Convention on the prohibition of production, accumulation, use and destruction of chemical weapons. We signed in 1993, ratified in 1997, and by April 29, 2000 we had to destroy one percent of 40 thousand tons of their poisoning reserves - 400 tons. But even tons have not yet been eliminated.

newspaper, answers Graney.Ru's questions . editor-in-chief of the First September Artem Soloveichik, N.Kh.: From February 21 to March 1, a competition announced by the Ministry of Education with the long title "Control measuring materials and technological support for testing within the framework of the experiment on the unified state exam" is being held. Its task is to determine the content of the unified exam, the technology of its conduct and organizations capable of conducting testing.

Exactly seven years ago, on February 21, 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Ames was unexpectedly summoned to the office. He stepped down from the porch of his home in Arlington, Virginia, and got into his red Jaguar. It was a holiday, Presidents Day, and Ames went to work in an informal suit. A block and a half from the house, he had to slow down: two cars ahead of him stupidly stood up, blocking the way.

The disposal of Russian chemical weapons deposits requires from 3 to 6 billion US dollars. At the same time, the West, with its financial, technical and technological capabilities, plays the main role in the elimination of WA. The story of debts to the Paris Club has once again confirmed that Moscow today (as well as yesterday) has no time for destroying chemical weapons on its own. According to the agreements, Russia is assisted by the United States and Western European countries.

On the eve of the visit of Vladimir Putin to Stockholm, Swedish counterparties exposed the Russian spy. SEPO security police detained a person suspected of spying, especially dangerous for Sweden. According to the newspaper Expressen, we are talking about espionage in favor of Russia. The personality of the detainee is not disclosed, but a source in SPO said that he is an employee of one of the commercial structures.

A person suspected of espionage in favor of Russia was detained on Tuesday by the SEPO security police right at the workplace - at the ABB Power Systems concern enterprise in the small Swedish town of Ludwick. The profession of the suspect (he was engaged in technical developments in the field of electricity transmission) suggests that we are talking about industrial espionage.

The circumstances of the arrest of Robert Philip Hanssen are such that it is time to doubt whether this is just a spy case. On the one hand, the obvious success of the FBI , on the other hand, a blow to his prestige (after all, Hanssen is an employee of this institution). To assess the situation, we must remember that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was returned a monopoly on counterintelligence inside the country a little more than a month ago.

When at the end of May last year, the current Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dvinzhich came to Moscow for the last time - as part of the delegation of the Yugoslav opposition, along with Vuok Drashkovich and the "some kind of" warriorship nurse - Russian officials almost defiantly ignored him and his colleagues. The only official person met with them was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Avdeev - a man, of course, is very influential, but still not a minister.