Full restoration of television and radio broadcasting in the territory of the Chechen Republic is planned for 2006. Mikhail Seslavinsky, First Deputy Press Minister of the Russian Federation, told reporters about this on Tuesday.

The Register reports citing an interview with Democracy Now radio station journalist Gregory Palest Hilary Rosen, head of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) until the end of this year, is involved in the development of Iraqi copyright legislation, . Hilary Rosen is known as one of the most active supporters of the fight against piracy and p2p networks, as well as the introduction of strict measures to protect intellectual property.

On Tuesday, at the first special conference of the participating countries on monitoring the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which is taking place in The Hague, a speech by the Russian representative, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrei Nikolaev, is planned. The committee staff told Granyam.ru that the deputy's report contains figures characterizing the state of chemical arsenals in the Russian Federation.

On Tuesday, a helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashed in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Four people were killed - pilots and two tourists (an Irishman and a Colombian). The cause of the crash has not yet been established, according to Reuters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are holding a meeting on Tuesday at the country residence of the head of the Russian state in Novo-Ogaryovo. According to Interfax, the leaders of the two countries met on the alley, hugged and shook hands. For several minutes they spoke in English. Then the President and the Prime Minister entered the building where the talks will take place.

Police officers detained a 33-year-old Kuryan, who was responsible for several rapes. A criminal case has already been initiated against him, Gazeta.Ru reports. The reason for this was the statement of a 25-year-old woman from Kursk. According to the woman, the maniac met her at the intersection of Dzerzhinsky and Verkhnyaya Lugovaya streets at night, blocked the victim's path and dragged her to the entrance of a nearby hostel.

Famous human rights activists Lev Ponomarev (All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights"), Yuri Samodurov (Museum and Public Center named after Andrei Sakharov) and writer Alexander Tkachenko demanded that the heads of special services, law enforcement agencies and the administration of the President of the Russian Federation clarify the situation around the information that recently appeared in Novaya Gazeta that Khanpash Terkibaev, a participant in the Dubrovka hostage-taking, is currently a

The Tverskoy Intermunicipal Court of Moscow on Tuesday returned to considering the claims of former hostages and relatives of those killed at Dubrovka, Interfax reports. According to the lawyer of the victims, Igor Trunov, the court is considering 21 lawsuits. The victims demand compensation for moral damages from the Moscow government. The day before, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tverskoy Court, which dismissed three similar claims. TRAGEDY ON DUBROVKA

A trial is underway in Vancouver over the 1985 bombing of an Air India passenger plane, Reuters reports. The plane was on a Canada-London-India flight. It exploded off the coast of Ireland. As a result, 329 people died. On board the plane, two passengers had two bombs in their luggage. The owners of the luggage remained on the ground.

The Russian military observer of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Major Vyacheslav Budarin, died. As RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry with reference to representatives of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Russian soldier was killed on April 26 during a patrol, blown up by a mine. In the DRC, 28 Russian military observers of the UN mission continue to carry out peacekeeping tasks.

The Russian government intends to borrow $2.2 billion from foreign markets in 2004, and $4 billion in 2005. This, as reported by RIA Novosti, was announced on Tuesday by Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin after a meeting of the Russian government. At the same time, he stressed that the government will seek balance in repaying Russian debts to international financial institutions.

Serbian ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj has been charged in connection with the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in March this year, BBC reports. Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said Seselj was charged with "incitement to terrorism and murder." According to Mihajlovic, 44 other suspects have been charged with similar charges. Vojislav Seselj is now in The Hague, where he is to be tried on war crimes charges. Seselj denies these allegations.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia completed the investigation into the case of explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999. Sources in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Tuesday that at the moment all investigative actions in the case have been completed, the accused and the victims have begun to familiarize themselves with the case materials. TERROR-99: WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH

A student of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University was detained on suspicion of killing his 35-year-old teacher. According to IMA-Press, the corpse of a teacher with multiple stab wounds to the chest, back, face and inguinal region was found in the dormitory of the university on Torzhkovskaya street. In the same place militiamen have found also the suspected pupil of the fifth course.

Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov will run for the State Duma in a single-mandate constituency in the Tula region on behalf of Gennady Seleznev's Party of the Revival of Russia, Gazeta.Ru reports. As Seleznev himself said, meeting on Tuesday with party activists in Krasnoyarsk, "this is our comrade, and we will still have such people in the party."