In the Cheboksary and Shemurshinsky districts of Chuvashia, two centers of public access to the Internet have been opened, RIA Novosti reports. Each center is equipped with five modern computers, a laser printer and network equipment provided by the Ministry of Economic Development. This project was implemented jointly by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Administration of the President of the Chuvash Republic.

Four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia were killed and one was injured as a result of the explosion of the Government House in Grozny, ITAR-TASS reports, citing a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. During the terrorist attack, senior police warrant officer Mikhail Balaev, sergeants Azamat Tsechoev and Ruslan Chapanov, senior police lieutenant Hussein Tsechoev were killed, and Timur Astamirov was injured.

Footballer of the English "Manchester" David Beckham in the coming days will become a player in Madrid "Real". According to RIA Novosti, Real Madrid will pay 60 million euros for the English football star. The Madrid club must pay off Manchester in full within 4 years. For several months in a row between the president of "Real" Florentino Perez and the president of "Manchester" Roland Smith there were secret negotiations about the transfer of Beckham from club to club.

Plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Southern Federal District Viktor Kazantsev held a meeting on Saturday evening Headquarters for liquidation of the consequences of the terrorist act in Grozny. According to Interfax, the meeting was attended by representatives of federal departments and the presidential envoy's office. Kazantsev said that the organizers of the attack failed to sow panic among the leadership of the republic and the local population.

The Pentagon ordered the US Navy to prepare to send two aircraft carriers and two landing ships to the Persian Gulf. They will take part in a possible military operation in Iraq. It is reported by AP with reference to the official representatives of the US military leadership. The transfer order must be completed within 96 hours of the specified deadline. Sources do not give exact dates.

Tigran Naghdalyan, chairman of the public television and radio company, was killed in Yerevan on Saturday evening, Interfax reports citing representatives of the Armenian Foreign Ministry. Around 19.30 local time, he was brought to the third Yerevan hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. Naghdalyan died in the hospital during an operation. According to Armenian television, unknown criminals shot at Naghdalian when he was leaving his parents' apartment.

Iraq has given UN officials a list of scientists associated with Iraq's chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs, AP reported. In this list, according to the UN representatives, more than 500 names. The UN inspectors were given permission to speak with the scientists in private. This condition, together with guarantees of non-disclosure of the source of information, should, according to UN officials, encourage scientists to talk about clandestine weapons development in Iraq.

A lightning strike disrupted a football tournament in Benoni, a suburb of Johannesburg. On Friday, about a thousand football fans witnessed how lightning struck the center of the field, knocking down all the players, RIA Novosti reports. One player died on the spot, six more people are in a state of shock. The competition taking place in Benoni is held for the third year in a row in the last two weeks of the outgoing year.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned Friday's terrorist attack in Grozny. "This type of violence can never be justified. All forms of terrorism must be ended," the spokesman said. prime minister. The head of the British government, who is in Egypt, expressed his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack and the relatives of the victims, Interfax reports.

An auxiliary worker stole more than 1 million rubles by hiding in a refrigerator, sources in the police department of the capital told Interfax. Last Wednesday, the administrator of a commercial enterprise contacted the police. He stated that on Wednesday night, an auxiliary worker, hiding in the refrigerator compartment of warehouse # 9 of the Novye Cheryomushki CJSC, stole 1,280,000 rubles and a radiotelephone from a cash register.

The Russian Foreign Ministry calls the terrorist attack in Grozny a reaction of international terrorism to the settlement policy pursued by the Russian president and government in Chechnya. This is stated in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on Saturday.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Grozny, an employee of the Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, senior sergeant Dmitry Makarov, died. He was 24 years old. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the GUIN, Dmitry's body will be brought to St. Petersburg in the near future. Injuries of varying severity were received by two employees of pre-trial detention centers #1 and #5 and two commando officer.

On Saturday, negotiations between representatives of the trade unions of Yakut air traffic controllers and the Ministry of Transport ended in Moscow, Interfax reports. According to the president of the Federation of Trade Unions of Air Traffic Controllers (FPAD) of Russia, Sergey Kovalev, the trade unions and the Ministry of Transport have reached a compromise on the issue of raising wages for employees of air navigation enterprises in Yakutia.

In the Chukotka village of Coal Mines at the Anadyrskaya mine, rescuers found under the rubble the body of one of the three miners who were in the face. The collapse of the rock at the mine occurred on Friday evening. The height of the rubble is 3 meters. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the body of the deceased miner was strongly crushed by the collapsed rock.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, expressed condolences in connection with the death of people as a result of a terrorist attack in Grozny, Interfax reports. At the same time, Powell emphasized the need to unite efforts in the fight against terrorism. In addition, ministers also discussed the emerging situation around the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya.