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.

Spectators called the Scottish shepherd Lessy , a character of popular series and several films, the most popular four -legged movie hero. 52 percent of cinema surveyed lovers surveyed for her. The second place in the list of animal-kinozes was taken by the Pigolon Babe (22 percent). In third place with a result of 11 percent of the vote √ owl Harry Potter . .

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.

During the investigation of the criminal case of the death of the Kursk nuclear submarine, more than a dozen versions were recognized as insolvent. As the head of the investigation, Arthur Egiev, out of 16 versions that were worked out from the beginning of the investigation, was allocated one main - the explosion in the first compartment.

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.

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

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.

The Federation Council at a meeting on Wednesday unanimously approved a law introducing a number of amendments and additions to the laws "On military duty and military service" and the law "On Education". This document, first of all, gives students the right to delay from calling for military service.

The Government Commission limited oil export of approximately 20 oil producing companies out of 32, having arrears to the federal budget. The adoption of such a decision was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko after a meeting of the Government Commission for access to main oil pipelines. According to AK & M , at present, 32 oil -producing companies have arrears to the federal budget. Their total debt to the federal budget is 300 million rubles.