On Tuesday, the supporters of Dmitry Rogozin did not appear at the next meeting of the Rodina parliamentary faction. Instead of 38 deputies, only 17 parliamentarians were present at the meeting, who had two more power of attorney for voting. Deputy Head of the faction Sergey Baburin said that he has not yet known the reasons for the failure to appear at the meeting of the faction of part of its members.

The head of the Iraq's Provisional Civil Administration Paul Bremer said that the United States would not allow the laws of Islam to become the basis of the new Iraqi constitution. It is reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the Associated Press. As Bremer said at a press conference in Karbel, in the new Constitution Islam will be enshrined in the official state religion, he will be a “ideological source of legislation”, but not its main basis.

The bus, blown up in Jerusalem on January 29, will be sent to the Netherlands, where it will be installed near the building of the International Court in The Hague. On February 23, the consideration of the case of the legitimacy of the construction of the “dividing wall” between Israel and the Palestinian territories will begin here.

Today, the operation to search for bodies or fragments of the bodies of the dead as a result of the tragedy in the transval water park will continue. It is expected that it will last about two days. Once again, the supply of Russian gas to Belarus should be stopped from today again. It was up to this point that they were supposed to be delivered, by agreement with the company “Trans Nafta”, 360 million cubic meters of fuel at the previous price.

Olga Weinstein The theme of the male body, its cultural and ideological interpretations, the problem of fashion and style, the analysis and deconstruction of the myth associated with it, is the topic of the article by Olga Weinstein, published in the pilot, the "zero" issue of the magazine " letters ". At the beginning of the new millennium, men open previously unknown forbidden opportunities. Intensively erotic images with a homosexual shade? Look at the advertisements of Jeans Kalvin Klein.

** Themes of the day ** In domestic political life, the Mass Media continues to attract the Rodina block, which has finally split last weekend due to the inability of its leaders S. Glazyev and D. Rogozin to agree on the presidential election and divide the party brand. Yesterday they assured journalists that they would not transfer their political disagreements to the faction, but in the field of part -time the struggle would continue. So, S.

In Russia, the number of youth Nazi groups is growing rapidly. These are the data of the report of the “Moscow Human Rights”, which was at the disposal of “new news” . In Moscow, the Skinlegion, Russian branch BH (Blood Honor-the Nazi Organization prohibited in Germany) and the United Brigades-88 (OB-88) are currently operating. The number of groups is 200–250 people. And taking into account many small groups and gangs, the number of skins in Moscow and Moscow Region is 5-5.5 thousand people.

** Federal Assembly ** Council of the Federation Anatoly Saltykov was appointed representative of the administration of the Novosibirsk region in the Federation Council. State Duma First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma , Alexander Zhukov , said that ... In the near future, the State Duma is expected by serious tax initiatives of the government regarding the change in the rate of UST, VAT and other taxes. In particular, the UST rate can be reduced to about 20%.

Presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin takes place in London a medical examination and takes tests. Primary processing of Rybkin’s tests did not show the presence of narcotic or psychotropic substances in his body. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of his election headquarters Ksenia Ponomareva. “Now the processing of the tested tests is still ongoing,” Ponomarev told Interfax.

The dollar exchange rate to the ruble has not changed - 28.49 rubles. But the pressure on the dollar is growing. The euro rate grew by 25 kopecks, to 36 rubles 56 kopecks. The Russian stock market reached a record marks: at 17.30 the RTS index amounted to 652.9 points (growth of 1.2%). This is the absolute record of the index in the entire history of calculation.

The organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will allocate 1 million euros for Georgia for the parliamentary elections, which will be held on March 28, 2004. The agreement on this was signed today by the Minister of Finance of Georgia Zurab Nogaidi and the head of the OSCE mission in Georgia Riv Rive, RIA Novosti reports. According to Nogaidel, the funds provided by the funds will go to pay salaries to employees of district election commissions.

The prevailing of the so -called “power organ of liberals” is impossible. So believes the State Duma deputy Mikhail Zadornov. The “liberal power body” does not fit into the principles of functionality according to which state bodies are built. This cannot be, ”he said in an interview with Polit.ru. “I do not know that Gref’s department made such an initiative, and the publication in Kommersant is not clear what is based on, and the news of the sucker is from the finger,” Zadornov continued.

The operation to search for bodies or fragments of the bodies of those killed as a result of the tragedy in the transval-park aqua complex in Yasenevo will last about two days. This was announced on Monday evening by an informed source at the headquarters for organizing rescue operations. He explained this by the fact that after the final clearing of the airborne blocks, "all voids, pockets, basements, access to which were difficult after a roof collapse," Interfax reports.

The Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko will become the most honorable guest at Pompeznaya celebrations planned for February 19 in Ahshabad on the occasion of the main holiday of Turkmenistan, the birthday of President Saparmurat Niyazov, writes “Independent Gazeta” .

The Human Rights Center “Memorial” asked open letters to the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov and Moscow prosecutor Anatoly Zuev; The occasion - pogrom leaflets pasted in the wagons of the Moscow metro under the heading “Clean Moscow from Chechen bandits!” The main content of the leaflets: “Chechen bandits have become masters in Moscow. We are killed, exploded, and the authorities are inactive, protecting the Chechen mafia.