The Russian embassy in the capital of Columbia Bogota confirmed that one of the abducted by Colombian rebels of engineers is a Russian citizen Vladimir Larin. Another stolen, Vladimir Molodtsov, according to the embassy, ​​is "presumably a citizen of Lithuania with a Russian surname." Both captured specialists participated in the construction of the Porcetzagor hydropower complex in the Antiokia Department, in the north-west of the country.

The Canadian club "Vancouver Canax" as part of preparation for the season takes part in the tournament in Stockholm. In the semifinals "Vancouver" with a score of 5: 2 defeated the Swedish club "Modo". At the winners, one of the washers was abandoned by the Russian legionnaire Vadim Sharifyanov. This match became a debut in Vancouver for gifted Swedish hockey players √ the brothers Daniel and Alfred Sedinov.

The European Union countries began an active pressure campaign to OPEC in order to convince the oil cartel to increase oil production and thereby cause a drop in gasoline prices. It was OPEC, according to European governments, that became the main culprit of the current gasoline crisis. All night, British Prime Minister Tony Blair did not leave the phone.

The Orthodox community of Adygea held a church-wide action demanding the return of the St. Michael Athos Trans-Kuban male hermitage (monastery) to the Russian Orthodox Church. The action began with a service in the Resurrection Church in the city of Maykop. Then the believers marched in procession to the republic's administration building, where they accepted an appeal to the authorities of Adygea and the Russian Federation. Back in 1928, St.

The construction of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS) will be fully financed through public investment. The $460 million needed for the construction of the BTS and the port in Primorsk will be accumulated through contributions included in the tariff for pumping oil through the main pipelines of the state company Transneft. Governor of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov stated that 100% of BTS shares will be state-owned. “We are not talking about selling blocks of shares,” he noted.

Today, a delegation of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Switzerland arrived in Moscow. It is headed by the federal prosecutor Valentin Roshaher. The program of the four -day stay of the Swiss delegation in Russia includes meetings of the heads of two law enforcement agencies. They will discuss the prospects for joint work to combat crime.

Today it became known about the clash that occurred in Chechnya near Urus-Martan the night before. As a result of shelling by the militants of the Army Autonomous Republic of Army, several combat vehicles of the 245th motorized rifle regiment, four federal soldiers died and seven were injured. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Chechnya. Losses of militants are specified.

In group "A" Italians beat the owners 1-0. The current champions of the Nigerians only, in added by the judge, managed to get away from the defeat in a meeting with Honduras - a draw 3-3. In the group "C" the world, the national teams of the United States and the Czech Republic 2-2 dispersed. Cameroon pulled out the victory from Kuwait 3-2.

The head of the Ministry of Communications Leonid Reiman, by his order, suspended today the execution of the decision of one of the departments of his department on the seizure of part of the frequencies from the Moscow mobile operators Vimpelcom and MTS.

On September 13, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Minister of Finance Vietnam Nguyen Shinhun signed a package of documents to resolve the debts of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) to Russia. According to the agreement reached, a debt of 1.7 billion US dollars will be paid to Russia for 23 years. The repayment will take place on the principles of the Paris Club of creditors, the interest on debt service will be levied at the market rate.

The conflict at the Uralhimmash enterprise was not resolved today √ Negotiations of the mayor of Yekaterinburg with the management of the enterprise did not bring results. In the meeting, the head of the city was attended by the general director of Uralhimmash Alexei Glotov and the holder of a large package of shares of the enterprise Pavel Fedulev. Following the meeting, the mayor of Glot and Fedulev only reported that a certain agreement was adopted, but they refused to tell the details.

Russia and the United States will combine transnational crime, terrorism, as well as crimes in the economic and computer areas. This was agreed today by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo and the director of the FBI Luis Free. According to Vladimir Rushailo, a joint decision on a new qualitative stage of cooperation was made in the negotiations. In the near future, joint workers in the fight against crime will be created.

The role of the heroine Faith far from the well-being in the television series Buffy √ Tampire Fighter (in Russia walked along the ORT channel) made the 19-year-old Eliza Dushka “her” in a criminal environment. The actress receives bags of letters from prisoners from strict regime colonies and sentenced to death. As a rule, the content of these letters is extremely frivolous, and photographs mounted from the images of Elise and its correspondents are attached to them.

The US authorities tightly condemned the fishing of whales, which, despite international agreements, is engaged in Japan. This was announced at a specially convened press conference by the Minister of Trade of the United States. The agreement on the ban on hunting for whales was adopted back in 1986. However, so far, Japanese fishing vessels have not stopped this fishing. The extraction of whale meat brings impressive income to fishermen.

The incident occurred in the outskirts of Havana. The jeep, in which Maradona and his friend were traveling, collided with a tourist bus. The famous football player was immediately taken to the clinic. The examination showed that the 1986 world champion escaped with light bruises. Recall that in Cuba Maradona undergoes a course of treatment for drug addiction. Doctors say that the Argentinean was almost cured of this pernicious ailment.