Georgy Kostrykin, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, presented on Monday in Krasnoyarsk the newly elected head of the Territory, Alexander Khloponin, with a certificate of the governor. This is reported by Interfax. The regional election commission last Friday registered Alexander Khloponin as the elected governor of the region.

On October 13, Afghan authorities closed the international airport in Kabul. This decision was made for security reasons. According to ITAR-TASS, Afghan intelligence has information about the upcoming terrorist attacks at this facility. The international airport operates regular flights to Dubai, Delhi and Frankfurt.

The census takers found representatives of rare nationalities in Perm: hobbits and elves. As a Region-Inform-Perm IAA correspondent found out, while filling out the census forms, a group of Perm teenagers in the line "nationality" indicated that they were hobbits and elves. According to some reports, there are several groups of Tolkien fans in Perm. Basically, these are teenagers, often students of prestigious Perm schools.

Employees of the North Caucasian RUBOP, together with OMON fighters of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory, detained field commander Rizvan Chitigov's liaison officer in Chechnya, Interfax reports. This was reported to the agency by the press service of the North Caucasian Operational Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Southern Federal District.

Russian border guards seized five ownerless boxes while inspecting a Moscow-Tbilisi intercity bus, RIA Novosti reports. The bus driver, a citizen of Georgia, said that before leaving Moscow, an unknown person drove up to him in a Mercedes car and, introducing himself as the deputy Georgian ambassador to the Russian Federation, asked him to take boxes to Tbilisi, in which, according to him, there was diplomatic mail. The stranger did not leave accompanying documents for the cargo.

Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov removed from the agenda of the October 17 government meeting the discussion of a new version of the law "On currency regulation and currency control." This law was developed jointly by the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, Kommersant reports. The prime minister considered the draft not liberal enough and sent it back for revision. Kudrin appointed a new deadline for the submission of the project - October 24th.

A humanoid robot capable of helping a person in the construction of a residential building was created by the joint efforts of a number of Japanese companies, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

http://ntvru.com/sport/12Oct2002/5347286567.html UEFA begins its own investigation of the circumstances of the transfer of a football match Georgia-Russia. On Saturday, at the end of the first half, at the Tbilisi stadium, Lokomotiv turned off the lighting, as a result of which the match was crossed and postponed indefinitely.

The investigation has no evidence that could confirm the fact of sabotage during the football match Georgia-Russia, held in Tbilisi last Saturday, reports Interfax. The Ministry of State Security of Georgia opened a criminal case under the article "sabotage" in connection with a power outage at the Tbilisi Lokomotiv stadium during a football match national teams of Georgia and Russia.

US company Cinea is developing new technology to curb pirates who use movie cameras to make illegal copies of films during their screenings in theaters. As reported by BBC News , the system will change the level of light illumination of films when shown in modern digital cinemas. These changes will remain imperceptible to viewers, but will prevent those attempting to film with a digital camera from getting a decent quality copy.

Israeli media tycoon Yakov Nimrodi has been sentenced to hard labor for obstructing the work of law enforcement, AP reported. The owner of the newspaper Maariv must pay a fine of 20,700 dollars and work for 5 months for the benefit of society. A Tel Aviv court barred Nimrodi from serving as president of the board of directors of Maariv and the holding company Haksharat Hayishuv.

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya, a Grom artillery gun belonging to militants was found, RIA Novosti reports. The gun was hidden in the vicinity of the Khaarami pass. In total, seven caches of weapons and ammunition have been liquidated in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. The largest cache was found in the mountainous Shatoi region. It contained eight anti-tank grenade launchers, five shots for them and 60 shots for an underbarrel grenade launcher.

A large-scale anti-criminal operation that began last weekend in South Ossetia was personally led by the president of this self-proclaimed republic, Eduard Kokoity, Interfax-AVN reports. "During the two days of a special operation, in which only the law enforcement forces of South Ossetia are involved, 14 especially dangerous criminals engaged in robbery and robbery were detained, moreover, most of them served in law enforcement agencies," Eduard Kokoity told the agency.

The Spanish newspaper " 20 minutos ", published in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​launched its website on November 9th. Journalists, believing that the traditional system of intellectual property ownership was outdated, made all the materials of their website "copyleft". The license to use all "20 minutos" web publications is based on the Design Science License , developed by Michael Stutz specifically for scientific and art publications.

On Tuesday pre-trial detention center # 1 in Makhachkala will hold preliminary court hearings on the case of two members of Zaur Akavov's sabotage and terrorist group, which was responsible for 13 episodes of terrorist activity in Dagestan in 2001-2002. This is reported by Interfax.