Moscow and Ashgabat agreed to hold consultations on issues of dual citizenship, RIA Novosti reports. Vladimir Putin held a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday with President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, press secretary of the head of the Russian state Alexei Gromov said.

http://www.ntvru.com/world/23Oct2002/crash.html The Ukrainian parliamentary delegation made a scandal at Khabarovsk Airport, where her plane landed for refueling along the way from Hiroshima to Kyiv. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." After refueling, the crew refused to continue the flight, because he considered a fuel poured into the tanks of the aircraft poorly. According to the pilots, with such a fuel, the plane had to inevitably explode.

The human rights organization Human Rights appealed to EU leaders not to forget the problem of human rights in Chechnya at a holiday in St. Petersburg watch. "European leaders and the US president should not forget the appalling human rights situation in Chechnya as they celebrate," Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of HRW for Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement. "The number of murders and kidnappings makes the Chechen Republic one of the most dangerous places on the ground.

The wives of the CIS heads of state visited the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on Friday as part of a cultural program, Interfax reports. Lyudmila Putina, together with the wives of the leaders of Armenia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, as well as Cyprus, who was accompanied by Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, began to view the exposition in the Golden Storeroom, where they got acquainted with the collection of precious jewelry.

The hand of God. Roden's work. From the site www.rom.on.ca/rodin/ A sculpture of Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Museum of the Grace Arts of Buenos Aires, RIA Novosti reports. We are talking about a 15-centimeter sculptural image of a hand holding a man, one of the "hands of God". Rodin has several compositions on this topic, all of them symbolize creativity. The sculpture is estimated at $ 10 thousand, but its commercial price, according to experts, is much higher.

The World Health Organization has removed Singapore from its list of countries not recommended for visiting due to the SARS outbreak. This decision will come into effect on May 31, 2003. In Singapore, 31 people died from SARS and 206 people were ill with this disease. For 20 days, not a single new case of SARS has been recorded here. SARS has caused significant damage to the country's economy.

A suicide note from former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was found in a private house in Milan. This document has been transferred to the archives of the National Institute of the History of the Italian Liberation Movement. The entry is dated April 27, 1945. It reads: "I was captured today, Friday, in Dongo Square, by the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade. During the arrest and after, I was treated correctly. Mussolini." He was soon executed. Experts confirmed the handwriting of the former Duce.

On Friday, one of the cars in Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's motorcade was involved in a car accident. As a result, two people died and one was injured. The disaster occurred in the east of the country. The Turkish prime minister himself was in another government car in the same motorcade. He was not hurt, according to ITAR-TASS.

Photo from Newsru.com According to preliminary data, 3 people died and 8 were injured as a result of the explosion of the bus in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. This was reported to the faces of the duty unit of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs. The explosion occurred on Derbentskaya Street, the bus was blown up by a landmine. Shards were mortally wounded by the drivers of Oka and the six. The bus driver also died.

A new attack on American servicemen has been carried out in Iraq, according to the Saudi news agency SPA, cited by RIA Novosti. According to the agency, a group of Iraqis fired RPGs and machine guns at an American patrol in the city of Al-Maqdadiya, 100 kilometers north of Baghdad (Diyali province). The Americans arrested nine people who took part in the action.

Rupert Murdok. Photo from the BBC website “But there is no point of view,” Voland once said peremptorily and sent the poor atheist Berlioz straight to the tram. This is exactly what the chairman of the Federal Commission for Communications intends to do, Michael Powell, the dear son of the US Secretary of State, on Monday. A meeting is scheduled for this day, during which the department will revise the current rules for owning the media.

George Bush. Photo AFP US President George Bush is happy that at the moment the largest disagreements between Moscow and Washington are associated with the possibilities of exporting American chicken to Russia. He said this in an interview with Le Figaro. “If we recall that recently our disputes were the field of intercontinental missiles, progress is evident,” the president said.

Mikhail Sinelin has been appointed Head of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister of Russia. This is reported by the Department of Government Information. On the same day, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers was appointed - Oleg Buklemishev.

According to the report "Failing with the Information Revolution" by Bruce Berkowitz, a scientist working in a "think tank" at the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, security concerns prevent the US Central Intelligence Agency from actively implementing information technology, since the CIA prefers the concept of "risk elimination" concept of "risk management".

Copper horseman. Photo by ar If there was the title of "ambassador of an unkind will", then the Japanese government would have to appropriate him to his compatriot Hiro Yamagato, the author of the laser show, which the warehouse promised to please the inhabitants of St. Petersburg on the birthday of the city on May 27.