And Palestinian radicals condemn the flag of the “Jewish empire” Yesterday in Brussels, the heads of diplomatic departments of 25 EU member countries called on the radical group "Islamic Resistance Movement" (HAMAS), which won the elections in Palestine, to renounce the armed struggle and recognize the rights to the existence of the state of Israel.

"Vremya Novostei" publishes excerpts from the materials of the next issue of the journal "Otechestvennye Zapiski", the topic of which is the wars of the future. However, with the same success his theme could be described as the wars of the present. After all, the actions of American troops in Iraq were fundamentally different from everything that humanity has encountered so far.

All yesterday, the most famous ski resort in Russia - the village of Krasnaya Polyana, located in the mountains 60 kilometers from Sochi, was cut off from the world by snow avalanches that came down from the mountains. Thousands of cubic meters of snow fell on the only road connecting Krasnaya Polyana with Sochi. Apart from cars, there is no other transport in this area. Yesterday, due to the weather (wind and heavy rain with snow), it was impossible to get to Krasnaya Polyana by helicopter.

The head of the Moscow department of Rosselkhoznadzor was assigned to a subordinate The Moscow prosecutor's office yesterday brought charges of attempted bribery against the head of the department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) for Moscow and the Moscow Region, Alexei Volkov.

CLUBS “The Russian and the Chinese are brothers forever.” Performance by the Cabaret.doc theater in honor of the Chinese New Year - on the stage of the “Club on Brestskaya” , 20.00. DJ Komotsky . Lounge. "Cult" , 21.00. DJ Vinilkin . Hip-hop. "Propaganda" , 21.00. JVL Big Band. Jazz. JVL , 21.00. "Mill". Ethnics of different cultures. "B2" , 21.00. Beat Devils Band. Rockabilly. "Schwein" , 22.00. CONCERTS Concert “Evening of music by W. - A. Mozart” .

“In the First Circle” was preferred by 40% of Moscow TV viewers Everyone who follows television life knows that the main thing for those who work on television are two magic words - share and rating. To explain it roughly and simply, the share is the percentage of those watching a specific program to those who have the TV on at the moment. Rating is the ratio of those watching a particular program to the total number of television viewers as such.

Registration of ownership of plots under houses has begun in Moscow Moscow authorities seem to have decided to refute accusations that the registration of capital land as private property is being deliberately delayed by city officials. As the head of the land resources department of the city hall, Viktor Damurchiev, said yesterday, his department gave the go-ahead to register the ownership of the first 19 land plots located under private houses.

Chronicle of sporting events New tennis rankings have been released. After a more than two-year break, the BTA classification was once again topped by the Belgian Kim Clijsters - 3478 points. Now the former first racket of the world, American Lindsay Davenport, has dropped to third place - 3013 points, and second place is occupied by the winner of the Australian Open, Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo (3377). The best Russian woman, Maria Sharapova, is fourth on this list (2780).

Isabelle Dinoire showed off her new face A Frenchwoman, to whom doctors transplanted the mouth and nose of another woman several months ago, recently showed the public her new face. There was no internal conflict between the person and the individual.

The Russian Orthodox Church managed to convince officials of the need for religious education Every year, secular officials yield more and more to the pressure of the Russian Orthodox Church, which proposes to introduce religious education in secular schools.

Information that 1. “The Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences has under its stupid subordination something like four million hectares of land throughout Russia”; 2. “Academics manage their lands even more stupidly than some governors,” published in issue 232 (1150) of the newspaper “Vremya Novostei” dated December 21, 2004, do not correspond to reality and discredit the business reputation of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

The FSB found a radio transmitter of English sponsors of Russian human rights activists The high-profile espionage scandal initiated last week by the Russian FSB, which tied British intelligence officers and a number of Russian non-governmental human rights organizations into one complex knot, received new developments yesterday.

Fishing ban due to benzene stain is destroying indigenous peoples of the Amur basin The toxic nitrobenzene stain completely left the Amur basin on Monday. Let us recall that as a result of an accident at a Chinese chemical plant in November last year, hundreds of tons of nitrobenzene ended up in the water of the Chinese Sungari River, which is a tributary of the Amur. During December and January, a poisonous slick floated across Russian territory.

Yesterday, important international negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue took place in two European capitals - London and Brussels.

The bloodiest “brigade” of Ukraine was found in Moscow The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced yesterday that 14 members of the bloodiest and most influential Ukrainian criminal group, the so-called “Donetsk brigade,” were detained in Moscow over the weekend. This special operation was the result of two years of joint work by Russian and Ukrainian detectives to defeat a gang led by Georgian crime boss Givi Nemsadze, known under the nicknames Papa and Givchik.