It is assumed that Mikhail Babich will be replaced by Nikolai Aidinov as chairman of the government of the Chechen Republic. This was reported to Interfax by an informed source in Grozny. According to the source, the corresponding decision will be announced in the coming days. A native of Grozny, Aidinov currently serves as the Chechen government's representative to the Russian government.

The Commons email filtering system prevented MPs from discussing the passage of the Sexual Offenses Act. The system was installed after parliamentarians began to complain about the huge amount of pornographic spam and letters containing obscene language. The system now blocks excerpts from the new bill sent to MPs. In addition, she did not miss the document on the issue of censorship.

Argentine Hurricane division goalkeeper Sergio Schulmeister has died by suicide. According to RIA Novosti, the players of his team called the police after Schulmeister did not come to training. Police found the 25-year-old goalkeeper in the kitchen of his home. He was dead. The police declined to comment on the incident until the end of the investigation.

Late Tuesday evening Dynamo Kyiv decided to close the "cases" of Vladislav Vashchuk and Dmitry Sychev, ITAR-TASS reports. Delegations of the leadership of Spartak and Dynamo met in Zurich with the UEFA commission. The Russian club managed to keep Vashchuk, having paid monetary compensation. As soon as the money reaches Dynamo's account, Spartak will immediately receive Vashchuk's transfer certificate.

In Donetsk, Rostov region, a release of ammonia from the cooling unit occurred at the Pamir-1 refrigerated warehouse. According to RIA Novosti, 3 people were poisoned as a result. The release occurred the day before at about noon. As a result of technological damage, about 300 kg of ammonia spilled out, which then spread in the form of a cloud in the air over an area of ​​500 square meters. meters. The population was evacuated from nearby houses.

The UN Security Council "gave the go-ahead" for a six-month stay in Côte d'Ivoire of the French Armed Forces and granted them the right to use force if necessary, reports AFP. A similar authorization was issued by the Armed Forces of the League of West African Countries. Force is allowed to be used in order to ensure the safety of the population in the face of the threat of violence and to maintain the legal regime, states Resolution 1464.

The State Duma adopted on Wednesday in the second reading the draft law "On Amendments to Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation", which establishes criminal liability for violation of copyright and related rights. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

The US space agency's websites were hacked over the weekend. According to the British company Mi2g, the attack targeted nine servers installed at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). These servers ran the Lab's website, on the main page of which the hackers posted political messages against war against Iraq. According to Mi2g, all servers were running Sun Solaris OS. The attack on the JPL servers began on Saturday at 2:00 pm Pacific Coast Time and continued for an hour and a half.

July 17 at the sports complex "Olympic" will be the only concert of the famous Icelandic singer, composer and actress Björk. This was reported to the NTV television company by the tour organizers. The exact program of the Moscow concert has not yet been determined. It is safe to say that Björk will bring to Russia both traditional Icelandic jazz melodies, compositions from the "Selmasongs" album, and his new songs, the organizers explained.

The details of some murder of an American actress, in which the famous music producer Phil Spector is accused, have become known. Lana Clarkson starred in films and became the prototype for one of the heroines of the newer Xena: Warrior Princess series. Her film career was on the decline and she worked as a controller at the House of Blues music club and starred in commercials. Police assume that Lana met Spector at her club hours before her death.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed a law on amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Ukraine, which establishes responsibility for laundering proceeds from crime, Interfax reports. The law was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on January 16.

In California, a small private plane crashed into a residential building. In the city of Middletown, located 130 km from San Francisco, a Cessna aircraft immediately after takeoff crashed into a house belonging to a certain Marsha Levy. According to RIA Novosti, the pilot managed to jump out of the cockpit before the collision. As a result of the incident, the hostess of the house was not injured, however, her cat died.

Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor Paul Fishbeck 9 years ago noted the vulnerability of the lower surface of the wings of the shuttles and warned that if something hit this surface at the time of launch, the shuttle could crash. AR reports. It is this scenario that may have materialized in the case of Columbia. It is possible that a one-kilogram piece of anti-icing foam flew off the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the underside of the wing.

An accident occurred at the Oktyabr cannery in the village of Krasny, 30 km from Tiraspol, RIA Novosti reports. 500 liters of ammonia got into the atmosphere from the pipeline of the refrigerator. According to the operational duty headquarters of civil protection of Pridnestrovie, there are no victims or injured. Firefighters managed to localize the ammonia cloud in 45 minutes. A commission has been set up to investigate the causes of the accident.

In the village of Severskaya, Krasnodar Territory, students of one of the schools printed counterfeit rubles. According to RIA Novosti, the students used ordinary computer equipment for this. They were detained while trying to buy groceries with the printed money. The juvenile detainees were charged under article 186 part 1 "Manufacture or sale of counterfeit money or securities."