A 13-year-old teenager died of influenza in Tambov -the press service of the Department of the Gossanepidemnadzor of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday. The same situation as in Tambov, where the epidemic threshold of incidence of influenza is doubled, is observed in Novosibirsk, Omsk and Yakutsk. The influenza epidemic began in Vyatka, it was covered by Syktyvkar, Murmansk, Yaroslavl, Cheboksary and Kalug.

According to the latest data, at least a thousand people died as a result of an earthquake in Colombia. At least 2 thousand were injured. According to employees of the National Red Cross organization, the number of dead will exceed 2 thousand. In the most affected by the calamity of the city of Armenia, more than half of 300 thousand inhabitants were left without shelter. The authorities of Colombia turned to the world community calling for help.

Sberbank of Russia has been starting in Moscow on January 28 to buy gold from the population, the Prime-Tass agency said today with reference to the statement of Sberbank. At the first stage, it is planned to redeem gold bullion previously sold by branches of the Moscow Bank of Sberbank of Russia. The bank also plans to expand the sale of gold ingots to the population, which today are sold in 16 branches of the Moscow Bank of Sberbank of Russia.

In Russia, a nationwide excretion of teachers' protests with a demand for repayment of wage arrears is held. According to our correspondents, about a thousand schools participate in the Voronezh region in the action, about 300 in the Chita - in 7 districts of the Altai Territory continues an indefinite strike that began on January 18. The strike was announced by 600 teachers of the Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region and 16 thousand teachers of the Arkhangelsk region.

Tennis. In Melbourne, in the open championship of Australia on Wednesday, quarter -final fights in a female single discharge ended on Wednesday. The second racket of the world Swiss Martin Hingis confidently outplayed the Frenchwoman Marie Pierce 6: 3, 6: 4. In the semifinals of Hingis, it is necessary to play with the sixth racket of the tournament with American Monik Selesh, who on Wednesday in the morning won at her old rival Steffi Count from Germany 7: 5, 6: 1.

The path to NATO. Part 1 Evgeny Novikov: After 3 months, the expansion of NATO will become a failed fact. The members of the North Atlantic Union will be three new states: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. NATO purely military demands for candidates for the reorganization of their armed forces are very moderate. Preparing to join NATO, neither the Czech Republic, nor Poland, nor Hungary, did not bear excessive financial expenses.

"All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act in relation to each other in the spirit of the brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this issue: For the first time, the Russian court granted a claim for causing moral damage presented by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs by the parents of a soldier who died in Chechnya.

Scorpio contains a substance that can become a medicine against the most dangerous form of brain cancer. Scientists from the University of Alabam, working under the leadership of Garold Umbertimer, were allocated from the poison of gigantic scorpions that live in Israel, which voted to the cells of glioblastoma. The tumors of this group are extremely aggressive, they quickly destroy brain tissue and usually lead to death during the year.

In the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, fragments of the animated film Yuri Norshtein "Shinel" were displayed, work on which has already been underway since 84. The forced break lasted ten years, but new pieces were recently removed. Nevertheless, there is still no funds for shooting, except for the episodic assistance of the Soros Foundation.

Presenter Evgeny Novikov The path to NATO. Part 1 Evgeny Novikov: In 3 months, NATO expansion will become a fait accompli. Three new states will become members of the North Atlantic Alliance: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. NATO's purely military requirements for candidates to reorganize their armed forces are very moderate. In preparing to join NATO, neither the Czech Republic, nor Poland, nor Hungary incurred excessive financial expenses.

Leaders Andrey Babitsky, Ilya Dadashidze "All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act in relation to each other in the spirit of the brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this issue: For the first time, the Russian court granted a claim for causing moral damage presented by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs by the parents of a soldier who died in Chechnya.