The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation plans to intensify the fight against crimes committed via the Internet, Compulenta reports with reference to RIA Novosti.

President of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is on a visit to China, met with the leadership of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, ITAR-TASS reports. He became the first head of the Russian region to visit Lhasa, the administrative center of the TAR.

Detained on Saturday and placed in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, the head of the oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has not yet made any claims about the conditions of his detention. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the public relations center of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, Boris Kalyagin. "Khodorkovsky is being held in a sparsely populated cell for five people.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the first time publicly stated that Israel is not going to kill Yasser Arafat, reports Reuters. "I am not aware of any plans to kill him, although this man is responsible for the death of hundreds, thousands of mostly civilians, because his strategy is a strategy of terror," Sharon said.

The Lithuanian government should be ready to buy shares in Yukos oil company Mazeikiu nafta, Andrius Kubilius, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Lithuanian Seimas deputy, said at a press conference on Monday. This is reported by Interfax. "The Lithuanian authorities must realistically assess the situation in which Mazeikiu nafta finds itself (53.7% of the shares of this oil company belong to Yukos. - Ed.), and not succumb to illusions and assurances that everything will be fine.

Today, 54,000 refugees remain in the territory of Ingushetia, of which 50,000 are migrants from Chechnya. President of Ingushetia Murad Zyazikov informed Vladimir Putin about this. The head of state was interested in the situation in the republic, in particular, the problems of refugees, as well as the situation in the North Caucasus as a whole. The President of Ingushetia noted that people are ready to return to their places of permanent residence as soon as housing is ready.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia canceled the call for questioning of the lawyer of the Yukos oil company, Anton Drel, RIA Novosti reports. "The need for today's summons by A. Drel to the investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office has disappeared. He was asked to give written information on issues of interest to the investigation," an official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation told the agency.

In Moscow, a truck with cargo was stolen from a trucker from Germany. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" on Monday in the capital's police department. On Sunday, a 45-year-old driver of the Schneider company turned to the police with a statement. According to the victim, at the house number 23 on the Leningrad highway his Renault-Magma 440 car was stopped by unknown people in camouflage uniforms.

Oleg Tanchik, an officer of the local police department for combating economic crimes, was killed in the Stavropol Territory, RIA Novosti reports. As reported in the management of the criminal police of the Stavropol Territory, the emergency occurred at 21.15 on Sunday in the regional center of Aleksandrovsk. Captain Tanchik drove up in a passenger car to his house, where he was met with three shots from the darkness.

The Tverskoy Court will consider the lawsuit filed by ballerina Anastasia Volochkova against the administration of the Bolshoi Theater on November 4, RIA Novosti reports. This decision was made at a preliminary hearing on Monday, October 27. None of the representatives of the Bolshoi Theater appeared in court, Volochkova said after the meeting. According to the ballerina, Anatoly Iksanov, general director of the Bolshoi Theater, is currently on tour with the theater troupe in Paris.

Grani.ru collage The authorities, as its victory, celebrated the anniversary of the hostage seizure, but the day of the liberation assault tried not to notice. It looked strange. As if in Russia they were celebrated on June 22 and would be silent on May 9. On the afternoon of October 23, the Moscow mayor and the faces accompanying him opened at a distance from the place of the tragedy Obelisk.

Valery Melnikov, the trade union leader of the local mining and metallurgical plant, won last Sunday's re-election of the head of the administration of Norilsk, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data, 51.88 percent of voters voted for Melnikov. In second place is the former general director of the plant Johnson Khagazheev - 34.23%. The remaining five candidates were supported by no more than 1.5% of voters. "Against all" voted over 9% of the city's residents.

Due to spam, users have cooled off a little to e-mail as a means of communication, according to the BBC, citing a study conducted by Pew Internet. About 25% of those surveyed said that due to the sheer volume of unsolicited emails, their use of email had become less frequent, and 60% of those who responded in this way said they had "severely" reduced their use of email. About half of those surveyed said they now have less trust in the Internet in general.

Reports of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose fortune Forbes magazine estimates at $8 billion, were published on Sunday by major US newspapers. US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow has already expressed concern over "selective enforcement of the law." ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, which showed interest in buying large stakes in Yukos, suspended negotiations with the company , according to the Financial Times .

Examination of the remains of a dinosaur using portable X -ray equipment. Photo by B. Proshild from the site www.nature.com An extensive systematic examination of dinosaur fossils showed that these prehistoric creatures are largely similar to modern people, that is, the first victims of ubiquitous cancer at least millions of years.