There are reports from Iraq about explosions and attacks in different areas of the country. 12 people died. There are wounded. In Baghdad, as a result of several explosions, including at polling stations, at least 5 people were killed, including a policeman. There are wounded. Another policeman was killed in the city of Hill south of Baghdad. Explosions occurred in Basra, Baacuba and Mosule.

In Moscow on Saturday, an attack was attacked on the headquarters of the National-Bolshevik party. About 40 people, shouting Nazi slogans, broke into the room and started a fight. Five attackers were detained. The metropolitan prosecutor's office reported that the case of hooliganism was initiated against them. In an interview with Radio Liberty, the NBP spokesman Alexander Averin said that during an attack on the headquarters, the crew of the 1st Russian television channel arrived there.

In Finland, negotiations are held between representatives of the government of Indonesia and the separatists operating in the province of ACCH. On Saturday, the first round of negotiations ended, the second will begin in the near future. The main topic is the provision of humanitarian assistance to the victims of the earthquake and the tsunami, whose victims of the ACCHECH province became about 200 thousand people. The ways of stopping a long -term armed conflict are also discussed.

The UN believes that international assistance to Afghanistan should be reduced if the authorities do not establish control over the production of drugs in the country. This was stated in Kabul by the head of the UN department for the fight against the drug business Antonio Maria Kosta. Costa discusses this problem with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Last year in Afghanistan, an opium poppy was grown in record large areas - 130 thousand hectares. TsN-65

In Iraq today - universal elections. Voting is most active in areas inhabited by Shiites and Kurds. Despite the fact that in the cities of Ramadi, El Falluj and Samarra, with an advantageous Sunni population, the extremely low activity of voters was noted. 275 deputy mandates are disputed by representatives of more than 100 parties and coalitions, as well as independent candidates. The new national assembly will appoint a government and accept a new constitution.

In the capital of Kuwait, 5 people died and four were wounded in a shootout between the police and extremists. Among the dead are a policeman and three militants. One person was detained. Shooting began in the Quawey-City quarter, where many foreigners live. The police surrounded the house where, according to her, the militants took refuge. On the eve of the Embassy of the United States and other countries, they warned of the possibility of extremist attacks.

The head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas arrives today in Moscow. On Monday, his negotiations are planned with the leadership of Russia - on the ways of resolving the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. As it became known on Saturday, the meeting of Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon is scheduled for mid-February. This will be the first Israeli-Palestinian summit in more than 4 years.

In Kuwait today 5 people died and four were wounded in a shootout between the police and extremists. Among the dead are a policeman, a local resident and three militants. One person was detained. The shooting began in the Salmia area, east of the capital of the country, where the police cordoned off several houses during the raid to search for Islamists. Over the past month, several armed clashes of security services with extremists have already occurred in Kuwait.

In Kaliningrad today there are celebrations dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the exploit of the crew of the Soviet submarine S-13-the so-called "attack of the century". On January 30, 1945, the S-13, which was commanded by the captain of the 3rd rank Alexander Marinesko, sank the German transport vehicle "Wilhelm Gustlov" in the Baltic Sea. It is characteristic that during the attack the S-13 was on the surface of the sea.

In the city of Kile in northern Germany, dozens of demonstrators were arrested, which were violently protested against the demonstration of neo -Nazis. About seven thousand people participated in anti -Nazi protests. Some of them threw stones and bottles to the police, guarding several hundred neo -Nazi demonstrators.

In Saudi Arabia, the first election campaign in the country's history began. The newspapers published an advertisement for candidates in the municipal elections on February 10. Ensemble commercials on radio and television are prohibited. Women are not allowed to run or participate in the vote. The subject of the kingdom, having the right to vote, will have to elect representatives of half of 178 municipal councils.

In St. Petersburg on Saturday evening, a hunger strike was suspended by Black Disabled people who require indexation of compensation for causing harm to health. According to one of the protesters, the action was suspended before considering the Chernobyl lawsuit by the Supreme Court of Russia. 8 people from St. Petersburg, Pyatigorsk and Saratov participate in a hunger strike.

In the coming days, the Israeli troops will be withdrawn from a number of cities of the West Coast of Jordan, which will be controlled by the Palestinian security forces. This was announced today by Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz after negotiations with the representative of the Palestinian Authority authorities Mohammed Dahlan. Dahlan said that the cities of Ramalllah, Tulkarm, Calcilia and Jericho will be the first to control the Palestinian police into this environment.

The congress on the election of the leader of the Union of Right Forces will be convened no later than May of May of this year - such a decision was made on Saturday at a meeting of the leadership of the ATP in Moscow. The participants in the meeting abandoned the scheme of election of the leader through the primary elections, the so -called "primaries". The proposal was also discussed to return to the Institute of Co -Chairing the Party, which existed before the 2003 parliamentary elections.

In the Leninsky district of Grozny, three Russian troops were wounded today during the shelling of a checkpoint, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. In the Shata district of Chechnya on Saturday, the Mujahideen attacked a military motorcade. According to official figures, 3 military personnel died, two were injured. According to Chechen sources, 7 were killed and 12 Russian soldiers were injured.