The President of the World Firefighters Association Francois Morer intends to apply to the Nobel Committee with a request to award the most prestigious firefighters around the world. This was announced on Thursday at the Congress "Security in Society" in Vienna, Interfax reports. According to Francois Sebre, this award needs to award those who, risking their own lives, save others. He noted that his colleagues around the world, providing assistance daily, often subject themselves to deadly risk.

In the capital's metro, five hooligans who beat foreign citizens were detained, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The day before, two incidents were recorded on the Sokolnichesky metro line. At about 21:00 on the stage between the stations "Chistye Ponds" - "Lubyanka" two 20 -year -old Muscovites attacked a Chinese citizen Yu Si Tsyn and a native of Buryatia Yevgeny Borkin. The attackers provoked a fight with visitors, and greatly beat them.

Israeli tanks, opening fire from machine guns, on Thursday in the evening of the residence of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat in Ramallach, Reuters reports. A member of the Palestinian government Saab Ericata said that Arafat called him and said that the Israelis were fired at his residence. According to Palestinian sources, armored vehicles took up positions 200 meters from the residence of the Palestinian leader, and the soldiers do not let anyone in.

The results of a large -scale study “Life in Moscow through the Eyes of Foreigners”, which was held by the independent research center Romir by order of the Department of International Relations of the Government of the city, turned out to be very unexpected for the capital's authorities. This was recognized on Wednesday by the head of the department George Muradov.

The leader of the Communist Party of the Communist Party in the State Duma, Gennady Zyuganov, sent a telegram to the chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to include a telegram with a request to include a question about the threat of democracy in Russia as an urgent and urgent agenda.

Due to the summer heat, the swamp near the village of Kubanovka, the Gusevsky district, Kalinigradx region, was dried up, and at its exposed day the locals saw a plane one day, in the cabin of which they found the remains of the pilot.

At the book collapse in Moscow, a book called "Rail War" is sold, the author of which in detail, with schemes and pictures, teaches readers the basics of a mine-subversive business. The publication, in particular, tells how to launch a passenger train. The textbook is replete with instructions, recipes for making explosives, and mines. There is, for example, the chapter "Self -receipt by saboteurs of explosives." The process of explosives from ammunition is described in detail there in detail.

The Ambassador of Iraq to Russia Abbas Galaf announced the readiness of the Iraqi authorities to allow UN and IAE inspectors to all their objects. "I responsibly declare that the free access of international inspectors for all declared facilities will be carried out and henceforth. We hope for the honest work of international inspectors and count on interaction with them," the halaf said.

From Portugal to Russia on Thursday they will deliver a Russian who is accused of large fraud through Interpol. According to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Russia, Yuri Schifnaidel was put on the international search for the criminal police of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on January 13 this year.

By December, the Ministry of Economic Development will prepare a report on the economic and social consequences of the entry of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization. This was announced by the representative of the department, Vladimir Epaneshnikov on Thursday at the forum "Russia-second: interests, prospects, consequences".

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld called on Congress to adopt a resolution allowing the president to use military force against Iraq, before the vote on this issue in the UN Security Council. Speaking on Wednesday at the Iraq hearings in the Committee on Affairs of the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, the head of the Pentagon indicated that the Congress should demonstrate the US decisive position.

Find out whether global warming affects the birds near Moscow, domestic ornithologists gather. Their British colleagues claim that it affects. For example, due to warming, British birds began to lay eggs earlier. As warming on domestic birds affects, experts of the Russian Bird Protection Union will figure it out. According to Vechernyaya Moscow, in the first weekend of October, capital biologists plan to conduct traditional bird observations.

Today, Russian football clubs CSKA and Zenit are the first matches of the 1/64 finals to take the start of the UEFA Cup. The army at 20.30 Moscow time at the Saturn stadium in Ramensky near Moscow will be accepted by the Italian Parma, and the St. Petersburg club in Zurich at the Hardtrum stadium will meet with the local Grasskhoppers. CSKA lost the last two matches for two Dynamo - first to Moscow in the Russian championship, then to St. Petersburg - at the Cup of the country.

In London, on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities, 7 people were arrested. According to RIA Novosti , the arrests were carried out by the police during a joint operation with representatives of the British counterintelligence MI-5. Six arrested are suspected of assisting in the search for financial resources to finance terrorism. The surnames and nationality of the arrested in the interests of the investigation were not disclosed.

The first vice-president of Lukoil, Sergei Kukhu, stolen last week, "is alive and well and contained somewhere near the Moscow region," a law enforcement source said today. The source confirmed that the negotiation process on the terms of the redemption of Sergei Kukura is taking place with the participation of an intermediary, the identity of which is established and who has nothing to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies.