In the forensic center of the Tver region, the examinations of the Volkswagen car of the journalist Gennady Bachinsky, who died in the accident, told Interfax on Friday a source in the regional Department of Internal Affairs. The version of the "external impact" on the Bachinsky car is confirmed, the source said. Earlier, that in the accident was the third participant - a truck hiding from the scene of an accident - said Bachinsky friend Sergey Stillavin.

The ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who announced on January 29 a hunger strike in the Chita pre-trial detention center, wrote a statement in the name of the head of the investigative insulator, which said that his refusal to eat was not related to the conditions of detention, Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Semyon Rosenberg said on Friday.

The loud scandal erupted in the UK when a group of scientists demanded to deprive the famous British biologist Ian Wilmut, who is considered the "father" of the cloned sheep Dolly, the knightly title and the right to be called Sir. In a special letter addressed to the Queen of Great Britain, Elizabeth II, Wilmut's colleagues claim that he “did not play a significant role” in Dolly's cloning, and ask the queen to reconsider her decision.

The world -famous architects are increasingly designing private houses, but in these works they seek to preserve their corporate identity, write "Vedomosti" . Records of architects creating private houses include famous celebrities with loud projects: Rem Kolkhas (library in Seattle), Daniel Libeskind (project of the Freedom Tower on the site of the blown up of the WTC in New York), Richard Mayer (Museum of the Altar of the World in Rome).

On February 18, Russian Marat Safin will hold an exhibition match against the ex-first racket of the world of American, American Samprase. This indicative duel will take place before the opening of the SAP Open tournament in San Jose, where our tennis player received a Wild Card. During the Samprase, it will be a kind of repetition of the final of the 2000 US Open Championship, in which Marat won three parties.

The foreign press on Friday comments on the next event related to the coming elections of the President of Russia on March 2. On the eve of Dmitry Medvedev, the main favorite of the presidential race, who, according to the survey, will gain about 75% of the votes , the site has appeared. According to The Independent , Medvedev is doomed to win, without even bothering himself to visit the television units with other candidates that he refused .

In Germany, one of the Mercedes cars, which the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the head of the Soviet state, Leonid Brezhnev, traveled from the hammer at the auction. In good condition, the 1966 limousine, which returned to his homeland in July 1991 from the government car park under the circumstances, was sold on February 1 at a auction in Potsdam (land Brandenburg) for 103,600 euros. Its original price was 53.5 thousand euros.

Forbes published a list of the largest developers in Russia in the February issue of its Russian edition. The ranking was made in accordance with the annual rental income that properties owned by a particular company are capable of generating. The first place in the ranking was taken by the Swedish IKEA. The total area of ​​the Mega shopping centers that the company is building and opening in Russia is currently 1.3 million square meters. meters.

The Russian biathletist Svetlana Sleptsova can receive the first gold medal in the career from the stage of the World Cup in the framework of a specially organized ceremony. She was the second in the sprint at the World Cup in Rupolding January 11, but the winner of the race Fink Kais Varis was convicted of doping.

The five hierarchs of the Elladsky Orthodox Church intend to put their candidacy in the elections of the head of the Synod - the Archbishop of Athenian and All Hellas after the death of the previous archbishop of Christodula . This information has been distributed today by Greek state television with reference to church sources, RIA Novosti reports.

Since February 4, 2007, the Bank of Russia has been raising the refinancing rate for the first time in almost ten years - to 10.25% from the current 10.00%. This was announced by the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank.

The legendary LED Zeppelin group will soon announce the beginning of a tour that can become the largest rock music in the history of the history, writes The Daily Mail . Guitarist Jimmy Page said that the team is ready to give a series of concerts around the world after the group members deal with solo projects .

Microsoft Corporation will release the first update package (SP1) for Windows Vista February 27, 2008, PC Advisor reports. The presentation will take place in Los Angeles in one of the conference of the halls, where the new Windows Server 2008 operating system will also be presented. Microsoft reported that SP1 for VISTA will contain only all the updates and several corrections in the system, new functions will not be added.

The famous French writer and journalist Frederick Begbeder was arrested for storing cocaine, France Info reports on Friday, citing a source close to the investigation. The detention occurred on the night of Monday on Tuesday in the eighth district of the French capital. After the interrogation, he was released, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the United States, the prison authorities created unbearable conditions of detention for a pedophile, sentenced to 74 lifelong terms in a row. The prisoner asks him to return him to a prison society. The 42-year-old pizzeria manager Michael Devlin is serving 74 lifelong terms, being accused of abduction and rape of 11-year-old show Hornbek and 13-year-old Ben Ounby. The first of these abductions was committed in 2002, and the second - 5 years later, the CNN.com television company reports.