The United States presented to Iran the evidence of his interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, the US special envoy in Afghanistan Zalmai Khalilzod said today. In an interview with Bi, Halilzod said that the conservatives from the surrounding the spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are supplied with weapons and money of the Taliban and members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, continuing to resist the new Afghan authorities.

During the operation in the village of Dir al-Bala in the Gaza Strip with Israeli troops, three Palestinian police officers were killed today. The troops of Israel, with the support of tanks and artillery, also entered the cities of the Palestinian autonomy Beit Lahia and Beit Hanun. Over the past few days, the Israeli settlements have been subjected to missile and mortar fire from the Palestinian militants who were in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli troops will remain in a number of Palestinian settlements of the gas sector until the missiles were found, which on Sunday was fired by the South District of Israel. This was stated by a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Israel Efraim Sne. The Israeli troops, with the support of tanks, entered three Palestinian villages of the Gaza sector last night. At least 4 Palestinxi police officers were killed in a shootout.

All night in the Buddhist temples - Datsans - there was a Khural dedicated to the keeper of Vera, the only woman among the Buddhist deities Daldan Huhamo. It was this prayer service that completed the preparation of Buddhists for the meeting of the year of the horse on the lunar calendar, which entered into the rights with the first rays of the sun. In Buryatia, this day was declared a public holiday and the eleventh year in a row becomes a weekend.

In the Hague, at the Gaga of the former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Miloshevich was completed by the performances by the prosecutors of the international tribunal. They presented the historical and political aspects of the accusations of the accusations of the genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s.

Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow on Wednesday banned the holding of shareholders of the TV-6 television channel, scheduled for February 14. Such a decision was made at the request of the Lukoil-Garant pension fund, which owns 15 percent of the shares of the company. The meeting of shareholders was to create a liquidation commission-in accordance with the decision of the arbitration court on the liquidation of the television company adopted in January at the suit of Lukoil-Garant.

Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow on Wednesday banned the holding of shareholders of the TV-6 television channel, scheduled for February 14. This decision was made at the request of the Lukoil-Garant pension fund, which owns 15 percent of the company's shares. The meeting of the shareholders was to create a liquidation commission - in accordance with the decision of the arbitration court on the liquidation of the television company adopted in January at the suit of Lukoil -Garant.

Presenter of the program "Topics" Peter Vail: The man of the day Radio Liberty is the French skier of Karol Montilier. At the Sittle Lake City Olympics, she won a gold medal in a high-speed descent. This victory brought France to the female team in skiing the first Golden Olympic medal in its history. Karol Montilier is 29 years old, born in Grenoble.

This year, the Russian Ministry of Taxes and Duties should ensure the receipt of 1 trillion of 204 billion rubles to the federal budget. According to the head of the ministry, Gennady Bukaev, this indicator by a quarter will exceed the volume of tax collection last year. In addition, according to the minister, his department intends to achieve transfer to the Pension Fund about 280 billion rubles, which should receive from employers as part of the collection of a single social tax.

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In the Kaliningrad region, the search for two military personnel who fled on February 12 from the military unit continues. Deserters are armed with Makarov pistols. Private Alexander Popov and Alexander Efremov, called from the Krasnodar Territory, served in one of the coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.

US President George Bush said that drug trafficking is one of the main sources of financing of international terrorism. On Tuesday in the White House, Bush made a new American strategy in the fight against illegal drug trafficking. According to American data, 12 out of 28 groups included in the US State Department in the list of terrorist organizations are engaged in drug trafficking. More than four million Americans use forbidden drugs.

In Chisinau, a mass protest of the opposition protest is taking place. About 20 thousand people gathered in the central square of the city, mainly students. The traffic is blocked. Participants in the action organized by the Christian Democratic People's Party require the resignation of the government and early parliamentary elections. The reason for the rally was the changes made by the government today to the school curriculum.

Alexey Dzikovitsky, Warsaw: Representatives of the Polish public organization "Free Caucasus" argue that the change in the attitude of the Polish authorities to Chechen refugees is associated with a recent visit to Warsaw by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian human rights activists intend to achieve toughening the punishment for torture by prisoners. As the State Duma deputy Julius Rybakov said today at a press conference in Moscow, the number of complaints about cruelty and difficult conditions of detention in prisons over the past year has increased significantly, and the vast majority of them are complaints about torture.