In one of the villages of the Amur Region, the owners of the apartment that had owed the apartment of the local branch of Energos, who tried to de -energize their housing. The press service of Amurenergo told Interfax that a criminal case was instituted against the aggressive couple on the fact of causing bodily harm to an official during the performance of official duties. " Family debt amounted to 7 thousand rubles.

The Central Electoral Commission of Israel is completing the counting of the votes filed by the residents of the country in yesterday's elections. 99% of the ballots were processed, it remains to take into account the votes of soldiers and diplomats outside Israel, so the calculation is planned to finish on Thursday, writes Jerusalem Post .

Today's Izvestia in the article "Pedagogical OMON" is written about a new action "walking together." The organization plans = work == in Chechnya with a rotational method of twenty teachers from all over Russia. = Every month, teachers will change. = The nearest = analogue of such a scheme = V work in Chechnya of representatives = power structures. According to representatives of "going", there are no end of those who want to go on a pedagogical business trip.

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov stated at today's press conference that his department has plans to evacuate Russian specialists from Iraq. Ivanov said that = if the situation around = Iraq is aggravated, then the government will do everything necessary to ensure = safety of 700 Russian citizens working there, ITAR-TASS reports. At the same time, he, of course, noted that Russia will do everything in its power so that there is no war.

Leonid Kuchma was unanimously elected chairman of the Council of Heads of State = CIS at a meeting of the leaders of states in Kyiv. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held this post for several previous years, RIA Novosti reports.

Children of unreasonably repressed for political reasons, who remained at a minor age without the care of one or both parents, from now on, receive the status of victims of political repression in Russia. Today, the Council of the Federation Council introduced the appropriate changes to the law on the rehabilitation of victims of political repressions. The basis for this decision was the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

Today, the Federation Council reaffirmed the powers of Sergei Mironov, a member of the upper house from the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, confirming him as chairman of the upper house. 159 people spoke in favor of confirming Mironov’s powers and approving Mironov as chairman of the Federation Council, two were against (a simple majority of votes was necessary for election), Interfax reports. The question of nominating alternative candidates was not even raised.

The political commission of PACE, which is engaged in the preparation of the resolution of the Assembly on the situation in Chechnya, rejected almost all fundamental amendments to the document that the Russian delegation proposed. In particular, the main requirement of Russia was not fulfilled: the recommendation was not removed from the text to transfer the referendum to Chechnya (planned for March 23).

In Georgia, on the railway, he was blown up and broke from the bridge into the river = composition with oil. According to Akachi Chkhaidze, Director of the Georgian Railway, = The attack occurred = last night near the village of Vasisubani Samtredsky district. According to Chhaidze, the fire that flashed after the explosion was already extinguished and the repairmen began to restore the destroyed section of the road.

The Ukrainian An-140 crashed in Iran due to the pilot error. This is the conclusion of the Interstate Aviation Committee, which investigated the circumstances of the disaster, reports RIA Novosti.

As you know, two Jews equal three parties. The creation of the Israelite nation helped to eradicate many features of galut (exile; in other words, life in dispersion), but not this one. The Russian Central Election Commission is afraid that after the introduction of the seven percent barrier, it will have to ensure that there are at least 4 factions in the State Duma - the Israeli Central Election Commission has nothing to fear in this sense.

In the place of the crash of the railway in Eastern Georgia, 120 tons of oil spilled in Eastern Georgia. As RIA Novosti specified in the Emergency Situations and Civil Defense Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, as a result of the collapse of the bridge, three tanks with oil transported to the Black Sea port of Batumi spilled into the Hevisskali River.

Yesterday, the Council of Europe and the Russian Foreign Ministry agreed to extend for another six months of mandates of the experts of the SE in the bureau of the special representative of the Russian President for Human Rights in Chechnya.

The main event of the past day was Putin's meeting with Kuchma. “As soon as the practical work began, the artistic whistle immediately stopped,” V, one quoted the newspapers of the words of our president, discussing the problem of the Russian-Ukrainian gas consortium.

The dollar rate is the same - 31.80 rubles. On the Forex market, the dollar is again cheaper in relation to other leading currencies. The situation in world stock markets has noticeably deteriorated. The reason for the growth of investors's nervousness is J. Bush's aggressive position in relation to Iraq. In the Russian stock market, things are good - the RTS index by 15:00 increased by 0.8% to 345.6 points. Review of the Finmarket agency