In one of the largest shopping centers of the capital of Moldova - Jambo, an explosion rang out on Thursday evening. As a result of the incident, 20 people were injured, 8 of them were seriously injured, Moldova reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses argue that as a result of an emergency there is one dead, Interfax reports. Currently, firefighters, ambulances and rescuers are operating in the shopping center. The evacuation of the victims is carried out.

Inflation in Zimbabwe in December increased more than twice as much as the same month of 2006 and reached 66,212%. This is a new world record, Interfax reports with reference to the country's central statistical management. In November, consumer prices were 26,470%, Bloomberg quotes the management data. The cost of food and soft drinks in the last month of the year increased by 79,412%, inflation without products was 58,492%.

In the Volga Federal District, an investigation is conducted against five participants in a criminal group who issued car loans for people without a specific place of residence, while using false documents. This was reported in the press service of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Such a case is not a single case today? Over the past time, such incidents are recorded in many regions of Russia.

About 60 thousand Russians permanently residing abroad can vote abroad in the upcoming elections of the President of the Russian Federation. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the secretary of the CEC of Nikolai Konkin. In 12 Muslim countries, early voting will be held mainly on February 29. The choice of date is due to the fact that March 2, the day of the presidential election in Russia, is not a day off in Muslim countries.

The Iraqi family of nine people is shot north of Baghdad. According to the police, the militants broke into the house of the Iraqi family early in the morning, opened fire and shot the head of the family, wife and seven sons, ITAR-TASS reports. As it became known, the deceased family belonged to the influential Sunni clan of Auskriti, from which Saddam Hussein was a native of which. The police suggests that blood feud was the motive of the crime.

An emergency meeting of the SB on the Kosovo issue will open in New York, Interfax reports. The initiator of the emergency meeting of the Security Council was Serbia. Russia supported the initiative of Belgrade. On the eve of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he was not experiencing excessive optimism regarding the discussion of the UN SB of the problem of Kosovo, which achieves independence, but considers this meeting the right step.

On the eve of St. Valentine's Day, the City Hall of the Bulgarian village of Zabardo sent an invitation to France President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carle Bruni, Interfax reports with reference to the Bulgarian national radio. The mayor of the village Valentin Chernopokov noted that the trip to Zabardo is able to help the head of state and his wife strengthen marriage ties.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday refused to change the sentence of the so -called "Bitsev maniac". Thus, the complaint of Alexander Pichushkin was rejected, in which the convict asked the court to mitigate him a punishment from a life imprisonment of up to 25 years in prison, ITAR-TASS reports.

The aircraft of the Belarusian airline "Belavia" crashed at the Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan - 18 passengers who were on board and three crew members survived, four had to be hospitalized, the representative of the Main Directorate of Civil Aviation of Armenia (GUGA) told RIA Novosti .

Channel One will show 16 matches of the European Football Championship, which will be held for the future summer in the fields of Austria and Switzerland. This was reported by the newspaper "Soviet Sport" with reference to the head of the Directorate of Sports Programs of the channel Nikolai Malyshev. Among these 16 games there will be the final and the first meeting of the Russian national team at Euro 2008, in which the wards of Hus Hiddinka will play with a team of Spain on June 10.

On February 14 and 15, all American marine infantrymen in Japan will be forcibly given a course of lectures on moral issues, which emphasize the inadmissibility of sexual harassment to local residents. At lectures, soldiers and officers will be explained, in particular, that they are obliged to suppress the unlawful actions of their comrades, primarily attempts by sexual crimes. Such suggestions here with a mockery was already called a forced "gift for St. Valentine's Day," ITAR-TASS reports.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan today sentenced the leader of the Islamic Jamaat to life imprisonment. 16 gang members are sentenced to 3 to 12 years of imprisonment, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the public prosecutor Ruslan Hismetov, this gang was created in Chechnya in 1997. Its members underwent military training, participated in armed operations in Chechnya, then arrived in Tatarstan. According to the investigation, the militants are accused of killing 9 people, the embezzlement of people.

The candidate of the Optional Party "Orinats Erkir" Arthur Baghdasaryan is conducting intensive negotiations with another presidential candidate, the first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan about the unification of forces, the head of the pre-election headquarters of Baghdasaryan, the secretary of the parliamentary faction of the Egin Bisaryan, said on Thursday at a press conference. “We considered the possibility of uniting both in the first and second rounds.

The leadership of the National Basketball Association thinks over the possibility of creating in the 2010/11 season of the European division, where five new teams from the Old World will include on equal terms with the rest. “We recently talked about the expansion of the League to the East, but this is only one of the options for our European policy,” the newspaper Sport -Express quotes the Commissioner of the NBA David Stern.

{Pic_1 L} Lexus has officially announced the start of sales on the Russian market of its new LX 570 SUV, which was premiere of which took place as part of the New York Auto Show last year. The Japanese called the price of their new product: the cost of a car with a V8 engine with a volume of 5.7 liters with a capacity of 367 hp. And the six -speed "automatic" is from 3,450,000 rubles to 3,570,000 rubles.