Akhmed Zakaev, whose extradition is sought by the Prosecutor General's Office, is the Deputy Prime Minister of the legal government of Chechnya. This was admitted by Vladimir Bessarabov, deputy director of the Research Institute for Strengthening Law and Order at the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, who spoke on Thursday as an expert for the prosecution in the London court in the Zakayev case.

On Friday, a German government spokesman denied media reports that the chancellor's wife Doris Schroeder-Kepf intends to record a CD with Christmas songs, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, newspapers published materials according to which Doris Schroeder-Kepf received her first contract to record a CD. It was allegedly about a charity project in which, in addition to the chancellor's wife, popular German pop stars Udo Jurgens and Nena participate.

Center "Antistikhiya" EMERCOM of Russia warns of heavy rain and wind in the Primorsky Territory and Sakhalin, reports RIA "Novosti".

In 2004, the UN Security Council should include 5 new non-permanent members. Algeria, Brazil, Romania and the Philippines are likely to become new candidates for non-permanent members of the Security Council, UN officials told Reuters. The decision to include them in the Security Council will be made on October 10 at the UN General Assembly. In total, the Security Council includes 15 countries. 5 of them are permanent members of the Security Council.

TNK-BP agrees to include the Russian gas monopolist OAO Gazprom in the project to develop the Kovykta field (Irkutsk region), including the construction of an export gas pipeline to China. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the head of BP, John Brown, and the managing director of TNK-BP for production, Viktor Vekselberg. The Kovykta gas condensate field is one of the largest in Russia.

The leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Russia (SEPR), Alexei Podberezkin, said on Friday that he was resigning as chairman of the SEPR, RIA Novosti reports. However, speaking at the party congress, Podberezkin said that he was not leaving the SEPR and expected to remain a member of its Politburo. He stressed the need to unite Sergey Glazyev on the platform of the coalition, adding that he himself would not be included in the coalition's federal list.

On Thursday, a major clash between miners and police took place in Warsaw, ITAR-TASS reports. More than 40 police officers and several dozen miners were injured. The miners protested against the intention of a large coal mining company to close four large mines in 2004, which employ over 6,000 people. Clashes began in the afternoon, when a crowd of about 7,000 miners laid siege to the buildings of the Ministry of Economy.

On Friday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Palestinians threw stones at Jews praying at the Western Wall, reports Ha'aretz. To disperse the rioters, the police had to use tear gas and stun grenades. There are no reports of casualties as a result of the incident yet.

The last assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky, he said, took place in April during the last London economic forum. The businessman told Kommersant about this. He explained that this story is directly related to "a man in a gray jacket" who hung around him at an economic forum, and then in court "and introduced himself to me as an employee of" structures close to the Kremlin ". The British authorities are aware of this, Berezovsky claims.

The bodies of all passengers and crew members of the Ka-32 helicopter that crashed in the mountains near Dagomys have been identified. According to ITAR-TASS, such a statement was made on Thursday by the first deputy prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory - Sochi prosecutor Alexander Sergienko. Eight of the dead were residents of Krasnodar, and one more was a resident of Sochi.

Boris Berezovsky. Frame NTV On Friday, the London Magrastry court terminated the case of the extradition of entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky to Russia, RIA Novosti reports. The reason is the provision of Berezovsky political asylum in the UK.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that Israel's decision to deport Yasser Arafat should not be put into practice, RIA Novosti reports. At a press conference in Ljubljana, the minister said that he believes that "the decision of the Israeli government is erroneous and does not meet the interests of resolving the situation in the region." "The only way out of the current situation can be only in the strict and precise implementation of the road map," Ivanov stressed.

American soldiers mistakenly opened fire on a group of Iraqi police, Sky News reports. As a result, 10 police officers were killed and five more were injured. According to a local police spokesman, the incident took place in Fallujah. Iraqi police pursued a BMW car, from which the building of the local administration was fired upon. When the Iraqi police arrived at the Red Cross building in the north of the city, the US military opened fire on them.

Cybersx. Caricature from the site http://www.trantor.de/darklands/ According to the British agency Divorce-Online , half of all the divorces with which the agency has to deal with one way or another due to the fault of the Internet. Of the 500 statements for divorce in half, cybersex, online novels or pornography appeared as the reasons for the divorce.

Aslan Maskhadov. Photo from Newsru.com Aslan Maskhadov, deputies of the former parliament of Ichkeria announced impeachment, reports Echo of Moscow. This was announced in Moscow at the press conference of Isa Temirov, who previously acted as chairman of the Ichkeria parliament.