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.

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.

The Foundation for Civil Liberties founded by Boris Berezovsky predicts the fate of Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori for President Putin. The website www.banana-republic.ru details recent events in Peru and draws a parallel between the Berezovsky case and the story of Peruvian media tycoon Baruch Ivcher. Ivcher was forced to flee Peru after President Alberto Fujimori expropriated his TV channel and put the tycoon on an international wanted list on charges of economic crime.

During a demonstration of 10,000 miners in the center of Warsaw on Thursday, windows in the Russian embassy were smashed. According to Rosbalt, an angry mob of miners at the end of the demonstration stopped near the building of the Russian embassy in Warsaw and threw firecrackers, large metal nuts, paving stones and stones, as a result of which several dozen windows were knocked out.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In 2000, nearly 5 million people worldwide died from smoking-related diseases, according to the BBC. These are the results of a study by experts at Harvard Medical School, published in The Lancet. Also according to statistics, that year the number of deaths caused by smoking in developing countries and in developed countries equaled. Previously, developing countries lagged behind already developed ones in this respect too. More than 75% of deceased smokers are men.

The wife of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is preparing to record several songs for a new CD with Christmas melodies. According to the Berliner Zeitung on Friday, Doris Schröder-Kepf has received her first CD recording contract.