The Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Smolensk Region fully controls the situation in the region, works in high readiness mode and is able to reflect biological terrorist attacks. This, as RIA Novosti reports, says in the announced statement of the Main Directorate today in connection with the frequent cases of citizens and officials regarding the detection of incomprehensible origin of powders of different colors.

From today, the entrance to the Louvre is again open, thanks to the order of the Paris Court. Only with the help of a judge, the city authorities managed to remove the picket that blocked the entrance to the most famous European Museum a week ago. The picketers demanded to increase the salary, reduce the working week and add workplaces to museum workers, and to make the requirement more likely to “be on,” the manifestants chained themselves with chains to a historical attraction.

The former owner of the Kremlin Boris Yeltsin is now resting in Crimea at the invitation of the Ukrainian leader, NTV reports. Yeltsin and Kuchma are discussing the current relations of Russia and Ukraine, but at the same time try to circumvent sharp corners in the interstate policy of the two countries. Ex-President of Russia Boris Yeltsin over the past two years has been coming to rest in the Crimea for the second time.

The temporary detention center on duty, Lieutenant Sharip Chupalaev, admitted that he helped a dangerous criminal to escape from a temporary detention center in Buinaksk. He explained that he personally brought Aliyev, convicted by the Supreme Court of Dagestan to a lifelong conclusion under the article “Terrorism”, from the camera and held home at the request of the latter, since he really wanted to see his family. Chupalaev, who was at school by a classmate Aliyev, hoped to honestly convict.

In Murmansk, a press conference of the investigation group was investigating the circumstances of the Kursk Premier League Disaster. The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov said at the very beginning of the press conference that on the evening of October 27, reporters will be given the opportunity to get acquainted with a 7-minute video shot by the operational group on board Kursk in Roslyakovo.

Today, in the central match of the second circle, applicants for the "gold" of the Russian Championship: Moscow "Spartak" took in the "Luzhniki" of St. Petersburg Zenit. In the Russian championship, Spartak and Zenit met in Moscow six times. The hosts won three times, twice guests and a draw was recorded once. This time, the blue and white entered the field in order to level this statistical indicator, and, we must give them their due, the debut of the meeting “Zenith” was a success.

The ministers of oil and mineral resources of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman consider it necessary to reduce oil production to balance demand and demand. They stated this on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, where they held an advisory meeting on the situation in the global hydrocarbons market.

According to a study conducted by the company "OPTA", Andrei Shevchenko is the most effective striker among all forwarding teams of leading European championships. According to Sport-Express, the player of Milan scores on average every 88.4 minutes, and 62 percent of his shots on goal reaches the goal. According to the first indicator, after Shevchenko, Thierry Henry is following Shevchenko. The Frenchman scores for Arsenal on average every 88.5 minutes.

Moscow claims the right to hold in May 2003 the final match of the most prestigious football tournament of the Old World - the Champions League. This was announced on Friday by the Secretary General of the Russian Football Union, Vladimir Radionov, at a press conference on the 3rd International Exhibition of the Football Market football industry, RIA Novosti reports.

The next 32nd Congress of the Union of Communist Parties (SCP) of the CPSU, uniting delegates from the countries of the former USSR, opened in Moscow. The congress was opened by the anthem of the Soviet Union to the words of Mikhalkov and El Registan. 250 delegates from 14 communist parties of the countries of the former Soviet Union take part in the work of the congress. The forum was opened by the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov.

From the Kursk submarine, the bodies of 17 dead submariners were raised upstairs for two days of work. This was reported to reporters by the Prosecutor General of Russia Vladimir Ustinov. According to him, two more submariners were found in the boat. The Prosecutor General also indicated that all the bodies of all 11 submariners were raised from the 9th submarine compartment, which were supposed to be detected there in accordance with the note by Dmitry Kolesnikov, found last year.

Two inhabitants of the American city of Koshcton appeared against the court on charges of malicious hooliganism: they threw bottles in the windows of passing cars and only thanks to a coincidence of circumstances, drivers and passengers avoided serious injuries. The judge ordered the young hooligans to pay a fine ($ 250) and sentenced them to a very unusual punishment.

The weight of the first -born Count and Andre Agassi is 2.6 kilograms, height is 50 centimeters. The birth in which the father of the child was present went three weeks earlier than the planned period. Parents have not yet chosen the name of the newborn, reports Sport-Express. Recall that Roman Count and Agassi began two years ago in Paris, where they both became the winners of the Roland Garros tournament.

In the coming days, the French journalist Paris Match Michel Paner will appear before the Sharia court of the Taliban. He was arrested in September, when a dressed in a women's dress was returning to Pakistan from Jalalabad with manuscript reports. Now, most likely, the journalist will be accused of espionage and executed. Public executions are not uncommon in the Taliban state, reports TV-6.

Employees of the Institute of Technology in the American state of Georgia have developed a special gel to protect the skin, which is planned to be sent to the Afghanistan field hospitals. According to scientists, this gel (Bicompatible Skin Barriers) will allow the soldiers to actually "form the new skin", which will protect the "natural skin" from destruction under the influence of air or moisture.