The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office decided to issue 13 militants, detained on August 3 and 5 of this year on the Chechen site of the Georgian-Russian border. This was announced on Wednesday by a senior representative of the Georgian prosecutor’s office, Interfax reports. This decision of Georgia was expected last week.

The beauty queens of France and Europe called today to boycott the Miss World contest in Nigeria in protest against medieval methods for the struggle for the "purity of morals" in this country, ITAR-TASS reports. The final of the Miss World should be held in November in the capital of Nigeria Abuja, since Nigerik Agrbani Darego became the winner of last year's competition.

On Wednesday, at 8:30 local time in the Galsky district of Abkhazia on the Gal - Sukhumi highway, a passenger car was fired, which followed three employees of the Abkhazian power structures. All of them died. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Alexander Studenikin.

On Wednesday, the State Duma considers the draft federal budget for 2003. Most officials and experts agree that the document will be approved in the first reading . At a meeting of the State Duma, the deputies once again explained the need to accept the budget personally Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

The Federation Council at a meeting on Wednesday approved amendments and additions to the Constitutional Law "On the Referendum in the Russian Federation". 151 The operator voted for the adoption of amendments, 11 were against it, three refrained, Interfax reports. Amendments are banned by a referendum a year before the presidential and parliamentary elections.

The next freight spacecraft “Progress M1-9” on Wednesday at 20:58 Moscow time was launched by the Soyuz series-launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station, the press service of the flight management center told Interfax. His docking with the ISS is scheduled for September 29, approximately, at 21:05.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II expressed condolences in connection with a natural disaster in North Ossetia. This was announced on Tuesday by the press service of the Church-Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia", ITAR-TASS reports. "The natural disasters that comprehend us are always a tragedy, because suddenly they bring the losses of relatives and friends," √ Patriarch noted.

"The path to the stars lies through the movie" √ Under such a motto, the Symposium was held on the eve of the NASA reactive movement in Pasaden (California). The world-famous space scientific center invited representatives of Hollywood to tell them in a popular form at what level the modern space research of American scientists are located, ITAR-TASS reports.

The chairman of the board of RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais announced the need to prohibit the sale of RAO assets. Investors expected these words from him - information about the planned performance led to an increase in RAO shares even the day before, and the application for the moratorium on the sale of the main assets of the energy company caused a violent reaction in the market, Interfax reports.

"Bruges" - "locomotive" - ​​0: 0.

In North Ossetia, one police officer was killed, the second was wounded by the kidnappers of corn. Sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia told Interfax that on Wednesday night on the eastern outskirts of the village of Chermen, near the administrative border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia, two employees of the village police department noticed on the collective farm field of people stealing corn.

Two robberies of schoolchildren at once were committed in Moscow last day, sources in the Central Department of Internal Affairs reported on Wednesday of Interfax. At about 20:50 in the 1st Saratov passage, three unknown people met a tenth grader Irina Amochkina. Threatening the girl with a gun, the criminals took her handbag, in which there was a ticket, school textbooks and notebooks, as well as 200 rubles.

On Tuesday, the NBA Committee officially approved the use of repetitions at the ends of the championship games. Recall that the erroneous decisions of the judges several times painfully hit the fans of the fans last season. At the meeting, it was once again noted that judges are primarily the most ordinary people who are tending to make mistakes. Therefore, the repetitions that were recommended by the leaders of the clubs for approval a week ago received official status, reports SlamDunk.

For the first time since December 2000, the price of oil from the "basket" OPEC exceeded $ 28 and continues to grow, RIA Novosti reports. This mark is the upper boundary of the price corridor, when exceeding which, within 20 trading days, the cartel must increase production funds.

In St. Petersburg, on Vasilyevsky Island on Wednesday morning, a fire occurred in a residential building. According to the press center of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg, information about a fire in a residential 8-story building located on Bolshoi Prospekt entered at about 5:25 Moscow time. A communal apartment was burned, located on the 7th floor of the house, and the attic. The total fire area was 200 square meters. m.