The US Senate approved the 800 million anti-crisis package proposed by President Barack Obama. 61 The senator voted "for", 37 - "against." Now the bill is submitting to the House of Congress. The president calls on to accept the document before the end of the week, emphasizing the need to implement it in order to avoid the economic "disaster".

In Arkhangelsk, with an explosion of household gas in a residential building on Tuesday, a man died, another woman is hospitalized with severe burns. The body of the deceased was found during the analysis of the rubble. As a result of the explosion in the 5-story building, the ceilings collapsed from the fourth on the second floor. All residents are evacuated. The issue of their resettlement is being resolved.

US President Barack Obama holds its first press conference as the head of state. It is broadcast by all leading US channels. Most of the questions that the president answer concerns the ways of leaving the current economic crisis. In the coming days, the US Senate should take place according to the 800-millionth plan for stimulating the economy proposed by the Barack Obama administration. The president insists on the speedy adoption of the plan.

Irina Lagunina: In North Ossetia, the construction of the largest energy facility in the region is the cascade of the Zaramagsky hydroelectric power station. Recently, filling out the bed of the highland reservoir. However, the Moscow and Vladikavkaz-archaeologists demanded to stop the flooding of the Ozamamag basin, since unexplored unique monuments of the Stone Age and Scythian period, which have great value to world science, will forever remain at the bottom of the future reservoir.

In Israel, early parliamentary elections to Ahmed Zakayev were invited to return to their homeland, the death of Elihana Ellaro is not paved to the end of the disputes about the legality of euthanasia in Italy today's fact. The book of letters and articles of the Czech art critic Yindzhikha Khatepetsky is being prepared for printing

Opposition politician Ivan Starikov was released from the police. A member of the Bureau of Movement "Solidarity" was detained today at the Moscow Airport "Sheremetyevo", supposedly to verify documents. According to Radio Liberty, the press secretary of the movement of Olga Shorin, the police took the phone from Starikov, and there was no connection with him. Law enforcement agencies do not comment on what happened.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov proposed one of the leaders of Chechen separatists in exile Ahmed Zakaev to return to his homeland and work in the Ministry of Culture. Zakaev refused. In an interview with Radio, Freedom, he expressed his readiness to resolve issues with the leadership of Chechnya as the head of the government of Ichkeria, but not at a personal level.

Russian sergeant Alexander Glukhov, who left his part in South Ossetia in January and surrendered to the Georgian authorities, did not meet his mother in Georgia, as previously planned, Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze reports from Tbilisi.

Interpol International Police announced an escort wanted by 85 people who are preparing terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia. The statement says that 83 Sauds and two Yemenis are wanted, suspected of relations with Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said that these people pose a threat not only for Saudi Arabia, but for the whole world.

The spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama became the user of the social network Twitter . This network is designed to exchange short messages that can be transmitted using SMS. The published message is immediately delivered to mobile phones to everyone who is signed to the user page. In the Dalai Lama page, 20 thousand users subscribed in two days. The leader of Tibet received so many messages that he asked for time to answer everyone.

Giuseppe Enlaro with a portrait of daughter Elihana In Italy, in a private clinic in the Udun, a 38-year-old hopelessly sick patient Eloana Ellaro died. Four days before, doctors stopped supplying food and fluid to its body, although any form of euthanasia in Italy is prohibited. Eluan Enlarro received the most severe craniocerebral injury 17 years ago as a result of a car accident. And all these years she was in a state of coma.