News produced by journalists who have left NTV is broadcast at 19:00 Moscow time on TNT and at 21:35 Moscow time on TV-6. Evgeny Kiselev reported this in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station. According to Kiselyov, there will be another news release, “somewhere after midnight.” Late the night before, a meeting of the staff of the TV-6 television company was held, in which the acting took part. General Director of TV-6 Evgeny Kiselev.

On Tuesday, the Savyolovsky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the head of the Media-Most holding, Vladimir Gusinsky, against Deputy Prosecutor General Vasily Kolmogorov and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda for the “protection of constitutional rights.” Thus, the court recognized that information discrediting him had been disseminated against the head of the Media-Most holding, namely that the head of the holding had committed “criminal acts,” RIA Novosti reports.

Israel attacked the Gaza Strip from air, land and sea. As a result, six Palestinians were injured, one of them was taken to hospital in critical condition. According to the Reuters news agency, representatives of the Palestinian intelligence services reported this. Once again, the headquarters of the Palestinian intelligence service Force 17 in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip was fired upon.

This was reported by the Office of the State Road Safety Inspectorate / UGIBDD / Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate. At about 23:00 Moscow time, in front of house 8 on Sudostroitelnaya Street, a Lada car crashed into a tram. As a result of this incident, four people were injured - all who were in the car. Three of them were hospitalized; the driver of the car refused hospitalization. Currently, traffic police officers are working at the scene.

The editor-in-chief of the TV-6 information service, Mikhail Ponomarev, spoke today with an open letter to the acting general director of TV-6, Evgeny Kiselev, in the Izvestia newspaper. Ponomarev, who previously announced his resignation from the post of editor-in-chief of the TV-6 information service if Evgeny Kiselev becomes the general director of this television company, asks him to answer several rhetorical questions.

The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko association proposes to conduct an audit of the financial activities of the ORT and RTR television channels, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax.

In the Moscow region, the operation of electric trains may be paralyzed. On the Moscow railway, 17 electrical substations may be disconnected as early as Tuesday. Mosenergo warned the railway workers about this the day before. According to the Ekho Moskvy radio station, power engineers are demanding payment of a debt of one hundred million rubles, while railway workers claim that their debt is related only to current payments.

A relative of Sonia Gandhi died in a road accident in India. Two people were killed and six others were injured in a road traffic accident (RTA) in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan last night. According to RIA Novosti, among the dead is Michelle Vadra, the sister of the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, leader of the opposition party Indian National Congress.

Employees of the Itogi magazine, who came to work at ten in the morning, cannot get into the building, a correspondent for the Ekho Moskvy radio station reported. The editorial office of the magazine "Itogi" is located in the building of the publishing house "Seven Days", and there is security at the entrance to the editorial office of the publishing house.

The "People's Summit of the Americas" opened on Monday in Quebec ahead of the meeting of heads of state and government of the countries of the Western Hemisphere starting April 20 in this Canadian city. Participants in the “people's summit”, organized by public organizations of the countries of the region, intend to express a strong protest against plans to create a Free Trade Area of ​​America (FTAA), which will be discussed at the meeting of leaders of American states.

By 2005, the average salary of judges will be increased to 28 thousand rubles. This was announced today by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak. He takes part in the plenary meeting of the Council of Judges of Russia. According to the Kremlin representative, already in 2002 it is planned to increase the salaries of judges by 1.6 times. For this purpose, until 2006, 42 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of the judicial system in Russia.

NTV journalists who remained at the television company with the new management held a general meeting on Tuesday, at which they were told that the reorganization of the channel would be completely completed by September 1.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said today that "a war has begun." This is how he commented on the shelling of the Israeli city of Sderot last night. Shimon Peres made this statement after a joint press conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah al-Khatib, who presented the Jordanian-Egyptian plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Israeli government. This document was actually rejected by both sides.

The leader of the National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov, was charged under Article 222, Part 3 of the Criminal Code - “illegal acquisition, transportation and storage of weapons.” Eduard Limonov’s lawyer Sergei Belyak announced this on Tuesday.

Oleg Dobrodeev: “The task of the new NTV management is to prepare the company for public sale.” Answering the question about what awaits NTV in the future, the chairman of VGTRK noted that “another company will arise in this place.” As Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax, the chairman of VGTRK, one of the founders of NTV, Oleg Dobrodeev, believes that the conflict around this television company indicates signs of a crisis in Russian journalism.