Anastasia Volochkova, "Bayadere" (from the website volochkova.org). Grani.ru collage The General Director of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Anatoly Ixanov signed an order to dismiss the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova from the Gabt troupe, RBC reports. The Gabt leadership considered it inappropriate to continue with Volochkova labor relations due to the refusal of the ballerina to extend the employment contract until December 31, 2003.

The Central Election Commission of Russia has decided to form a working group on information disputes during the Duma elections, Rosbalt reports. The group was headed by CEC member Sergei Bolshakov.

http://www.physicsweb.org/box/news/7/9/8/Apparatus The coldest of the well -known objects in the universe from now on the cloud of atomic sodium, received in the laboratory in Cambridge (Massachusetts) under the leadership of the Nobel Prize, Wolfgang Ketterle, can be considered.

Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin. September 15, 2003 AP/ITAR-TASS photo As you know, the main themes of the next meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus was the “slip” with the solution of the issue of giving the Russian ruble the status of a single payment of the Union State, as well as a new procedure for paying the supply of Russian natural gas. The issues are difficult, therefore the "general contractors" discussed them for not a single hour.

On Tuesday in the German city of Pforzheim, a 24-year-old man killed a woman with a samurai sword and seriously injured two others. He then inflicted severe injuries on himself. This was reported by the German news channel N-TFau, to which RIA Novosti refers. The incident took place in the offices of a local catalog merchandising firm. There are no other details of the incident yet.

An artist from Argentina, who decided to take his own life, in front of numerous tourists, threw himself from an 80-meter bell tower in St. Mark's Square in Venice. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, cited by RIA Novosti, on the eve of suicide, a 39-year-old man left a notebook in one of the Venetian churches, in which he warned of his intention and described the reasons that pushed him to take this step.

The growth of the euro against the US dollar hinders the recovery of the economy of the zone of circulation of the single European currency, Reuters quotes the annual report of the International Monetary Fund, released on Tuesday. In a report on the evaluation of the economic situation in the euro area, the fund cut its forecast for economic growth in the euro area in 2003 to 0.5 percent from 0.75 percent previously expected.

In the south of Moscow, an employee of the Angolan embassy in his car crushed an elderly woman to death. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday at the police department of the capital. According to an employee of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the day before at 14.45, following in a Skoda Octavia official car along the Podolsk highway, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bhouse number eight, an assistant attaché of the embassy of the Republic of Angola hit a 72-year-old woman.

Possible killer of Anna Lind. Photo by Ar/Pressens Bild On the baseball cap, which was on the head of the offender at the time of the attack on the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Anna Lind, traces of DNA were discovered, BBC reports. However, according to the representative of the authorities, this DNA does not coincide with any of the samples available in the Swedish police database. The publication in the newspapers of photographs of the main suspect practically did not help the police.

US President George W. Bush will receive Russian President Vladimir Putin at his residence at Camp David on September 26-27, Reuters reports. As White House press secretary Scott McClellan explained, the purpose of the meeting will be "to deepen cooperation in overcoming the challenges of the 21st century."

On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights will hear a lawsuit filed by a group of Chechens who oppose their extradition to Russia, Ekho Moskvy reports. 13 Chechens were detained by Georgian border guards in August last year on the Georgian-Russian border. Five of them were extradited to Russia after providing the Georgian side with documents confirming the involvement of the detainees in terrorist activities. Two of the 13 violators turned out to be citizens of Georgia.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was disgraced on live television, RIA Novosti reports. As part of the state program to combat educational program, he taught a spelling lesson and made a spelling mistake. Minister of Education Aristobulo Isturis could not stand it and began to prompt the president. Chavez admitted his mistake. "We are doing this work for the good of the motherland. Yes, I committed a blunder, but there are no perfect people," he said generously.

On the territory of Azerbaijan, seven prisoners were detained who escaped from a strict regime colony in the Georgian city of Rustavi on September 10. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan contacted his colleague in Tbilisi and asked him to send to Baku the documentation necessary for the extradition of the detainees to their homeland.

"Freedom of speech in Russia is under threat," says OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Freimut Duve. At a press conference on Tuesday, he said that Russia's rise, including the economic one, would be jeopardized if media freedom was put under pressure, Rosbalt's correspondent reports. Duve said that he was concerned about the activities of the concern "Gazprom" in relation to the media.

Under the President of the Russian Federation, a commission and an expert council will soon be created to develop a national strategy to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism in Russia, Newru.com reports. Viktor Zubkov, chairman of the Russian Committee for Financial Monitoring, told journalists that the relevant documents on the establishment of these bodies have already been prepared.