Matsamu libération rejeter la version finale de la Constitution .. Et d'affirmer: «groupe» a réussi à distraire l'opinion publique à passer une constitutionnelles déclaration frères Constitution .. Les pouvoirs conférés au président sont les mêmes dans la Constitution 71

--> Groupe a réussi à Mkhtttha par les gens de distraction annonçant constitutionnel d'adopter la Fraternité constitution ".. ces paroles qu'a débuté Ibrahim Ahmed, l'un des manifestants à Tahrir discours Square pour le« septième jour »pour les manifestants réactions autour de la fin de l'Assemblée constituante de la Constitution présidée par le juge Hossam Ghariani mercredi après-midi la rédaction de la Constitution refus centrale des pouvoirs civils à l'Assemblée et le retrait de ses représentants de l'adhésion et la demande résoudre re Cklleha, où des manifestants édition d'accord sur leur refus de la formulation de la version finale de la Constitution. "L'Abraham: «Je n'appartiens pas à un parti ou faction politique et Jour de la Libération à la baisse pour arriver à savoir ce qui se passe sur le terrain et de voir la réaction de la déclaration constitutionnelle, se référant au rejet de l'article Déclaration constitutionnelle particulière qui donne au président le droit de prendre des décisions sans appel, et a poursuivi le Président Mohamed Morsy a émis Proclamation constitutionnelle de tous les pouvoirs des forces de la colère de marche civile même d'avoir rattrapé la publicité à la fois qui donne l'occasion à l'Assemblée constituante à la fin de la Constitution au milieu de forces concernent civile et les médias dans la déclaration constitutionnelle, soulignant que la Fraternité retourné à son plan et nous sommes maintenant en face de l'étape suivante, qui est de défendre constitutionnel déclaration «frères» ne sert que les intérêts du groupe.Il a été convenu Ibrahim Mohammed, membre du parti Constitution d'une manifestants de rejeter des matières projet final de constitution publié jeudi après-midi, en soulignant que l'une des exigences s'asseoir est une solution de l'Assemblée constituante de la Constitution, qui était Cklleha majorité des Frères musulmans et re Cklleha encore, assurer la formation de toutes les forces politiques et révolutionnaires, soulignant que les retraits derniers représentants de forces civiles de l'Assemblée constituante  légitimité, ce qui signifie que la production par la Constitution représente les Frères musulmans seulement, en soulignant que les pouvoirs conférés au président sont les mêmes que celles de la Constitution de 71, qui a appelé à la révolution depuis sa création changé afin de ne pas faire un dictateur nouvelle, soulignant que demain sera Juma réponse éclairée à la Constitution.D'autre part, il a indiqué Ahmed Mamdouh les manifestants de la place Tahrir, après l'achèvement de la rédaction de la Osahibna constitution maintenant faire face prévue groupe suivant et placez le référendum sur la Constitution réussira à travers salafistes groupe assistés de passer, ce qui démontre sa déclaration référendum constitutionnel, qui a été publié Mars 19 et qui a réussi qui dans la mobilisation de l'opinion publique à voter oui, profitant de l'orientation simple prédicateurs dans une victoire du oui, en disant: «Je refuse de faire cuire la Constitution dans ce sens et nous nous battrons pour le référendum de voter« non », de peur de passer frères Constitution. -->

Sudan is expected to produce 50 tonnes of gold this year proceeds of $ 2.5 billion

--> Said Sudanese Minister of Minerals, Kamal Abdul Latif, Sudan is expected to produce about 50 tons of gold this year, with proceeds of $ 2.5 billion in the framework of the country's efforts to compensate for the loss of most of the oil reserves after the south secedes last year.And Sudan will strengthen production gold and other metals in the pursuit of new sources of income the government and the foreign exchange needed to finance imports, which would produce 50 tons to make Sudan's third largest gold producer in Africa after South Africa and Ghana and puts it among the top 15 products of the metal precious in the world.Abdul Latif said, is likely to begin production of a joint venture with Saudi Arabia to exploit reserves of gold and silver and copper in the Red Sea between the two countries in 2014.He informed Abdul Latif conference mining Arab in Khartoum today, Tuesday, that the Sudanese government already granted licenses to more than 85 companies to explore for gold in more than 120 locations inside Sudan, adding that the seven companies have reached the production stage so far, and that number will increase to lesbian end year.He told reporters on the sidelines of the conference, said that gold production in the country until yesterday reached 41 tons in 2013 will be similar to the level expected for this year at around 50 tons, and in 2011 revenues of Sudan about $ 1.5 billion from the export of 33.7 tons of gold.The oil was the main source of income in the country's budget revenues of about five billion dollars annually to the south secedes in July 2011, accounting for three-quarters of oil production but Khartoum still controls the export pipelines, which stretches in the north to the Red Sea coast.And unlike oil, most of proven gold reserves up to the secession of the south are in the north, despite the existence of some of the gold deposits in the south, the data are still few.Sudan production of gold is limited compared with big producers such as South Africa where Western companies have ignored for a long time because of U.S. sanctions and the existence of gold deposits in remote places.But more companies accept the country with higher gold prices .. And bought Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris, this year La Mancha Resources Canada, which manages the government with the largest gold mine in Sudan.The company is now investing to exploit deeper reservoirs after depletion of reserves near the surface, and this explains the expectation Sudan stable production next year, said Abdul Latif, Sudan also will produce about 50 thousand tons of chrome this year.He added that the joint venture with Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, which is now at the stage of exploration can initially produce three to four million tonnes a year.He added that the reservoir reserves exceed 150 or 160 tons of gold in addition to more than a million tons of copper.The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi, who attended the conference this cooperation, but refrained from making predictions.The company benefits of international trade Arabia is the main investor in the project, for which it was established a joint venture with the Canadian Diamond Fields International, and private vessels will be required to explore for mineral extraction, which is believed to exist at a depth of two thousand meters below sea level.The government announced conflicting data on the production of Sudan of gold difficult to verify because many of them come from the exploration informal are smuggled part of their production abroad, and ruled analysts expectations and Minister of Minerals Previous Abdel Baki Jilani that the Sudan is a production of 70 million tonnes of gold in 2011. -->

Gas explosion caused fatal fire in Germany

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Cause a portable gas heater explosion in a workshop fire for people with special needs in Germany, killing four people and wounding nine others, authorities said Tuesday.

The blast occurred when the gas leak from the heater in the workshop, according to the defendant Peter Heiberal in a televised press conference in the town of Titisee-Neustadt southwest of the country, and by the fire occurred. It was unclear whether the fire broke out in the gas.

The Heiberal said all evidence points to the incident, pointing out that there is no reference to a fire deliberately. However, prosecutors opened an investigation into the possibility that the incident was criminally.

The fire broke out Monday in the workshop, which employs about 120 people with mental or physical disability, in a number of functions, including blacksmithing and carpentry and electrical installation.

And died Musharraf (fifty years) next thirteen of those with special needs - including ten women and three men, aged between twenty-eight and sixty-eight years - and all of them were in the room, which has seen the explosion, according to police.

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"Ulna" criticizes went "SJC" for the presidency

--> Adviser Ahmed criticized the ulna, Chairman of the Judges Club, go the Supreme Judicial Council to meet the President at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Monday, wondering: Council calls them why the president? Even if good intentions.

He stressed, "ulna", the judges will not back down from their position of refusing to constitutional declaration, under any circumstances, and said, "The insistence of President Mohamed Morsy not respond to their demands to cancel the advertising offset by the insistence of the constitutional judges and adherent to the position."

The influx of a large number of judges on the headquarters of the Judges Club main street Champollion in central Cairo on Thursday evening, Tuesday, to participate in the sit-in, and held seminars between judges and prosecutors protesters with Chancellor "ulna", on the crisis in the Constitutional Declaration and the need to continue their sit-in, even realized their demands in defense for the independence of the judiciary and in order to state the rule of law. -->

Tahtawi President of the Office of the President (not retreat from the constitutional declaration iota)

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Ambassador Tahtawi President Presidential Cabinet that does not retreat from the constitutional declaration iota and he supports put constitutional declaration to a referendum because it is confident in accordance with the indications of the presidency that the majority of the Egyptian people supported the constitutional declaration last issued by Dr. Mohamed Morsi President, This comes as announced that all political currents except freedom and Justice Party and its allies from the religious parties refusing full President Marina recent decisions which they considered as to perpetuate dictatorial rule again
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7 billionaires in Egypt, most of their wealth concentrated in the Sawiris family and Mansour

7 billionaires in Egypt, most of their wealth concentrated in the Sawiris family and Mansour
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Forbes magazine revealed the U.S. revealed that Egypt has the largest number of billionaires in the continent of Africa, where there has 7 billionaires, noting that the majority of the wealth of those billionaires concentrated between the two families only, namely, the Sawiris family and the family of Mansour.
According to the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram, the magazine pointed out - in its annual report on the distribution of capital on the African continent - the statistics prepared by the researchers magazine about rich people in Africa have shown that the continent has the 40 men own about 649 billion.
The newspaper added that the statistics reflect the growing interest in investment and economic activities in all regions of the continent, from South Africa to the south of Morocco in the north and Egypt in the east.
And the richest African continent, Nigeria's ALICO Danjuta came in first place among the rich African wealth is estimated at $ 10.1 billion, and in second place was South African Nicky Oppenheimer, which is the pole of diamonds in Africa's wealth is estimated at $ 6.5 billion, while occupied by the Sawiris family Centers: III, VII, and XII, where Nassif Sawiris came in third place with $ 4.75 billion, and Naguib Sawiris, ranked seventh by about $ 2.9 billion, and Sawiris in twelfth place about 2.6 billion dollars.
The family occupied Mansour centers thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, where he served Mohamed Mansour, Minister of Transport, former 13th place with $ 1.7 billion, and Yassin Mansour, Youssef Mansour came in the fourteenth and the fifteenth to $ 1.55 billion, and the filling of Mohamed Al Fayed ranked sixth ten with $ 1.3 billion.
As stated Shafik Gabr Egyptian businessman who was ranked ninth session.
Forbes said that the list of wealthy Africans focused on the citizens of African countries, and thus were excluded potential members such as the Sudanese-born billionaire Mohammed Ibrahim, who holds British citizenship.

Rare Civil War photos document life between battles

America's Civil War, whose 150th anniversary is marked on Tuesday, is so often described in battles — the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fort Sumter — that it may be easy to forget that the soldiers who fought in the four-year war had a lot of time between fighting. The rare photos seen below document just that — the time soldiers spent waiting, preparing, recovering or just living.

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"We wanted to show more of the daily life of these people and remind people that they were living their lives in the middle of this horrible war and there was a lot of daily living going on," says Kelly Knauer, editor of "TIME The Civil War: An Illustrated History."
He points out that because of where camera technology was at the time, the in-between was much of what was photographed during the Civil War, since battle scene photos would often come out too blurry. The war marks one of the first times dead bodies were photographed. Another thing that comes out of some of the photos is a time truly left in the past, when family members and nearly entire towns would travel with the men to their battlegrounds.
As Knauer notes: "When they went to war, they took their whole families with them."

Russia releases Gagarin's secret last words

One of the last things Yuri Gagarin did before making his pioneering voyage into space 50 years ago was make sure he had enough sausage to last him on the trip back home to Moscow.
This tidbit was among more than 700 pages of once-secret material linked to the life and times of the world's first spaceman that were released by Russia ahead of the April 12 anniversary.
The historic space shot turned Gagarin into an instant celebrity whose boyish charms became a powerful propaganda weapon for the Soviet Union as it scrambled to win its ideological battle against the United States during the Cold War.
His boy-next-door grin and outsized helmet became a staple of Soviet stamps while his heroism turned into a subject of elementary school literature that became comparable to the teachings of Lenin.
Russian authorities -- with their own space programme in trouble -- have grabbed on to that glory by making the Gagarin celebrations into a national event stretching from the halls of the Kremlin to the International Space Station.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is planning a visit to the mission control centre outside Moscow while his mentor and predecessor Vladimir Putin will hold his own meeting with Russian and Ukrainian cosmonauts in Ukraine.
But making the biggest news among Russians this weekend were files revealing the conversation Gagarin had while strapped into his capsule with chief rocket designer Sergei Korolyov -- a man who became a legend in his own right.
Gagarin is best remembered by a generation of Russian for pronouncing "Poyekhali!" as his Vostok spacecraft lifted off the ground.
The phrase can be translated as either "Let's Go!" or "We're Off!" and is now a regular part of the Russian lexicon.

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But the Russian Internet was abuzz with what Gagarin said moments before his famous catchphrase.
One of Korolyov's biggest worries appeared to be that the would-be hero had enough to eat once he touched down on Earth.
"There in the flap you have dinner, supper and breakfast," the father of the Soviet rocket programme told Gagarin by radio as the clock ticked down.
"Got it," Gagarin replied in comments originally posted on the lifenews.ru website.
"You've got sausage, candy and jam to go with the tea," Korolyov went on. "Sixty-three pieces -- you'll get fat! When you get back today, eat everything right away."
Gagarin joked back: "The main thing is that there is sausage -- to go with the moonshine."
Korolyov appeared to take the joke in stride.
"Damn. This thing is recording everything, the bastard," the scientist said in reference to the relay recorders.
The website also published a photograph of the original faded sheet on which the conversation is transcribed.
Lifenews.ru added that Gagarin appeared to be singing and whistling to himself while mission control continued conducting various last-minute checks.
Not all of them went smoothly.
Gagarin at one point is told to rip off some adhesive tape and adjust a piece of equipment because "we forgot to tape that thing".
He is later told that access hatch would have to be readjusted because "one of the contacts failed to light up" on the mission control panel.
Gagarin appeared to take everything in stride and began happily reporting all he saw once his spacecraft was finally aloft.
Various historians noted that one of the Soviet officials' biggest fears was that their cosmonaut would lose consciousness once he became weightless.
"The sensation of weightlessness feels nice," Gagarin reported to ground control at one point. "Everything is swimming."

Harvard twins stuck with Facebook agreement

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg can't undo their settlement over creation of the social networking site.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were savvy enough to understand what they were agreeing to when they signed the agreement in 2008. The deal called for a $20 million cash payment and a partial ownership of Facebook. A third classmate, Divya Narendra, was part of the settlement with the twins but did not pursue the second lawsuit seeking to undo the agreement.

Monday's ruling upholds a lower court decision enforcing the settlement during the six years of litigation that grew so contentious that the dispute was dramatized in the Oscar-nominated film, "The Social Network."

The settlement is now worth more than $160 million because of Facebook's increased valuation.

The twins had alleged they were misled about Facebook's value when they agreed to settle their lawsuit that claimed Zuckerberg stole their idea to launch Facebook.

"At some point, litigation must come to an end," chief justice Alex Kozinksi wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel "That point has now been reached."

The twins alleged they were misled into believing the company was worth $35.90 a share because of an investment by Microsoft Corp. But they argued that the company later valued the company at $8.88 for tax purposes. The twins argue they would have demanded more stock in the company based on the lower valuation.

Kozinski said the twins were "sophisticated parties" when they agreed to the settlement during a mediation meeting.

"They brought half-a-dozen lawyers to the mediation," Kozinksi wrote.

Facebook said Monday it was pleased by the ruling. Lawyers for the Winklevoss twins said they are reviewing the decision and have not decided on their next step. The twins could ask the Supreme Court to consider the case.

First F-Bomb in Oscars History Plus a Few Other Funny Moments

First F-Bomb in Oscars History Plus a Few Other Funny Moments

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Much of the pre-show discussion for this year's Oscars revolved around co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco. Sure, they're popular young movie stars who have been successful hosting "Saturday Night Live," but asking them to host the highest-profile live event in entertainment was a considerable risk. Ninety minutes into the show, you have to wonder whether it was a risk worth taking.
Melissa Leo's bleeped-out F-bomb during her acceptance of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar -- the first in Oscars history, the Academy confirmed to Variety -- nearly made up for the rambling nature of the rest of her speech. "I'm just shaking in my boots here," Leo said when she received her trophy. "I am kind of speechless. When I watched Kate [Winslet] two years ago it looked so much [expletive] easier." Backstage, Leo apologized for her language, saying: "I really don't mean to offend, and it's probably a very inappropriate place to use that particular word."
Kirk Douglas, looking healthier after his stroke than he did when he appeared on the show a few years ago, wringed some chuckles out of his protracted announcement of the award he eventually handed to Leo. Franco's joke about the technical award winners being "nerds" was a nice touch too, but the biggest laugh of the night might have been a cameo appearance by Franco's grandmother, pointing out that she just saw "Marky Mark."

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Hathaway and Franco have certainly been game -- Hathaway is giving it her all; you half expect her to hold up an "Applause" sign and break into a tap-dance -- but there's a reason the show is usually hosted by comics. Hathaway got the hosts' biggest laugh with her "Brown Duck" character in the show's opening sequence -- in which the she and Franco were digitally inserted into the Best Picture nominees, an old Oscar standby -- but on the whole, the actors have been stranded in a show with little excitement, jokes or spontaneity. When one of your first gags is to have Franco coming out in a dress, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel from the get-go.
In any event, the show had a few fun moments. The aforementioned "Brown Duck" moment was a spoof of "The Black Swan," except instead of having Natalie Portman being upstaged by a younger Mila Kunis, Anne Hathaway, via digital wizardry, flailed about alongside Ms. Portman like a Thanksgiving turkey in a tutu.

The inevitable Franco-in-a-dress moment came via his homage to Marilyn Monroe's slinky, hot-pink getup from "Gentleman Prefer Blondes." (Franco raised a few eyebrows back in October when he went full-on cross-dresser for Candy magazine.)  As Franco emerged in his skintight, satin dress and blonde wig, he told Anne Hathaway -- who had donned a tuxedo and sparkly heels for a Tonys-esque riff on the Les Miserables song "On My Own" -- that if she got to wear a suit that it was only fair that he get to wear a dress.


Funnily enough, some of the most interesting moments came by way of James Franco's Twitter posts, including a video Franco himself shot from his phone as the curtain lifted on the Oscars broadcast.

Photos: Risk-Takers on the Red Carpet >>

But on the whole: The relatively dull show has made us miss controversial Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais. The good news: The show is likely running over, so there are probably three more hours of fun awaiting us.


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Moscow airport terror attack kills 31, wounds 168

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MOSCOW – Russian investigators say two Britons are among the more than 30 people killed in a suicide bombing at Moscow's busiest airport.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin has not identified the two British citizens who died in the explosion at Domodedovo Airport. Nearly 170 people were wounded in Monday's explosion.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A suicide bomber carrying a suitcase walked into Moscow's busiest airport and set off a huge explosion Monday, killing at least 31 people and wounding nearly 170, witnesses said.
The international arrivals terminal at Domodedovo Airport was engulfed by smoke and splattered with body parts after the mid-afternoon terror attack sprayed shrapnel, screws and ball bearings at passengers and workers in a loosely guarded area. Hundreds of people were in the area at the time.
President Dmitry Medvedev immediately ordered authorities to beef up security at Moscow's two other commercial airports and other key transport facilities. He also canceled plans to fly out Tuesday to Davos, Switzerland, where he aimed to promote Russia as a profitable investment haven to world business leaders.
Monday's attack was most likely carried out by a suicide bomber and "attempts were being made to identify him," Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said. The Interfax news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said the head of the suspected bomber had been found.

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No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion, which occurred at 4:32 p.m. (1342GMT). But Chechen militants have claimed responsibility for previous terror attacks in Moscow, including a double suicide bombing on the subway in March 2010 that killed 40 people and wounded more than 100.
The attack also called into question Russia's ability to safely host major international sports events like the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2018 World Cup. It was the second time in seven years that terrorists had hit the Domodedovo airport: In 2004, other suicide bombers penetrated the lax security there, killing 90 people as they blew up two planes.
Large-scale battles in Chechnya ended years ago, following two devastating wars between Russia and the republic's separatists, but Islamic militants have continued to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks. Most of the attacks have been in Chechnya and other predominantly Muslim provinces in the southern Caucasus region, but some have targeted Moscow, including its subways, buses and trains.
In Washington, President Barack Obama condemned the "outrageous act of terrorism" in Moscow and offered any assistance Russians investigators may want.
Amateur video posted on YouTube showed a pile of bodies on the floor airport floor, and other bodies scattered around. Luggage lay strewn across the ground and several small fires burned. A dazed man in a suit pushed a baggage cart through the carnage.
A man in blood-soaked clothes said he was just a few yards (meters) away from the explosion and saw a man who may have been the suicide bomber.
"I saw the suitcase, the suitcase was on fire," said Artyom Zhilenkov, a 35-year-old driver. "So, either the man blew up something, or something went off on the man's body, or the suitcase went off."
Zhilenkov said he thought he had been severely injured, but doctors told him was just coated in other victims' blood.
"The guy standing next to me was torn to pieces," he said.
Domodedovo Airport spokeswoman Yelena Galanova said 35 people were killed and scores were injured. The Emergencies Ministry, however, said 31 people were killed, 74 hospitalized with injuries and 94 were given medical treatment. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.
Car rental agent Alexei Spiridonov, 25, was at his desk when the blast struck about 100 yards (meters) away.
"The explosion was so strong that it threw me against the wall," he told The Associated Press outside the airport. "People were panicking, rushing out of the hall or looking for their relatives. There were people just lying in blood."
Yelena Zatserkovnaya, a Lufthansa official, said airport workers used baggage trolleys to cart out the injured.
"There was lots of blood, severed legs flying around," she said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered health officials to make sure all victims received immediate treatment.
Sergei Lavochkin, who was waiting in the arrivals hall for a friend to arrive from Cuba, said passengers sprinted out of the terminal and emergency teams carried those unable to walk.
"I heard a loud bang, saw plastic panels falling down from the ceiling and heard people screaming. Then people started running away," Lavochkin told Rossiya 24 television.
Aviation security experts have been warning since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that the crowds at many airports present tempting targets to suicide bombers.
"Airports are by their nature crowded places, with meeters, greeters, commercial businesses, and so on," said Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International, a London-based publication dedicated to security issues.
Domodedovo was briefly closed to air traffic immediately after the blast, but soon reopened. Hours later, passengers arriving for their flights lined up outside waiting to pass through metal detectors that had been installed at all entrances.
Built in 1964, Domodedovo is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) southeast of Moscow and is the largest of the three major airports that serve the Russian capital, handling over 22 million people last year. It is generally regarded as Moscow's most up-to-date airport, but its security procedures have been called into question.
In 2004, two suicide bombers were able to board planes at Domodedovo by buying tickets illegally from airport personnel. The female bombers blew themselves up in mid-air, killing all 90 people aboard the two flights.
Some 77 airlines now offer regular flights to Domodedovo, serving 241 international and national routes, according to airport's website.
The airport insists that security is one of its top priorities, claiming on its website that its "cutting-edge operations technology guarantees the safety of passengers' and guests' lives."
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was "deeply disturbed" by the terror attack.
"I strongly condemn it," he said on Twitter. "NATO and Russia stand together in the fight against terrorism."
It was not clear late Monday if Medvedev would still give the opening address Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was in St. Petersburg over the weekend to formally award Russia the 2018 World Cup. Prior to the signing, Putin assured him that FIFA had made the right choice

Miss Nebraska wins 2011 Miss America pageant

A 17-year-old aspiring politician from Nebraska captured the Miss America crown on Saturday after beating 52 other young women from across the United States.
Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown at the competition at the Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas, giving the Cornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.
Pageant officials said she was the youngest Miss America since the pageant's first competition in 1921, when Margaret Gorman of the District of Columbia won at age 15. But the organization's website listed at least two other young women who were younger than Scanlan when they won: Marian Bergeron of Connecticut, who was 15 1/2 when she won in 1933, and California's Rosemary LaPlanche, who was 16 in 1940 and later found to be ineligible because of age limits implemented two years before.
Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady won $25,000 as first runner-up, while Miss Hawaii Jalee Fuselier won $20,000 for third place.
Scanlan, a recent high school graduate from the western Nebraska town of Gering, planned to study American politics at Patrick Henry College in Virginia after her reign as Miss America.
She also hoped to attend law school, become a judge and eventually a politician, according to her pageant biography.
Scanlan won after strutting in a black bikini and a white evening gown, playing "White Water Chopped Sticks" on piano and telling the audience that when it comes to the website Wikileaks, security should come before public access to government information.
"You know when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first and then people's right to know, because it's so important that everybody who's in our borders is safe and so we can't let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly," she said.
The contestants — from every state plus the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico — started the show by dancing up the aisles while wearing silver cocktail dresses.
A panel of seven judges eyed them for looks and fitness. The competition included evening gown, talent and interview portions, with eliminations for 15 finalists, then 12, then 10, five and finally the winner along the way.
The judges had picked Miss Oklahoma Emoly West; Miss Texas Ashley Melnick; Miss Rhode Island Deborah Saint-Vil; Miss Utah Christina Lowe; Miss Washington Jacquie Brown; Miss Arizona Kathryn Bulkley; Miss Virginia Caitlin Uze, and Miss California Arianna Afsar.
Fans voted in Miss New York Claire Buffie and Miss Delaware Kayla Martell.
And in a first-ever twist for the contest, the young women picked two finalists themselves, Miss Kentucky Djuan Trent and Miss Oregon Stephenie Denise Steers.
In her introduction to the audience, Bulkley dedicated her performance to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head last week in Tucson. Bulkley called Giffords her mentor.
The pageant celebrated its 90th anniversary this year.