The Georgian leadership once again proposes to Russian representatives to inspect the Pankisi Gorge as part of international observers in order to identify bases of Chechen fighters there. This was stated on Friday at a briefing in Tbilisi by Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman Kakha Sikharulidze. He informed journalists that a few days ago the Georgian side made such a proposal, but no response was received from Moscow.

The daughter of the ex-president of Yugoslavia, Maria Milosevic, was sentenced to 8 months in prison or 2 years probation for illegal possession of weapons and endangering public safety, Interfax reports. This sentence ended the court hearing, which considered her actions on April 1, 2001 during the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic. During negotiations to take the ex-president into custody, she took out a gun and fired 5 shots.

Former candidate for the post of head of Nizhny Novgorod, a businessman with a criminal past Andrey Klimentyev intends to appeal to the Strasbourg Court for Human Rights the decision of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court to remove him from the elections, Interfax reports. The court ruled to cancel his registration as a candidate, while the regional court refused to cancel the district court's decision.

Mohammed Deif, the behind-the-scenes leader of the Hamas militant wing, survived today's Israeli helicopter attack on two vehicles in Gaza. He is injured but his life is out of danger, Hamas sources told Reuters. Representatives of the IDF are sure that Deif was killed. Deif was believed to be the main target of today's Israeli attack, which killed two people and wounded 27. Of these, Palestinian hospitals say at least 15 were civilians under the age of 18.

Jay Johansen. Photo from the site www.geocites.com The Stockholm nugget Johanssen struck the world a few years ago, releasing the Hiskey record, the first composition plunging fans of the highest three-hop at that time into ecstatic comps.

Two people died during a fire in one of the apartments in a house on Lobanova Street in Moscow. The fire department of the capital reported Interfax reported that the fire signal was received by the duty officer in the city around 22:00. The firefighters who arrived at the scene quickly extinguished the fire in the apartment on the sixth floor of house number nine on Lobanova Street. The fire area did not exceed 10 square meters. During the inspection of the apartment, two dead were found.

The State Duma refused to adopt a resolution condemning the idea of ​​restoring the monument to the chairman of the Cheka-OGPU Felix Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Interfax reports. Of the 226 votes required for the adoption of the decision, the draft resolution collected only 145.

Law enforcement agencies have detained a man in Moscow who, under the guise of a high-ranking official of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, has repeatedly received large sums of money from citizens, Interfax reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Off the coast of the Japanese island of Honshu on the night of Thursday to Friday, the ship Sea rose collided with a Russian crew on board, sailing under the flag of Cambodia, and a Japanese fishing vessel. As Interfax was informed at the Vladivostok Rescue Coordination Center, the incident occurred at 2.20 local time in the Sea of ​​Japan near the Knott Peninsula. As a result of the collision, the schooner capsized and sank. Two of the six Japanese fishermen were taken aboard the Sea rose.

A 12-year-old boy from the village of Novye Vysli, Ibresinsky district of Chuvashia, shot his classmate with a toy gun. The children watched an action movie on TV together. Imitating the heroes of the film, the boy jokingly shot the girl with a toy gun loaded with small plastic balls. A bullet-ball hit the schoolgirl's temple, and she lost consciousness, Interfax was told in the Ministry of Health of the Republic.

http://rusf.ru/strannik/ On September 27, in St. Petersburg, the seventh Congress of the fantasy of Russia "Wanderer" opens. It will last until September 29 and collect the leading science fiction writers from Russia and the near abroad. The Congress is attended by Boris Strugatsky, Andrei Stolyarov, Vyacheslav Rybakov and Nick Perumov from St.

Sergey Bodrov. Photo from the site www.news.bbc.co.uk A week has passed since the day of the hanging glacier covered the Karmadon Gorge. Moscow rescuers flew home. There were local ones. But they will most likely give up the place of less qualified strength-some groups to search for the remains of the dead.

Representatives of Russia will be part of a group of UN inspectors who plan to go to Iraq, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told reporters in Moscow on Friday. "About 200 inspectors from 44 states are ready to leave for Iraq," he said.

A Los Angeles jury has ordered US tobacco company Philip Morris to pay $850,000 in damages to a woman with lung cancer. One of the world's largest cigarette manufacturers was sued by 63-year-old Betty Bullock. She claimed that her addiction to smoking was due to the fact that Philip Morris did not properly warn her about the health risks of this habit.

According to the results of a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein, it can be concluded that the Iraqi leader has at least 3 doubles. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the German TV channel ZDF. The ZDF TV channel involved the investigator Dieter Buchmann from Hamburg, who used special facial recognition technology, to investigate. "On the pictures since 1998, there are only Saddam's doubles," Buchmann concluded.