Rabbi Moshe Arya Friedman, one of the leaders of the ultra -religious antisionic course of the "Netota Card", known for his kiss with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadjad, was beaten by a group of religious Jews, led by the founder of the Organization of Zak ("Ziuy Kurbanot Ason", a voluntary organization, occupying the identification of the bodies of the dead in the attacks and Disaster - approx.

The first monument in world history, dedicated to the Russian word, will be erected in May this year in Belgorod. The Governor of the Belgorod Region Evgeny Savchenko made the initiative to establish the monument. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, the chairman of the board of the Union of Writers of Russia Valery Ganichev said this.

The prosecutor's office collected evidence of dozens of murders committed by the so -called "Bitsev maniac" Alexander Pichushkin. As the Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin stated in an interview with the newspaper Gzt.ru , published on Monday, 50 episodes of the criminal activity of Pichushkin are currently significantly established. According to some episodes, the identity of the dead is currently continuing, Semin noted.

The suicide bomber was blown up on Monday night in an Internet cafe in the largest city of Morocco Casablanca. According to law enforcement agencies, the criminal died, three people were injured. Two young people entered the Internet cafe and, having gained access to the computer, opened the page of one of the Internet sites that promote terrorism, ITAR-TASS reports.

France President Jacques Shirak will not run for the third presidential term at the upcoming elections of the head of state in April-May. He stated this on Sunday evening, speaking on television with an appeal to the nation. The 74-year-old head of state said that after a 12-year stay in the Champs Elysees, he would not seek a "new mandate." Jacques Shirak promised to express his support to any of the presidential candidates, but expressed a number of specific wishes.

A rare Porsche car, made on the personal order of Adolf Hitler, may go down in the history of auction transactions, as one of the most expensive lots. The Fuhrer racing car, produced in 1939 in two copies, was put up at the Christie auction and estimated by experts of $ 12 million, Metro.uk reports. Having become a chancellor in 1939 and, proclaiming in Germany the era of technological progress, Hitler gave an order to conduct a competition for the best design for a racing car.

The founder, president and main owner of the Uralsib financial corporation Nikolai Tsvetkov leaves the banking business to trade and real estate, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

The exchange crisis cost $ 8.9 billion developing markets, the Vedomosti newspaper writes with reference to Emertfolio Fund Research (EPFR) experts. Due to panic in China, for a week from February 28 to March 7, only $ 4.1 billion flowed from Asian funds. The outflow of all funds of the shares of developing countries amounted to $ 8.9 billion (2.7% of all assets) is a record indicator for 7 years. There are no fundamental reasons for a protracted crisis, analysts are sure.

In Tehran, on Monday, in the afternoon, a new stage of negotiations of Russian-Iranian experts begins in the afternoon at the completion of work at the nuclear power plant in the Bushera.

In China, the house of the eldest son of the DPRK leader Kim Jong Ira was robbed, the Reuters agency said on Monday with reference to the South Korean press. Referring to unnamed sources in the power structures of the Republic of Korea, one of the South Korean newspapers reported that the attackers robbed the house of the eldest son of the North Korean leader Kim Chen Nama, who was located in the Chinese special administrative district of Macau.

In Moscow, the opening of the next season of the Encounter automobile and adventure games took place. The current minose season consists of 7 stages, according to which the winner, who scored the largest number of points, will receive a prize of $ 7 thousand. Last weekend, the capital was submitted to 24 teams consisting of people who were already tired of ordinary street races and they decided to combine night adrenaline with guessing various logical tasks.

The situation with human rights in Russia is unsatisfactory, but there is progress. Such conclusions came the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin, having finished preparing the annual report "On the situation on human rights in Russia for 2006". According to the Gzt.ru newspaper , in his 400-page report, Vladimir Lukin characterizes the general situation with human rights in Russia as unsatisfactory.

The meeting of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' and the Pope should become the result of overcoming fundamental disagreements in the relations of two churches, and not to be only protocol in nature, said the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate under European international organizations, Bishop of Vienna and Austrian Hilarion.

In his last race in his career at the World Cup in Holmenkollen, the legendary French biathlete Rafael Poare took only the second place, losing in the dramatic struggle at the finish by the equally eminent Norwegian Olea Einar Bjornalen for only one second. To determine the winner, I had to resort to a photorenic. The third with a lag in three seconds was German Sven Fisher. The best of the Russians, Ivan Cherezov, graduated from the fourth race.

The head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor), Gennady Kurzenkov, said in a telegram that the Challenger-850 aircraft, an accident at Vnukovo Airport in February 2007, took off with a faulty management. "According to preliminary data, the take -off was performed with a faulty mechanism for managing the front line of the chassis.