Unidentified persons attempted to assassinate Oleksandr Fomenko, a candidate for the city council of Mariupol (Donetsk region) from the Communist Party of Ukraine, Gazeta.ru reports. After an attempted poisoning, he is in intensive care. The city committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party issued a statement stating that around 19.00 on Monday Fomenko parked the car in the garage and went to his house.

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Metropolitan epidemiologists plan to get rubella out of Moscow, reports Moskovsky Komsomolets . Only the female half of the city's population will be protected by the vaccine. According to the Moscow Department of Health, in the coming years, doctors will fight for the safety of women of childbearing age - rubella is especially dangerous for early pregnancy, as it is fraught with various abnormalities in the development of the fetus.

The Russian Armed Forces are conducting strategic command and staff training, Yury Baluyevsky, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff, told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday. This is reported by Interfax. During the training, "the development of new methods of using strategic weapons, troops and forces that are part of the strategic nuclear forces and general-purpose forces" is being worked out, the military leader said.

Sergey Yushenkov. Photo 'light On Wednesday, in the Moscow City Court, hearing in the process in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov will continue. According to RIA Novosti, the lawyer of the main accused Mikhail Kodanev Henry Reznik, the whole court hears 85 witnesses of this criminal case. The day before, the accused in this case, including Mikhail Kodanev, refused to testify in court.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and officials accompanying him will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday on a regular regular flight of Air Zena-Georgian Airlines. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the airline. The new president of Georgia has repeatedly refused special flights - the Il-62 was previously used for the flights of the head of state and government delegations.

The personal composition of the Russian-Japanese Council of Wise Men has been approved, Interfax was told on Tuesday in the press service of the mayor and the government of Moscow. In accordance with an agreement at the highest level, the Russian-Japanese "council of wise men" has been appointed co-chairmen of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov on the Russian side, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on the Japanese side.

In the south of the capital, near a gas station, a store of spare parts and auto cosmetics burned down, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the law enforcement agencies of the capital. "The fire occurred at 25 km of the Moscow Ring Road in the building where the store is located," the source said. According to a law enforcement official, the fire area is currently 1,000 square meters. meters, warehouses are on fire. 15 fire brigades arrived at the scene.

Dmitry Kharitonov, a lawyer for Yukos's largest shareholder, Leonid Nevzlin, was invited to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on Monday to familiarize himself with the materials of his client's case, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax.

A Russian citizen died in Yemen, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Saudi newspaper Al-Jazeera. According to the publication, a woman - the wife of a Yemeni doctor - died when she was swimming in the Arabian Sea off the coast of the city of Aden. The newspaper reports that a motorboat crashed into a Russian woman at high speed, as a result of which the woman was seriously injured and died. The perpetrator of the incident fled the scene, but was later detained by Aden security forces.

Natalia Kasyanova with dad. Photo by MK The daughter of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanova Natalya got into an accident in the west of Moscow. According to the Moscow Komsomolets, the accident occurred on February 8 on Udaltsova Street. Natalia Kasyanova, a student of the Faculty of Political Science of Political Science, and the VAZ-2109, base of the Presidential Administration, who accompanied the Base of the Presidential of the Russian Federation, who accompanied her.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to reduce oil production by one million barrels per day from April 1, 2004 to prevent a fall in prices for "black gold" with the end of the winter season, one of the OPEC delegates said. Currently, the official "ceiling" of OPEC oil production is 24.5 million barrels per day. Most analysts expected OPEC to leave production unchanged.

Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko believes that the terrorist act in the Moscow metro was prepared outside the Chechen Republic, RIA Novosti reports. "A significant part of the terrorist attacks committed in Russia lately were planned and financed by international terrorists, who moved these actions outside of Chechnya, since few people here can be intimidated by such methods," Kravchenko said.

The Tatu group has decided to terminate the contract with producer Ivan Shapovalov, writes Life. Most likely, now Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina will have to change their name: according to a contract once concluded with the Shapovalov firm Neformat, girls do not have the right to the name Tatu. Also, in the event of a final break, they will not receive anything from the sale of the album. Now the situation is being studied by specially hired "tatushki" lawyers.

Two servicemen of internal troops were killed in Chechnya, a source in the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus told RIA Novosti. "The bodies of two conscripts with gunshot wounds were found the day before in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, not far from checkpoint number 34," the source said. According to him, weapons and ammunition were stolen from the soldiers. 18 shell casings from a Kalashnikov assault rifle were found at the scene.