The government of Abkhazia ordered the state television and radio company to stop broadcasting from Monday morning. This was announced by the management of the TV company, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. The government justifies its decision by saying that the building of the TV company was taken under armed guard by supporters of one of the candidates for the post of President of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh.

According to the head of the press service of the Russian Air Force, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, the car "Zhiguli", in which Major General Dementiev was, was fired from automatic weapons on Sunday at about 18:30 on the 423rd km of the Moscow-Minsk highway near the village of Arkhipovka. Major General Konstantin Dementiev, Deputy Commander of Strategic Aviation of the Russian Air Force, was killed on Sunday evening in the Smolensk region.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo by ar The Meshchansky Court of Moscow on Monday extended the detention period of Mikhail Khodorkovsky for another three months, Interfax reports. The head of the Open Russia ROO will remain under arrest until February 14, 2005. Thus, the court granted the petition of the state prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin. Khodorkovsky himself believes that he is kept in prison so that he does not interfere with the destruction of the company.

Last weekend, the last victim of the explosion near the Rizhskaya metro station was discharged from the hospital. This was reported to Interfax on Monday by the Department of Health of the capital. According to a representative of the department, 12 more victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan are in hospitals belonging to this department. Among them - one man, three women and eight children. The condition of four is assessed as moderate, eight more - as satisfactory.

On Monday, unknown assailants killed the deputy governor of Baghdad, Hatem Karim, and wounded four of his bodyguards. According to the Air Force, the attack was carried out in the Dora region in the south of the Iraqi capital. The official's cortege was fired upon from a passing car. To date, no active terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the crime. Details of the incident were not reported. Insurgent attacks on Iraqi politicians have increased in recent years.

In Izhevsk (Udmurtia) Nikolai Vostrikov, General Director of the Izhevsk Plastics Plant, was murdered, Interfax was told in the prosecutor's office of the republic. According to the prosecutor's office, Vostrikov's body with gunshot wounds was found on Monday at about 9:00 am local time, not far from his place of residence in the Oktyabrsky district of the city. The driver of his company car was also killed.

The prosecutor's office of the Far Eastern Military District sent to court a criminal case against deserter soldier Valery Nadyrshin, who shot dead three policemen, the prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti. According to the investigation, on September 1, 2004, Nadyrshin left the military unit without permission. He stole weapons and ammunition and shot four officers of the patrol service of the Oktyabrsky district of Primorsky Krai who were trying to detain him.

The nomination of candidates for the elections for governors of the Khabarovsk Territory, scheduled for December 19, has ended. As RIA Novosti was informed on November 1 at the regional election commission, six people are running for the governor's seat.

The stepson of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry called the incumbent a "cocaine junkie," according to the New York Post. As the newspaper notes, the reason for the invective was the not too incendiary speech of his mother, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, at an election meeting with Wharton students. "We didn't start [the speech] by calling George W.

The prosecutor's office asks the court to extend the term of detention of ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky until February 14. According to RIA Novosti, prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin made a corresponding petition to the Meshchansky Court on Monday.

The candidate for the presidency of Ukraine, who, according to preliminary data, is in third place, the leader of the socialists Oleksandr Moroz, has not yet decided who to support in the second round of voting. None of the leading candidates contacted his headquarters either. This was told to "Echo of Moscow" by a member of the staff of presidential candidate Alexander Moroz, MP Galina Garmash.

An armed incident took place on Monday between military vessels of two Korean states in the Yellow Sea. South Korea opened warning fire on three North Korean patrol boats that had crossed the so-called "Northern Boundary Line" approved by the UN but not recognized by Pyongyang, Yonhap news agency reported. Before opening fire, South Korean patrol boats warned North Korean ships over loudspeakers that they had entered South Korean waters, according to the military in Seoul.

More than seven kilograms of industrial gold seized from illegal circulation in the Magadan region, according to RIA Novosti. According to the press center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District, in the village of Senokosny, Yagodninsky District, a 57-year-old director of a prospecting artel and his deputy were detained during a joint operation by the FSB and the police. They illegally stored 7 kg 150 gr of industrial gold.

International observers believe that voting in the presidential elections in Ukraine did not meet international standards. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Bruce George, reports RIA Novosti.

An unfavorable situation in the incidence of viral hepatitis A has been established in the Kaliningrad region. Over the past week, 95 residents of the region fell ill, including 38 children, RIA Novosti was told on Monday at the regional department of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision. Most of the cases are in the settlements of the Polessky and Neman districts, as well as in the cities of Gusev and Sovetsk. Doctors vaccinate contact patients.