Over the past day, 3 earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 4.1, Duta.ru occurred in the Kuril Islands area. The Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that in the Sakhalin Region, the earthquakes were not felt. There are no victims, destruction, threats of tsunami. Since the strong earthquake that occurred on November 15, 2006, 585 Afterhok has been registered in the Kuril Islands.

US President George Bush will impose a veto on the decision of Congress on the early withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. This, according to Radio " Freedom ", the White House warned parliamentarians. Democrats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate intend to hold a bill on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by the end of 2008. Democrats have a majority in both chambers of Congress, but they are not enough votes to overcome the veto of the president.

The State Duma appointed five members of the Central Election Commission, RBC reports. At today's plenary meeting, State Duma deputies voted for five candidates offered to the positions of the CEC members. Five more people in the commission should be appointed by the Federation Council and the President. The current head of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov, must go on the presidential list.

Polit.ru publishes texts of appeal to the scientific community and letters to the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, distributed by the initiative group on behalf of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists. Minister of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, Mr. A. A. Fursenko An alternative to secular scientific education - ignorance! Russia today has two main advantages that allow it to occupy a certain place among many other countries and peoples.

From the hospitals of the city of Krasnoyarsk, according to Friday morning, 108 participants in the student ball were discharged hospitalized with a diagnosis of salmonellosis, the press service of the Governor of the Territory said. “It is assumed that the vast majority of those remaining in the hospitals will be discharged on Monday, March 12,” the press service noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed three candidates for deputy chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation - Vladimir Isaichev, Tatyana Andreev and Vasily Vitryansky. V. Putin sent the corresponding letter to the chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, the presidential press service reports

The Iraqi judge, who sentenced the former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, fled the country and asked for a political asylum in the UK, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Al-Juzira. Judge Rauf Abdel Rahman arrived in London in December last year on a tourist visa. On the trip he was accompanied by a wife and three children. At the end of February this year, he submitted documents with a request to provide him with political asylum.

The Ministry of Defense is going to disband disciplinary battalions. The relevant documents have already been sent to the government, the newspaper " Gazeta " writes today. “The package of documents is associated with amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. They relate to the exclusion of provisions on the attraction of military personnel undergoing a call service to criminal liability for crimes in the form of detention in Dysbat.

The special services of Colombia intercepted the information about the impending attempt on US President George Bush, RIA Novosti reports. “The special services of Colombia were intercepted by radio -warheads between left -wing -radical armed groups, from which it follows that they are preparing a number of terrorist acts in Bogota during the visit of US President George Bush,” said General Jorge -Daniel Castro, chief of Colombia police.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is satisfied with the initial stage of the government to regulate external labor migration, but does not believe that this is an occasion to calm down, RIA Novosti reports. “The initial stage of this work we went through general estimates not bad,” said Frakov on Friday at a government meeting, which discusses measures aimed at improving the regulation of external labor migration.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ) today, 03/9/07, published data on how often our compatriots watch the broadcasts of football matches of the Russian television championship, how interesting and spectacular are these matches. 38% of Russians are interested in football. Among them, almost all, 94%, watch television broadcasts of football matches - with different frequency.

Negotiations at Nomstroykport CJSC and atomic energy organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue the construction of the Busher NPP ended to no avail, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source from the Russian side. According to him, despite the fact that previously reported the preparation of a joint statement for the press, the parties were not published by the parties.

In the north of Afghanistan, an employee of the humanitarian organization from Germany was killed unknown, Radio Liberty reports. Three Afghan employees of the organization were released. Today, in the south of Afghanistan, a soldier died during the shelling of the British military base. Reportedly, NATO forces conducting a large operation together with the Afghan troops are faced with fierce resistance.

The Ikarus bus, following China, turned over in Buryatia, the Russian Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies reported. According to preliminary data, two people were killed and 10 were injured, Prime-Tass reports. The accident occurred in the village of Petrovskoye-Zabaikalskoye 120 km east of Ulan-Ude. “At 12:45 p.m., the bus, which was traveling from Irkutsk through Chita to China, drove into a ditch at a steep turn and rolled over,” the Ministry of Emergencies said.

In Italy, a senior representative of the judiciary - Othello Lupacchini - terrorists threaten reprisals, representatives of law enforcement agencies told reporters on Friday, RIA Novosti said. According to them, a letter came home with three bullets and an invested note with the words: "We always know where you are!" A few days ago, such envelopes came to the service of Lupakkini and the publishing house, which recently published his book about the new Red Brigades.