charge shooting a pillow in the car can lead to partial hearing loss in 17% of people who heard it. This conclusion was reached by researchers of one of the research centers in the United States. Unlike the sound made by a computer or washing machine, the sound made when the airbag is triggered, and therefore is especially harmful to hearing, reports livsciene.com . After testing on several dozen car models in the United States, Dr.

The original way to increase the indicators of his work was found by the traffic police officer of the Krasnoyarsk district of the Astrakhan region Rakhim Khojaev. He wrote out fines for people, finding their surnames almost in the telephone reference book, and he simply invented some violators. "The audit was started on the initiative of the district prosecutor,"? Denis Mironenko, senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk district.

Before the very closing of the transfer window in Russia, the Moscow football club Lokomotiv intends to draw a loud deal. For 14 million euros, railroad workers want to purchase a 23-year-old Ajax striker and the Holland team of class Jan Huntelara, whom the experts have already christened with new Roud Van Nastelro.