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In Afghanistan, a helicopter of the anti -terrorist coalition troops crashed on Sunday. The command of the command notes that the disaster occurred in the southeast of the country. An operation is being carried out to search for a helicopter and people on board. There have been no reports of victims yet.

Vladimir Baburin: We are visiting the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the National Banking Council Pavel Medvedev. The questions will be asked by Eduardo Gedesh, the Portuguese newspaper de Notsias, and Dmitry Babich, Russian Profile magazine. And, according to tradition, a brief biography of our guest. Pavel Medvedev was born on August 13, 1940 in Moscow.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said that he did not intend to hastily revise the political course of his predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov. In an interview published in the journal Turkmenistan, Berdimuhammedov noted that democracy is a “fragile thing” and cannot be imported from other countries. According to the Turkmen president, a great achievement of his country over 15 years of independence is development without economic shock and political upheavals.

In the suburbs in another area - Taldomsky - cases of death of poultry have been revealed, - Interfax said with reference to the chief sanitary doctor of the Moscow region. One version of what happened is bird flu. Earlier, the Bird flu virus was awarded in three districts of the Moscow Region - Odintsovo, Podolsky and Domodedovo. According to Rosselkhoznadzor, preliminary tests confirmed that the cause of the death of the bird became a dangerous type of virus-ASH-5 EN-1.

Six people were injured in the explosion in the McDonald's restaurant in the center of St. Petersburg. It is reported that among the victims - two children and a tourist from Germany. According to the authorities, an explosive device with a capacity of 200 grams of TNT worked at the restaurant premises on Sunday evening. From the explosion partially collapsed with a hinged ceiling.

In Afghanistan, when the coalition helicopter fell, 8 American troops were killed, another 14 were injured. The plane crash occurred early on Sunday morning in the southeastern province of Zabul. According to the military, its reason is a malfunction in the engine. On Saturday, a group of 25 armed people captured 5 prayers in the mosque in the eastern province of Pactia. They shot two, then killed the policeman.

Syria and Iran expressed their intention to work together to counteract the policy of the United States and Israel in the Middle East. Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived on Saturday to Tehran with a two -day visit. He met with President Iran Mahmud Ahmadijad. The leaders of the two countries discussed the situation in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon. On Sunday, Assad's meeting with the supreme spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Hameni is planned.

Among the six wounded in the explosion there is one German tourist The explosion in the restaurant "McDonald's" occurred on Sunday evening in the center of St. Petersburg on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Rubinstein Street. As a result of the explosion in the McDonald's cafe, six people were injured in the center of St. Petersburg, Interfax reports. The explosion occurred at 20:17 Moscow time.

On February 19, 1632, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich handed the letter of the Dutch merchant Andrei Vinius for the construction of iron plants near Tula - for the casting of guns, boilers, for forging “boards and rods”, with the release from duties and gossaries for ten years. This was the first Russian modern weapons factory and arsenal, called to life by the reform of the regular army. In Tula and to the Dutch enterprise, weapons were made - the so -called self -packages, but they were not enough.

In America - in its northern and southern units - two male tennis tournaments are held. On Saturday, the finalists were determined there. The results of the semifinals: San Jose (USA) Andy Murray (Great Britain) - Andy Roddik (USA) - 7: 6, 6: 4 Ivo Karlovich (Croatia) - Benjamin Becker (Germany) - 7: 6, 7: 5 Costa Du Sauip (Brazil) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) - Flavio Sarethta (Brazil) - 6: 2, 6: 4 Guillermo Kanyas (Argentina) - Juan Ignasio Chela (Argentina) - 7: 6, 6: 1

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Moscow Region has opened a “hot telephone line”, according to which the authorities are asked to call everyone who, starting on February 1, bought a poultry in the Moscow Bird Market. The regional authorities are also asking citizens to avoid direct contact with a domestic and wild bird, to keep a poultry in closed rooms. It is not recommended to buy poultry and eggs in places of unauthorized trade.