The report of the North Ossetian parliamentary commission investigating the tragedy does not confirm the information that the impending attack by militants on a school in Beslan was known in advance. “From the documents provided to us by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it follows that there was no proactive information about the attack,” said the head of the commission, Stanislav Kesaev.

In such areas as peacekeeping, public morality, gender relations, social justice, they speak “with one voice,” said Deputy Head of the DECR Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin in an interview with Interfax. Approximately the same idea was expressed by Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, who was on a visit to Russia and took part in the conference. However, the meeting between Patriarch Alexy II and the cardinal planned for today will not take place.

Unable to turn back the clock and prevent an accident at a chemical plant, China is trying to make amends by helping the Khabarovsk Territory, which suffered from a leak of benzene compounds, assess the extent of the threat to human health.

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! I am writing to you as an independent candidate for deputies of the State Duma in the 201th University District of Moscow. I learned with excitement that you are my voter in these elections. This is a great success for both of us - after all, we are, of course, like -minded people. You have repeatedly declared your commitment to democratic values ​​- I am committed to the same values!

A flight to the Earth's satellite will cost space tourists about $100 million. As Alexey Krasnov, head of the manned programs department of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation, said today, “a comprehensive study of the project is now underway.” In addition to having a solid bank account and excellent health, applicants for the flight will need to be fluent in English. The first lunar travelers can go to the satellite as early as 2007-2008.

Karina Moskalenko and Yuri Schmidt were once again denied a visit to Mikhail Khodorkovsky today. Under a new pretext. The desire of lawyers to meet with their client is not a reason to interrupt his work day in the colony. This rule was introduced in the well-known colony IK/10 in Krasnokamensk. The head of the mentioned penitentiary institution, Alexander Estratov, refused to allow the lawyers to meet, explaining that “all prisoners must work until 18:00, and no exceptions will be made.”

The Naro-Fominsk court of the Moscow region found Tamara Rokhlina guilty of the murder of her own husband, State Duma deputy General Lev Rokhlin. The prosecution asked for four years in prison. However, the court sentenced the woman to the same term, but conditionally. The general's widow, who has already spent more than two years in custody, has been given a probationary period of 2.5 years.

In society All Abramovich is bad for you! November 29, 2005 Anton Oresh The main characters of the sports season, CSKA players, who won the championship and the country's Cup and, for the first time in the history of our football, the European trophy - the UEFA Cup - received gifts on Monday. Gifts, however, turned out to be some strange.

Moscow's energy systems may not be able to withstand extreme cold. RAO UES of Russia plans to carry out power outages in the capital if the air temperature drops to minus 25 degrees or below within three days. The head of the company, Anatoly Chubais, announced this today.