Police officers of the Stavropol Territory arrested a criminal accused of organizing several porn sites with the participation of children on the Internet, Interfax reports. The investigators reached the trace of the young man, processing the request of Interpol, which reported that several new porn sites appeared on the servers in Copenhagen and Moscow.

Today, the WEB edition of Izvestia hosted an on-line conference with the participation of the chief infectious disease specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health, corresponding member. RAMS Viktor Vasilievich Maleev: “The threat of biological terrorism.” According to him, in Russia there is an effective vaccine against anthrax, the creators of which even received a State Prize.

American investigators cannot establish the exact origin of the spores of the Siberian ulcer, which were sent by mail to the United States. They also do not know whether it was a conspiracy, carefully planned by a certain terrorist group, or is it a work of some madman.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko, answering the question of Interfax, said that in the final version of the 2002 budget, a “some increase” allocated to the social sphere industries will take place.

The US aircraft on the night of Thursday to Friday and early in the morning dropped 18 bombs on Kabul and north of it, 9 bombs hit the city center. As RIA Novosti reports, the Katar television show Al-Juzira reports that the Afghan capital survived three waves of raids. During the first raid, 11 bombs were dropped, the second - 5 and during the last raid - 2. There is no information about victims and destruction yet.

AvtoVAZ JSC signed contracts for delivery to Ecuador as prototypes of VAZ-21073 and cars from the 2110 family with the Ecuador company. According to the AvtoVAZ press center , these cars will undergo operational tests in the mountainous area of ​​Ecuador. AvtoVAZ supply plans for AvtoVAZ for assembling Niva for 2002 were also discussed. The first Ecuador "Niva" were collected in November last year. This year, 2 thousand 200 cars were produced from the "VAZ" machine tools.

The daughters of Petka - the orderly of the legendary Chapaev - live in Zlatoust. This was announced today by the newspaper Ural Courier. The eldest, Nina Petrovna, turned 82 years old. Anastasia Petrovna - a year younger. They told and documented that the real name of their father Pyotr Semenovich Isaev - Kuznetsov. In the famous movie "Chapaev" Petka Isaev dies, saving his commander.

Letters in the United States began to be processed with a vacuum cleaner. According to RIA Novosti , this was reported on Thursday by John Nolan, Deputy Head of the Postal Service of the United States. According to him, on the postal units over the past few days of installation for automatic sorting of the mail for prevention purposes were processed with simple air fiction, but now they have begun to use vacuum cleaners.

The British counterintelligence MI-5 began a special operation on the Internet in order to identify supporters of Osama Ben Laden in the UK. According to well-informed sources that ITAR-TASS leads to the sites suspected in relations with extremists, messages in Arabic, signed by a certain "Abdullah Ahmed", are dumped. They contain a convincing call for users of the global network to provide information that has an information on this.

Two American publications at once √ the New York Times and USA Today √ today write that the number of victims as a result of the destruction of the towns of the World Commercial Center can be much smaller than previously reported. According to newspapers, the total number of victims is closer to 2950. While representatives of the New York authorities at this stage come from the figures of 4167 dead and missing.

Representatives of the Taliban movement said they killed when trying to escape the previously captured field commander Abdul Khak, Ananova.com reports with reference to Taliban's Bakhtar News Agency. Together with him, according to these data, two more or three of his fighters died. Meanwhile, the Interfax agency reports that the Taliban was executed on Friday Abdul Hak.

“Moscow, or rather the capital's Luzhniki metropolitan stadium, has excellent chances to accept the final match of the Champions Football League in May 2003,” said Vladimir Radinov, General Secretary of the Russian Football Union (RFU) on October 26.

According to NTV, some time ago, investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office, investigating the case of abuses in the ministry, appeared in the building of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to NTV, at the moment, according to unconfirmed reports, investigators are in the office of the head of the ministry Sergei Shoigu.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan filed a lawsuit against the president of the country of General Peresa Musharraf in connection with the position of official Islamabad in the Afghan crisis, Izvestia reports. The court accepted for consideration the statement of Hussein Ahmad, the leader of the extremist party "Jamaaat-i-Islami".

In Moscow, a robbery was committed on the technical director of the state enterprise Aerotest, Gennady Kulagin, Interfax reports. Three criminals were waiting for Kulagin on the evening of October 25 at the entrance of the house on Malaya Filevskaya Street. The bandits hit a 50-year-old entrepreneur with a knife in the stomach, and his wife, who tried to protect her husband, was brutally beaten. Both victims are hospitalized.