The Turkish newspaper Hurriet reports that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not send the official invitation to Hamas to visit Turkey and calls this visit unexpected, Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Solntseva reports from Istanbul.

The delegation of the Palestinian movement "Hamas" will come to negotiations in Moscow in early March, - the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Earlier it was reported that the visit will take place until the end of February. According to the results of negotiations with the leadership of Hamas, a decision may be decided to supply military equipment to the Palestinian autonomy, ”Yuri Baluevsky, head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, told reporters.

Veterinarians claim that there is no way to save birds In Dagestan, the death of about 60 thousand heads of poultry from bird flu is confirmed. The first reports of the mass death of birds began to come from the Karabudakhkent district from the Eldam poultry farm. There were about 400 thousand nasads. The official version - the cause was the disease of Newkala or pseudo -pseudochaum. She is carried by rodents and it is not dangerous for humans.

Will there be a sense from the proposals of the Minister of Defense? Is the situation with army grandfather reversible? A guest of Major Vyacheslav Izmailov, military observer of Novaya Gazeta and Alexander Tsyganok, head of the Center for Military Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.

The classic of the Polish cinema, Andrzej Vaid, speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, where he was awarded the Golden Bear for his contribution to the cinema, said that this year he intends to complete the work on the film “Opening” about the mass murder of Polish officers by Soviet troops in the Katyn forest in 1940. Among the executed were the father of Vaida.

The Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva, who showed a second result on Monday in a 15 km race, is devoid of a silver medal. In her doping industry, prohibited medications were found. Thus, the three winners in this type of program now look like this: 1. Svetlana Ishmuratova (Russia), 2. Martina Glags (Germany), 3. Albina Akhatova (Russia). Accordingly, the overall medal table has undergone changes.

The United States rejected the UN call - to close the prison at the American military base in Guantanamo. The representative of the White House Scott McClellan called the UN report, which contains this recommendation, by the "paraphrase" of the arguments of the protection of some prisoners of Guantanamo. McClellan emphasized that the prison contains "dangerous terrorists." The UN report talks about inhumane handling with many prisoners.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty Valery Vinokurov and Oleg Vinokurov take part. Andrei Sharry: Eight sets of Olympic medals are played on the sixth day of the Winter Olympiad in Turin. Recently, a completely Russian women's skating team won bronze medals in the team competition of the persecution race. And this is far from the only event of today.

In the center of Minsk on Thursday evening, about 20 activists of the Belarusian opposition were detained. According to the ITAR-TASS agency, they participated in an unauthorized protest. More than a hundred representatives of opposition organizations lined up in a chain on one of the central squares, holding lighted candles in their hands.

The United Nations urged the United States to free all prisoners at the American military base of Guantanamo in Cuba. The report compiled by five UN experts contains a call to close the prison itself, which contains about five hundred people suspected of terrorism.

Climatologists from the University of Ohio submitted new data on the melting of a snow cap at the highest peak of Africa, Gora Kilimanjaro. During the period from 2000 to 2006, the thickness of the largest glacier on the mountain decreased by a third - from 9 to 6 meters, and in the middle of its middle lumen formed, which actually divided the glacier into two separate languages.

Georgian State Resident Georgy Haindrava intends to arrive in Moscow today for negotiations on the fate of the Russian peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia. In an interview with Interfax, Haindrava said that the Georgian government intends to fulfill the on the eve of the parliament on the replacement of Russian peacekeepers with international forces. According to Haindrava, this topic will be one of the main ones in negotiations in Moscow.

The first set of Olympic awards on Thursday was played in a 10 km ski race in a classic style in women. Christina Schmigun from Estonia won her second gold medal of current games. Following her, the Norwegians Mid Bjorgen and Hilde Pedersen entered the top three of the winners.

The program is being conducted by Evgenia Nazarez and Melanie Bachin. Guests: in the studio in Yekaterinburg - Chairman of the Union of Human Rights Office of the Sverdlovsk Region Vladimir Popov; In the studio in Tomsk - the director of the Non -Profit Public Fund "Open Tomsk" Maria Krechetova.

In the suburbs of Baghdad, six civilians were killed with an explosion of a mined car, eleven wounded. The explosion was preceded by a fierce shootout of militants with American military. The obvious goal of the attack was soldiers, but none of them were injured. In another area of the Iraqi capital, a policeman died as a result of the explosion, three passers -by were injured.