In Brazil, Clonaid on Monday released for the first time a photograph of one of the five children it claims were cloned, Reuters reported. We are talking about the third clone of the five, a Japanese boy. Clonaid representatives also said that a DNA test confirming the child's parentage would soon be carried out in Brazil. It was promised that the photo was posted on website the Clonaid . It is difficult to call it proof of the existence of an absolutely healthy clone.

Anna Neustat. Photo from the site www.lawclinic.ru Anna Neistat, head of the Moscow Bureau of International Human Rights Watch, answers the Grani.ru questions after his recent trip to the North Caucasus. Brani.ru : Anna, are you and your colleagues from Human Rights Watch this time visited Chechnya as observers during a referendum progress? Anna Neistat : No, we were interested in the general situation in Chechnya and Ingushetia, against which the referendum took place.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov considers Afghan President Hamid Karzai's fears expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a war in Iraq could worsen the situation in the country "well-founded". According to RIA Novosti, Karzai believes that the military operation against Iraq could lead to even greater radicalization of certain Islamic extremist circles that operate in Afghanistan itself and from neighboring states and fight against the current interim administration of Afghanistan.

On March 23, in the Velsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, at about one in the morning in the village of Lukinskaya, a pensioner strangled his 38-year-old son with epilepsy with a belt, REGNUM reports. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate, 105 crimes were committed in the Arkhangelsk region over the past weekend, 60 of them were solved in hot pursuit. 39 crimes were committed in Arkhangelsk, 23 of them were solved.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied media claims about the withdrawal of Syrian ambassadors from London and Washington. As the Director of the Information Department of the Syrian Foreign Ministry Buseina Shaaban told RIA Novosti on Tuesday, such reports are not true.

The head of the department of one of the regional military registration and enlistment offices of Novosibirsk was detained while receiving a bribe from a conscript, RIA Novosti reports.

On March 30, in Russia, the clock hands will be moved forward one hour at 2 am, the press service of the State Standard of Russia reports. Summer time in the country is set for the period from March 30, 2003 to October 26, 2003. Summer time has been regularly introduced in Russia since 1981. Now summer time is used by over 100 countries in the world, including all European countries.

Two people were shown on Iraqi television who were announced to be members of the crew of the American Apache helicopter that was shot down last night. This is reported by ABC News. It is not yet known whether these people are really captured pilots. Earlier at a briefing in Qatar, the head of the US Army Central Command, General Tommy Franks, admitted that two helicopter pilots were missing. A few hours later, the Pentagon announced the names of the helicopter pilots.

Under pressure from anti-war protests, South Korea's parliament on Tuesday postponed consideration of a draft resolution to send a contingent of engineering troops and military medics to Iraq. It is reported by RIA Novosti. Near the parliament building of South Korea and other areas of Seoul on Tuesday morning there were demonstrations of protest against the war in Iraq and the sending of South Korean troops there.

The Tula Instrument Design Bureau denies accusations from the United States regarding the supply of the Kornet anti-tank missile system to Iraq. According to the company's official statement released on Tuesday, the Instrument Design Bureau State Unitary Enterprise did not enter into any contacts with Iraq regarding possible deliveries of Kornet complexes and other types of weapons and did not conduct any negotiations about this.

Mikhail Shvydka. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia issued an official warning to the Minister of Culture of Russia Mikhail Shvydkom in connection with an attempt to gratuitous transfer to Germany of the Baldinsky Collection. This is reported by Interfax.

Two new cases of presumably atypical pneumonia have been recorded in Japan, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, a total of 4 people in the country have shown symptoms of this disease. The conclusion about the diagnosis is still preliminary. In Singapore, where the number of infected has reached 740 people, quarantine has been announced in several areas for at least 10 days. 12 Singaporeans are now in critical condition.

US President George W. Bush said at a press conference at the Pentagon that he could not say how long the military operation in Iraq would last, but noted that the coalition forces "are constantly moving forward and have achieved good results." He explained the difficulties faced by the US-British troops by the fact that they are fighting an enemy that "does not recognize the rules and laws," Interfax reports.

Grani.ru collage Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, who signed a document entitled "Analysis of the state of legality and crime in the Russian Federation for 2002", paid special attention to the observance of the rule of law in law enforcement agencies. General Prosecutor General gives harsh assessments. It turns out that crime in law enforcement agencies "blooms with a terry color" (expression of Mr. Ustinov). In total, 20.4 thousand crimes were committed last year.

During the American bombing of Nasiriyah on Monday, the leader of the local branch of the Ba'ath Party, Attiyah Shanin, was killed. Some other members of the party also died with him. This was reported by IRNA with reference to the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution.