In Moscow, two cases of poisoning by Tallium are registered, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. On February 24, two US citizens, 42 and 26 years old were hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Institute. Their state was characterized by doctors as “medium severity. Based on the clinical manifestations, poisoning of Tallium was suspected. On February 28, the diagnosis was confirmed. The necessary treatment of patients is carried out, as well as an investigation of the causes of poisoning.

So far, polite, but strict police officers were looking for the names of late journalists in the list of accreditation, and representatives of the leading television channels of Russia placed their video cameras, four members of the expert commission , together with the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko, slowly moved to the meeting, along the corridor, to the office of the Ministry of the Ministry.

Snow complicated the work of passenger transport in Khabarovsk. The reason was the cyclone that came from the Korean peninsula. This morning, due to heavy snowfall, trams almost completely stood up, reports Radio “Freedom”. In the morning, hundreds of people accumulated at the stops of public transport. At 11.40 local times, the intercity movement in all directions was opened. It was closed on Monday also due to snow.

The George Bush administration made a statement in which she did not recognize the parliamentary elections held on Sunday in Abkhazia, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, the word "elections" in the text of the document is taken into quotes. “We do not recognize the“ elections ”organized on February 11 and March 4 by the actual authorities of Abkhazia.

** Government of the Russian Federation ** Prime Minister M. Fradkov approved the head of the government apparatus-Deputy Prime Minister S. Naryshkin as chairman of the Government Commission on Economic Integration. At the same time, M. Fradkov reserved the duties of the chairman of the commission.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of unknown burials in the Jewish cemetery, said Mikhail Usov, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Voronezh region, RIA Novosti reports. “On Tuesday, the duty part of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Voronezh received a message that more than 20 tombstones were laid in the Jewish cemetery located along the Moldavian lane.

In the case of a soldier of Roman Rudakov, the accused appeared, reports Echo of Moscow. We are talking about his colleague, who twice applied violence against Rudakov, - the military prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Military District says. The criminal case of violation of the statutory relations between military personnel has already been transferred to court. Roman Rudakov was hospitalized 5 months ago to the military hospital of St. Petersburg.

According to New Scientist , the specialists of the Wildlife Conservation Society - WCS (WCS) recorded a song of an extremely rare cuckoo living on the island of Sumatra. Earlier between 1961 and 1997 - this species was considered completely disappeared from the face of the earth. Since then, it was possible to get only three confirmations that the Sumatran cuckoo has survived on our planet.

Four people died in a fire that occurred the day before in a residential wooden house in the village of Kutut Ust-Ordynsky (Buryat) Autonomous Okrug. This was stated in the press service of the Siberian Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies, RIA Novosti reports. It took fire to the elimination of fire for a hour and a half, but people could not be saved in the house. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was a malfunction of the electric heating device.

The fall of the Chinese stock index, caused by a routine check of the authorities on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, entailed the low -predictable consequences for the entire world economy. After the Shanghai Composite stock index on Monday, February 26, increased by 1.4% and first exceeded a mark of 3.000 points, on Tuesday it collapsed by 8.84 percent to a mark of 2.772 points, which became the largest fall since February 1997.

The United Nations are afraid of even greater supplies of opium poppy from Afghanistan, reports in the Armed Forces . And this despite the fact that the current indicators have reached a record height. In 2006, according to the US State Department, the volume of poppy production used in the production of heroin in Afghanistan increased by 25%.

In the California city, the signal Hill outraged by a possible decrease in salaries an elderly printing worker wounded three colleagues, and then shot himself, AR reports with reference to representatives of the American police. According to reporters, the local police representative Mary Rizinger, the man entered the printing house building at about nine in the morning local time and opened fire from a semi -automatic pistol for colleagues.

The Union of Journalists will conduct its own investigation of the death of the correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov. As General Secretary of this organization Igor Yakovenko said in an interview with Echo of Moscow , what is already known, makes it obvious - this was not suicide. And the probability that this murder in the performance of official duties is extremely great.

The war with Lebanon provoked a birth boom in Israel, reports Reuters . According to doctors, women at the final period of pregnancy became a third more than a year earlier. Doctors believe that the increased sexual activity of Jews has become a statement of life. “We wanted to tell the world - you wanted to kill us, look - we are alive,” said Gila Bronner, director of the Chaim Sheba medical center.

The Russian football championship on TV can now be watched only on a paid basis. Separate matches (on a tour) will show only the first channel for free. The full broadcasting package of the Russian football Premier League (Premier League) of the redemption of the NTV-Plus television company. After that, the news from football fans raised curses, moreover, in different directions. NTV-Plus was accused of monopolizing this market, depriving football of ordinary mortal fans from the hinterland.