Vladimir Putin made personnel appointments in the command of the Airborne Forces. According to RIA Novosti, the president dismissed Georgy Shpak from the post of commander of the Airborne Forces. Alexander Kolmakov, deputy commander of the Far Eastern Military District, has been appointed to this post. Putin made such a statement on Wednesday at a meeting with Georgy Shpak, Alexander Kolmakov and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.

Nikolai Pushkin, a prominent Novgorod businessman, disappeared in the Moscow region, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to law enforcement agencies, the businessman's car was found on September 2 in the Solnechnogorsk district, but the police did not consider it appropriate to report the disappearance in the media.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the head of the Pavlovsky district, Nikolai Dyachenko, was shot at, RIA Novosti reports. The official was attacked near his house last Tuesday, around 22.30. With severe injuries, Dyachenko was taken to the hospital and operated on. Now his life is out of danger. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the attempt. It is assumed that the perpetrator was alone. As part of his search for the area, the plan "Volcano-5" was announced.

The city authorities decided not to stop work on the dismantling of Voentorg, Interfax reports. According to Irina Kuznetsova, deputy head of the department of construction policy, development and reconstruction of the city, this decision was made at a meeting with the first deputy mayor in the Moscow government, head of the construction complex Vladimir Resin.

The head of the communal service of the city of Valdai was found guilty of a major accident in the housing and communal services system that occurred last winter. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the Valdai district prosecutor's office. The Valdai Court on Thursday passed a verdict on the head of the district municipal enterprise Teploenergo, Viktor Gordeev.

The cause of the accident with the cortege of Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo in September 2002 was a fatal coincidence, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kamchatka Region Vladimir Chistov told RIA Novosti. "In the actions of the driver of the jeep, who collided with the cortege, Pyotr Chistyakov, no corpus delicti was revealed," Chistov said. The accident occurred on September 9 at the 14th kilometer of the Petropavlovsk-Yelizovo highway.

British Home Secretary David Blunkett officially notified the London Magistrates' Court on Bow Street that Boris Berezovsky had been granted refugee status. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement was made in the courtroom where the hearings on the case of Akhmed Zakayev were held, Judge Timothy Workman. "This fact will have a significant impact on the judicial process," said Timothy Workman.

Ahmad Kadyrov and Aslambek Aslakhanov. Grani.ru collage Following Hussein Dzhabrailov, another strong opponent of Akhmad Kadyrov, deputy of the State Duma and a member of the Government Commission for the restoration of Chechnya, Police General Aslambek Aslakhanov, departed from the competition for the chair of the President of the Chechen Republic.

The death toll in the terrorist attack on the Kislovodsk-Mineralnye Vody train has risen to five, RIA Novosti reports. 17-year-old student Victoria Lyakhova died in the regional hospital of Stavropol on Thursday. One of the train cars was blown up near the Podkumok station in the Predgorny district on September 3, 2003. Then four people died, more than 90 people were injured. Two powerful explosive devices, activated by remote control, were planted by terrorists under the railroad tracks.

The attack on September 11th. Photo from the site Lovingod.host.sk On Thursday, the world recalls the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when about three thousand people died as a result of terrorist attacks in the United States. The passenger plane, stolen by terrorists, rammed the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. After 18 minutes, another passenger liner crashed into skyscrapers. The buildings caught fire, and then collapsed, buried thousands of people under their wreckage.

On Wednesday, Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape showing Osama bin Laden and his assistant, the second man in Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, AP reports. Simultaneously with the videotape, the channel aired an audio recording of a man believed to be al-Zawahiri urging Iraqis to "bury" American soldiers in Iraq. According to the channel, the video was filmed in late April - early May. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, dressed in Afghan clothing, walk in a mountainous area.

Already married Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck decided to postpone the wedding scheduled for September 14, according to BBC. They planned to hold the ceremony in secret, but one of the guests gave the secret date to the newspapers. The media made a real commotion around the event. Santa Barbara, in the vicinity of which J-Lo and Ben were going to walk, was flooded with journalists. The stars were afraid that the celebration would be hopelessly ruined.

On September 15, the Moscow City Court will consider the hearing of the criminal case of Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of treason, with the participation of a jury. As the defendant's lawyer German Gavryunin told RIA Novosti on Thursday, a preliminary hearing on the criminal case will take place on September 15, during which his client's petition to consider the case with the participation of jurors will be considered.

Spartak's head coach Andrey Chernyshov has decided to leave his post, according to the club's website . The decision was made by Chernyshov after a two-hour conversation with club president Andrei Chervichenko. There are two reasons for this turn of events. Firstly, the head coach could not find a full understanding with the team's players, and this adversely affected the game and the results of the red-whites.

Russian Communal Systems OJSC hopes that the situation with water supply in Vladivostok will be stabilized in the next 7-10 days, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced to journalists at a press conference on Thursday by Mikhail Abyzov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company. "We hope that within 7-10 days we will be able to develop measures to stabilize water supply in Vladivostok," Abyzov said.