The head of the work on the creation of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, the physicist-physicist Abdul Kadir Khan was released on February 6 from house arrest. Recall that he has been under house arrest since 2004. It was reported that during the interrogations, Khan admitted to the transfer of nuclear secrets to Iran, DPRK, Libya and Malaysia. In June 2008, the scientist said that he was simply forced to speak with similar confessions.

Presidential amendments to the Law "On Political Parties" were submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Thursday. We are talking about proposals to reduce the party minimum necessary for registration of parties, as well as the rotation of the party leadership, reports Echo of Moscow .

The police of the American city of Los Angeles in the state of California arrested two Pimane sadists, who almost burned the sport club stripper alive. The victim managed to provide timely medical care, but the dancer is in intensive care with burns of more than half of the skin. The 27-year-old Rihanna Selin Tero-Odom and her 22-year-old accomplice Nataniel Marcus Petrillo were suspected of a terrible reprisal of the topless dancer.

The General Secretary of the United Nations Pan Hi Moon arrived on Friday with an unexpected visit to Baghdad. This was reported to the EFE agency in the Iraqi government. As it became known, immediately after the arrival of Pan Hi Moon went to meet with the country's president Jalyal Talabani. Later, negotiations of the UN Secretary General with Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika should be held, Interfax reports.

Instead of the famous Russian businessman and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov, his alicheeal of business and social activity Alexander Mikhailov became the new president of the FFR. The first vice president was Stanislav Pozdnyakov. On Friday, a reporting and election conference of the Russian fencing Federation (FFR) was held at the Russian Olympic Committee.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill on Friday removed the seals from the working offices of his predecessor Alexy II in two patriarchal residences in Moscow - in the Holy Danilov Monastery and Pure Lane. "His Holiness Cyril first entered the office of Alexy II ... to continue to work there as a new patriarch," the priest Vladimir Vigilyansky "Interfax-religion" quotes the head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Latvia, which is experiencing the strongest economic decline in the EU, may not be enough funds for the payment of unemployment benefits in 2009, a representative of the Ministry of Welfare of Ilon Yurshevsk told reporters on Friday. The level of unemployment in Latvia by the end of 2009 can grow to 14%, and the number of unemployed can reach 130 thousand people. In January 2009, the unemployment rate in Latvia was 8% or 87 thousand people. In total, 2.3 million people live in the republic.

The bill proving to tighten punishments for crimes related to pedophilia will be considered at the spring session of the State Duma. About this, Interfax reports, said the head of the Duma Committee on Legislation, Chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers Pavel Krasheninnikov. "At present, two alternative bills have been introduced - from" United Russia "and the LDPR.

On Friday in Moscow, a draw was the draw of the tennis quarterfinals of the Federation Cup between the national teams of Russia and China. On Saturday at 14:00 Moscow time, the meeting on the courts of the Olympic will open Svetlana Kuznetsova and Yan Ji, and then the rackets will be crossed by Elena Dementieva and Zhang Shuai. On Sunday, the game day will begin at 13:00. In single matches, Dementiev will play with Yan, and Kuznetsov with Zhang.

Rostekhnologi State Corporation, which received industrial state-KECTIVES last year worth at least 18-20 billion dollars, counts on financial support from the state. The head of the corporation, Sergey Chemezov, sent a letter to the corresponding request on January 29 addressed to the Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina. With a request to allocate a new property contribution by the state to capital, Kommersant writes.

A 68-year-old woman from South Korea by the name of Chkha failed an exam for a driver’s license. It is noteworthy that it was the 771st attempt to become a driver, reports Watuday with reference to AFP. Since 2005, Chha has been trying to pass this exam almost every working day and finally get a driver’s license - it needs a car for work. After another failure, the woman is not going to give up and will continue to master the basics of driving. “This is a record number of attempts.

Organizations of journalists expressed extreme concern in connection with the incident that occurred late in the evening of February 4, when the editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moskvy radio station Alexei Venediktov found an ax and a video camera aimed at his apartment under his door. They associate the find with the professional activities of the journalist and regard it as a serious threat.

Russia won the right to hold the European Beach Volleyball Championship in 2009. The corresponding decision was made on the Council of the European Confederation of Volleyball, whose headquarters are located in Luxembourg. According to ITAR-TASS, citing a source in the All-Russian Volleyball Federation , the continent championship will be held from September 16 to 20, 2009 in Sochi. It will take part in the 16 strongest male and female teams of the continent.

The disappearance of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian gas sector is a confiscation made by mistake. With such explanations, as ITAR-TASS reports, the Hamas movement made, promising to return the goods. This was stated today by the official representative of the Islamist Fausian Barkum. Recall that on Wednesday it became known that the Hamas police confiscated the UN warehouse in the gas sector of the blankets and food, which were intended for distributing the needleers of the enclave.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine canceled the Friday meeting, during which agreements were to be discussed concluded following the results of the Gas War with Russia. The reason was that the country's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko could not attend the meeting-she went to Munich for an international conference on security policy issues, ITAR-TASS reports.