The leading programs "Pressing" Valery Vinokurov, Oleg Vinokurov and Dmitry Morozov will devote almost the entire issue of the events of the Olympiad in Turin. You will hear the votes of the champions and winners of the games, as well as get acquainted with the assessments of specialists.

Time behind the wheel, 12.02.2006 Leading Veronika Bode Veronika Bode: Today we will talk about what the Russians taught severe frosts that fell upon the country this year. The program is attended by: Yuri Geyko, the host of the Avtolikbez on Avtradio program, as well as Yuri Nastryannik, a motorist with ten years of experience, a resident of the city of Neryungri by phone from the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Hello, gentlemen!

Tamara Lyalenkova: Nothing characterizes a person as well as fashionable addictions. If recently the choice of wine for most Russians was determined exclusively by the color category, today the Moscow wine map does not know geographical boundaries. And in this area appeared - of course, not for everyone - the opportunity to show their own taste and preferences.

In Iraq, the block of the largest Shiite parties put forward the candidacy of the current head of government Ibrahim al-Jaafari to the post of prime minister. According to the Iraqi Constitution, the new president of the country elected by the Parliament will offer the Shiite coalition, who received the majority in the parliament, to appoint the Prime Minister, whose candidacy will be then approved by lawmakers.

In the village of Tukuy-Mekteb of the Neftekumsky district of Stavropol, the bodies of eight killed militants were discovered at the venue of a recent special operation, and not 12, as previously reported. 7 policemen died, five more - were injured. These specified data were informed by ITAR-TASS to law enforcement officers of the Stavropol Territory.

The United States advocates the sooner negotiation of negotiations on the accession of Russia to the World Trade Organization, ”said US Minister of Finance John Snow. Speaking in Moscow after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Snow said that the two countries are close to an agreement. Russia has been negotiating the entry into the WTO since 1994.

8 people died in a highway in the Republic of Tuva. According to Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies, on the highway 320 kilometers west of Kyzyl on Saturday in the afternoon, a frontal collision of the VAZ-2104 passenger car and KAMAZ truck occurred.

The first Sunday set of the Olympics in Turin was played by skiers at a distance of 15 km. They overcame the first half with a classic course, and the second - free. Kristina Schmigun from Estonia won. Czech Katerina Neymannova ended the second distance, and after her the Russian woman Evgenia Medvedev came to the finish, whose bronze medal became the first Turin award for the Russian Olympians.

Mikhail Berg: The Petersburg Publishing House of Amphora published an interesting book by the Brazilian writer Daniel Pennak “Dictator and Gamak”, the plot of which reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut “Cradle for a Cat”, where the dictator, in order to create a convenient distribution of folk love and hatred, plays the role of its implacable enemy.

In the center of Baghdad there was a powerful explosion in the so -called "green zone" - a specially protected area where the buildings of the Iraqi government and the US Embassy are located. No one was injured. According to the US military, the district was subjected to mortar shelling by the rebels. Earlier, a report on the injury was received at least 9 people with an explosion of about one of the Baghdad restaurants.

In the suburbs of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky this morning, two women and a child died in a fire. According to Interfax in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia, the fire began to spread from the only exit in the residential building. From the fire, only the owner managed to independently get out, who endured a 6-month daughter, and his 9-year-old son. Another boy, 11 years old, and two women, apparently, suffocated in smoke.

The Afghan police discovered about 700 homemade bombs, illegally transported from Pakistan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan, bombs, fuses and wires were found in oranges in oranges in the province of Kunar near the Pakistani border. One person is arrested.

In the UK, an investigation has begun in connection with the information of the media about cases of cruel treatment of British soldiers with civilians in Iraq. The British Ministry of Defense said that it would be extremely seriously. Earlier, the British tabloid "News of Warld" said that he has a video of how the soldiers beat a group of young Iraqis. According to the newspaper, the film was shot in the south of Iraq two years ago.

At the 20th Winter Olympiad in Turin, the American skater Michelle Kwan will not be able to participate in competitions due to injury. Kwan is a five -time world champion, but never won the Olympics.

In Haiti, to determine the new president, a second round of elections will probably be required. The ex-president of Rene Pereval still did not gain 50 percent of the votes necessary for victory in the first round. According to the latest data, Praval supported 49 and a half percent of those who participated in the vote. His main opponent Leslie Manig scored only 11 percent of the vote.