Minister of Justice of Ukraine Oleksandr Lavrynovych considers unlawful the decision of the judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal Yuriy Vasilenko to initiate a criminal case against Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Interfax reports.

On Monday, an elderly Muscovite died as a result of an attack by her pet, a pit bull terrier. As Interfax was told by sources in the police department of the capital, the body of a 61-year-old woman was found around 20.10 in the apartment of house 8 on 1st Veshnyakovskiy proezd. Arrived at the scene, the rescue service euthanized the aggressive animal.

Over the past two days, hackers have disabled three editorial computers of the Georgian newspaper Tribuna with the help of trap letters, Interfax reports. The independent newspaper "Tribuna", which began to appear not many more than a month ago, on the eve of a disrupted football match between the national teams of Georgia and Russia, she came out with a special number openly anti-Russian.

In Omsk, the January norm of snow fell over the past day. There is an emergency situation on the roads, the power system is working intermittently, RIA Novosti reports. Specialists of the Omsk Hydrometeorological Center explain heavy snowfalls as an extremely rare natural phenomenon for these latitudes - the combination of the surface and high-altitude centers of an active cyclone, into which three frontal systems have merged at once.

The FBI concluded that the Bali bombings were carried out by an "experienced terrorist group" because the attacks were well coordinated and used a large amount of high-tech explosives, and the attacks were skillfully coordinated. This is reported by Reuters. Based on this, FBI representatives make the assumption that al-Qaeda, one of the few capable of organizing such large-scale terrorist attacks, may be involved in organizing the explosions.

Photo AP On Monday, Ferfax County (Virginia) again fired. This was reported by the AR with reference to the police. In the evening, in the parking lot at the Home Depot shopping center, a woman was killed by a woman was killed by a woman in the quarter of the Home Depot in the quarter of Covenen-Kornerz (15 km west of Washington). All roads to the place of murder are blocked, police officers write down the numbers of all machines that are cordoned.

The killer of the 11-year-old son of a German banker pleaded guilty to all charges, AP reports. 27-year-old law student Magnus Gäfgen described the crime in detail from the beginning of the intent to the moment he disposed of the child's body. Agency sources did not say anything about the motives for this brutal crime.

Census results in Chechnya are not sensational. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Interfax, the special representative of the president of Russia on observance of human and civil rights and freedoms in Chechnya Abdul-Khakim Sultygov. As a result of the current census, it turned out that the population of the republic exceeds a million people. According to the results of the 1989 census, the permanent population of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was 1.27 million people.

The city of Daloa is rocked by explosions and gunfire, according to Reuters. The rebels refused to negotiate a ceasefire and accused the Angolan leadership of intending to send troops to Côte d'Ivoire in order to help the forces of President Gbagbo. Earlier, state television in Côte d'Ivoire reported that Daloa - the country's third largest city and the center of the "cocoa belt" - was taken under control by government forces.

US President George W. Bush said on Monday that "similar attacks" by terrorists in Kuwait, Indonesia and Yemen raise fears that al-Qaeda is back on the move and ready to strike America. AR reports. "This is a reminder of how dangerous the world can be if al-Qaeda terrorists roam freely," Bush said. The President of the United States expressed his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attacks on the island of Bali, which killed more than 180 people.

Former US President Jimmy Carter spoke out against incumbent US President George W. Bush for the second time since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, RBC reports citing Sky Radio Network. If for the first time Carter criticized Bush's plans to unleash a war against Iraq, now the Nobel Peace Prize winner has accused the US president of "being in bed" with Israel.

Palestinian National Security Adviser Mohammed Dahlan has submitted his resignation. Yasser Arafat has not accepted it yet, reports Reuters, citing a source in the Palestinian Authority. As the main reason for his resignation, Dahlan points to the too slow pace of progress in administrative and security reforms. Arafat, according to the source, has already informed members of the Fatah Central Committee about Dahlan's decision.

In Primorye, the commander of a military unit was convicted for forcing soldiers to work at his dacha, ITAR-TASS reports. The garrison military court of the city of Fokina sentenced the captain of the 2nd rank to one year of imprisonment on probation. In addition, 8 thousand rubles will be recovered from the commander in favor of the state.

70 people died on a drifting ship that lost its course in the Gulf of Aden, reports AP. On the ship were 120 residents of Somalia and Ethiopia, who were heading to work in one of the countries of the Persian Gulf. The vessel lost its course and drifted for two weeks until it was thrown onto the Somali coast. Most of the people on board the ship died of dehydration.

http://www.coonss.com/images/catholic.jpg The press secretary of the Holy See Hoacin Navarro-Valsa made a statement on Monday, which refers to the "long and purposeful campaign to discredit the Catholic Church" in Russia, BBC reports. In particular, he touched the scandal in connection with the transformation of the Moscow apartment belonging to the Order of the Franciscans into a brothel.