CNN television company, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and The New York Times received an electronic message from the Wall Street Journal Correspondent Daniel Porel. The letter says that if the requirements of the abductors are not met within a day, then the American journalist will be executed. The exact time of the expiration of ultimatum is not indicated.

In the Galsky district of Abkhazia, unknown people on Wednesday committed an armed attack on the post of collective forces of the CIS to maintain peace in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, Interfax reports. The shelling of the post located in the area of ​​the village of Tagiloni began early in the morning and lasted for five minutes, a source at the KSPM headquarters said. As a result of shelling, one of the Russian troops was injured.

An emergency evacuation of all passengers comes from San Francisco airport. According to Reuters, traces of explosives were found at one of the passengers on the boots. The attacker tried to get to the airline of United Airlines. The explosives were found at 18:25 Moscow time (15:25 GMT) when inspecting the passenger at the terminal, which serves the flights of the American airline United Airlines.

Representatives of the al-Qaeda group headed by the international terrorist, Osama Ben Laden, establish contacts with Chechens living in Turkey. Al-Qaeda extremists believe that "there is a favorable atmosphere for this cooperation." Such information brought to the governors of all provinces and territorial divisions of special services the Main Department of Security of Turkey.

The FSB of Russia received an investigative commission from the General Prosecutor's Office in connection with the resumption of investigative actions in the Berezovsky case. This information was confirmed on Wednesday in the Central Department Store of the FSB of Russia.

The European Commission officially warned Germany and Portugal that the deficiency of the budgets of these countries could marry the framework of EU rules. The decision on this was made by the qualified majority of votes of the Ministers of Finance of the EU member countries, the Air Force reports. The indicators of the budget deficit in Germany are approaching the limit, a certain rules for the economic stability of the Eurozone.

The leader of the Time Machine group became the culprit of the accident in which several cars were injured, the arguments and facts report. As a result of careless driving, Jeep Makarevich BMW provoked a clash of four cars. The singer himself stated that "for him this accident is nonsense," and "do not go out of the egg." “I’ll figure it out myself,” said the leader of the Time Machine. According to some rumors, Makarevich’s car was insured, and he is unlikely to pay the owners of damaged cars.

The Board of Directors of AK SIBUR approved on March 25, 2002, the date of holding an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the company, as well as the agenda of the meeting. According to Interfax , at a meeting of shareholders it is planned to decide on early termination of powers of members of the board of directors of the company, determine its quantitative composition and elect a new advice.

Slobodan Miloshevich turned to the judges of the Hague Tribunal with a request to temporarily free him from custody. The former President of Yugoslavia promised that he would not hide from the court, reports ITAR-TASS. After delivery to the Hague at the end of June last year, Milosevich is located in the investigative insulator of the tribunal in Skveningen.

The Mercedes jeep, stolen from the famous satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky, was found, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the Office for the Crime of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the police, police colonel Alexander Gorelov, the car is located in Ingushetia. Currently, technical issues are being resolved on its delivery to Moscow. The hijackers managed to sell the car.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Wednesday returned a complaint about the actions of the bailiff to suspend the broadcasting of TV-6, RIA Novosti reports.

In Sochi, a murder of a deputy of the city assembly of Vladimir Efryushkin took place, Interfax reports. According to law enforcement agencies, the murder occurred on Wednesday night. Unknown people dealt with Efryushkin near his house. According to the agency, Efryushkin became a deputy of the city assembly recently. He belonged to a famous family in the city. The father of the murdered some time ago held the post of head of the city Internal Affairs Directorate.

The chief rabbi of Russia ( the Russian Jewish communities elected by the Federation of Jewish communities ) Berl Lazar believes that significant improvements have occurred in the position of Russian Jews in recent years, Interfax reports. “Now we feel support in almost any structures where we turn,” “Berl Lazar said in an interview with the newspaper Version.

The Federation Council "searches for himself" a new building in Moscow, and on this issue there are already negotiations with the management of the President. This was announced by the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov to reporters during the break of the meeting of the upper house. According to him, in the current premises per senator and his assistants, at least two, accounts for 13 square meters. meters, and in such conditions it is impossible to work normally.

The US budget for 2002 laid 50 million dollars to finance the Russian program for the destruction of chemical weapons. This was announced on Tuesday by the Chairman of the State Commission for Chemical Disarmament Sergey Kiriyenko following the results of his meetings with US Vice President Richard Cheini, Secretary of State Paulin Powell and President of National Security Kondolisa Rice, ITAR-TASS reports. According to Kiriyenko, the conversation was very difficult and difficult.