Five young girls filed a lawsuit against a certain young man, demanding compensation for moral damages for humiliating the personal dignity of a woman. The girls are supported by the Yekaterinburg public human rights organization "Women's Lawyer". According to representatives of this organization, two girls are demanding compensation in the amount of 3,000 rubles because the young man consistently promised each of them that he would marry, took them to meet his parents, and then left.

Official investigations have been completed in connection with the fire on July 28 in the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division and on August 14 in one of the military units of the Far Eastern Military District. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry, both fires were caused by careless handling of fire.

The World Bank presented a report on the development of the Russian economy with forecasts for the future. According to the Bank's analysts, in 2003 GDP has a chance of growing by 6% (which, by the way, is 0.1% higher than the estimate of the Ministry of Economic Development), but only if oil prices remain high.

Sergey Mironov and Anatoly Kvashnin. Grani.ru collage The commander of the Airborne Forces, most likely, will be appointed Lieutenant General Alexander Kolmakov. This morning he was an interview in the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. This was reported to the granim.ru by a source in the Ministry of Defense. Kolmakov - Deputy Commander of the Troops of the Far Eastern Military District. The 48-year-old lieutenant general spent most of his service in the airborne troops.

In Stavropol, a family of five people was poisoned by poisonous mushrooms, RIA Novosti reports. Doctors were able to save only a four-year-old girl. According to the chief toxicologist of the region, Yuri Sekachev, the family was poisoned by a pale grebe, also called "false champignons." The time of their maturation in the Stavropol steppes is August. At the very beginning of the month, a family of three was poisoned by these mushrooms - no one survived.

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2003/comp-soft-math/cognitive.html The new type of "reasonable" machine, which in the very near future, can significantly change the process of communication of people with computers, was developed in the National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy Sandia Labs (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

Central Bank. Photo from the site www.chronicle.ru The Bank of Russia developed two options for assessing the macroeconomic forecast and monetary policy for 2004. The first option provides that interest rates on assets nominated in US dollars will gradually increase, the fall of the dollar will stop, and mutual courses of the main world currencies will be stabilized. The average annual price of the Urals brand is predicted at $ 18.5 per barrel.

On Wednesday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the term of detention of Colonel Yevgeny Taratorin, deputy head of the MUR’s operational-investigative unit, who is being held on a case of corruption in law enforcement agencies. Taratorin's lawyer Yelena Dreeva told RIA Novosti that the term of her client's detention has been extended until October 29.

Three-year-old girl Yana was admitted to the children's hospital in Novosibirsk with alcohol poisoning, reports Regions.ru. According to Tamara Savicheva, head physician of the municipal station "Ambulance", the girl was poisoned on Tuesday evening, when her family was celebrating some event. No one followed Yana, and she managed to drink 300 grams of gin and tonic in the evening. When her parents decided to see what the girl was doing, they found her unconscious on the floor.

The amount of funding for space programs in 2004 is planned at 12.5-13 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a statement by Yury Koptev, head of Rosaviakosmos. Thus, the government increases the amount of funding by 55 percent compared to last year. 2.34 billion will be allocated for the development of civil aviation technology next year. Part of this money will go to upgrade navigation and other satellites.

Photo from Newsru.com The administration of the Shalinsky district of Chechnya Granami.ru reported that the village of Avtures had a "fierce shootout", which stopped at about 17.20 Moscow time. The interlocutor of the Grani.ru said that there are no data on the victims yet. In the duty of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, we were informed that with a detachment of the Chechen police who participated in the shootout could not contact special communications for a long time.

A Greek citizen tried to take three ancient icons out of Russia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the State Customs Committee. According to these data, the Greek "inaccurately declared" the exported cargo. According to preliminary estimates, the total cost of the icons is about a thousand dollars.

In London, the house of Mikhail Smotryaev, the eldest son of the leader of the Yabloko party, Grigory Yavlinsky, was robbed. According to MIGnews.com, the owner of the house called the police on Monday. According to the police, he insisted that all the details be recorded in the protocol. It is reported that shelves with books and business papers were mostly damaged. Smotryaev soon withdrew his statement, saying that nothing was missing from the house.

Boris Malakhov, deputy spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, confirmed on Wednesday that Zimina's father and son had died in Malaysia. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the tragedy occurred on August 17. "According to information received from the Russian embassy in Malaysia, the family of Nikolai Zimin - he, his wife, son and daughter - accompanied by Malaysian guides, rafted in inflatable rubber boats along the Pahang mountain river," Malakhov said.

On Wednesday, a balloon crashed in Zhukovsky near Moscow at the international aerospace show MAKS-2003, Interfax-AVN reports. There were two people in the cockpit of the balloon, they received bruises. The balloon was thrown by a strong gust of wind onto the Su-27K fighter jet that was parked. Other aircraft were not damaged. Representatives of the organizing committee find out the causes of the incident. According to them, all measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again.