In Moscow, another large fire started in the morning - in the warehouses on Letnikovskaya Street. The fire area exceeded 400 square meters. meters, an explosion occurred from the burning in the hangar. However, by 12:40 the fire was extinguished. At the same time, a message was received about the extinguishing of the fire on the 4th street of Maryina Roshcha.

Vladimir Gusinsky and Ted Turner's representatives signed a deal under which Turner would gain control of most of the companies owned by Gusinsky . According to CNN, a meeting between representatives of Ted Turner and Gazprom will be held in one of the Western European countries this week. According to sources, Boris Jordan will remain as general director of NTV only if Gusinsky’s deal with Turner is not completed.

Today, the Norwegian news agency NTB, citing a member of the Russian commission to determine the causes of the Kursk submarine disaster, Duma deputy Grigory Tomchin, made a sensational report that at the time of the accident there were nuclear weapons on board the ship. In an interview with the Norwegian TV channel TV2 Tomchin, this is confirmed by the Norwegian authorities. Meanwhile, as NTB reports, a spokesman for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry refused to comment on this statement.

Under the new leadership, the Unity faction will continue to pursue a pro-presidential, pro-government course, said Vladimir Pekhtin, who was elected leader of the faction. “We stand on the state position and will stand on it,” he emphasized.

In 2002, Russia intends to do without loans from international financial organizations, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin at a press conference held on Wednesday, April 4.

Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky intends to call on State Duma deputies to join the protest action of the NTV team, launched in connection with the decision of the board of directors to change the leadership of the television company. As the press service of the faction reported today, he will make such a proposal at a meeting of the chamber, which opens at 10:00. Now there are Yabloko deputies in Ostankino, some of whom spent the whole night with NTV journalists.

The Palestinians are setting as a condition for resuming peace negotiations with Israel a return to the agreements reached last year in Sharm el-Sheikh. Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath told EFE. Today he met in Athens with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. The EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, also took part in the negotiations.

In March of this year, demand for cars in the United States decreased by 4.2% compared to a year ago, Bloomberg reports. Despite this drop, the data obtained still exceeded experts' expectations. With the US economy slowing, the auto industry has managed to attract customers with deep discounts. According to the agency, the average discount was $1,462 per vehicle, with even higher discounts on vehicles from American manufacturers.

The military attache of the Moldovan Embassy in Belgium, the representative of Moldova to the NATO Partnership for Peace program, Colonel Nikolai Turtureanu, left Brussels and disappeared, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax. Turtureanu was a naval officer in Soviet times, and served in the national army of Moldova from its founding. In January 1998, he was appointed by the then Minister of Defense to represent the Moldovan military department in Brussels.

In Tomsk, an elderly woman died due to a minor telephone terrorist. As Nikolai Zenkin, the chief physician of the Central City Ambulance Station, reported today, the night before the police officer on duty received an anonymous call that the building where the ambulance station is located was mined. Police officers and a sapper who arrived at the scene examined the premises for 6 hours in search of an explosive device.

Today the High Representative of the European Union, Javier Solana, arrives in Moscow. The purpose of the visit of a high-ranking European official is to prepare for the upcoming Russia-EU summit on May 17 and discuss the prospects for the participation of the Russian side in peacekeeping operations in Europe. Solana will spend two days in the Russian capital. During this time, he will have meetings with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and other officials.

The Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church turns 55 on Wednesday. The press service of the Moscow Patriarchate reported this to RIA Novosti . The DECR was formed on April 4, 1946 at the proposal of Patriarch Alexy I. Metropolitan Nikolai (Yarushevich) of Krutitsky and Kolomna became its first chairman.

NTV journalists at a meeting on the evening of Tuesday, April 3, decided that they would be on duty around the clock on the 8th floor of the Ostankino television center, in the television company's studio. NTV employees will wait for representatives of the Gazprom-Media company, but are not going to obey them.

Today, the Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the tax inspectorate number 3 of the Central Administrative District (CAO) of Moscow in satisfying the claim for the liquidation of the NTV television company , Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax. As a representative of the tax inspectorate said at the court hearing, the lawsuit to liquidate NTV was filed due to the fact that the company is unprofitable.

The Palestinians are asking for international protection from the actions of the Israelis, ITAR-TASS reports.