The Russian government at a meeting on Thursday generally approved proposals for the introduction of so-called VAT accounts. This was reported to Interfax by the head of the Ministry of Taxes and Dues (MNS) Gennady Bukaev after the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Taxes of Russia proposed to switch from July 1, 2004 to the practice of paying value added tax from special accounts, which are supposed to be called VAT accounts.

On Thursday, between 17.00-17.25, more than two million Moscow apartments stopped receiving television signals, Lenta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to an unnamed employee of Mostelecom, the emergency was caused by the fact that at the "head stations of Mostelecom" the signal was lost, which was supplied in the trial operation mode of OJSC Komcor.

The Moscow police will actively help the military registration and enlistment offices to identify conscripts who are not registered with the military, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to Valery Karnaukhov, First Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, citizens of military age who are not registered with the military will be identified, in particular, when processing documents by OVIR and passport offices in Moscow.

Ali Ahmad Said (Adonis). Photo from the site www.goethe.de On October 2, at 11.00, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced according to Greenwich. He will receive $ 1.3 million, notes the Air Force. The names of the applicants Nobel Committee keeps secret. Nevertheless, it became known that among the favorites the Syrian poet Ali Akhman Said, known under the pseudonym "Adonis". According to experts surveyed by the Air Force, the decision will most likely be political.

Nuclear suitcase? Photo from the site www.spiritlink.com The deputy director of the state unitary repair and technological enterprise of the atomic fleet (GU RTP "Atomflot") 50-year-old Alexander Tulyakov was detained by the UFSB officers in the Murmansk region while trying to sell a suitcase with nuclear materials. This is written by Guardian and " Independent Gazeta " with reference to the newspaper "Nord-west courier". The suitcase was a substance that contained Uranus-235.

A truck collided with a tour bus on Interstate 90 in Illinois on Wednesday evening. 8 people were killed and 15 others were injured. There were 22 women on the bus who were returning to Chicago from a trip to Rockford. 7 victims of the accident died on the spot. Another pensioner died in the hospital the next morning. The condition of the five wounded remains critical.

Sergey Kovalev and Pope. Grani.ru collage The Norwegian Nobel Committee, deciding the fate of the World, made a choice between Pope, Iranian dissident, the Roman Catholic community of San Egidio and human rights activist Sergei Kovalev, reports AFP. In total, 165 candidates were nominated for Nobel. According to observers, this year the choice was especially difficult, since there was no obvious favorite.

Animal welfare organizations claim that more than 3,000 stray dogs were poisoned or killed in an attempt by Athens authorities to clear a street in the Greek capital before the 2004 Summer Olympics. According to RIA "Novosti" with reference to the Tanyug agency, Mariana Polikhroniadi, chairman of the Citizens' Initiative Committee, said at a press conference in Athens that dogs were beaten, poisoned, burned or thrown into landfills in various places in Athens.

Found the killer of a Korean businessman, whose body was found on Thursday in the territory of the port Vostochny. This was announced to Data.Ru by the head of the inter-district department for combating crimes related to foreign citizens, Alexander Gornovoy. According to Gornovy, a suspect in the murder of a businessman from South Korea was detained, he turned out to be an employee of the enterprise, which was led by the victim.

Vladimir Putin signed a law on increasing the salaries of state employees by 30% from October 1. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Kremlin. The Federal Law "On Making an Addendum to the Article of the Federal Law "On the Tariff Rate (Salary) of the First Category of the Unified Tariff Scale for Remuneration of Employees of Public-Sector Organizations" was adopted by the State Duma on September 12 and approved by the Federation Council on September 24.

Minotaur. Drawing from the site Tenuta The most ancient human communities, where women (matriarchy times) were originally dominated by the patriarchal liability after how the practice of acquiring cattle spread in the tribes - these are the conclusions of the latest study performed by Claire Holden and Ruth Mas from London University College ( University College London ).

On Thursday, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting on a draft law on amendments and additions to the law of Belarus on the press and other media. According to PRIMA, Lukashenko said that the law "should guarantee freedom of speech, but not freedom of slander and biased presentation of facts." At the meeting, Lukashenko said that the need to adopt a new version of the law about printing is dictated by time.

The ballet troupe of the La Scala Theater (Milan, Italy) is on tour in St. Petersburg from October 7 to 9, where it will perform for the first time on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Interfax reports. As noted in the theatre's press release, the tour of La Scala will continue the series of performances by the world's leading ballet companies at the Mariinsky Theater, launched this summer by the London Royal Ballet, the John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet, and the New York City Ballet.

The Moscow City Court has scheduled October 9 to consider the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the chairman of the board of directors of CJSC MFO MENATEP, co-owner of the Yukos oil company, Platon Lebedev. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Anton Drel, one of Lebedev's defenders. Lawyers are challenging the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which on August 28 left Lebedev in custody for another two months - until October 30.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Defense hosted a meeting on reforming and modernizing the RF Armed Forces, RIA Novosti reports. The meeting was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the meeting, the head of the military department Sergei Ivanov made a report.