Since 2005, navigation equipment of the GLONASS system will begin to be used en masse in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. As RIA Novosti reports , this was stated on Wednesday by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Yuri Baluevsky. “To be successful in modern combined arms combat, we cannot do without reliable equipment, the operation of which is ensured by space communications via satellites.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the FBI found a 4-page handwritten document in Arabic. As reported on the website of the Chicago Tribune, his text apparently served as a source of inspiration for suicide bombers. The document repeats the assurance about ten times that the hijackers will go to heaven as martyrs.

In Moscow, accomplices released a drug dealer caught red-handed, reports NTV channel . The drug dealer was detained on the night of October 20 and taken to the duty station of the State Drug Control Service. On the morning of October 20 - according to the online publication " Gazeta.Ru " - at about 7 a.m. - several people broke into the unit's premises, beat the duty officer, released the detainee and disappeared.

On October 19, South Korea received a warning from terrorists that the time during which the country was supposed to withdraw its contingent from Iraq was running out, reports the Xinhua news agency. Otherwise, the Islamic group promises to turn the country's capital into ruins.

A meeting of the Supreme Court has begun in Abkhazia to consider complaints from presidential candidate Raul Khadzhimba, RIA Novosti reports . In total, Khajimba submitted three applications to the highest court of the republic.

On Tuesday, 42-year-old French climber Alain Robert climbed the wall to the roof of the 187-meter Paris building of the oil company Total in 25 minutes, reports the Associated Press. The self-described "Spider-Man" climber was dressed in the comic book character's costume and using no equipment other than his own hands. The city police, who had already dealt with Robert more than once, cordoned off the area at the foot of the 47-story building.

In Moscow, on the Gorbaty Bridge near the Government House, a protest rally of state employees against low wages is taking place. According to a correspondent for the Ekho Moskvy radio station , despite the bad weather, about 700 people came to the White House. The promotion will continue throughout the day. Its participants demand an increase in salaries for public sector employees this year by 50 percent, and another 1.5 times next year.

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the development of a program designed to combine all available computer communication technologies - email, instant messaging, traditional and Internet telephony, as well as video communication. It is planned that the product, code-named Istanbul, will appear on the market in the first half of 2005, reports the Associated Press. The corporation is currently testing the program.

On October 21, one of the founders of hard rock, the group Deep Purple, will perform at the Moscow Olimpiysky sports complex. The musicians are now approximately in the middle of their tour of 17 cities in Russia and Ukraine. Voyages of this magnitude have already been undertaken by Nazareth and Uriah Heep, who, although related to Deep Purple, are at least inferior to them in fame.

In Moscow, the creation of the “Wi-Fi Alliance” was announced - a project to cover the territory of the Russian capital with Wi-Fi networks for wireless Internet access. It is called "Wi-Fi Comstar" and is being created on the basis of the facilities of the Comstar provider with the support of Fujitsu Siemens , Intel and RosBusinessConsulting .

In recent years, she suffered from a serious illness and was constantly in the cardiology clinic. Nezavisimaya Gazeta", Nanuli Tsagareishvili-Shevardnadze was born into the family of a Soviet army officer, who was later repressed as an "enemy of the people." When the future Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and President of Georgia met her and made an offer, she rejected him, not wanting to spoil Shevardnadze’s successful career.

The Russian government is not preparing any proposals to raise the retirement age, Interfax reports the words of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. “The government is not yet considering any issues related to raising the retirement age,” he said on Wednesday.

Late on Tuesday evening, a traffic accident involving 14 cars occurred in the north-west of the Moscow ring road in the area of ​​the 69th kilometer, reports the online publication Gazeta.Ru with reference to the Interfax agency . According to preliminary data, at about 11:50 pm the driver of the trailer, moving along the inner ring of the Moscow Ring Road, lost control of the car, which led to a major accident.

France, Germany and Great Britain are ready to assist Iran in the development of non-military nuclear technologies, Reuters reports. The leadership of three European countries has prepared a proposal to assist Tehran in acquiring a reactor operating on so-called “light” water. In exchange, Iran will be required to provide clear evidence that the country is not developing nuclear weapons. The corresponding document will be presented to Iranian representatives on Thursday at a meeting in Vienna.

20.10.2004, 20:41:33 version Print | PDA/PDA A group of Chinese at the Khabarovsk railway station in 1899. Photo from the site www.transsib.ru Russia went to China President Putin transferred the islands located in the Khabarovsk Territory to the People's Republic of China During a visit to China, President Vladimir Putin signed a document according to which part of the Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, as well as the entire Tarabarov Island, will be transferred to China.