The detained and sent on Tuesday in Lefortovo, the four -time Olympic champion was charged on several articles. According to investigators, Tikhonov prepared an attempt on the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev, along with his friend and long -standing enemy of the governor Mikhail Love. Alexander Tikhonov √ Four -time Olympic champion √ was called the International Biathlon Union the best biathlonist of the twentieth century.

Two motorcycle taxi drivers were publicly flogged in Nigeria's Zamfara state for carrying women in their sidecars. Each of the taxi drivers received 20 lashes in the presence of about 300 people. The offenders were the first to be subject to a recently passed law here banning women from being carried on motorcycles. This law was enacted as part of Sharia law, which was officially introduced in Zamfara State in January 2000.

The Prosecutor General’s Office today did not satisfy the request of the heads of state sports to change the preventive measure to the four -fold Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov. He is accused of preparing an attempt on the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleyev. Now the famous athlete is contained in the investigative insulator of the FSB Lefortovo. The brother of Alexander Tikhonov Victor, who can be charged with the same charge, was also arrested in Novosibirsk.

According to the Echo of Moscow radio station, referring to the source of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the capital, we are talking about a red Mitsubishi car, in which immigrants from the Caucasus, involved in the explosion. The head of the investigative brigade, deputy chief of the department for investigating crimes in the economy of the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office Vladimir Itkin today did not comment on the reports of the Mitsubishi car that appeared.

The head of the Palestinian National Administration Yasir Arafat, who arrived the day before in Moscow, was adopted by Russian President Vladimir Putin at noon today. Welcoming in the Kremlin Yasira Arafat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has always supported the legal right of the Palestinian people, including the right to create its own state.

Today, all the forces of the police of the Dagestan militia are aimed at preventing any provocations from the territory of Chechnya. The apparatus of the assistant to the President of Yastrzhembsky emphasizes that one of the most possible directions for the breakthrough of militants into the territory of Dagestan is the village of Novolaksky. According to representatives of law enforcement agencies of this region, the situation on the border is more than complex.

Today, donor blood was delivered to Moscow from the Kemerovo region for the victims of the explosion on Pushkinskaya Square. The Governor of the region Aman Tuleyev reported this on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio station. 50 thousand rubles were allocated from the regional budget for this. Doctors of the capital are concerned about reducing the activity of donors and urge Muscovites to help the victims of the explosion.

In New York, at least six people suffered as a result of an elevator accident in the highest city skyscraper. The elevator cabin suddenly tilted on the 78th floor. At that moment there were ten people in it. Rescuers who conducted a difficult operation to evacuate passengers were urgently called. In the wall of the cabin, they made a hole and brought the victims to a neighboring elevator. The cause of the accident is clarified.

The investigation has new, specified by the photobots of a person suspected of committing a terrorist attack on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, the deputy chief of the Department of Information of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Alexander Obozidikhin, said live on the radio station of the Echo of Moscow. According to him, law enforcement agencies continue to clarify the photograph of the suspect in the process of working with witnesses.

Bill Clinton told the gospel priests to the Illinois conference, which still cannot fully recover after the perfect "terrible mistake" with the village of White House Monika Levinsky. According to the president, he now feels more comfortable than during the scandal, but he has not yet gained full peace of mind. “For the second year I have been trying to completely restore my spiritual life after the terrible mistake that I made,” Clinton said.

Oil prices continue to rise on global commodity markets. On August 10, during trading sessions, the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil with a delivery date in September rose above $31 per barrel. Such an increase was recorded for the first time since Saudi Arabia unilaterally increased the volume of supplies of oil and petroleum products to world markets.

About ten guards of order armed with automatic rifles arrived at the crime scene in order to grab the bandits who robbed passengers of the bus. However, robbers with kitchen knives did not want to give up and even went on the offensive. The police who did not expect such a turn of events quickly changed places with criminals and rushed to flee, forgetting about weapons. Everything that was happening was shot by an amateur camera.

Mimi Leder, who made her debut in the 1997 action film The Peacemaker (her credits also include Deep Impact and Pay It Forward), is preparing to direct the thriller Collateral. This is the story of a taxi driver who, unnoticed by himself, became an accomplice in the crimes of his passenger-killer. Which star will play in Mimi Leder's next film has not yet been decided.

The clash of federal forces and militants occurred on Thursday in Ingushetia. According to the Echo of Moscow radio station, the reconnaissance battalion discovered a group of 15 militants in the Sunzhensky district. Five were destroyed during the tied battle. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, two military personnel were killed.

Mufti of Egypt Nasr Farid Wasyl issued a statement in which he rejected the possibility of concluding or dissolving marriages via the Internet. The reason is all kinds of forgeries and fraud on the Internet, as evidenced by the success of computer pirates and hackers around the world. This is even more dangerous, Nasr Farid Vasyl emphasized, when it comes to such serious things as marriage or divorce.