Ida Kuklin, Deputy Head of the Human Rights Office of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, believes that the introduction of the Institute of Military Police once again testifies to the refusal of the Ministry of Defense of the reform of the Armed Forces. In terms of efficiency, Kuklin compared the military police with the existing foothouse system. In her opinion, this is only a temporary measure that will not be able to solve the problem of observing the rights of military personnel.

Today, the first 655 children leave the Ukrainian city of Alchevsk to Crimea. This was stated by the Minister of Education of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. According to him, at 14 o’clock (15 Moscow time), the first composition is sent to the Crimea from Alchevsk, in which students of grades 1-2 will be located. These are 655 children and 42 adults who accompany them.

Russian and Polish sailors were injured as a result of a gas cylinder explosion on board a merchant ship in the Swedish port of Åhus in the southeast of the country, RIA Novosti reports, citing Swedish television. Both victims were taken to a local hospital. The Cypriot-flagged ship Skarpo is owned by the German shipping company Hermann Buss. The Russian embassy in Sweden has not yet been able to provide any additional information.

Today, 30 representatives of the Avangard Red Youth organization (AKM) were detained in Moscow. According to Gazeta.ru, today they planned to seize the building of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, but they were detained by the police in the subway. The Ministry of Health and Social Development is in the house 3/25 according to Rakhmanovsky Lane.

In the upcoming speech in Congress, US President George Bush will call America to abandon the "oil dependence", RIA Novosti reports. "America was addicted to oil, which is often imported from the unstable regions of the world," the text of the message "On the Regulation of the Country" says. "The best way to end this dependence is to do this with technology," the US president said. He also intends to emphasize the importance of developing alternative energy sources for the American economy.

In the Chechen city of Gudermes, an action movie was killed, trying to throw a grenade in patrol police officers, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on 23.30 on 23.30, the Zhiguli car was stopped at 23.30 during special measures. The passenger who came out of it tried to throw a hand grenade at the police, but was destroyed with return fire.

On Sunday, January 29, 2006, the NASA Stardust spacecraft, which delivered the substance of the comet Wilda II to the ground on January 15, 2006, was switched to the “sleeping regime” and continued to move through the nearby orbit, reports SpaceDaili . Now the probe is located in orbit, whose perihelia is located slightly closer to the sun than the orbit of the Earth, and the Aflies are further than that of the orbit of Mars, the C-News reports.

The Ural car car of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, which was seized by the Georgian side on the night of February 1 due to an accident , will be returned after official apologies and compensation for damage to the Georgian citizen, whose car was collided by the Urals, RIA Novosti reports the head of the Georgian Ministry of Defense Irakli.

Japan temporarily removes the embargo to import American potatoes, provided that only varieties intended for the production of potato chips will be imported, RIA Novosti reports. The permission will be valid from February 1 to June 30, when the new crop grown in Japan enters the markets. The embargo was introduced when pathogenic insects were discovered in the potatoes brought from the United States.

On Tuesday evening, the Department of Information of the Ministry of Defense reported that one of the military units of the Moscow Military District (MVO) recorded a flash of meningitis. In the hospital of Podolsk near Moscow were 78 military service soldiers. Doctors found a meningococcal stick only in 16 military personnel.

“The events that took place at the Chelyabinsk tank school is a nightmare,” said Alexei Likhachev, deputy of the State Duma of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Department of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional branch of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Nizhny Novgorod. “We are trying to explain to the military that the publicity of the facts of violation of Russian legislation in the army is not the income from the hut.

The arrests of protesting human rights defenders at the FSB building on Lubyanka continue, the correspondent of Polit.ru reports. Oleg Orlov (a member of the board of the international “memorial”) Alexander Podrabinok (the chief of the agency “Prima-Nuus), Alexander Mnatsakonyan“ Center Demos ”were detained.

The court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky found the director of the municipal unitary enterprise guilty of non-payment of wages and abuse of powers, RIA Novosti reports. The director of the Santechudvye enterprise Sergey Brazhnikov, having sufficient cash for the payment of salaries to employees, used them for other purposes. At the same time, 31 employees of the enterprise did not receive wages for about five months.

Yesterday, the signing of an agreement on the sale of 100% of the Impeksbank Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG began, the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Impacbank Dmitry Eropkin told the Vedomosti newspaper. The signing of documents should be completed today. According to Eropopin, after signing the agreement, the transaction must approve the authorities of Russia and Austria - the Central Bank and the antimonopoly bodies.

The University of Pittsburgh Virusologists, announced that they managed to develop a highly effective vaccine from bird flu (AIV, strain H5N1), showing 100% efficiency on mice and chickens, Physorg reports . The vaccine contains a living virus H5N1 and, probably, therefore more effectively stimulates the body's immune system than dead vaccines prepared by the traditional way.