The Indian-ruled state of Kashmir is holding its last round of elections for the state legislature on Tuesday, BBC reports. On the day of the election, the separatists carried out another act of violence. Early in the morning they attacked a polling station in the city of Doda, opening fire and throwing grenades at the polling station. As a result of the ensuing shootout, one soldier and one of the militants were killed.

A powerful cyclone hit Kamchatka, accompanied by heavy rain and gusty winds. In connection with the cyclone, a storm warning has been issued on the peninsula, Interfax reports. Classes have been canceled in the schools of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and all maritime ships have been warned to take shelter in bays.

Today, 14 Palestinians became victims of an Israeli military raid in the city of Khan Yunis, Reuters reports. 80 people were injured, 10 of them are in critical condition. Representatives of the Palestinian hospital, where the wounded and killed were sent, say that all the dead were civilians. 10 people were killed by a rocket fired from a helicopter into a crowd gathered near the mosque.

An exhibition of one of the most radical artists of the sixties, a prominent representative of the legendary Moscow underground - Mikhail Roginsky opens on Tuesday at the State Tretyakov Gallery (TG). According to a RIA Novosti correspondent, the Pedestrian Zone exposition is shown as part of the Classics of Unofficial Russian Art program.

In the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya, a major operation of federal forces is taking place on Tuesday to neutralize a group of militants, which includes many Arab mercenaries. According to RIA Novosti, according to Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the Regional Operational Headquarters for the management of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, the group was discovered by local residents, who reported its movements to law enforcement agencies.

The recommendation of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to the Georgian authorities not to extradite Chechen fighters to Russia caused "open bewilderment" in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a statement by representatives of the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The future government of Germany intends to revise the current principle of manning the country's armed forces on the basis of military conscription, Interfax reports. This was stated by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after the next stage of negotiations between the Social Democrats and the Greens on the formation of a new government coalition.

On Monday, a police detachment in Khanty-Mansiysk detained a Ural truck specially equipped for transporting explosives, Tyumenskaya Liniya news agency reports. The car contained 6 kilograms 100 grams of RDX, a detonator, 25 meters of detonating cord and six boosters. The car, as the driver explained, was moving from Noyabrsk towards the Priobskoye field. While the explosives are seized, the case is under investigation.

The latest audio recording of Osama bin Laden, which was broadcast by the Al Jazeera TV channel last Sunday, is genuine, according to Washington. about it The British Times writes . However, experts have no reason to believe that it was made recently. Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of the Al Jazeera news service, Ibrahim Hilal, said that he received this recording 2 hours before it went on air.

The representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) positively assessed the activity of the Russian authorities on the return of Chechen migrants from Ingushetia to Chechnya, reports Interfax. "We must welcome the desire of the authorities to put an end to tent cities, because it is an open wound on the body Russia," said Josef Bjorke, Acting Regional Representative of the UNHCR in the Russian Federation, at a round table meeting in Moscow on Tuesday.

A major car accident occurred on the outskirts of Bangkok, as a result of which 7 people died, RIA Novosti reports. The passenger bus lost control and jumped onto the pavement at high speed. He crushed four passers-by, a car and a minibus, in which there were three people. They all died. The passengers on the killer bus survived, although many were seriously injured and taken to the hospital. Police have arrested a 30-year-old bus driver who faces a 10-year prison sentence if found guilty.

On Tuesday, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court considered a constitutional complaint on a lawsuit filed by the regional prosecutor's office in the case of physicist Valentin Danilov, accused of spying for China. According to Interfax, the court upheld the decision of the Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk regarding the release of the scientist from custody. The regional court motivated this by the fact that the main investigative actions in the Danilov case had been completed.

http://nanayka.narod.ru/foto.html The former soloist of the group "Na-on" Vladimir Levkin was stolen by a car, Interfax reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. On Monday, around 22.00, at the exit of the store on New Arbat in Moscow, three unknown people attacked Levkin. According to RIA Novosti, the attack occurred at the moment when the singer left his girlfriend's house on Plyushchikha Street.

Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, considers the proposals unacceptable "United Russia" to increase the threshold for parties to enter the State Duma of the Russian Federation from 5 to 12.5 percent, Interfax reports. "Question about increasing the threshold for parties to enter the State Duma can be discussed and is being discussed, but the radical proposals of United Russia are simply unacceptable," Surkov said.

Now in Russia, out of every hundred thousand people, 148 people are infected with HIV, Interfax reports. Such data was given on Tuesday at a press conference in Moscow by the chairman of the Moscow Health Committee Andrey Seltsovsky. He noted that the highest incidence rates HIV infection was registered in the Irkutsk region (488.3 per 100 thousand), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (483.2), Samara (463.3), Kaliningrad (407), Sverdlovsk (373.4) regions, St.