Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and US Secretary of State Colin Powell agreed not to force a vote on the British-American draft UN Security Council resolution on Iraq. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said this in response to a question from RIA Novosti. According to Ivanov, the parties agreed to continue discussing this project in a constructive spirit, in order to bring positions closer.

In the DC GPP in Moscow, where the terrorists are holding hostages, the situation has deteriorated sharply in the last hour, - Anna Andrianova, one of the hostages held by the terrorists in the building of the cultural center in Moscow, said on the air of Ekho Moskvy. “Something bad is being injected. People began to feel very bad.

There is no panic among the people held hostage in Moscow. This was stated in an interview with reporters on Friday by State Duma deputy Iosif Kobzon, who visited the building of the theater center on Dubrovka occupied by terrorists. "There is no depression and panic in the hall," Kobzon emphasized. At the same time, he noted that the food that the hostages can count on is only in the buffets of the center.

Israeli military entered Jenin. According to Ha'aretz, operations to catch terrorists and search for weapons and explosives are taking place both in the city and in the refugee camp, as well as in the surrounding villages. It is expected that the action will last for several days. The units are commanded by Colonel Moshe Tamir.

The Azerbaijani diaspora of Russia sharply condemned the terrorist act in Moscow. As emphasized in the statement of the Presidium of the All-Russian Azerbaijan Congress, received by RIA Novosti on Friday, hostage-taking "contradicts the moral principles of Islam, the customs and traditions of the peoples of the Caucasus." "We condemn terrorism in any form of its manifestation," the statement said.

Currently, less than 30 children are among the hostages taken at the theater center in Moscow. This was announced to journalists on Friday by Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko. Matviyenko also said that, according to Leonid Roshal, head of the Center for Disaster Medicine, there are no serious concerns about the health of the hostages yet. The Deputy Prime Minister met with relatives of the people taken hostage by the terrorists.

The terrorists are holding from 15 to 20 children in the Theater Center on Dubrovka, which they seized. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, Leonid Roshal, head of the emergency surgery department of the scientific center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told reporters. The day before, he provided medical assistance to sick hostages the day before. According to him, three of these children are sick - one with epilepsy, one with severe bronchitis and one with pneumonia.

On Friday morning, the hostages were allowed to call their relatives on mobile phones and give the following information, the press service of the musical "Nord-Ost" reports : "The situation is very tense. All the hostages are in the hall. They were not fed or watered; they have to cope with natural needs in the orchestra pit. A powerful bomb was planted in the center of the auditorium, the stage and aisles were mined. 15 militants wrapped in explosives are constantly on duty in the hall.

The young woman who died in the House of Culture of the bearing plant was not a hostage. According to NEWSRU.com, this clarification was made today by the head of the Department of Emergency Surgery and Traumatology of the Scientific Center for Children's Health of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Roshal, who visited the hall where the hostages were held the night before.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported that the names and surnames of 23 Ukrainian citizens held hostage by terrorists in the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow have been established, Interfax reports.

There are no more than 20% of Chechens among the terrorists who took hostages in the recreation center of the GPP, Salambek Khadzhiev, a former head of Chechnya and a representative of the Chechen diaspora in Moscow, believes. According to RBC, he expressed this opinion today at a meeting with Russian Minister for Nationalities Vladimir Zorin.

Among the hostages held by terrorists in Moscow is the niece of the wife of the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Vakhtang Rcheulishvili. According to RIA Novosti, Rcheulishvili himself announced this on Friday at a meeting with Valery Goreglyad, First Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council. According to the Georgian parliamentarian, the niece is "a little girl - she is 13 years old." "It turns out that this tragedy directly affected my family," he said.

It was possible to establish the identity of a young woman who died in the theater center in Dubrovka, where the terrorists are holding about 700 hostages. As Moscow prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov told Interfax, this is Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, a native of Moscow, born in 1976, who lived on Dubrovskaya Street. According to the prosecutor, Romanova, who worked as a seller in a perfume shop, lived near the site of the hostage-taking.

Ataman of the Union of Cossack formations Alexander Demin spoke on Friday about his attempt to negotiate with the terrorists who took hostages in theater center in Dubrovka.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko plans to fly to Moscow on Friday. This was announced by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Sergeyev, speaking in parliament on Friday. During the discussion of the situation with the hostage-taking, Taras Chornovil, a member of the Our Ukraine faction, said that a group of people's deputies intended to arrive in Moscow today.