Photo from the site www.copani.com.ar The list of terrorists scheduled for the destruction of the American intelligence agencies was compiled last year, when the United States was preparing for the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan. It includes the names of Osama Ben Laden, Aiman ​​Al-Za-Hajari and other leaders of al-Qaida with a total of more than two dozen.

Roman Abramovich. Photo from the site http://dumachao.anadyr.ru Sibneft and TNC have excellent chances to win the auction for the sale of 74.95 percent of Slavneft shares, which will be held on December 18. But they are desperately afraid of something. It is no coincidence that a real war was deployed in the business media against the Chinese state company CNS (China National Petroleum Corporation). She was already enlisted by the resolution of MAP. And she achieved participation in the auction.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that two Connecticut-based newspapers cannot be held liable for defamation before a Virginia court. Stanley Young, the warden of the Virginia prison, considered the publications offensive to himself and filed a lawsuit in a Virginia court against the Hartford Courant and New Haven Advocate newspapers .

In Chechnya, a robbery was committed on a car belonging to the prosecutor's office of the Vedensky district of the republic, RIA Novosti was told at the Regional Operational Headquarters. the incident occurred near the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Shali district of Chechnya. A group of militants blocked the car in which the acting officers were. Vedeno district prosecutor and investigator.

An outbreak of streptococcal pneumonia began at the San Diego Naval Base early last week. Miguel Zabala, 18, died at the base on Monday, according to CNN. He went to the hospital with a rash on his ankle, but in a few hours the rash spread throughout his body and he died at night. Doctors do not exclude that it was streptococcus that struck him. There are 50 Marines in the hospital with similar symptoms.

On Tuesday, police lieutenant colonel Tatyana Lukyanova died in a car accident on the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway. This is reported by the Data.Ru agency with reference to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Primorsky Territory. Lukyanova went to the city of Artyom to investigate a criminal case. "Moskvich", in which the deputy head of the department for combating crimes against the person Tatyana Lukyanova was traveling, collided with a truck.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that this week the US administration plans to publish its opinion on Iraq's declaration on weapons of mass destruction. "We will refrain from making a final decision or statement until our analysis is fully completed, supplemented by consultations with the IAEA and UNMOVIC and our UN Security Council colleagues," Powell said. "Then our conclusions will follow. I expect that this will happen at the end of the week, after Mr.

Several people have been detained in Abkhazia, suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of 76-year-old Elena Tkebuchava, the mother of Slavneft vice-president Dzhumber Tkebuchava. This was reported to Interfax by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia, Almasbei Kchach.

US President George W. Bush decided that the deployment of a national missile defense system should begin before 2004, according to the Washington Times. Bush will officially announce this decision on Tuesday at a joint press conference with Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld. Bush's plan calls for the installation of 10 launchers of ground-based interceptor missiles at the Alaskan base of Fort Greeley by the end of 2004. Another 10 units will be installed in 2005 or 2006.

Since October 1, 1999, 4,705 servicemen and law enforcement officers have died in Chechnya, a source at the headquarters of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax-AVN. "During the same time, 13,040 servicemen and policemen were wounded. 28 people are considered missing," the agency's interlocutor said.

Yuri Budanov. Filming NTV The process of Yuri Budanov is close to logical conclusion. The long -awaited third examination recognized the colonel as insane at the time of the murder and organically ill long before. The case is now for the small - for the verdict. Exhausted by this process, the judge of the North Caucasus District Military Court with a severe sigh of relief will send Budanov for treatment so as not to see him anymore. This sentence will be honest.

The accomplice of the terrorists who seized Nord-Ost, identified by the special services, was not a law enforcement officer, Gazeta writes. "This is a Caucasian who maintained constant contact with Movsar Baraev," Major General Sergei Shishin, head of the internal security department of the FSB of Russia, told the publication.

On Monday, the first test train will depart from the Annino station to the new Moscow metro station Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard, RIA Novosti reports. Starting December 20, the section from the Annino station to the Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard station will switch control and signaling devices to the operating section mode. In this regard, from December 20 to December 22, inclusive, trains on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line will run from the Altufievo station to Prazhskaya.

Iosif Kobzon and pediatrician Leonid Roshal, who provided assistance in alleviating the fate of the hostages in the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow, were awarded commemorative diplomas "For Contribution to the Development of the Jewish Community of Russia" - the highest award of the Russian Jewish Congress. According to Interfax, the award ceremony took place on Tuesday at the memorial synagogue on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.

Grani.ru collage On December 12, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov sent a letter to the chairman of the State Duma Gennady Seleznev, which explains why it is inappropriate to send to the Gaga to Slobodan Miloshevich a famous Russian medic, academician Evgeny Chazov.