Today, the State Duma will consider in the first reading an amendment to the Law “On Weapons”, allowing Russian citizens to carry “New News” today. The authors of the initiative, deputies of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Nikolai Kuryanovich believe that pistols and revolvers in personal use will increase the level of safety of ordinary citizens.

The upcoming reduction of the British contingent in Iraq by 10% is not a reason for the American command to follow this example. Such a statement was made by US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld, RBC reports with reference to the Associated Press. According to him, the statement of the British Defense Minister John Raid on the possible withdrawal of part of the British troops does not mean that soon other countries will begin to withdraw their troops.

Today, the strain of the influenza virus A/H5N1 was first marked in Denmark and Sweden. The virus probably got into Scandinavia with wild migratory birds. A variety of A/H5N1 strain, which is dangerous for a person, was found in the blood of an infected bird. Currently, from European countries, the virus has also been discovered in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovenia.

Today, the Pakistani security forces blew up the building of one of the most famous radical madrassas (religious school) in the North Vaziristan region on the border with Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Pakistani media, the Halifa Islam Madrasah, located near the administrative capital of the Northern Vasiristan of the city of Miranhah, was one of the centers for the spread of radical Islamic ideology and the base of the militants.

The chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko called for destroying all the raven that live in Russian cities to reduce the likelihood of the spread of bird flu to people, the Interfax agency reports. Onishchenko said that this species of birds should be subjected to "merciless" extermination. The chief sanitary doctor compared the raven with the "feathered wolves", since they eat carrion, including a wild bird.

Today in Moscow, the brother of the late ex-president of Yugoslavia Borislav Milosevic underwent surgery, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Bakulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery Leo Bokeria reported this, reports RIA Novosti . “Today we performed an operation on Borislav (Milosevic),” he said, without giving details.

Yesterday, at the Crocus-Expo VK, with the support of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz), the VIII International Conference “Wooden Housebuilding-the Way to Available and Comfortable Housing” was held. The conference took place as part of the exhibition "Woodbuild-2006", the press service of the MPR reports. As the head of the Rosleskhoz Valery Roshchupkin, wooden housekeeping, noted at the opening of the conference, is one of the most promising areas of using woodworking products.

It was impossible to observe the territory of Western Siberia on March 15 (23.21 Moscow time) over the territory of Western Siberia in the capital of the Altai -Altaysk Republic, reports REGNUM. Half an hour before this natural phenomenon, the sky over the city dragged on by clouds, snowfall began. As already reported, on the night of March 14-5, a monthly lunar eclipse will occur. It can be seen everywhere where the moon at that time will be above the horizon, in particular, throughout Europe.

Turn out the budget without taking into account oil and gas revenues, do not change the lines in it after the document was signed by the president, to seize over the exposure of gas export through personal income tax - the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin proposes to fight inflation with such measures. Other officials made it clear that such proposals would not miss. Although there is common sense in them, experts of the newspaper Vedomosti believe.

Former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich will still be buried in Belgrade, and not in Moscow, as reported the day before. Yesterday, Milosevich’s son Marco accused the Serbian authorities of not allowing his father to bury his father in Belgrade, and stated that his father would be temporarily buried in Russia.

The intensity of water lifting on the rivers of the Rostov region decreased. According to the Donskoy BVA of Rosvodresurs, over the past day, fluctuations in water levels on the rivers of the Rostov Region amounted to 12 to +30 cm. Water reached the floodplain on the Tuzlov River-(the city of Novocherkassk), on the Mius River (the city of Matveev Kurgan) and on the Mokry Elanchik River, according to the press release of the MPR.

A group of South Korean researchers led by Choi Yang-Kyu from the National Nano Feb Center at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) developed 3 Nm - the smallest transistor in the world. Development received the designation Finfet (Final Field Effect Transistor). She opens the next generation of semiconductor transistors.

March 14 at 21:25 local time in the city of Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Region, the roof of the Koksovaya mine collapsed, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. More than a hundred miners during the collapse were underground. On the site where the accident occurred, six people worked. One of them was under the rubble. Fortunately, after an hour of the victim they saved.

The chairman of the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia instructed the lawsuit number one MTBU to consider the issue of taking the secrecy vulture from the documents in the case of Slobodan Milosevich, RIA Novosti reports. Today the representative of the tribunal reported this. The decision is caused by the fact that some confidential materials may be needed by the presenter investigation of the death of Milosevich in the Hague prison to the Dutch authorities.

In Turin, where the Winter Olympiad was held, and on March 10, the Paralympic Games for the disabled began, on March 12, they presented the highest European theater award “Europe-Theater”. The laureate was the British playwright Harold Pinter, who received the Nobel Prize last fall.