Members of the parliamentary commission investigating the circumstances of the terrorist act in Beslan, who are in Vladikavkaz, received some materials from the archive belonging to the al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Dzeit, who was killed in Ingushetia. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the commission, Alexander Torshin.

Krasnoyarsk law enforcement officers "distinguished themselves" last Saturday following their counterparts from Blagoveshchensk, writes Newspaper GZT.Ru. For an hour and a half, police patrols for no apparent reason took away all the young people who appeared on one of the streets of the city. According to various estimates, from 50 to 70 people visited the "cage" on Saturday evening. Passers-by were the first to sound the alarm, in front of whom a strange raid was taking place.

Stateless persons will be able to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The bill providing for this provision was included by the Council of the State Duma in the plan for considering bills in the first reading for May 2005. The legislative initiative belongs to the deputy Vladimir Ovsyannikov.

Headquarters of Yukos. Grani.ru collage The Spanish police opened an international network engaged in laundering money, and does not exclude that the Russian company "Yukos" was one of the victims of criminal operations. A source close to the investigation told Reuters that Yukos probably suffered from the actions of scammers within the company.

China has begun clinical trials of an AIDS vaccine on volunteers, the Xinhua news agency reported. The first group consists of eight people (four men and four women) who have already completed pre-test preparation and signed the necessary documents. In total, 49 people aged 18 to 50 will take part in the trials of the new vaccine. Research will be held in three stages, the first will last 14 months.

Elections in Kyrgyzstan. Photo by ar Elections to the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan are recognized as held, said Sulaiman Imanbaev, chairman of the CEC of the Republic on Monday, at a briefing on Monday. "At the moment, 69 out of 75 deputies were elected following two rounds," he said. According to the official, "the elections were held in an honest and tough competition." "The gap between the winner and the loser of the candidate was no more than 100-200 votes," he said.

The official number of victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan is 1343 people. Senator Valery Fyodorov, a member of the parliamentary commission to investigate the causes and circumstances of the terrorist attack, announced this on Monday, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. "This number does not include the 330 who died at the hands of terrorists.

The explosion near the building of the military commandant's office in the Leninsky district of Grozny occurred due to the fault of one of the servicemen, who carelessly handled an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher. As Lenta.ru writes, Interfax was informed about this by telephone sources in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya.

The special forces of the State Drug Control Service held security measures in the city of Bezhetsk, Tver Region. This was reported on Monday by Ekho Moskvy with reference to the National Anti-Corruption Committee. According to the head of the committee, Kirill Kabanov, it was a purge, similar to the events that took place last December in Blagoveshchensk.

An employee of the State Drug Control Service, involved in the kidnapping, was detained in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. According to a source in the capital's police department, an operative of the Gosnarkokontrol department in Moscow, whose name is not reported, and a resident of Moscow, on February 20, 2005, abducted the seller of one of the stores - a citizen of Tajikistan, and held him for several hours, extorting 12 thousand rubles.

Paykan. Photo from the site Stuarthughes.blogspot.com Iran curls with the production of Paykan, reports Reuters. According to the Vice President of Iran Khodro, Javada Dekhnadi, Paykan will end in April. Drivers complain of constant breakdowns of "Paikan" and the absence of air conditioning. At the same time, Tehran taxi drivers remain faithful to the "Paikans". Spare parts for him are much cheaper than for European cars.

On Monday, the Evaluation Commission of the International Olympic Committee begins its work in Moscow. It will determine Moscow's readiness to host the 2012 Olympics. Members of the commission will spend four days in Moscow.

The court of the Samara Region on Monday dismissed the request of the regional prosecutor's office to deprive Pavel Anisimov of the deputy mandate of the manager of OAO Samaraneftegaz (a subsidiary of Yukos), deputy of the regional duma, Pavel Anisimov. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

In the center of Khasavyurt on Monday, a special operation is being carried out to detain militants. As a source in the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan told RBC, in one of the private houses in the center of the city, a group of militants was blocked by the fighters of the mobile detachment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs at about 16.00 Moscow time. According to Interfax, there are two of them. One of the blocked militants surrendered to the authorities.

Elections in Kyrgyzstan do not meet democratic norms - observers from the OSCE came to this conclusion. They mention, in particular, the bias of the media and the bribery of voters, Radio Liberty reports. The mission of observers from the CIS countries considered the elections fair and free. The CEC of Kyrgyzstan also reported no serious violations. The opposition accused the authorities of fraud. Protests are held in Jalal-Abad, Talas and Osh regions on Monday.